tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440019963014182578.post2634628719591438553..comments2024-02-24T03:24:54.366-05:00Comments on Notes from the Asylum: 'Mad Men's' Weiner: Finale Looks at Life You Want to LiveMeredith O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13931703511561742340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440019963014182578.post-2616076123343041582010-10-19T12:59:43.764-04:002010-10-19T12:59:43.764-04:00M -- It's certainly possible that you may be r...M -- It's certainly possible that you may be right. Maybe men who were Don's age in 1965 didn't want to marry the woman who was right for him because accomplished, professional women who could hold their own alongside their male peers weren't construed as being good wives/mothers. I'm willing to entertain the notion that that is plausible, but that doesn't make me less Meredith O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13931703511561742340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440019963014182578.post-1413111132926315752010-10-18T22:51:17.211-04:002010-10-18T22:51:17.211-04:00Let’s remember this is 1965 and Don is what, late ...Let’s remember this is 1965 and Don is what, late 30’s? He is not a renaissance man of the 90’s nor is this the 21st century. Given the time period, what he has seen his “mentors” (aka Sterling) do and what Don seeks in his life; Megan is the perfect choice. From Don’s perspective, there are the girls you marry and the girls you have affairs with. Don wants a good, cultured woman to watch hisM. Tooleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440019963014182578.post-79852449150893321552010-10-18T16:32:04.685-04:002010-10-18T16:32:04.685-04:00I was convinced that it was a dream because there ...I was convinced that it was a dream because there was no transition between the scene with the spilled milkshake and the scene back at Don's Greenwich apartment, where the kids were gone, Megan was in bed and Don was in a suit. It wasn't immediately clear that they were back from California, so I kept hoping that it was Don's dream (since she didn't know he had Anna's ring).<Meredith O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13931703511561742340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440019963014182578.post-77375292909220759262010-10-18T15:07:39.247-04:002010-10-18T15:07:39.247-04:00I saw the fact that Don was going to ask his secre...I saw the fact that Don was going to ask his secretary to marry him coming from a mile away but I was still disappointed because I think that the relationship with the psychiatrist would have been a better, more fruitful one for him. But that's totally Don.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com