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post #526 of 702
6/8/12 at 4:12pm
Yup, he's a definitely a WWII vet. Remember (was it last season?) when he insulted some potential Japanese clients in a meeting because they were Japanese? I.e., his former enemies.
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post #527 of 702
6/8/12 at 6:19pm
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Yup, he's a definitely a WWII vet. Remember (was it last season?) when he insulted some potential Japanese clients in a meeting because they were Japanese? I.e., his former enemies.

Honda motorcycles I believe.
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post #528 of 702
6/8/12 at 6:26pm
he commanded a ship in the pacific, no? so it's not surprising that he was in his late 20s or early 30s
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post #529 of 702
6/8/12 at 8:07pm
Sterling was in WWII and Draper in Korea. Cooper there was no mention of military service.
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post #530 of 702
6/10/12 at 6:19am
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post #531 of 702
6/10/12 at 6:35am
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yeah, he talked about the pacific theatre, and duck served in the pacific as well (marine, IIRC)

Season 1's Red In the Face episode where Sterling hits on Betty at their home was when he was talking about shooting down Japanese planes from his ship and his whole interpretation the war was about petrol. I reckon he has to be older than JFK because he thought he was a boy during the JFK/Nixon election.

From the former lover of his in Season 3 (the horse meat episode), he was one of those Americans who wandered Europe in the years leading up to WWII doing eclectic things like boxing and ended up working at Sterling Cooper until he entered service after he was blamed for losing the C something horse farm account. I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if his father ordered him to do most of this.

In the preview for the finale, Draper drops by someone's place unexpectedly and the door behind him is brown, which isn't Peggy's (green) or Joan's door (pink). So perhaps Peggy doesn't make an appearance and we'll have to see if he keeps his season 3 finale promise that he'd spend the rest of his life trying to hire her back.
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post #532 of 702
6/10/12 at 7:32pm
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Best. Fucking. Line. Evah.
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post #533 of 702
6/10/12 at 7:46pm
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Best. Fucking. Line. Evah.

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post #534 of 702
6/10/12 at 8:06pm
The cycle repeats. Don's toothache as a symbol that nothing every really just "goes away" we all carry the burdens of our decisions with us through life. Don is doomed to repeat the same decisions over and over and over again because he has never truly faced anything. He can run, he can hide, he can try to choke it out, drown it away, or avoid it.

I am very excited to see where season 6 takes us.
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post #535 of 702
6/10/12 at 8:12pm
I was pretty bored. Roger was definitely the highlight of this episode.
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post #536 of 702
6/10/12 at 8:22pm
I thought it was underwhelming, although I've felt the whole season was underwhelming.
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post #537 of 702
6/10/12 at 8:25pm
So did Meagan bring the old Don back?

Yeah, Roger was awesome.

Who had Peggy just finished her fling with or was it another nameless pickup?
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post #538 of 702
6/10/12 at 8:30pm
Her mother pushed Don over the edge and back into his old ways. By saying, more or less, 'its your job to take care of her', he reverts back to the way of thinking when we was with Betty. That is, I take care of my wife at home, so I can do whatever I want when I'm not. Betty got two kids and a house in 'burbs. Megan got her part. All is as it should be in the world of Don Draper. He didn't respect Betty because she got nothing for herself. He respected Megan when she was earning her keep at the office (and succeeding), but now that he just needs to take care of her, he's lost that respect for her and the relationship.
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post #539 of 702
6/10/12 at 8:38pm
It's a little more than that. Meagan rejected Don's world, a world where she was apparently pretty good. Then she started hanging with a bunch of people that were rather snide to Don, looked down their noses at him...while they were mooching off his largesse. So after this rather shabby treatment and rejection Meagan then turns around and needs Don's influence to get a part that will, per Meagan, make all her friends jealous...they same friends that seem to hold Don in contempt.

If you think about it she was really pretty shitty to Don.
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post #540 of 702
6/10/12 at 8:47pm
The chick Pete was banging is niceeee.

Feel bad for her. frown.gif
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