re: Mad Men Series Finale - "Person to Person"

I find myself feeling bad for Sally during all of this. She's really going to be the one making sure Bobby & Gene grow up right.

Sidenote, did anyone ever check out what happen to Pete's private jet?

Yea, unknownknight looked it up, and it was operational until 2006.

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Yep and that Betty dagger referring to Megan.

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Betty has some great daggers.

In this last episode:

"I just want to keep everything as normal as possible, and that means you not being there" (referring to Don). Just cold blooded

Nice that Arrow fans got to see Black/White Canary on Mad Men for one final episode. And she got to interact with Supergirl Helen Slater!

Oh absolutely true.

What exactly did Don mean when he told Peggy that he scandalized his daughter. I know it is probably obvious but I was a little confused by that line.

Interesting. Well I guess Pete really did do the right thing.

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I thought he was referring to when she saw him having an affair with his neighbor.

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Yes! Thank you. I knew there was something I was forgetting.

Pretty sure this:



Was an homage to this ad from the 1950s:

One thing I'm a bit disappointed about today is some of the interpretations to the ending that I've read across the internet. Obviously the ending is a bit ambiguous so that is to be expected, but there is so much focus on the Coke ad and what it meant for Don and not much focus on the transformation that occurred in the five minutes leading up to the ad.

I've seen a lot of interpretation that the entire thing was a superficial way to give Don another great idea, but I don't see it. Don made the most human connection he had ever made on Mad Men with Leonard. I firmly believe he was going to kill himself before he walked into that room and heard him speak. What clicked in his mind wasn't an advertisement. I think he truly understood love and what it means to be loved and finally accepted himself as who he is. He in turn used that experience to return to New York and create the ad. We can fill in the blanks on how it happened, but I don't think the entire retreat experience was just Don coming up with his next idea. A legitimate transformation occurred there.

The ambiguous part would be if it stuck or not. We do know he went back to McCann and ultimately used his experience to create the ad. We don't know if the transformation was permanent.