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I felt last nights episode was rather dull, felt almost like it was just filler.
Last night's episode was a great one. Don's drunken monologue about his children was one of the most telling things we've learned about him thus far. Pete became more likable. Betty became more unlikable.
It all leaves me feeling sorry for any Pete Campbells out there in the real world. If the choice was between that name and, say, Charles Manson, a guy would have to give it some serious thought.
Perhaps that tongue in my cheek wasn't quite visible, Worf.
Yeah, Betty is back to being the old Betty we so loved not to love.
And no, Heather, Carroll O'Connor's son Hugh fatally shot himself. He had a history of drug addiction, and it was determined he had cocaine in his system at the time of his suicide.
I'm not advocating anyone take LSD, but it isn't the sort of drug people are inclined to take habitually. The rare person did, I'm sure, but most people who took it knew to treat it with circumspection. Unlike most commonly abused drugs -- alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, even opiates -- LSD renders a person all but unable to function with any semblance of normalcy and effectiveness while under its influence. Nobody would drop acid at lunch, for instance, and go back to work. No reasonable person, anyway. (But, come to think of it, I've known some unreasonable people, or, more accurately, people who've done unreasonable things.)
Last night's episode was a great one. Don's drunken monologue about his children was one of the most telling things we've learned about him thus far. Pete became more likable. Betty became more unlikable.
My hope for the Pete character is that Trudy will leave him with little choice but to change. His old tricks just won't do anymore. Before she'll let him within a mile of her he'll have to offer more than his word, which, as we've seen, isn't worth squat.
Perhaps there's a touch of the Pete in all of us, which is about all that makes him sympathetic, not in the sense that we like him, but that we can relate to him on some level, even if it is an uncomfortable perspective to take. Everybody has something to teach us, even if it's only how not to be.
I happen to be related to a person who has been so full of baloney for so long that I sometimes wonder if he even recognizes his own BS anymore. (A common joke about him is "Q: How can you tell if (this person) is lying? A: His lips are moving.") His deceptions and distortions and outright prevarications have done considerable damage to many people in his life, but he is truly the most victimized by his lying ways. A life built on lies is no kind of life at all. Pity is, I don't know that he knows what it has cost him. Not to have at least some people's trust is a terrible thing.
I think they've done a remarkable job with Pete: I mostly hate him - sometimes really HATE him... but sometimes I have sympathy for him.
One word: Camaro
Actually, Bruce, I think it was the Vega or the Nova, according to some articles I read. But I am not sure.
Anyway!
Perfect episode. From the music to the story lines...everything was so well done. And thank goodness I didn't have to see Don with Silvia again. Here's hoping they will move far, far away.
I definitely didn't see the merger coming...the writing on this show is incredible.