tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91092207383972502552024-03-05T03:09:52.118-08:00Fashion and Grammar GripesLaura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-8497507032447988512015-10-28T20:56:00.001-07:002015-10-29T10:24:20.445-07:00My Fight Songs: Tunes for the Longest Long Run I've Ever Done, the New York City Marathon<div class="MsoNormal">
If a runner's playlist says a lot about her, a marathon runner's playlist says a <i>whole lot.</i></div>
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I mean that literally—there are 83 songs on this bad boy.</div>
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I've known people who could get through a marathon listening to one Lady Gaga song on repeat. I know runners who prefer purely instrumental. My sister-in-law and fiancé like to run to the stylings of AC/DC and Henry Rollins, respectively. For some people, nothing can get them moving like a good, hard yell.</div>
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I myself like to guide my list by what part of the race I'm in at any given time (and I also have a penchant for male falsettos and badass female rappers). </div>
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Here is the compilation I've gradually built over the past two years. It's what will keep me company as I push myself through all five boroughs of New York on foot, trying to reach Central Park in less than five hours. Trying to reach Central Park at all, God willing.</div>
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If this list and I part ways I will be lost. OK, so I'm being dramatic.</div>
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No, really, I won't know what to do.</div>
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Miles 1 through 4 (the Verrazano Bridge to Bay Ridge)<br /><o:p> </o:p></h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“A Sky Full of Stars”
by Coldplay:</b> My evergreen intro; I started using this when I ran my first
half. It’s like a Winter Olympics commercial, any Winter Olympics commercial,
as long as that commercial features the fresh sound of a skater on ice. It’s
large, all-encompassing and gradually builds from a slower start…all things I’ll want to emulate when that gun goes off.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“New York State of
Mind” by Billy Joel:</b> It’s not like Frank’s “Theme From New York, New York”—now
that’s an all-out celebration. This is a man sitting over his newspaper and
coffee at a kitchen table, looking out the window, perhaps at the Verrazano
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“We Can’t Stop” by
Miley Cyrus:</b> Say what you will about Miley—this is the most motivating song
on my list. Exhibit A) the bridge: “It’s our party, we can do what we want
to/It’s our house, we can love who we want to/It’s our song, we can sing if we
want to/It’s my mouth, I can say what I want to.” It’s all about personal
power, man. If you want to run 26.2 miles, well then go run 26.2 miles. And go
ahead and say whatever you goddamn please while you’re at it. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Work” by Iggy
Azalea:</b> Those first couple miles are always rough when you have six months
of accumulated muscle fatigue. At this point, it’s starting to feel like hard
work. So it helps a whole lot to hear a badass rapping “<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I've been up all night, tryna get that rich</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">/<span style="color: #262626;">I've been work,
work, work, work, working on my shit.” She later adds, “Too late, now I’m in
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Dark Horse” by Katy
Perry:</b> Merriam-Webster’s definition of “dark horse”: “an entrant in a
contest that is judged unlikely to succeed.” That sounds familiar.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“The Night Is Still
Young” by Nicki Minaj:</b> That’s right—I put Nicki two songs away from Miley.
Deal with it. Remember that muscle fatigue I mentioned? This is where I
remember I’m about to add 24 more miles of it. But then Nicki sings, “<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">What is the hurry? It's pretty
early/It's OK, we'll take our time./The night is still young, the night is
still young, the night is still young and so are we.” And I start to relax a
little. Later in the song, she says, “My only motto in life is don’t lose.” I
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“On the Floor” by
Jennifer Lopez, featuring Pitbull<br />
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“Where Are U Now” by Skrillex and Diplo, featuring Justin Bieber<br />
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“Chains” by Nick Jonas <br />
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“Can’t Feel My Face” by the Weeknd<br />
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“Take Me Home” by Cash Cash<br />
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“Beautiful Now” by Zedd, featuring Jon Bellion</b> <br />
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pompeii” by Bastille<br />
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</b>These songs are all up-tempo filler I added in the past few weeks; no
special meanings here. Just trying to keep my pace.</div>
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Miles 4 through 6 (Sunset Park)</h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Happy” by Pharrell Williams: </b>Obviously.<br />
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“Girls Chase Boys” by Ingrid Michaelson:</b> The lyrics I need to hear after
mile 5: “I’m a little bit down, but I’m not dead/There’s a little bit more that
has to be said.”<br />
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Timber” by Ke$ha, featuring Pitbull:</b>
At least two songs on this playlist feature Pitbull, whose wardrobe a friend of
mine describes as “creepily geriatric—you know, since he’s 34.” I honestly have
no idea how he ended up on this list twice. Ke$ha made it on twice, too, but
that makes more sense.<br />
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bend Ova” by Lil Jon: </b>Huh? I know,
I can’t believe it’s here either. But this one has the fastest pace and gets me
going when I’m starting to lag. It also has the dirtiest lyrics, to the point
where I’m almost offended. And yet it stays. I guess I just like being
commanded to “bounce my ass like a yoga ball.”<br />
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“Only Girl (in the World)” by Rihanna:</b> Pure egotism, really. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Mirrors” by Justin
Timberlake:</b> When this one comes on, I breathe a sigh of relief, because at
six minutes, it’s just so gosh darn long. Also, it makes me imagine my wedding
in the spring with the “other half of me,” who also incidentally helped me
train for this race. And, well, it’s Justin Timberlake. <br />
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Miles 6 through 8 (Park Slope)</h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Ho Hey” by the Lumineers <br />
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“Daylight” by Maroon 5: </b>I have a lot of Maroon 5 songs on here, for no real
reason except that they were often played in my gym when I started doing 5Ks,
and I seem to enjoy running to very high-pitched male voices—something about
their relentless effort makes me want to put more effort into my run. That’s
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“Shower” by Becky G <br />
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“All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor <br />
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“Scream & Shout” by will.i.am, featuring Britney Spears: </b>Pretty much
any song that includes the line “Britney, bitch” is a song I can run to. Also,
this one celebrates screaming, which almost makes me also want to do hand
gestures. More on that later. <br />
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Black Widow” by Iggy Azalea, featuring Rita
Ora:</b> There’s that Iggy again. This is one in a long line of “fuck my ex”
songs. <br />
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“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Really Don’t Care” by Demi Lovato:</b>
This is another one.<br />
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Miles 8 through 12 (Williamsburg)</h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Love Runs Out” by One Republic:</b>
“I’m gonna keep on running, keep on running, ’til the love runs out.” Repeat.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
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“Break Free” by Ariana Grande: </b>Another “fuck my ex” song, but it talks
about independence in general, which I enjoy. “I’m stronger than I’ve been
before,” she says.<br />
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</b>See?<br />
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“Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift: </b>OK, so this is the beginning of what I like
to call “the gestures.” I often find myself, by the time this song comes on,
doing a motion with my right hand, as though I am shaking something off of my
person. Letting something go. Is it pain? Is it the haters? Who’s to say? I
know. I’m a weirdo.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
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“Photograph” by Ed Sheeran: </b>My only rationale for putting this song here is
that Ed’s BFFs with Taylor. But to be serious, this is why it’s here: “<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Loving can heal./Loving can mend
your soul./And it's the only thing that I know (know)./I swear it will get
easier./</span><span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p>Remember
that with every piece of ya./And it's the only thing we take with us when we
die.” <br />
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Much of my marathon training has been a grief journey for me. I spent several
years after my father’s death being angry at the world, focusing in on how
scary and unfair the event of his departure was. The way that it happened. That
I didn’t get to say goodbye. That I didn’t know how scary it might have been
for him. <br />
<br />As I’ve gotten physically stronger as a runner, I’ve also gotten emotionally
stronger as my dad’s daughter. As me. That’s the most important part. I’ve
gotten emotionally stronger as me. For the first time in the past 12 years, I
now feel that I have spoken up and begun to make a difference in the community
of people who’ve lost loved ones to distracted drivers. Unfortunately, there is
a whole community of them. It’s a group of people who have to deal with the senselessness
of a loss—and really, most losses are senseless, but this is something we all face
every single day and never think anything could possibly go wrong when we use
our phones. It just feels stupid, in a way. That it could cost someone their
life. What a dumb way to go. But it happens…and for the first time, since I’ve
taken action, I no longer feel that my dad's death could be seen as meaningless, ubiquitous, impersonal and dumb, or that I am somehow meaningless and dumb in connection to it…in other words, I no longer feel that the way he died has to
convey his worth somehow. Because his life was worth a great deal, even if his death was probably the result of someone making a phone call.<br />
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And as long as I’m communicating that worth to the world, I’ve done part of
what I’ve been put on this earth to do…and I am freed. I get to just be Laura
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“First Flight Home”
by Jake Miller: </b>I listened to this one a lot when I used to run in
Central Park. I’d run by Sheep’s Meadow, where I had one of my first dates with
my fiancé, and think about the flights he took out to visit me when we first
met. During my marathon training, this song made me realize that I'm the one who's never home now. <br />
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“Team” by Lorde</b></div>
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Grande, featuring Iggy Azalea: </b>It’s like the perfect equation for my
running routine—a high-pitched, airy voice, a big “F you” to my ex, and
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</b>I realize a lot of my songs talk about being young, and that’s OK. I’m 37.
I’m still young, as far as I’m concerned. Also, she sings about “dirty socks”
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“Chandelier” by Sia: </b>Over the summer, my cousin asked me what Sia is
talking about in this song, as though she was sure I would absolutely know
the answer to that. I can’t say I know, except that I was once a party girl, and
party girls don’t get hurt, they don’t feel anything, when will I learn, I push
it down, push it down…<br />
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Mostly I love this song because it starts out slow and
gets huge, like most running songs I like, and Jim Carrey once sang it on the
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“The Only Living Boy in New York” by Paul Simon<br />
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“The Great Intoxication” by David Byrne<br /><br />
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This is an especially grueling part of the course—the
halfway point over the Pulaski Bridge. So I’ve chosen the songs that mean the
most to me in the world, a chronology of my relationship with my fiancé. They
start in 2003 when we met online (he was in Seattle and I was in New York) with
Buckley, Bedingfield and Simon; move on to the 2005 to 2008 years, when we were
long-distance again between Baltimore and Pennsylvania; segue into songs from
when we had our first home together in 2008; and end in our most recent years,
choosing to wed. These songs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">will</i> be
played at our wedding, if I have anything to say about it.<br />
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Mostly they remind me of how far we’ve come from those days when we used to
roam the streets of New York and couldn’t afford to do a damn thing. We both
lived in Queens when we were first dating, and that’s the part of the course
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“One More Night” by Maroon 5:</b> There’s
that Adam Levine again.<br />
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“Glory of Love” by Peter Cetera: </b>After the runners make it over the
Queensboro Bridge, the quietest part of the course, they’re often faced with
the roar of the crowds lining First Avenue. I haven’t run more than 16 miles
in any one long run during training, so this is a scary threshold for me to cross.
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As the only girl in my family, I watched a lot of sports
movies growing up. This song is from one of them. After we watched "Karate Kid II" for the first time, my younger brother started singing this song to himself every
night as he fell asleep. Hearing it makes me feel misty and triumphant, and the
lyrics are especially poignant because he will be my “Man of Honor” at my
wedding later this year: “<span style="color: #1f1f1f; mso-fareast-language: JA;">You
keep me standing tall, you help me through it all/I'm always strong when you're
beside me.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">/<span style="color: #1f1f1f;">I have always needed you, I could never make it alone./I am a man who
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by Eric Carmen: </b>This one is here<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>because
my “girl cuzzes” and I used to sing it all the time. And it’s very upbeat. It
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“Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor: </b>My brother and stepbrothers love “Rocky.”
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Livin’ on a Prayer”
by Bon Jovi: </b>When my mom started dating my stepdad, my brother and
stepbrothers and I used to put on concerts for them in our basement rec room,
and they were exclusively Bon Jovi concerts. Each one of the five of us had his
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“Dancing Queen” by ABBA: </b>I’ve purposely placed this one to play around 84<sup>th</sup>
Street, near the bar Dorrian’s Red Hand. A year after I first moved to New
York, I got an apartment on the Upper East Side. It was cramped and tiny. My
brother and one of my stepbrothers helped me move, which was somewhat of a
disaster because I was very irresponsible and had barely packed. I couldn't get my act together. This was a year after my father died, and I wondered what I
was still doing living in the city with no real job prospects. <br />
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My brothers were kind and helpful, and later that night, when we went out to a
bar for the first time in my new neighborhood, this song came on and my brother
danced with me. And for a moment, it was like everything was OK—I was a
20-something experiencing my glamorous new life in New York, in my own
apartment (well I did have that random Craig’s List roommate, but anyway), and
I was going to do something with my life. This song always makes me think of
how he helped me celebrate that. <br />
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“Killing Me Softly With His Song” by the Fugees: </b>My younger brother’s the
karaoke king, and he often laughs at me when I say this song is “in my range,”
whatever that means. It’s one we performed a duet to once in Boston.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Don’t Stop
Believin’” by Journey: </b>My oldest stepbrother is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> the karaoke king, but he sure does love getting drunk and
singing on tables. That’s all I have to say about this one.</div>
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“Love Shack” by the B-52s: </b>This is from that time the five of us did
karaoke in the Outer Banks and my brother and I brought down the house.</div>
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Miles 18 through 23 (the Bronx and potentially the Wall) </h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Trumpets” by Jason DeRulo<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />“Fireflies” by Owl
City<br />
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“Don’t Worry Baby” by the Beach Boys:</b> I will without a doubt be very
emotional by the time I reach this point, so I’ve queued up these songs to match. I'll need to be reminded here exactly why I’m
doing this.</div>
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By mile 19 I’m going to start to worry. So this
song is the perfect choice. The Beach Boys number among the many singers who
make me think of my dad, and I’m going to need his guidance here.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Father and Daughter” by Paul Simon: </b>This
one has been on my playlist since I ran my first half a year ago. It came on
randomly one day on the treadmill and I couldn’t get over how much it made me
think of my father.<br />
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The lyrics: <br />
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“<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">If you leap awake in the
mirror of a bad dream/And for a fraction of a second you can't remember where
you are/Just open your window and follow your memory upstream/</span><span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p>To the
meadow in the mountain where we counted every falling star./I believe a light
that shines on you will shine on you forever/And though I can't guarantee
there's nothing scary hiding under your bed/I'm gonna stand guard like a
postcard of a Golden Retriever/</span><span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p>And
never leave 'til I leave you with a sweet dream in your head./I'm gonna watch
you shine/Gonna watch you grow/Gonna paint a sign</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">/<span style="color: #262626;">So you'll always know</span>/<span style="color: #262626;">As long as one and one is two/There could never be a
father</span>/<span style="color: #262626;">Who loved his daughter more than I
love you./Trust your intuition</span>/<span style="color: #262626;">It's just
like goin' fishin'</span>/<span style="color: #262626;">You cast your line and
hope you get a bite./But you don't need to waste your time</span>/<span style="color: #262626;">Worryin' about the marketplace</span>./<span style="color: #262626;">Try to help the human race</span>/<span style="color: #262626;">Struggling to survive its harshest night.”<br />
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After that the chorus repeats. My father died on August 8, and shortly
thereafter, I decided any time I saw two 8’s, that was him saying hello. So the
part about painting the signs, and the numbers, really resonates with me as
something my dad would do. This is especially meaningful when I’m running a
race and see the mile markers go by. I believe my father would want me to avoid
wasting my time “worrying about the marketplace,” and “try to help the human
race, struggling to survive its harshest night.” That’s why I’m running this
race. It’s why I’m championing this cause.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Africa” by Toto<br />
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“Forever Young” by Rod Stewart and<o:p></o:p> “California Dreamin’”
by the Mamas and the Papas: </b>Now that I’ve gotten past the emotional part, I’m going to need a little help from my friends, and these two make me
think of my closest friend, the one who lives the farthest away from me. Rod’s
song is similar to Paul’s in its message—I imagine it’s the advice her father
would give her, so I’m co-opting it here. And California dreaming is what I do
often these days, since all the leaves are brown, and she’s all the way out there, not here. When I’m in the ghost town part of the Bronx I’ll feel that way especially.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Go Your Own Way” by
Fleetwood Mac: </b>This is the beginning of the “me songs” time line, the songs
that have inspired me and motivated me at various times in my life. I went
through a big Fleetwood Mac phase in college when they had the reunion tour.
This was part of that. Also, this song is just filled with good advice from
Lindsey Buckingham.</div>
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“Hey Jude” by the Beatles: </b>Another song with a huge crescendo, my
running-song preference. This one is extra-special though, because by running
for End Distracted Driving in honor of my dad, I am “taking a sad song and
making it better.”</div>
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Also, this: “<span style="color: #5d5d5d; mso-fareast-language: JA;">So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin/You're waiting for someone to
perform with./And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do/The
movement you need is on your shoulder./Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
yeah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5d5d5d; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I used
to listen to that song when I was 24 and think about how badly I wanted someone to perform with. I’d try to realize that it was OK if he hadn’t
arrived, because “the movement I needed was on my shoulder.” In interviews,
Paul McCartney has said this was really one of John Lennon’s nonsense lines—it
doesn’t mean anything, it just sounds good. But I think it’s very
spiritual. Before I had someone to perform with, the movement I needed was on
my shoulder. I have a band mate now…but the movement I need is still on my
shoulder anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5d5d5d; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I’m
going to need that movement right at that very moment if I’m to finish this race.
(And this playlist story…yeesh.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“When I Was a Boy” by
Dar Williams: </b>This song is going to be extra motivating because it’s about
tomboys who ride bikes topless and climb trees… and run marathons, maybe. I
listened to this over and over again my last year of college, sad about
contemplating my place in the world as a woman.</div>
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“I Hope You Dance” by JoAnn Womack: </b>My mother gave me a journal with the
lyrics of this song on the cover to encourage me when I moved to New York by
myself at 25 to become a writer. These lyrics helped me then, and will help me
now, getting to mile 23: “<span style="color: #5d5d5d; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I
hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,/Never settle for the path
of least resistance./Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth
takin',/Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin',/Don't let some hell
bent heart leave you bitter,/When you come close to sellin' out
reconsider,/Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,/And when
you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.”<br />
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I’m dancing, Mom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Prelude/Angry Young Man” by Billy Joel: </b>When I had a very hard time finding full-time work as a journalist in New York,
I used to joke that I had become the “angry young man.” This was essentially my
theme song. I hated the world. Everything was unfair. That time still motivates
me to do things that are positive. I’m certain that it always will.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Don’t Stop Me Now”
by Queen: </b>Self-explanatory. Look at the lyrics: “<span style="color: #5d5d5d; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky/Like a
tiger defying the laws of gravity./I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva/I'm
gonna go go go,/There's no stopping me./I'm burnin' through the sky yeah./Two
hundred degrees,/That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit./<o:p></o:p>I'm trav'ling
at the speed of light/I wanna make a supersonic man out of you.”<br />
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One last surge to the finish!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Fight Song” by Rachel Platten: </b>If there were one song that could truly
express what this marathon journey and my attempt to raise awareness about distracted-driving deaths has been
like for me, it would be this one. I’ll just put the lyrics here. It has taken me two
years to pull all of this together. And now I am reaching the end of the marathon
portion.</div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">“Like a small boat</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">On the ocean</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Sending big waves</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Into motion</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Like how a single word</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Can make a heart open</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I might only have one match</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">But I can make an explosion</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And all those things I didn't say</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wrecking balls inside my brain</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I will scream them loud tonight</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Can you hear my voice this time?</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">This is my fight song</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Take back my life song</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Prove I'm alright song</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">My power's turned on</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Starting right now I'll be strong</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I'll play my fight song</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And I don't really care if nobody else believes</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Losing friends and I'm chasing sleep</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Everybody's worried about me</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">In too deep</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Say I'm in too deep (in too deep)</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And it's been two years</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I miss my home</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">But there's a fire burning in my bones</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Still believe</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Yeah, I still believe</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And all those things I didn't say</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wrecking balls inside my brain</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I will scream them loud tonight</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Can you hear my voice this time?</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">This is my fight song</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Take back my life song</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Prove I'm alright song</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">My power's turned on</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Starting right now I'll be strong</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I'll play my fight song</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And I don't really care if nobody else believes</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;">A lot of fight left in me</span><span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p>.”</span><span style="color: #5d5d5d; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Miles 23 through 26.2 (Central Park)</h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Some Nights” by Fun.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br />“Roar” by Katy Perry<br />
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“What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)” by Kelly Clarkson<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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“Work Bitch” by Britney Spears<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“We Are Young” by Fun.<br />
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“Paradise” by Coldplay<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“Applause” by Lady Gaga<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</b>This is my OG playlist. I started competing in 5Ks to this
playlist two years ago, so I’ve kept it on my iPhone ever since. I’ve just
built upon it as I’ve added miles. By now, hearing these songs induces a
reaction in my legs much like a bell’s ring did for the salivary glands of Pavlov’s dogs. When Katy
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And that is the kind of robotic reaction I’m going to need
in these last few miles through Central Park. The prettiest part of the route
by far, and likely the part where I might hallucinate the Virgin Mary—hey, it’s
happened to people! Please pray that this does not happen to me….</div>
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NB: My hand gestures extend to a few of these songs…I’ve
been known to do a lot of fist-pumping to “Roar.” When Britney commands me to
“put my hands up, fingers to the sky,” you'd better believe I do it. And when
Gaga says she lives for the applause, applause, applause, I start clapping for
myself. This is not a joke. I am the crazy lady clapping.</div>
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“Walk Like a Man” and “Medley: Stay/Let’s Hang On” by the cast of Jersey Boys: </b>These
songs are tremendously effective. They just feel like the end of an album. Here
you have the ultimate in high-pitched male voices. And “walk like a man” simply means, keep going—walk with
dignity. You’re exhausted, but keep doing it. And “Let’s hang on to what we’ve
got, don’t give up girl, we’ve got a lot,” well that just makes me want to refuse to give up what I’ve worked so hard for. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When I ran the half marathon in Virginia Beach, my old
headphones crapped out and I only heard bits and pieces of songs. Only one
sentence of this last Jersey Boys song came through, and it was “Go on and be
his bride. Don’t you worry ’bout me.” <br />
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honor my dad was something I decided to do after my fiancé proposed.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
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“Theme From New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra: </b>"These vagabond shoes....are longing to stray...right through the very heart of it...New York, New York!"<br />
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Time for some pasta, some chocolate milk and an ice bath, in no particular order. And a nap.<br />
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By the way, it's not too late to help out. Go to <a href="http://crowdrise.com/EndDis">crowdrise.com/EndDis</a> to donate.</div>
Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-5995584274212940412015-10-23T16:23:00.000-07:002015-10-23T17:52:34.995-07:00My Maddicts Party Recap: On Finding My Feather, Embracing My Otherness and Discovering the Confidence to FlyA few nights ago, I was watching some videos on oprah.com, which I do once in a while—I especially love Eckhart Tolle's—and I came across this very inspiring clip of Janet Mock: http://www.supersoul.tv/supersoul-sessions/the-path-of-authenticity-embracing-the-otherness/<br />
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Yes, I know, it's corny to watch Oprah videos. But I dare you to watch that and not be moved to tears.<br />
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In her speech to Oprah's audience at UCLA, and with a very careful, poised, studied delivery, Mock tells her story about growing up transgender. This speech is inspiring to me in so many ways, but I think the part that touches me the most is her description of her move to New York and her work as an editor at <i>People</i> magazine. Or rather, her climb to becoming a magazine editor. She talks about how despite her shiny and strong exterior, as this successful person she had set out to be, she was secretly suffering. Because as someone whose job it is to supposedly be a truth-teller, her whole persona was a lie. When she moved to New York, Mock chose to keep her transgender status concealed. She enjoyed the freedom that secret provided and the anonymity she felt as just another woman in such a big city.<br />
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Ultimately, Mock expresses in this video how important it is to tell your story, to have the courage to be your most authentic self. "Embrace the otherness," she says. Because it is the otherness that makes you who you are. Mock has since gone on to write a New York Times best-selling memoir called <i>Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More.</i><br />
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I've also been a bit infatuated with the Disney movie <i>Dumbo</i> lately. Maybe this is because since my bridal shower, I've been noticing elephants appearing around me in odd places—on my cousin's tote bag at the shower, on the curtains in the room where we played "Head's Up" (the game from <i>Ellen—</i>have you played this? It's so much fun!), on a scarf my aunt wanted to buy in Anthropologie the next day, on videos that kept popping up on Facebook, on a necklace a new girl in the elevator at work was wearing. Like many people, I recently watched the Walt Disney biography on PBS, so maybe that implanted the movie in my mind.<br />
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Dumbo is someone Janet Mock would consider to be "other." He is different. But, as Timothy S. Mouse tells him after the two find themselves inexplicably high up in a tree after an accidentally drunken night of hallucinating pink elephants, "the very things that held you down are gonna carry you up and up and up."<br />
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When my father died in a car accident in 2003, part of me looked at what had happened and got very angry, because in a way, this was one more event in my life that was making me "other." And, like Janet Mock, I had escaped to New York City from a life I no longer wanted.<br />
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I'd been lucky enough to earn an internship at a magazine in New York. I knew the going would be tough. This was an opportunity I took after sending out hundreds of résumés to various news outlets, and mostly getting no responses whatsoever. Looking back, I probably should have tried harder to get something in my hometown, just to start. But my eyes were bigger than my stomach. I wanted excitement, I wanted to see the world. So I chose the $10 per day internship.<br />
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(A disclaimer: When I was at home in Delaware, looking for jobs, I was fortunate enough to have parents who allowed me to live with them for free, despite being just out of college. They also paid for my college education in its entirety. Especially as I get older, I am very well aware of how blessed my circumstances as a child were, and grateful for how hard my mother and stepdad had to work to make that happen. That being said, both of them were very nervous about my moving to New York with only $1,000 to my name and a $10 per day internship.)<br />
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I was fearless then. My gut was telling me, <i>You must do this.</i> So I listened. But I was also only 25 and very inexperienced in the world.<br />
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Like Dumbo, I quickly found a guide. My now-fiancé was a part-time writer and editor in Seattle, and a full-time IT guy. He also wanted something more exciting in his life.<br />
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And thank God I found him when I did. I had just gone through an incredibly difficult, life-changing year.<br />
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I'll put it this way: When I made the decision to move to New York, my ex-boyfriend, who I was still friends with at the time, said to me, "I'm glad you're doing this. New York is the perfect place for people like you."<br />
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What he was alluding to was the fact that a week after my college graduation, I'd had to spend six days in withdrawal from nine medications in a hospital. This was because I'd agreed to see a therapist in my last year of college who decided that my clinical depression required a complicated "cocktail."<br />
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I chalk this up now to the trendiness of prescribing lots and lots of prescription drugs to patients who probably mostly needed talk therapy—this was just beginning back in 2002. But as I was only 24, I listened to everything he told me. When he told me I needed to consider my limitations in life, I listened. When he told me I was a "failure at life," because I refused to take a prescribed Ambien at night sometimes, I listened.<br />
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He eventually told me he could no longer treat me because I was "not compliant." The irony of this is laughable. My life was falling apart <i>because </i>I was so compliant.<br />
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When I saw a new doctor a few weeks later, she was horrified by how many medicines I was on. I'm not even going to go into the various side effects these drugs incurred, but I'll just say that I was a bit of a walking zombie, had gained about 20 pounds very rapidly, had panic attacks that often required ER visits and was a shell of my former self. But after those six days in the hospital, getting off all those drugs, the doctors there simply said, "All you have is severe anxiety, you don't need to be here." And I went home.<br />
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(Another disclaimer: Depression was something I first showed symptoms of when I was 16 years old, and by the hospital visit, it was something my parents and brother and I had struggled to find the right treatment for. I'd seen seven different doctors over the years by the time I ended up with the prescription-happy one. It's fair to say that my mother saved my life by getting me treatment when I was a very depressed teenager, and that as a mother, she went through more anguish than I did dealing with this...because mothers always do. And I have an especially generous one.)<br />
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My new doctor, the one who'd sent me to the hospital to withdraw, said I'd survived it due to my own inner strength, that I should be proud of myself, and that she wasn't worried about me in the least because I had a good head on my shoulders.<br />
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She signed me up for talk therapy, but after a few visits I decided it wasn't for me. I had become fairly disenchanted with counseling.<br />
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When I left the hospital, I was a very different version of myself. It was the first experience I'd ever had that I sensed not one person in my everyday life had experienced—and when you're 25, this idea that nobody has ever gone through what you've gone through is heightened, of course. Because you are largely basing this on what your peers tell you.<br />
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I realized I had two options in front of me: I could decide that I was a freak because of the stigma I felt, or I could choose to use it to my advantage. I picked the latter.<br />
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The worst had already happened to me, I thought. Nothing else could possibly be as scary and awful as that hospital had been.<br />
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And so like Janet Mock, I hid what had happened. I spent the next year of my life avoiding men from Delaware, who I assumed might have heard about me through the grapevine (though that probably wasn't anywhere close to the truth...then again, Delaware is a small place), and dating guys from various places (this is when Internet dating started getting big). One was from Syracuse, New York. One was a Mormon in Utah. One was a music writer in Philly who didn't own a phone in his house and smoked pot all day—that one did not end well.<br />
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And then one was a young guy in Seattle, who'd also gone out into the world seeking something...my Timothy S. Mouse. His name was Steven.<br />
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When I finally reached the right moment to tell Steven about my hospital experience, I braced myself for rejection. A week or so after I'd left the hospital, my boyfriend at the time had sat across from me in the food court of a shopping mall and said he had to break up with me because his parents were concerned. He said his parents had been flipping through his high school yearbook, looking for other eligible girls for him to date. This was odd, I thought, because his mother had told him once that if she could have chosen a girlfriend for him, it would have been me. "What changed?" I asked him. "I thought your parents liked me?" "Well," he reminded me. "You were just in <i>a hospital.</i>"<br />
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This wasn't a huge blow romantically speaking...he wasn't a man I loved, just a guy I had fun with. But it was certainly a betrayal, and it only echoed what they'd told me when I was in the hospital...one day we were all sitting in group therapy, and one of the patients asked a counselor, "What do I tell people when I leave here?" And the counselor replied, "I'd highly advise never telling anyone that you had to spend any time in this place." The emphasis was on that patient's ability to find a job. But as the youngest member of this therapy group, I heard that message differently.<br />
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So when the moment came, and I told Steven what I had experienced—and many young men had failed this test in that year, the year I became the United Nations of online dating—he responded with one sentence: "I think you are an amazing woman."<br />
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Four years later, my brother introduced me to a TV show called <i>Lost.</i> By this time, I was living in Baltimore and frustrated about not having found full-time work in magazines—after all, I'd been trying for four years, which felt like a lifetime to a 20-something. I started binge-watching <i>Lost </i>during the week of Thanksgiving 2007—this was just as binge-watching was becoming a thing.<br />
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By the show's next season, I was all caught up. I'd had a lot of time on my hands to do this, because four months after I finally got that long-coveted magazine job, albeit at a very small trade magazine in the middle-of-nowhere, New Jersey, my company had had to lay off several employees for financial reasons. I was one of them.<br />
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This was in the middle of the recession, the perfect time to be job-hunting, especially in journalism (that's sarcasm). At the time, multiple magazines and newspapers were closing shop. People talked every day about how the Internet would eventually replace print journalism.<br />
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After many freelance copyediting jobs that year, I eventually landed at a celebrity news magazine. And because they covered entertainment, I got a shot at writing about what had become my TV obsession.<br />
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Three years later, I was working at <i>Good Housekeeping,</i> and tried to reprise my <i>Lost</i> effort with a show called <i>Mad Men.</i><br />
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When I wrote about <i>Lost, </i>my goal was to emulate Jeff Jensen from <i>Entertainment Weekly. </i>I loved that he was able to find the literary references on the show and expand on them...that he could find things the writers were trying to communicate that viewers might not pick up on right away, but which could enhance viewers' experience if they read about them. This was the beginning of smart TV—Jensen was a pioneer.<br />
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With <i>Mad Men,</i> a <i>GH</i> Web editor and I came up with this concept of checking our magazine archives and seeing if I could find photos of outfits and hairdos identical to the ones that appeared on the show. <i>Good Housekeeping</i> is 130 years old. We felt this could be a corner of the TV recapping "market" that nobody had grasped. And while <i>Mad Men</i> was not a fantasy show, and not literary in the way <i>Lost</i> had been, writing about fashion and pop culture was something that really interested me. It was also very intimidating, though, because <i>Mad Men</i> wasn't a show that involved solving a puzzle, like <i>Lost</i> was. It was based on real-life events. And I was no history buff.<br />
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In the spring of 2014, I started writing my <i>Mad Men</i> recaps, and much like this particular blog post, they were lengthy and involved and complicated. I'd had the same issue with my <i>Lost</i> recaps—I wasn't really doing this intentionally, but in the back of my head, I was emulating Jeff Jensen. And Jensen isn't exactly known for his brevity.<br />
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I soon learned that what I was doing was too much for the <i>GH</i> website. And not only that, but when the recaps were trimmed to a more appropriate size, they still weren't popular enough with readers for the Web team to justify continuing posting them.<br />
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I was really dismayed by this. But ever my Timothy S. Mouse, Steven set me straight. "You have to keep writing these," he told me. "Even if it's only on your blog."<br />
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This idea made me concerned. After all, I'd only reached 800 to 1,000 readers a week with my <i>Lost</i> recaps because they were posted on the <i>OK</i>! website. Granted, <i>OK</i>! readers didn't always have the desire to sit there and get through 2,000 words, and God bless those Web editors who still let me keep posting them. But at least I had a podium. And when the recaps were on the <i>GH</i> website, I had a chance of reaching a million readers.<br />
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Downtrodden but determined, and very worried I would appear to be some super fangirl sitting in her basement, I continued with the recaps, here on fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com—a blog I'd started back when I had to pretend to be a women's magazine editor, because I hadn't become one and who knew if I ever would.<br />
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Promoting my recaps was difficult. I knew I was annoying people on Facebook, posting my statuses every week, asking everyone to please check out my work. The <i>GH</i> Web editors graciously allowed me to keep using the <i>Good Housekeeping</i> title in my recap names, so at least that gave it some feeling of validity. And then one day I had a brilliant idea. Why not post links to these recaps on AMC's <i>Mad Men</i> forum? That's where the true fans were, after all. They called themselves "Maddicts."<br />
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And then slowly but surely, my writing developed a following, for the first time in my life.<br />
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I met people in the <i>Mad Men</i> forum who truly liked what I had to say. Yes, I'd always gotten kudos for my writing, from teachers, family, friends, etc. From my college journalism professors, from employers. From Steven. From literary journal editors. But this was the first time I had real, live readers who didn't know me from Adam. And I had barely anything backing up my abilities—I mean, let's be real here, this is a pretty rudimentary-looking blog. And my bio on the right screams "I am stuck in 2007."<br />
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But they were steadfast, and every week after I wrote a recap, whether it got 200 clicks (mostly from reddit.com) or 1,500, I knew I could rely on that AMC <i>Mad Men</i> forum for a real assessment of its worth.<br />
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This was significant to me for so many reasons.<br />
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By being willing to sit there and toil for days, researching the 1960s and 1970s (and eventually I went back and researched every decade of the century—I found every documentary I could on American pop culture, just so I could make sure I was getting my facts right), I finally embraced my inner "otherness."<br />
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I'd always been a person who was happy sitting for hours working on something that interested me. I had an ability to become interested and immersed in minutiae that many people I knew didn't have. I didn't know why I was this way. If often got me into trouble. When I was in high school, besides being diagnosed with depression, I was also diagnosed with ADHD-inattentive type. I received extra time on tests...my innate attention to details and perfectionism was often more of a hindrance than an asset. It takes me much longer than most normal people to do most things, and that includes leaving the house, especially if it involves packing a suitcase at the end of a long work day. It is probably what causes the most grief about me to anyone I am close to, and I have experienced a lot of loss and shame in my life because of it. My brother has joked in the past that I have a Type F personality because of my slowness. Yes, I benefitted a great deal in school from what I now realize is a slightly photographic memory, though this might be because my attentional style forces me to take in a lot more when I look at something.<br />
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But mostly there has always been a part of me that knew I was a bit odd, a bit different.<br />
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And yet when my writing about <i>Mad Men</i> brought in loyal readers, I realized there were people who were benefitting from my otherness. They threw a party on a hotel rooftop in Times Square and asked me to come. And when I got to the party, I felt like a guest of honor. They had questions for me about my writing and how I came up with some of the things I wrote about. It was the closest I'd ever come to being treated like a celebrity.<br />
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WasThere was there, and she regaled us with all her amazing tales from the real 1960s, such as the time she met Joe DiMaggio and kissed him on the cheek. Tipsi was the life of the party, and kept telling me she expected to see great things from me someday. Eva stayed late talking films with Steven and me. One lovely Maddict, who has since changed her code name in the Facebook forum (please forgive me, Maddicts, but these names have changed so many times—was it you, Lavender?), even offered to let me stay at her house for a week just to write! Liz Geier and I talked about her job in the fashion industry, making incredible costumes for Broadway shows. And CleoClio, who I'd suspected in the forum was a man for some odd reason, told us all about his days working in advertising. It was really a wonderful night, and could have only been made better if Jon Hamm in the flesh had shown up to join us.<br />
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And so now, many months later, I am finally sitting down to recap this party and talk about these wonderful people who took a liking to things that came out of my head and ended up on this blog. And I can't help but realize that though I already had a Timothy S. Mouse in Steven, whom I met in 2003, it wasn't until I met the Maddicts that I found my elusive feather.<br />
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And it was because of finding that feather that I was able to set out and try to publish my writing in other places. I took an opportunity to write about <i>True Detective</i> for lippsisters.com. This was a mixed blessing, since so many people disliked the show, but I still got so much out of it as a writer.<br />
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And most importantly, I decided to come clean about my otherness, and write about the things that mattered to me most.<br />
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Around the same time I'd started my<i> Mad Men</i> recaps, my brother's ex-girlfriend introduced me to running. Though I'd participated in sports in high school, I'd never really considered myself an athlete. But most of my coworkers at <i>Good Housekeeping</i> seemed more interested in working out than hanging out in bars (this was not the case at my previous job), so I took on running full-force. First I competed in 5Ks. Then I decided to run a half marathon. And then I entered into the New York Marathon on a lark, and got in.<br />
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Also around the same time I'd started my <i>Mad Men</i> recaps, I met a man named Joel Feldman, who'd started an organization called End Distracted Driving. Joel lost his daughter, Casey, in a distracted driving accident when she was 21 years old. She had been walking to her summer job in Ocean City, NJ, and was studying in New York at the time to become a journalist. I found Joel through my job at <i>Good Housekeeping,</i> when we published an article about EndDD. I have to wonder, if I hadn't followed the path that led me to that job, would I ever have even known Joel or his organization existed?<br />
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With Joel's encouragement, I spoke in a high school that year to a gymnasium full of students about my father and how we had lost him. It was terrifying and liberating at the same time. This thing in my life I'd kept hidden for so many years, much like my hospital stay, was finally out in the open. And anyone and their mother could say anything they wanted to about it.<br />
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The truth was, I'd written several essays about what had happened that summer in 2003 and about my relationship with my dad in general over the years. But most of them had gone unfinished and unpublished because of this fear I had of being seen as different. Or because I was concerned that my writing was not up to par enough to publish them.<br />
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I'm only realizing today that whether or not I was publishing these stories about my dad—one of which has now appeared on the <i>Runner's World </i>website, while another is coming out in December's <i>Good Housekeeping—</i>by writing those TV recaps, I was already describing his otherness. And my own.<br />
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On <i>Lost,</i> many of the main characters have to review their lives and come to terms with who they are, how their weaknesses can often be their strengths. They have to learn how to forgive in order to move on, and oftentimes the person they are forgiving is themselves. They have to find their true purpose and calling—often they realize this has to do with helping other people, and not just staying hermitic and obsessing over their own flaws (think of Jack and his drinking problems and his reluctance to be a leader). It is when they are able to "let it go," as Jack's father says, that they truly move on.<br />
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And then on <i>Mad Men,</i> Don Draper is a character somewhat similar to Jack. Don's appeal as an antihero came about because so many of us wanted to understand who our fathers really were, and <i>why</i> they were the way they were. We wanted to be able to see our parents as real, live human beings, who are capable of making mistakes, just like we are. Matt Weiner gave the TV-viewing audience a great gift in this show, the gift of "moving forward," as Don often says, but doing so with grace and humility—the lesson Don learns at the end of the series. To let go of vices that ultimately constitute a false self—Don Draper is the ultimate false persona, after all—and to embrace the parts of you that make you unique, as people learned to do more of in the 1970s.<br />
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I've recently told my younger brother, who is also my best friend, that he is my "feather" when it comes to running. That I need him to be present when I run the marathon, because I don't know if I can fly without him. Going through this process, training to run this many miles in honor of my dad and all the other families who've lost someone so senselessly, and also getting to publish some of my essays about my dad, has given me a scary feeling of empowerment—that I can take what was a very difficult time in my life, some of which I've described here, and use it to benefit others.<br />
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But today I'm realizing that maybe I've had the ability to fly all along. And in addition to my father, my parents, my brother, my stepbrothers, my aunts, uncles and cousins, my friends, Steven and Joel Feldman, I have a very special group of people to thank for that: the Maddicts.<br />
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Thank you, you lovely people, for allowing me to accept my otherness. Thank you for helping me to let go of my fears of judgment, to be OK with who I am and what I have to offer and realize that being passionate about a fictional story isn't nerdy—it's actually really cool.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the end of this party, WasThere/Audrey sang to me, "Tell Laura I Love Her." <br />
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<br />Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-52408924074503089012015-05-26T11:41:00.000-07:002015-11-21T19:48:46.810-08:00Good Housekeeping's Throwback Thursday, Mad Men Edition: "Person to Person"<br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"Fire and Rain,"</a> by James Taylor (October 1970)<br />
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Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.<br />
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.<br />
I walked out this morning, and I wrote down this song,<br />
I just can't remember who to send it to.<br />
I've seen fire and I've seen rain. <br />
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.<br />
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, <br />
But I always thought that I'd see you again.<br />
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Won't you look down upon me, Jesus, <br />
You've got to help me make a stand.<br />
You've just got to see me through another day.<br />
My body's aching and my time is at hand <br />
And I won't make it any other way.<br />
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain. <br />
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.<br />
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, <br />
But I always thought that I'd see you again.<br />
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Been walking my mind to an easy time, <br />
My back turned towards the sun.<br />
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around.<br />
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line <br />
To talk about things to come.<br />
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.<br />
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Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain. <br />
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end.<br />
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,<br />
But I always thought that I'd see you baby, one more time again, now.<br />
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Thought I'd see you one more time again.<br />
There's just a few things coming my way this time around, now.<br />
Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you, fire and rain, now. <br />
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In the second episode of <i>Mad Men, </i>entitled
"Ladies Room," Don Draper sits in his office with his creative team,
which consists of four men. Their task is to create an ad for Right
Guard, a men's deodorant. The best the junior ad men have come up with
is an illustration of an astronaut in space, juxtaposed with a rocket.
Don insists that women will be the ones buying this product, so they
should be focusing on what women want. He tells them, "Let's bring it
down to Earth. You think they want a cowboy. He's quiet and strong. He
always brings the cattle home safe. You watch TV? What if they want
something else? Inside. Some mysterious wish that we're ignoring."<br />
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Don's
question relates to the premise of the episode at hand, but really it
sums up the central theme of the entire series. He thinks they want the
strong, silent type, a cowboy. He asks his underlings if they watch
TV—which is probably where he got this idea in the first place.<br />
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The dominance of Hollywood in American culture arose
only 30 or so years before the time we're watching in "Ladies Room,"
1960. In times of crisis, as the nation experienced via two World Wars
and the Great Depression, people tend to want to go to the movies.
Throughout the 1950s, our country reverted to remarkably more
conservative values. In the decades before World War II, women were
making headway in the Equal Rights Movement. They were entering the
workforce in greater numbers—and their doing so became a necessity
during the second World War. But when the men came back, equipped with
horrible visions in their heads that they'd likely not share with
anyone, the women went back to the home.<br />
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And
so we find Betty, an intelligent, well-educated, beautiful woman,
depressed by only the second episode of this series. And we find Don,
confused about what role he's meant to play in life, and certainly
confused about who he is—he came back from the Korean War a different
person, quite literally. And he is already disillusioned about his
marriage to Betty, as evidenced by the big reveal at the end of the
pilot episode: This handsome young gallivanting ad man—whom we've
watched score a winning goal at work, seek comfort in the arms of a sexy
young artist and share Mai Tais at a flirtatious business meeting with a
new female client—has a home in the suburbs and a wife and kids? And
this is supposed to be normal?<br />
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But it <i>was </i>relatively
normal to experience that type of disappointment in such a patriarchal
system, which was developed as a protective measure at a time when
staying safe, working hard and having strong family values was of utmost
importance. It was a romantic time, to be sure, because most of the
culture was basically deluding themselves. <br />
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Don
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via a flashback in season two ("The Mountain King"). We've learned by
this point that Don has stolen his name and remained married to Anna
Draper out of obligation. He's been providing for her financially and
the two have become friends. And when he describes Betty, he calls her
beautiful and "happy." This is done for humorous effect, of course, as
the viewers know only the former is true.<br />
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Joseph Campbell often lectured at places like<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/23/inside-don-draper-s-big-sur-nirvana-the-esalen-institute.html"> Esalen in Big Sur,</a> the unnamed retreat Don goes to in the <i>Mad Men</i>
finale, "Person to Person," in his retirement years (before that he was
a professor at Sarah Lawrence college—meaning his students were mostly
female). As Campbell explains in one lecture, collected in <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pathways-Bliss-Mythology-Personal-Transformation/dp/1577314719">Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation,</a>
"One of the boldest things you could possibly do is marry the ideal
you've fallen for. Then you face a real job, because everything has been
projected onto him or her. This goes beyond lust; this is something
that goes way down. It pulls everything out....What you have married is a
projection. You have married something that has been projected from
yourself: the mask that you've put over the other person....<br /><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqesKluUG3j2R4EVrM0wD79TknDGimYM8q4pnnFUkdX61wkLFMYJAGCUkdc_3bqsp6WtRugSSsH4jedhfYNZcGpXyv_zh6jD8mot-hSZXfr4IRLwEAwfjqpQa2VoPQyM9jDQFMA1ECJEU/s1600/index.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqesKluUG3j2R4EVrM0wD79TknDGimYM8q4pnnFUkdX61wkLFMYJAGCUkdc_3bqsp6WtRugSSsH4jedhfYNZcGpXyv_zh6jD8mot-hSZXfr4IRLwEAwfjqpQa2VoPQyM9jDQFMA1ECJEU/s320/index.jpg" width="207" /></a><i>"What
shows itself through the mask of the projection is a fact. The mask is
your ideal. This fact does not coincide with the ideal; it is imperfect.
What do you do about what is imperfect? Jung believed that the idea is
to reject all projections....Jung calls the individual who identifies
himself with his persona a </i>mana<i> personality; we would call him a
stuffed shirt. That's a person who is nothing but the role he or she
plays. A person of this sort never lets his actual character develop. He
remains simply a mask, and as his powers fail—as he makes mistakes and
so forth—he becomes more and more frightened of himself, puts more and
more of an effort into keeping up the mask. <br />
<br />
"Then the separation between the persona and the self takes place,
forcing the shadow to retreat further and further into the abyss. You
are to assimilate the shadow, embrace it. You don't have to act on it,
necessarily, but you must know it and accept it. You are not to
assimilate the anima/animus—that's a different challenge. You are to
relate to it through the other. The only way one can become a human
being is through relationships to other human beings. And the first way
is that of compassion. This is not desire. This is not fear. Buddha,
Christ and the rest have made it very clear that we've got to get past
those two."<br /><br />
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The
anima and animus he talks about are concepts coined by Carl Jung for the
"inner feminine side of a man" and "the inner masculine side of a
woman," respectively. His idea was that one tends to be attracted to
someone who reflects back that inner image most perfectly.<br />
<br />
The
1950s saw a time of lots of people falling in love at first sight and
then marrying that person soon after. Contraceptive measures existed,
though they were less effective than the birth control pill—which
wouldn't be widely available until the 1960s—and most people believed
religiously (or at least culturally) speaking that you had to get
married to have sex. And that the point of having sex was to have
children. The problem with this lifestyle...well, there were many
problems...but one central problem was that young adults lost the
opportunity to figure out who they were before taking on the
responsibility of caring for others. What we're watching Don do in the
first few seasons of this series—engage in multiple romantic liaisons—is
not strange in and of itself, because it's something we all tend to do
these days as young adults. It only becomes illicit and provocative
because he's doing it while married and during a more Puritanical time.<br />
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I'd
argue that Don does manage to find a little more of himself via each
romantic entanglement, as Joseph Campbell promotes. I think he does find
a way to experience more compassion for others, and ultimately for
himself. Think of the times the women in his life say they wish him
"peace." In the end, he does experience love with women who are more
compassionate than Betty (which is ultimately why viewers dislike her so
much).<br />
<br />
In
interviews, when people call Don an "anti-hero," Matthew Weiner often
bristles and explains that he's actually an average person, that he's
meant to represent the American male at a very specific time in history
and the problems that man would experience as a result of repressing
so much.<br />
<br />
But the reason Don Draper is such an
intriguing character is that while, as he indicates to his employees in
that scene in "Ladies Room," he <i>is</i> such a construct, he
is—contrary to what Weiner claims—a construct hiding not an "everyman"
but an exceedingly sensitive, creative, gifted and intuitive person.<br />
<br />
And there is nothing at all average about that.<br />
<br />
It's
often said that when there is dysfunction in a family unit, usually
only one person, one member of the unit, expresses the truth about the
dysfunction to the outside world, and it's often via physical or mental
problems of their own. They are a mascot, if you will. And that person
is often seen as "the problem child," because they can't just go along
with whatever negativity is happening and pretend it's not happening.<br />
<br />
It's
often the most sensitive member of the family, the one with the most
compassion. It's the one who feels the others' pain the most who can't
just fall in line, the one who has a harder time keeping up the mask. <br />
<br />
In the "family" of <i>Mad Men,</i>
that person is Don. Because he is surrounded by artificial
people—characters who mostly keep their true feelings under wraps. He is
not the only person struggling with this—it's a widespread cultural
problem. Most creative and compassionate people, who seek pure
expression of themselves and their art, would have a <i>big</i> problem
with this. They are truth-seekers—they are the ones who are our true
mirrors in this world. Imagine how difficult it must be to fulfill that
role in society while also engaging in a huge cover-up of your true
identity, breaking off all ties to where you come from, denying it as
part of who you are and not allowing yourself to truly connect with
others for fear of revealing that cover-up?<br />
<br />
It's enough to drive someone mad. Or at least give them a nervous breakdown.<br />
<br />
And
it's the reason why, though I was on the fence for a while, I believe
we are meant to think Don helped create the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2msbfN81Gm0">Coke ad. </a>And there's absolutely nothing cynical about that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> 1971</td></tr>
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In his lectures at Esalen in the 1970s, Joseph
Campbell explained that most people don't truly face the need to
integrate all these parts of the self until they reach midlife, which
is where Don sits currently. He says Jung called the experience <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiodromia">"enantriodroma,"</a>
which in Greek means running in the opposite direction of
something. Jung described it as practically always occurring "when an
extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in time, an
equally powerful counter-position is built up, which first inhibits the
conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious
control." <br />
<br />
Campbell explained that this midlife
phenomenon is especially influential if one is trying to be effective as
an artist. You must discover, he says, "that anybody in the world is
imperfect, and that imperfection is what keeps the person here....that
nothing alive fits the ideal. If [as an artist] you are going to
describe a person, you must describe the person with ruthless
objectivity. It is the imperfections that identify them. It is the
imperfections that ask for our love. The thing that turns a <i>litterateur</i>
[French for "literary critic"] into a poet or an artist, a person who
can give humanity the images to help it live, is that the artist
recognizes the imperfections around him with compassion. The principle
of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a
participatory companionship. So when the fact shows through the animus
or the anima, what you must render is compassion. This is the basic
love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has
something to give to—as well as demand of—the world. This is how one is
to deal with the anima and animus disillusionment. This disappointment
will evoke. That's reality evoking a new depth of reality in yourself,
because you're imperfect, too. You may not know it. The world is a
constellation of imperfections, and you, perhaps, are the most imperfect
of all. By your love for the world, you name it accurately and without
pity, and love what you have thus named."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>November 1970</td></tr>
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And so when Don can experience empathy, can see
himself in several different characters this season—in Diana, in the
veterans, in Andy, Stephanie and Leonard—this compassion starts to
develop in him. His being an artist is something he really can't help—he
was born that way. And he has always struggled with his drive to create
art—it's always been a drive he hasn't fully understood. In season
four's "The Summer Man," he says, "We're flawed because we want so much
more." It's difficult for him to put into words that fulfillment he's
seeking: It's not just the need to feel normal and accepted, despite his
impoverished, abused background (and he often does not succeed in that
realm—he is always breaking down in front of the wrong people, or acting
out sexually or drinking to numb the pain), and it's not just a desire
to express sensitivity and still be respected as a man. He needs to
feel, as Peggy says in season seven's "The Forecast," that he has
created something of value. That is at the heart of his bond with her.
Because she is the same way.<br />
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This is what has always
fueled his desire to create the perfect ad. It has come up time and time
again, throughout the series, and mostly in his conversations with her.<br />
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In season one's "The Wheel": <br />
<b>Don [drunk in the office in the middle of the night]: </b>Are we on fire?<br />
<b>Harry [in underwear because he's sleeping at work]:</b> Don, no. I dropped a cigarette in my waste basket.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Harry, come here. I want to talk to you.<br />
<b>Don [slurring his words]:</b> Harry, I want to talk to you.<br />
<b>Harry:</b> I can explain.<br />
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<b>Don [pointing at Kodak's new slide projector]: </b>What is the benefit of that thing?<br />
<b>Harry: </b>Um. It sells projectors to people who already have them.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Yeah, and the wheel...stacks...you store your slides in it, and it's ready to go.<br />
<b>Harry:</b> I took pictures for the paper at Wisconsin. The machinery's definitely part of the fun. It's mechanical.<br />
<b>Don:</b> What'd you take pictures of?<br />
<b>Harry:</b>
Girls, mostly. You go up and ask them their names afterwards, like
you're going to put it in the paper. And some other
stuff...artsy-craftsy stuff.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Artsy, like what? A reflection of a tree in a pond?<br />
<b>Harry:</b> Worse. I did a whole series that was just handprints on glass.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Black and white, I suppose.<br />
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<b>Harry:</b>
Of course. I was always fascinated by the cave paintings at Lascaux.
They're, like, 17,000 years old. The bison get all the attention, but
there are also all of these handprints...tiny by today's standards.
With paint blown all around them.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Signature of the artist.<br />
<b>Harry:</b> But...I thought it was...like someone reaching through the stone. Right to us. "I was here.".... You OK?<br />
<b>Don: </b>That will be all.<br />
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In season two's "For Those Who Think Young":<br />
<b>Duck [to Roger, encouraging him to bring in some young talent to sell coffee]:</b> No one under 25 drinks coffee anymore, just Pepsi. They pour it on their Frosted Flakes.<br />
<b>Don [to Roger later on]:</b> Young campaigns don't necessarily come from young people.<br />
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<b><br />
Don [to Peggy and the boys on the Mohawk campaign]:</b> Just because it has sentiment doesn't make it sentimental.<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> Sex sells.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Says who? You are the product, you feeling something. That's what sells. <br />
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In season seven's "The Strategy":<br />
<b>Don [to Peggy over the phone from home]:</b> I'm always working, Peggy. So are you.<br />
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<b>Don [to Peggy later in the office]:</b>
I want you to feel good about what you're doing, but you'll never know.
That's just the job. Living in the not knowing....You can't tell people
what they want, it has to be what you want....Whenever I'm really
unsure about an idea, first I abuse the people whose help I need. And
then I take a nap. And then I start at the beginning again. See if I
end up in the same place. <br />
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In season seven's "The Forecast":<br />
<b>Don:</b> What do you see for the future?<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> Well.... Is that on there?<br />
<b>Don:</b> No. I'm just curious. <br />
<b>Peggy: </b>I'd like to be the first woman creative director at this agency.<br />
<b>Don laughs.</b><br />
<b>Peggy: </b>That's funny to you?<br />
<b>Don: </b>No, I'm impressed that you know exactly.<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> What else is there?<br />
<b>Don:</b> That's what I'm asking. Let's say you get that. What's next?<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> Land something huge.<br />
<b>Don: </b>And then?<br />
<b>Peggy: </b>Have a big idea. Create a catchphrase.<br />
<b>Don: </b>So you want fame.<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> Yes.<br />
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<b>Don:</b> What else?<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> I don't know.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Yes you do.<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> Create something, of lasting value.<br />
<b>Don [laughing]:</b> In advertising?<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> This was supposed to be about my job, not the meaning of life.<br />
<b>Don: </b>And you think those things are unrelated?<br />
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In my <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/05/good-housekeepings-throwback-thursday_17.html">last recap,</a>
I mentioned a flashback in season one's "The Hobo Code" in which
Don/Dick's stepmother explains her philosophy of life: "My mama always
said, life is like a horseshoe: It's fat in the middle, open on both
ends and hard all the way through."<br />
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If
Don is going through his midlife crisis, he's experiencing the
thickest part of the horseshoe and about to make his "return." As I
talked about<a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/05/good-housekeepings-throwback-thursday_17.html"> last time, </a>(quoting
Wikipedia and an article about midlife), "'during one’s youth and
senior years, feeling satisfied and happy tend to peak and then dip
during the middle years of life. This appears as a U-shaped curve on
the time line of a lifespan, which correlates to the time between 40
and 60 years of age. Some people experience more difficulty in
reconciling their feelings of turmoil while others transition more
easily.'<br />
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"In the article <a href="http://www.midlifecrisismarriageadvocate.com/mlc_shadow_initiatory-experience.html">'Initiatory Experience,'</a> Kenda-Ruth Kumpf writes, <i>'A
midlife crisis sufferer seeks to recapture the first experience of
splendor and regresses mentally to that time and place, hoping for a
do-over—a replay. It is necessary to return to the prior innocence, but
to repeat the former mistakes is to follow the familiar path that led
to his present midlife collapse. Once at the original place of
innocence a person is yet changed and must choose a new path, applying
the experiences and maturity earned and learned from his journey to this
point. Regressing is a backwards movement, whereas returning is using
the past as an experience to propel growth and forward movement. To
re-turn is to turn again toward something, but unlike a regression, it
is revolutionary. Midlife is a tumultuous experience for many—whether
it is a crisis or not. Revolution itself is turmoil. But accepting
revolution is the first step to proceeding through it."</i><br />
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A
"return to the prior innocence." That might explain why I found myself
calling Don "Evil Fonzie" for the entirety of "Person to Person." Of
course he'd dress just like he had in the early 1950s—or at least the
way he would have if he hadn't become a businessman. Notice how out of
place he looks with the grease monkeys in Utah, trying to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Flame_%28automobile%29">break the land speed record. </a>And the wink at the audience—a middle-aged man driving fast cars—was hilarious.<br />
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But what really threw me costume-wise in "Person to Person" was this:<br />
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On her necklace—that's the "U-shaped curve" of midlife. <br />
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It's also a horseshoe.<br />
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It got me thinking: Where else have we seen these on <i>Mad Men</i>? <br />
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It turns out, we've seen them a lot. (Or at least references to horses.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sal's horse-head bookend</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The folding blind in Cooper's office in seasons one, two and three</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The knight in chess ad that Don has always kept outside his office</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The horse on Harry's desk in season one's "The Wheel"</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrnzVnlhDR_5E7djG5vgLZRzvwRZkRYZMNjEJSwPx4hCF4_3x-FfzILUBvVJ_0nSiTkTzhyHgUIU-aC-qwzbTa_EbcqIs-6RI2V65xnN1rFjESEniDAe7QeckZUIB8hbglgRC9Ok0pwo/s1600/photo-6.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrnzVnlhDR_5E7djG5vgLZRzvwRZkRYZMNjEJSwPx4hCF4_3x-FfzILUBvVJ_0nSiTkTzhyHgUIU-aC-qwzbTa_EbcqIs-6RI2V65xnN1rFjESEniDAe7QeckZUIB8hbglgRC9Ok0pwo/s400/photo-6.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo of Adam and Dick</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Chevalier campaign (this is the one <br />
Peggy and Stan are fighting to keep in the finale)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And look closely at the pattern on the curtains in Grandpa Gene's old room.</td></tr>
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<br />
In a <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/mad-men-creator-matt-weiner-on-his-hollywood-struggles-and-how-george-lois-is-like-tony-soprano-not-don-draper-20100903?page=2"><i>Rolling Stone</i></a> interview a few years back, Matthew Weiner discussed his original screenplay for <i>Mad Men,</i> which was called...you guessed it...<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mad-men-movie-script-horseshoe-2015-5">"The Horseshoe"</a>: "You
see a lot of horseshoes in the show," he explains. "It had a line:
'Life’s like a horseshoe. It’s open on both ends and hard all the way
through.'"<br />
<br />
In her article <a href="https://mysendoff.com/2012/07/horseshoes-are-the-door-of-life/">"Horseshoes Are the Door of Life,"</a> Amanda Badgero tells of the symbol's origins: <br />
<br />
<i>"In
North America the horseshoe is by far the most well-known good luck
charm. We see it constantly represented in jewelry, wall hangings and
even furniture. But why do we consider this symbol one of such good
luck? Traditionally, horseshoes have been crafted by blacksmiths. This
action alone gives the horseshoe good luck powers due to the fact that
blacksmithing was considered to be an extremely lucky trade because the
work required the use of one of the main elements—fire. The horseshoe
is used as an ancient religious symbol in Assyrian and Egyptian
cultures; it is often seen depicted in historic sculptures and
hieroglyphs meant to signify the enigmatic 'door of life.' Any symbol
that has an open end such as a horseshoe is considered female because
it symbolizes how life enters the world....</i><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJEGopBZqBcYBjGjIyYvLo5BxM5yCpUpcef2ai9P6YkOECRIWaNY_FFwadI7WbBrBFBVBIq5hmwdxfvmAbCYJltDxjRqXpdAjiZDS1qf5qs_ooX_zRbvgb_50CAmy5OEtP23zqMiYouY/s1600/Horseshoes-200x300.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJEGopBZqBcYBjGjIyYvLo5BxM5yCpUpcef2ai9P6YkOECRIWaNY_FFwadI7WbBrBFBVBIq5hmwdxfvmAbCYJltDxjRqXpdAjiZDS1qf5qs_ooX_zRbvgb_50CAmy5OEtP23zqMiYouY/s1600/Horseshoes-200x300.jpg" /></a><i>"Many
believe it is the shape alone that gives horseshoes their magical
powers since it replicates the very shape of the pagan crescent or
horned moon from which it is believed that horseshoes draw their power.
When being used for protection, the horseshoe was hung over barn and
stable doorways with its open end pointing downwards. It is said that
no witch will pass under an upside-down horseshoe.<br /><br />
</i><br />
<i> "There seems to be a bit of a discrepancy over which is
the correct way to hang a horseshoe. For the majority of people in the
countries of Europe, the Middle East and Spanish Colonial Latin
America, the horseshoe is placed with the open end down so that the
luck may pour down on you. In Ireland, Britain and North America, the
shoe is positioned in the upward position to ensure the 'luck does not
run out.'"</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The goddess Diana</td></tr>
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And a brief history of the talisman appears in an article on <a href="http://www.luckymojo.com/horseshoe.html">luckymojo.com</a>:
"There is good reason to suppose that the crescent form of the
horseshoe links the symbol to pagan Moon goddesses of ancient Europe
such as Artemis and Diana, and that the protection invoked is that of
the goddess herself, or, more particularly, of her sacred vulva. As
such, the horseshoe is related to other magically protective
doorway-goddesses, such as the Irish sheela-na-gig, and to lunar
protectresses, such as the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is often shown
standing on a crescent moon and placed within a vulval mandorla or
vesica pisces." <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don having a flashback, in season three's "Shut the Door, Have a Seat"</td></tr>
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As
such a feminine symbol, it makes sense that Don's stepmother would
embrace it as her life motto (passed down from her own mother) then,
despite how unfruitful her vulva mostly was (though she did finally
successfully give birth, to Don's brother Adam, whose name refers to
"the first man"—and is probably also a nod to Don/Dick's not being her
real son). <br />
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And it makes sense then that Don's father would die via a horseshoe to the face. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Betty admiring Don's award</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sally: "Was it an award for good horses?"</td></tr>
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And that when Don receives an award in episode "5G," it would be shaped like a horseshoe.<br />
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And that Adam would find him after spotting a photo of him holding it in the newspaper. <br />
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And
that the award would break, swinging upside down like a pendulum, after
a hungover Don slams the bathroom door. It switches from the upward,
more American position, one that symbolizes conserving luck, to the
downward-facing, European position, one that allows luck to "rain upon" him.<br />
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The predictable in his life is soon to give way to chaos.<br />
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Much
like the pendulum of this show has switched from having a patriarchal
vibe to a more matriarchal one, in accordance with the times, but we'll
get to that in a moment. <br />
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We don't see much mention of horses or horseshoes after the first season of <i>Mad Men</i>;
Weiner only made it up to page 80 in that original screenplay, after
all. And that's what made the appearance of that necklace on the finale
so exciting.<br />
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The pendant the counselor wears is a Native American form of the horseshoe, called a naja. An article on <a href="http://www.rivertradingpost.com/squashblossom.htm">River Trading Post </a>explains: <i><br /><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpt63bFVGOWodrHGktoerPWrGFqYVoLi6XeVjVylxIalDoMlWSXjg0mkvfCFNAiYTN4YU5xAnwV6tfip8vzwOEm5HKWv6bmbvTAI2C_mtboYXHUn5TAlITfdMQMIBptZt80QE9sTbDxC4/s1600/native+americans.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpt63bFVGOWodrHGktoerPWrGFqYVoLi6XeVjVylxIalDoMlWSXjg0mkvfCFNAiYTN4YU5xAnwV6tfip8vzwOEm5HKWv6bmbvTAI2C_mtboYXHUn5TAlITfdMQMIBptZt80QE9sTbDxC4/s320/native+americans.jpg" width="209" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kfmFkPnuV4H6U9_dGPXeT39hXKGBK6IELdslxCA9l_VmuYo9Fz3AcPKflXP77P_0hV7ZStkj6O6T6Nc5UK9k8zJLC9_w4X84vW849WbOaMcusvI87cFsE5GR_yQ7QSaMpojQHMIMUXI/s1600/old_medicine_man.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7kfmFkPnuV4H6U9_dGPXeT39hXKGBK6IELdslxCA9l_VmuYo9Fz3AcPKflXP77P_0hV7ZStkj6O6T6Nc5UK9k8zJLC9_w4X84vW849WbOaMcusvI87cFsE5GR_yQ7QSaMpojQHMIMUXI/s200/old_medicine_man.jpg" width="118" /></a><i>"The
inverted crescent pendant on squash-blossom necklaces, called the
'naja' by the Navajo, is found in various design forms throughout the
world cultures. As a crescent, this form goes back as far as the
Paleolithic period. It is mentioned in the Book of Judges as an ornament
worn around the necks of camels. In the Phoenician culture, Astarte was
the goddess of fertility and she was represented by the inverted
crescent as well. As pendants, the inverted crescent has also been found
in ancient Roman and Crete artifacts. During the Middle Ages, the Moors
rode out of the East and conquered lands in a westerly direction,
including eight centuries of occupation in Spain. They adopted the
symbol as a bridle ornament, and thought the inverted crescent would
protect both themselves and their horse from the 'evil eye.' When the
Spaniards came to South and Central America, they brought that same idea
with them for the protection of their horses and their soldiers. Thus,
the Moors taught the Spanish, who taught the Mexicans, who taught the
Navajo their belief systems and metallurgy. <br /><br />
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<i>"Coming
from another direction in North America, the inverted crescent symbol
was on various types of trade goods brought from the East coast by other
Europeans. The crescent pendant was used from the early 1800s on, by
the Shawnee, Delaware, Cheyenne, Comanche and Navajo tribes, among
others. However, metalwork of various European influences was found in
the Southwest as early as the 1700s. At this time, the Navajo were
fierce warriors who more often raided but occasionally traded with their
neighbors, the Plains Tribes....By the 1820s, Southern Plains
metalworkers had learned the processes of cutting, stamping and cold
hammering. Through contact with either the Spanish and/or the various
Plains Tribes, the Navajo adopted the symbol of the inverted crescent
for their horses. The naja was put on the horse headstall, the front
center band of the horse bridle, and later, the naja moved into the
realm of necklaces. </i><br />
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</i> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEEgtm5kV-CWXUeoLazfy6Vc08w6hCFBZTvUl-HSuXigNgBzDLsLSTDMhbEuaavPaCIfd1rVVLiBYIoFg4gMWHAUFp2WvsCnbWUExo4LD-fCCdLgO6H03OFK7StquIIUWZpdp6LFeAbg/s1600/SquashBlossomNeck8.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEEgtm5kV-CWXUeoLazfy6Vc08w6hCFBZTvUl-HSuXigNgBzDLsLSTDMhbEuaavPaCIfd1rVVLiBYIoFg4gMWHAUFp2WvsCnbWUExo4LD-fCCdLgO6H03OFK7StquIIUWZpdp6LFeAbg/s320/SquashBlossomNeck8.jpg" width="219" /></a><i>"'At one time, every Navajo who could afford a silver
headstall had one on his horse,' said Grey Moustache (a Navajo
silversmith who worked the art from the late 1800s into the 1900s) in a 1930s interview. In
early 1900s photographs of Hopi dancers, the naja can be seen as a
central component of beaded necklaces. The ability to work in silver,
leather and other metals allowed the Navajo to move their culture from a
warrior society to more of a merchant society. Where prestige and
wealth had come from raiding, it now came from herding, and various art
forms. Silverworking was a very important part of this change....<br />
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As the article mentions, the naja often appears on something called a
squash-blossom necklace, which "is truly an Indian creation," according
to <a href="http://goddessfindingsjewelsforthespirit.blogspot.com/2008/03/naja-and-origin-of-squash-blossoms.html">goddessfindingsjewelsforthespirit.blogspot.com.</a>
"However, it developed slowly and has roots deep in non-Indian culture
and history. The principle part of the necklace is the crescent-shaped
pendant....As generations came and went, the pendant...became symbolic
with the various ceremonials. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilY5qY2t74oxpMmycvbZiZvKK6hzsGtgxvPpemZ7iUisNpUckdMJYfoDjP0J0qZ0G8j7omdOwJ3AeZOIgDPxlPw-caAesEYhy6rHZPGjwvLFuWcNf4j0qKFuugeFsuu2lKgpG-uTnaqOg/s1600/meredith-brooks-abbott-pomegranates-with-navajo-basket-and-blanket.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilY5qY2t74oxpMmycvbZiZvKK6hzsGtgxvPpemZ7iUisNpUckdMJYfoDjP0J0qZ0G8j7omdOwJ3AeZOIgDPxlPw-caAesEYhy6rHZPGjwvLFuWcNf4j0qKFuugeFsuu2lKgpG-uTnaqOg/s1600/meredith-brooks-abbott-pomegranates-with-navajo-basket-and-blanket.jpg" /></a>"As
most ceremonials were related to the agricultural cycle, the naja was
associated with crop fertility. Once silver beads came into fashion
around 1880, what more logical place was there to display the naja than
on this string of beads? Arthur Woodard, in 1938, pointed out that the
Navajo and Zuni beads were originally Spanish-Mexican trouser and jacket
ornaments which were fashioned to resemble the pomegranate. The
pomegranate was a common Spanish decorator motif, often seen carved or
painted on missions in Mexico and often a clothing decoration....Because
the Indian ceremonials largely dealt with the agricultural cycle, and
the first jewelry was worn during these occasions, coupled with the fact
that the beads along with the chain looked like pomegranates or squash
blossoms, all have tended to portray the necklace in a crop-fertility
ceremonial light...."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Priestess">high priestess Tarot card,</a>
which did not appear in the reading Anna gave Don in season one's "The
Mountain King," but it would have been apt if it had. Notice the crescent
shape on the card and its background of pomegranates. Here is its
typical meaning: "Commonly this card is associated with the card reader
or the querant. Because it is also focused on 'secrets,' it also
interprets when a secret is kept or revealed, when you are holding onto the truth or revealing it. The card is associated with mystery, when
powerful feminine influences and support are currently in force for
the querant." </td></tr>
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Hold on, those pomegranates look kind of familiar. Oh, right:<br />
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There it is, on the left.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>November 1970</td></tr>
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For the counselor at the Big Sur
retreat, the person who is ultimately Don's savior at the end of this
story, to be wearing a naja brings Don's story full-circle. Life is
like a horseshoe—an upside-down horseshoe. His stepmother tells the
story to a representation of male energy gone amok—the hobo—in
Don/Dick's childhood home. After a late-night conversation with the
hobo, Don/Dick subconsciously absorbs his philosophies—he has always had
trouble settling in one place. But a lot of that restlessness comes
from the fact that his personality is so imbalanced. In every flashback
of his childhood home that we see on <i>Mad Men,</i> Don's stepmother is
consistently cruel to him. His resentment of her, and ultimate
mistrust, would have made it very difficult for him to learn how to
balance his masculine and feminine sides.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> November 1970</td></tr>
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In her article <a href="http://www.trans4mind.com/counterpoint/index-authors/shamanic5.shtml">"Balancing Masculine and Feminine,"</a> Ayal Hurst explains how this works:<br />
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<i>"The
balance of male and female makes us whole. We all have a feminine side
and a masculine side to us....This makes total sense, as we all come from both the
masculine and the feminine—a mother and a father: egg and sperm.
Neither is more or less important than the other—they simply offer us
different and very necessary parts of our being. <br />
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"The aspect of the masculine contains (in brief) the more rational,
direct, practical, assertive qualities, while the feminine is the
creative, intuitive, feeling, visionary part. The feminine also contains
the ability to look inward, as the masculine quality is outward
directed. Just as it is necessary to be able to cope with the world and
its demands, as the masculine part of our being does so well in its
pure, non-distorted state, so too, being introspective is a crucial
aspect of who we are. In our society in general, the feminine aspect of
our being, (as with women in general), has been labeled 'less than.'
For a man, in some ways, showing feminine qualities, or feelings, has
even been forbidden. If a man is seen as sensitive and introspective,
he is laughed at and labeled a wimp. Therefore, for a man, often it
becomes dangerous to show feelings or let others in, as there is a
great fear of ridicule and rejection. <br />
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"Why this has come to be is a long story, but the gist of it is, it is
unbalanced to think that either aspect of our being, whether it be our
masculine energy or our feminine energy, is stupid, less than or
something to be demeaned or denied. It is clear as crystal that one
without the other doesn't work to create life, whether that means the
creation of various aspects of our life and dreams, or the creation of a
child. The old and unbalanced masculine programming that most men were
given tells one that when you are introspective you are doing
something wrong. Your feminine part knows you must go inward to be a
clear human being. Women are also told that to be assertive, proactive
and use one's own power and abilities—the masculine aspect of
oneself—is not appropriate. When the pure essence of the masculine
energy is distorted, it turns into aggression. When the true essence of
the feminine is distorted, it becomes resentful and withdraws love and
connectedness. The feminine energy is all about relationship,
connecting with love and support and nurturance, sensitive to the needs
and feelings of others. The masculine, in its true essence, gets the
job done in a way that is reliable, trustworthy, protective. When the
masculine is balanced, it responds and communicates in such a way that
others feel safe, physically as well as emotionally. </i><br />
<i><br />
"If a man gets very much out of balance by denying his feminine inner
self, he will most likely have difficulties in that he will not be able
to be in touch with his feelings, and this can lead to difficulties
in relationships with others, not to mention oneself. A man, or woman,
who denies the feminine, may substitute the lack of warmth that they
feel in themselves for ambition, for ego attainment and
accomplishment....mind over heart, in other words." </i><br />
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In an episode in the first season of <i>Mad Men, </i>"Babylon,"
Don is up early making a Mother's Day breakfast-in-bed for Betty. As he
climbs the stairs with his tray, he steps on a whirligig toy, falls
backward and hits his head.<br />
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The
fall inspires a flashback to a time when he fell down the stairs during
his brother Adam's birth. He is told to stand up and not to cry. He
then complains about all the crying and screaming he heard during the
birth, and denies Adam as his brother. Then he looks at his stepmother
cradling Adam.<br />
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The
horseshoe, when placed in the U shape, is the same shape as a cradle.
It is the nurturing, plentiful side of the feminine. But when placed
pointing downward, it represents the vulva, and the birth while
standing, popular with Hebrew women in Biblical times—in other words, it
is not only luck showering down upon you, but the propelling of the
child out into the world. It is the separation of mother and child. When
Don/Dick falls in this scene, both in the Draper household and in the
past, it is headfirst, the way a baby enters the world.<br />
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It
is why Don's U-shaped award turns downward into this ultimate
representation of the feminine that he is repressing. And it's why Don
encounters issues of women's fertility again and again on this show.
Think about it—the 1960s setting is at the emergence of the birth
control pill. For the first time, women have a choice about whether or
not to give birth. The first female character to become pregnant on this
show is Peggy—and she psychologically denies the pregnancy, then gives
up the child because she'd rather have a career and cannot think of a
way to also be a mother. Then, Betty becomes pregnant accidentally, and
though she and Don are close to separating, they stay together for the
sake of the child. Then Joan gets pregnant via Roger after a street
mugging; the story line entails her getting another abortion, but she
chooses to keep the child instead, albeit as a career woman and single
mom. In his fantasies, Megan is pregnant, though she has very little
interest in that in real life. He is consistently rejecting women who he
thought would be great mothers but turned out to be duds (Betty and
Megan), and then running into the arms of pseudo-prostitutes (like the
one who molested him as a child). Every time he finds someone who he
thinks could be "the one," the one who will finally give him the
nurturing he never received, they either disappoint him or can't be
attained (e.g., Rachel Menken, Suzanne, Sylvia, Diana)—and then
they are forever instead "the one who got away."<br />
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And then, in some final strange twist, his last
semblance of a family, Anna Draper's niece Stephanie, whom he once
helped in her efforts to become a mother by giving her money (that phone
call was one of the happiest moments Don experienced this whole
season), has actively rejected motherhood because she just plain doesn't
like it. While outwardly Don defends her, and runs after her from the
group meeting to tell her he can move to L.A., that he can help her deal
with the fallout of this, subconsciously, Don is defeated. Like a child
in his bed on the farm in Illinois, Don watches Stephanie leave and
come back in the middle of the night, carrying that lantern of yore. And
in the morning, she is gone, just like every other mother figure who
has abandoned Don—or whom he has abandoned before she had a chance to.
He says, "People leave and they don't even say goodbye." <br />
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So
to have the downward-facing horseshoe appear in front of Don around the
neck of a caring woman makes it clear that Don must now find a way to
be comfortable with this, with the power of a woman, to stop repressing
his emotions—which he does quite literally after he gets off the phone
with Peggy, his closest thing to a "better half": After saying goodbye
to her, he doubles over, his stomach heaving, attempting to hold back a
maelstrom of tears. And instead he rests on the ground, exhausted,
immobile.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When Don tells Peggy he's done nothing with his name, she says,<br />
"That's not true." This line mirrors her response to him<br />
in season four, when Anna died, and he said he'd lost<br />
the only person who really knew him. It's also what<br />
Don's stepmother says when his father says<br />
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Another interesting thing happens here. Look at this scene from another angle:<br />
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Don tells her he can't move, as he stares off blankly. We are
meant to assume he's been sitting there like this for some time. And
she turns him into a real boy.<br />
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In most fairy tales, it is the stepmother who thwarts the hero's journey (as I mentioned when I talked about motherless heroes <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/05/good-housekeepings-throwback-thursday_8.html">in a previous recap</a>). But it is the fairy godmother who comes to his aid.<br />
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Here's what else it looks like:<br />
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<span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;"><a href="http://www.gerhardy.id.au/pent09_14.html">"From Matthew 14:22-32:</a><i> Peter spoke up, 'Lord if it is really you, order me to come out on the water to you.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Come!' answered Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Peter got out of the boat and started walking on the water to Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when he noticed the strong wind, he was afraid and started to sink down in the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> 'Save me, Lord!' he cried. At once Jesus reached out and grabbed hold of him and said, 'What little faith you have!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did you doubt?' (vv 28-31).</i></span> <span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;">[The
modern-day explanation]: In the early hours of the morning, far out on
the lake, the disciples find themselves in the middle of a fierce
storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
churning water, the huge waves, the howling wind toss their boat about
and the disciples strain every muscle as they try to row against it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are caught up in a situation that is chaotic, terrifying and hopeless<span style="font-family: inherit;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="layout-grid-mode: line; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span class="auto-style1">Above the wind they hear a voice: <i>‘Take courage!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t be afraid!’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The disciples see Jesus walk on the wildest of seas and he is in no danger. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unlike the other Gospel writers, <span style="font-family: inherit;">Matthew
has something to add to this story. He focuses on Peter, who swings
between faith and lack of faith again and again. Peter is typically
impulsive and has a strange request, <i>'Tell me to come out on the water with you.'</i>....Peter
had accepted the risk of faith by answering Jesus’ call and climbing
over the rim of the boat but his fear overwhelms him when he feels the
force of the wind and sees the size of the waves. He shifts his
attention from the power of God in Jesus to his own limitations and
fears."</span></span></span></div>
<br />
"I wonder if I've broken the vessel," Don says to a stranger on a plane in the start of season seven.<br />
<br />
Perhaps,
as Diana Bauer's ex-husband had advised, Don has found Jesus after all.
Or at least some semblance of faith, one that can denounce the fears
he's carried inside his whole life. (Also, the actress playing the counselor is Helen Slater, the original <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088206/">Supergirl,</a> so make whatever <a href="http://www.cbn.com/entertainment/screen/superman-gospel-story.aspx">Christ-figure connections </a>you will of that one...)<br />
<br />
By
the end of this episode, of this series, Don has experienced an
awakening of sorts, one that is necessary in order for him to return to
his regular life renewed, able to give to the world in a whole new way.
As his meditation instructor says, "a new day, new ideas, a new you." He
is seized by the possibility of something new.<br />
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"Now it's not always possible to know by what it is you are seized," Joseph Campbell explains in <i>Pathways to Bliss. </i>"You
find yourself doing silly things, and you have been seized, but you
don't know what the dynamics are. You have been struck by that awakening
of awe, of fascination, of the experience of mystery....I've talked
about <i>kundalini</i> yoga, the Indian system that equates the
spiritual development of the soul with a serpent's journey up through
the body through seven stations, or chakras. The bottom three centers
represent the survival drive, the sex drive and the drive to
power...when the <i>kundalini</i> serpent reaches the fourth chakra, the
soul experiences the awakening of awe, and in the Indian system, this
is symbolized in the hearing of the sacred syllable 'aum.' The
apprehension of this sound opens a dimension of mystery into the
universe, and the sense of wanting to understand that mystery is the
beginning of the spiritual life. In the <i>kundalini </i>system, the
fourth chakra is at the level of the heart. It is at the heart, as they
say, that the hands of the devotee touch the feet of the god."<br />
<br />
At
the heart. As Ayal Hurst said, the man who lives in imbalance, without
expressing his feminine side, is living "mind over heart." Only minutes
after Don gets off the phone with Peggy, what does Peggy tell Stan? She
tells him "you're always here...and <i>here,</i>" pointing to her heart. When have we ever seen Don do that?<br />
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At
the end of "Person to Person," Don has just experienced an emotional
breakthrough—he's seen himself in another man who feels unloved, and
expressed compassion. He is ready, as he tells Diana earlier in the
season. He's ready to move on to a new level of consciousness. <br />
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And
to have him chant the word "om" is just perfect on so many levels. "Om"
embodies the essence of the entire universe—it's the word that
encompasses all other words. <br />
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"According to Indian spiritual sciences," says an article on <a href="http://www.religionfacts.com/symbols/aum">religionfacts.com, </a>"God
first created sound, and from these sound frequencies came the
phenomenal world. Our total existence is constituted of these primal
sounds, which give rise to mantras when organized by a desire to
communicate, manifest, invoke or materialize. Matter itself is said to
have proceeded from sound and 'om' is said to be the most sacred of all
sounds. It is the syllable which preceded the universe and from which
the gods were created. It is the 'root' syllable (mula mantra), the
cosmic vibration that holds together the atoms of the world and
heavens. Indeed the Upanishads say that 'aum' is god in the form of
sound....Another ancient text equates 'aum' with an arrow, laid upon the
bow of the human body (the breath), which after penetrating the
darkness of ignorance finds its mark, namely the lighted domain of true
knowledge. Just as a spider climbs up its thread and gains freedom, so
the yogis climb towards liberation by the syllable 'om.'"<br />
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Via his midlife crisis, Don has been in exile from his life for most of this season. <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/05/good-housekeepings-throwback-thursday_8.html">As I've mentioned before,</a>
he has gradually had the surface aspects which once defined him
stripped away—his job (when he was put on leave), the companionship of
his wife (when Megan moved to L.A.), the trust of his colleagues, the
trust of his daughter, his autonomy at work once he goes back, his
dignity sexually (he's coerced into a threesome and has several
one-night stands), his role as the pitch-maker (he hands this over to
Peggy in "Waterloo"), his notion that wealth buys happiness (he learns
it surely doesn't), his family (he sees that his sons can manage
somewhat well without him as he gazes at them through the kitchen
doorway), his marriage, his enjoyment of his work (he becomes
increasingly apathetic), all of his furniture, a million dollars, the
chance to start anew with a new relationship, his apartment, the respect
of his employees, his business and creative autonomy, his specialness
as a creative (at McCann, he becomes just a cog, as predicted), his suit
and hat (he carries his possessions around in a plastic Sears bag the
last few episodes), his car, his hairstyle, his family's dependence on
him (when he learns they don't need him to come home during Betty's
illness), his niece's respect (she considers him an interloper) and his
ability to come and go as he chooses (he has to wait six days to get out
of Oklahoma, and then another six to get a ride home from the retreat).
In the end, he doesn't even have electricity anymore. All that's left
is the companionship of new friends, the ocean and "Mother Sun."<br />
<br />
As Joseph Campbell explains in <i>The Hero With a Thousand Faces,</i> <i>"From the standpoint of the way of duty, anyone in exile from the community is a nothing. From the </i>o<i>ther
point of view, however, this exile is the first step of the quest. Each
carries within himself the all; therefore it may be sought and
discovered within. The differentiations of sex, age and occupation are
not essential to our character, but mere costumes which we wear for a
time on the stage of the world. The image of man within is not to be
confounded with the garments.... <br />
<br />
"The asceticism of the medieval saints and of the yogis of India, the
Hellenistic mystery initiations, the ancient philosophies of the East
and of the West are techniques for the shifting of the emphasis of
individual consciousness away from the garments. The preliminary
meditations of the aspirant detach his mind and sentiments from the
accidents of life and drive him to the core. 'I am not that, not that,'
he meditates: 'not my mother or son who has just died; my body, which is
ill or aging; my arm, my eye, my head; not the summation of all these
things. I am not my feeling; not my mind; not my power of intuition.' By
such meditations he is driven to his own profundity and breaks through,
at last, to unfathomable realizations. No man can return from such
exercises and take very seriously himself as Mr. So-and-so of
Such-and-such-a-township, U.S.A.—Society and duties drop away. Mr.
So-and-so, having discovered himself big with man, becomes indrawn and
aloof. This is the stage of Narcissus looking in the pool, of the Buddha
sitting contemplative under the tree, but it is not the ultimate goal;
it is a requisite step, but not the end. The aim is not to </i>see,<i> but to realize that one </i>is<i> that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world. <br />
<br />
"Furthermore: the world, too, is of that essence. The essence of oneself
and the essence of the world: These two are one. Hence separateness,
withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander,
whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence—for he
has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness. Thus, just as
the way of social participation may lead in the end to a realization of
the All in the individual, so that of exile brings the hero to the Self
in all. Centered in this hub-point, the question of selfishness or
altruism disappears. The individual has lost himself in the law and been
reborn in identity with the whole meaning of the universe."</i><br />
<br />
It's
a shame that so many viewers look at a place like Esalen and the New
Age teachings there as a self-indulgence, or a representation of the
cult of the individual in the 1970s. While some of that may be true, I
don't believe Weiner's purpose in placing Don there is meant to
communicate, "Yeah, he's gonna be even more self-interested than before,
because now all he'll want to do is analyze himself, and preach his
granola ideas!"<br />
<br />
Meditation encourages quite
the opposite—it's apt for Don's journey so far this season, because it
promotes the complete absence of the self and the rejoining of the
universal community. After Don has lost everything, is "saved" by a
compassionate female counselor and then gets in touch with his inner
feminine side by consoling a crying man (who has just gotten in touch
with his own feminine side, and expressed Don's greatest fear—that he is
unwanted), he is free to wipe the slate clean and start anew. He no
longer has to go back to the real world obsessed with self, because he
has cleared his largest blockage.<br />
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And even more apt,
the pronunciation of the word "aum" imitates the arch of midlife, or
the shape of the horseshoe, exactly what Don has been coming to terms
with:<br />
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Matthew
Weiner had this mantra in mind when he started writing the seventh
season. Just check out the sound made at the one-minute mark in Don's
Accutron pitch (as delivered by Freddie Rumsen) in "Time Zones" (this
was a clip attached on reddit.com, so I can't take credit for finding
this):<br />
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Many people remarked that the scene in the boardroom at McCann, of Don, Joan, Pete, Ted and Roger, largely resembled DaVinci's <i>The Last Supper.</i>
Don is certainly in the Jesus position; and, like Jesus, he was about
to leave his friends. And though he wasn't crucified and didn't die in a
literal sense, he did die metaphorically. Because his experiences on
his trip have led him to identify with the greater consciousness instead
of just with himself. He has learned to identify with that which lives
in everyone, and therefore he has experienced a <a href="https://thesithlibrary.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/the-way-of-art-by-joseph-campbell/">"reincarnation of himself in all others."</a><br />
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And it's exactly that kind of universal consciousness that the Coca-Cola commercial communicates.<br />
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Weiner
has foreshadowed this commercial throughout the seventh season, and a
bit in the sixth. Almost nothing in this series is a coincidence. For
example, nobody could have been prepared for Lane's hanging in season
five. So Weiner inserted smaller details in the episodes leading up to
it—the Mickey Mouse doll Lane wants to give his son has red, white and
blue balloons around its neck, and it slumps down on a table as if
suspended by them; his Mets pennant points at the collar of his coat on
his coat rack like it's an arrow, designating the noose. These details,
subconsciously absorbed, make his violent death seem inevitable.<br />
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In
season three, Don has a meeting about the renovations of Penn Station.
In trying to convince the developer to ignore New Yorkers' unhappiness
about the project, he says, "I was in California. Everything is new, and
it's clean. The people are filled with hope. New York City is in
decay. But Madison Square Garden is the beginning of a new city on a
hill." <br />
<br />
In season four, Anna's niece Stephanie says she
just wants to know who's in charge. Don tells her that she is (she's a
woman, and therefore a consumer). He says if she doesn't like it, she
should stop buying things. And Stephanie says, "Don't think that's not
possible." (This also foreshadows her later rejection of motherhood.)<br />
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In
season four's "The Beautiful Girls," Don has a meeting with Fillmore
Auto Parts. They are struggling to decide whether they want to appeal to
gifted mechanics or regular men. Ken says in the meeting, "What if
there were a way to market to both groups? 'Fillmore Auto Parts: Where
the pros go, and everyone's welcome.'" Don interjects, "That's not a
strategy. That's two strategies connected by the word 'and'. I can do
'where the pros go,' or I can do 'everyone's welcome,' but not both." And
Ken says, "Sure you can."<br />
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The Coke ad would be an
all-inclusive concept. In that sense, Ken would be right—Don <i>could</i> "do
both." He wouldn't be advertising to one specific type of person, as he
said he had to for Fillmore Auto Parts, and it wouldn't be the kind of
campaign McCann wants to make for Miller Lite beer (in the meeting, they
describe a very specific demographic). <br />
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Don would be creating an advertisement that appeals to everyone.<br />
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In
season six's "Crash," in which everyone's been asked to spend the night
at SC&P to work on Chevy, Don seems on the verge of developing
the Coca-Cola ad, or something like it. In a B12/energy-serum-induced
mania, he finds what he deems the perfect ad, and excitedly calls in
Peggy and Ginsberg.<br />
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<b>Don:</b> I've got this great message, and it has to do
with what holds people together. What is that thing that draws them?
It's a history. And it may not even be with that person. But
it's...it's like a...well, it's bigger than that.<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> And that makes them buy a car?<br />
<b>Don:</b>
If this strategy is successful, it's way bigger than a car. It's
everything. I keep thinking about the basic principle of advertising.
There's entertainment, and then you stick the ad in the middle of the
entertainment like a little respite. It's a bargain. They're getting the
entertainment for free, all they have to do is listen to the message.
But what if they don't take the bargain at all? What if they're
suddenly bored of the entertainment? What if they turn off the TV?<br />
<b>Ginsberg:</b> You gotta get your foot in the door.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Exactly. So, how do I do that? Let's say I get her face-to-face. How do I get her attention? I have a sentence, maybe two.<br />
<b>Peggy:</b> Who's "her"? <br />
<b>Ginsberg: </b>Promise them everything. You know, you're gonna change their life. You're gonna take away their pain.<br />
<b>Don:</b> That's good.<br />
<b>Ginsberg: </b>Then you hit them with the one-two punch. What's the answer to all of life's problems? A Chevy.<br />
<b>Don:</b> No, it's not.<br />
<b>Ginsberg:</b> Then, it's oatmeal?<br />
<b>Don: </b>No.<br />
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Granted,
Don is a bit distracted by trying to win back Sylvia in this scene, and
that, much to Peggy's dismay, is largely what he's talking about. After
being awake for three days, he giddily runs off to try to convince her
to let him in the backdoor, but passes out on the floor of his apartment
instead. But I do believe he comes up with something bigger than a
Chevy ad or a come-on line or even an ad for oatmeal (the entire
episode, he's obsessed with finding an ad in which a mother is feeding a
child) that night, and much like Paul Kinsey, he doesn't write it down
clearly enough and can't make sense of it the next day. <br />
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In
season six's "A Tale of Two Cities," Don has a run-in with a composer
at an L.A. producer's party Harry takes him to, and the exchange never
amounts to anything. This is likely someone who could help him write the
jingle for the Coke ad later on. <br />
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<b>Musician:</b> So most of the pictures don't have a lot of score right now—they like pop songs. You know, kids wanna hear a hit.<br />
<b>Don:</b> I think ads are going that way, too.<br />
<b>Musician:</b> What kind of ads do you do?<br />
<b>Don:</b> Well, we represent Chevrolet, Mohawk Airlines.<br />
<b>Musician:</b> Where are they?<br />
<b>Don: </b>The Northeast. Samsonite Luggage, Life Cereal.<br />
<b>Musician:</b> Well, if times get tough, I'm gonna look you up, Donny. I dig jingles, and I hear the bread's outta sight.<br />
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The bread for that Coke commercial surely would be.<br />
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Add to all this the fact that in "Person to Person,"
Joan starts her own film production company, and she specializes in
making TV commercials.<br />
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I know, I know. It bothers me,
too, that a very real man, <a href="http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-hilltop-story">Bill Backer,</a> wrote this commercial in real
life. And so maybe all the foreshadowing was meant to signify what was
coming, not that we're supposed to believe that Don's experience of
enlightenment leads to writing an ad.<br />
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But even if it
does, why is that so incredibly cynical? It's an example of an artist
developing his art form to the next level. Don has always been a
creative, and always will be. Except while he was once a "litterateur,"
he is now an artist. By incorporating the spiritual into his art, he
will reach the stage of shaman.<br />
<br />
<i>"In primal societies,"</i> Campbell said in a lecture to female students at Esalen, <i>"the
shaman provides a living conduit between the local and the
transcendent. The shaman is one who has actually gone through a
psychological crack-up and recovery. The young boy or girl approaching
adolescence either has a vision or hears a song. This vision or song
amounts to a call. The person experiences a shivering, neurotic
sickness. This is really a kind of psychotic episode, and the family,
being in a tradition that knows about this thing, will send for a shaman
to give the young person the disciplines that will carry them out of
this dilemma. The disciplines include enacting certain psychological
rites that put the individual back in touch with society again, of
singing his or her song. Of course, what this individual has encountered
by going deep into the unconscious is the unconscious of their whole
society. These people are bound in a small horizon and share a limited
system of psychological problems. And so the shaman becomes a teacher
and a protector of the mythic tradition but is isolated and feared; it's
a very dangerous position to be in. Now, an older person can want to
become a shaman in some societies, and so then has to undergo certain
ordeals to gain the power that the primary shaman has gained
automatically. In northeast Siberia and in many parts of North and South
America, the call of the shaman involves a transvestite life. That is,
the person is to live the life of the opposite sex. What this means is
that the person has transcended the powers of his or her original
gender, and so women live as men and men live as women. These
transvestite shamans play a very large role in the Indian mythology in
the Southwest—the Hopi, the Pueblo, the Navajo and the Apache—and also
among the Sioux Indians and many others....I recently read the story of a
woman who grew up in a mining town in West Virginia. When she was a
little girl, she went walking in the woods and heard marvelous music.
And she didn't know what to do with it, or anything about it. The years
passed her by, and, in her 60s, she came to a psychiatrist with the
feeling that she had missed a life. It was, in deep, hypnotic memories
she recalled this song. You recognize it, of course: It's the shaman's
song. It is through attending to this song, this visionary image, that
the shamans center themselves. They give themselves peace by chanting
these songs and performing the rites."</i><br />
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I'm not
saying Don will become a drag queen here. But he is balancing gender
issues within. And he has had a "crack-up" and a "recovery." He is
having a vision while meditating, much like a shaman, and I believe he
would bring that vision to light, and like a teacher, share it with the
world. <br />
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Over
at <a href="http://tomandlorenzo.com/">Tom and Lorenzo,</a> they pointed out several shots of characters
dressed in red-and-white color combinations (the colors on a Coke can)
this episode. It was just undeniable that Janie Bryant was in cahoots
somehow on this. When I first saw Peggy's red jumper and white
turtleneck in "Person to Person," it seemed so out of place that I
originally thought it was supposed to be December 1970 (she just looked
so much like Santa), and then when I saw the Halloween decorations in
her office, I just assumed that's how busy with work she is—it's
Christmas, but she's yet to remove her Halloween decorations. It's
Peggy—it <i>could </i>happen.<br />
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in the 1930s showed Santa in the colors red and white (previously he'd
been depicted in blue and white, green and white, etc.), and it was so
popular that we've associated those colors with him ever since.<br />
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But
the red-and-white appearances, and other forms of Coke ad
foreshadowing, didn't just come to the surface in "Person to Person."
They've been sprinkled throughout the whole season. <br />
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"Time Zones": Don and Megan's white shirts against Megan's red sheets,
the Bloody Marys on the all-white tables during Roger and Margaret's
lunch, the TWA stewardesses in red and white, the red blankets and
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In "A Day's Work": Shirley's red-and-white dress, Don and Sally in the Cadillac (Sally's red hat, the red upholstery), the red and white flowers on Valentine's Day, the
red lamps against the white ceiling in the diner and Sally's asking if
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"The Field Trip": Francine's red-and-white suit, Roger's red-and-white
plaid blazer, Bobby's red-and-white jacket, the red-and-white barn,
Joan's red-and-white dress, Henry's red tie and white shirt, an episode
of "The Little Rascals," watched by Don (in which they say lemonade
"tastes sweet") and Betty's drinking cow's milk and saying, "It's
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In "The Monolith": Don's drinking Coke, Lloyd's saying,
"I'll tell you how great it is" while pointing at the Coke (though he's
talking about computers), Caroline's eating a red apple, the vodka
bottle Don pours into a Coke can that's red and white and Margaret's
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Amy's red and white dresses, respectively, Peggy's red-and-white striped
outfit, the guitar player at Megan's party's red T-shirt and white
pants, Sally's red-and-white comforter, Don's black polo shirt with red
and white stripes, the red nipple in the white box (yes, I went there),
the red flowers and Bloody Mary pitchers on the white table at the
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"The Strategy": the red-and-white lights outside Burger Chef, a
red-and-white painting in Don's living room, Pete's red-and-white
checkered jacket, Trudy's red-and-white cake, Megan's red-and-white
peasant blouse, the red-and-white labeled beer Pete plants in the cake
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"Waterloo": Joan's red-and-white floral dress (even the way this shot is framed makes her look like a Coke bottle), the Coke bottle in the
hotel room (in the middle of the floor), the red tomato juice on the
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"Severance": Diana's reading in front of a soda fountain with a
Coca-Cola sign (this is where Don says he thinks he knows her), the red wine on the white carpet (!!!!), Ken's wife's
red dress with the white towel on her shoulder, Joan's red coat on the
white coat rack, the red-and-white tablecloths and Peggy's red thermos
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white coat of the steakhouse chef, Pima's red-and-white three-piece
suit, Megan's red and white luggage, Pete's red sweater and white
shirt, Megan's white peasant shirt and red purse, the red of Stan's
darkroom, Roger's red, white and silver outfit (he's like a walking
inside-out Coke can), Diana's red, white and black bed and Don's missing furniture
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In
"The Forecast": Roger's red, white and silver suit, his saying to Don,
"You know I could have you killed for drinking anything other than a
Coke around here," Joan's red and white flowers, the red tablecloth and white dishes in the Chinese restaurant, Sally's friend's
red-and-white dress and her telling
Don, "I always like the commercials," and Don's losing his home (which
foreshadows a lyric in the Coke song, "I'd like to buy the world a
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In
"Time and Life": Don's apartment's looking red and white, Roger's red
handkerchief, Meredith's drinking Coke, the red tie on Pete, the
red-and-white curtains, Joan's mother's red-and-white outfit, the red
and white on Jim Hobart (and his saying, "We're rolling out the red carpet,"
and whispering, "Coca-Cola") and Don's red tie and white shirt (which
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"Lost Horizon": Beverly's outfit, Don's saying, "I want to live <i>here</i>,"
while pointing at the all red-and-white living room on Meredith's mood
board, the red-and white painting in the McCann board room, the Coke
cans in front of each man, Joan's drinking Tab, the white mug on the
red stove burner, the white roller skates with red wheels, Don's suit's matching
his Cadillac (which is like an inside-out Coke can) and Hobart's red,
silver and white tie.<br />
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In
"The Milk and Honey Route": the Colgate tube, Pete and Trudy's talking
about bees in the apple orchard (refers to lyrics in the Coke jingle:
"With apple trees and honey bees..."), the red apples against the white
tennis outfits, Pete's saying to Duck, "There have been whispers about
Coca-Cola," Pete's secretary's red dress, Betty's white scarf with red bows
on it, the Sharon Hotel's red doors and bright red Coke machine, Andy's
white shirt with red stripes, the woman by the pool's all red-and-white
bathing suit (now the connections become more blatant), Andy's
asking Don, "You make commercials on TV?" the sun's gleam off the top of
the broken Coke machine, the girl jumping out of the red, white and
silver cake at the veterans' fund-raiser, the red, white and silver Lone
Star beers, the song "Over There" (its lyrics contain the words red and
white) and Andy's being pushed onto the bed—he and the covers and the
lamp and the headboard all appear red and white.<br />
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In
"Person to Person": the red-and-white baseball hat on one of the Utah
kids, Roger's red tie and white shirt, Peggy's aforementioned red dress
and white turtleneck, Joan's doing cocaine, Don's red-and-white plaid
comforter in his hotel room, Joan's red dress, the red wine on the white
table when she meets Ken, Joan's red-and-white dress, Stephanie's red-and-white peasant
shirt and her red-and-white blanket that Don sleeps under, the Coke can in
the Francis kitchen, Stephanie's red-and-white dress at the retreat,
the Bloody Marys on the white table during Peggy and Joan's lunch, the counselor's red-and-white
dress, Richard's red-and-white striped shirt, the girl dressed in red
and white at the retreat, Peggy's asking, "Don't you want to work on Coke?" Don's
roommate in the red-and-white jumper, the man in the red-and-white peasant blouse,
Leonard's dream about being in the fridge, Tammy's Barbie and the red
shirt on Stan hugging Peggy, who's in a white shirt. <br />
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November 1970</td></tr>
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Oh, and here's why I'm positive Peggy (and maybe Joan, too) ends up working on the Coca-Cola account: <br />
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Coincidentally the symbol for "om" is also associated with the colors red and white.<br />
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And the most famous story about an evil stepmother in the world incorporates the colors red and white constantly:<br />
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"Once
upon a time, in the middle of winter, when the snow flakes fell like
feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window which had a frame of
black ebony. And as she was sewing while looking at the snow, she
pricked her finger with the needle and three drops of blood fell on the
snow. The red looked so beautiful on the white snow that she thought to
herself, <i>I wish I had a child as white as snow, as red as the blood and with hair as black as the wood of the window frame.</i>
Soon after, she got a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red
as blood and had hair as black as ebony, and she was therefore called
Snow White. And when the child had been born, the queen died. After a
year had passed, the king took himself another wife."<br />
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<i>Snow White </i>(also a lyric in the Coke jingle,
"snow-white turtle doves"), by the brothers Grimm, isn't just a tale
about a wicked stepmother. It's also about a little girl's maturing. And
just as the character of Don Draper becomes a new, more healthy version
of himself by the end of "Person to Person," there are other characters
who become new people, too. That's what the title of the episode
means—two people connecting over the telephone, or one individual
becoming quite another.<br />
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Every character in this series seems opposite in the end from how they started.<br />
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<a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/05/good-housekeepings-throwback-thursday_17.html">As I mentioned last week,</a> Ted went from being a thorn in Don's side,
constantly competing with him, and unhappy in his marriage to finding
himself quite comfortable as a cog—albeit a cog who's stopped chasing
after younger women and is settling down with a woman his age.<br />
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started this series as a spoiled child, and spent much of it looking
for meaning and exploring the youth culture after suffering a heart
attack. Like Ted, he also chased after much younger women. But now he's
finally fallen for a woman his age, who is challenging above all else.
He's let go of his business a bit, after proving that he could lead it
in Cooper's absence. And after announcing to Don that he has no heirs,
that there are no more Sterlings, he has a conversation with Joan this
episode about leaving half of his possessions to Kevin, a "rich little
bastard." What becomes of his daughter, we'll never know, but he seems
to have reached some level of acceptance about her choices.<br />
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dealing with some entitlement issues. He was the perfect foil for Don,
because as a man who grew up in poverty and had reinvented himself, Don
didn't live by normal rules. Pete believed highly in societal standards and
was constantly saying things like, "It's not fair." Or "Why can't
everything good happen at once." Unlike Don, he was ruthless in his
treatment of others, based purely on his own moral code—he told on
Freddie Rumsen after he peed his pants from drinking too much, and he informed Cooper about Don's true identity. He wanted to succeed while
playing by the rules, and he could never fathom it when he watched
people advance who didn't seem likely competitors (e.g., when he found
out Peggy was going to work on the Clearasil account—Peggy's promotion
from secretary to copywriter was completely inspired by Don's desire to
stick it to Pete—he said, "I'm expecting the very best. Not some little
girl.") In the past few seasons, we've watched Pete have some fairly
humbling life experiences. He's been punched in the face more than any
other character (deservedly, usually). We've watched him learn how to
treat people with respect, often due to how badly he's felt when he
hasn't been treated with it.<br />
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When he talks to Peggy
after finding out SC&P is being absorbed by McCann, he tells her
he has to stay with the company because he's never worked anywhere
else. So for him to take Duck's job offer in the penultimate episode is a
huge leap. He's never wanted to live anywhere other than the city,
which he now considers "a toilet." And he's come to the realization that
he needs his family after all.<br />
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This
was foreshadowed in "The Better Half" in season six, when Duck met with
Pete at his apartment (this was the first time he tried to get him to
take the job in Wichita, KS).<br />
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<b>Pete:</b> Paint me a new portrait.<br />
<b>Duck: </b>
I'm glad you said that. How about seeing things from the client's side?
There's a head of marketing job in Wichita that you'd be perfect for.<br />
<b>Pete:</b> Anything back here on Earth?<br />
<b>Duck:</b>
You know, I've always liked you, Campbell, so forgive me for saying
this. But if you do a little better, I can do a lot better.<br />
<b>Pete:</b> I don't know what else I can do.<br />
<b>Duck:</b>
I've been you. And I went on interviews, and I realized I was filling
the room with desperation. Five cents' worth of free advice: You gotta
spend less time in this place [Pete's NYC apartment] and more at home.<br />
<b>Pete:</b> This is a reluctant necessity. My mother's run amok.<br />
<b>Don: </b> Pete, one day I looked in the mirror and I realized I had regrets because I didn't understand the wellspring of my confidence.<br />
<b>Pete:</b> Gin...?<br />
<b>Duck:</b> My family. <br />
<b>Pete:</b> My family's a constant distraction.<br />
<b>Duck:</b> You better manage that, or you're not going to manage anything.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i><br />
November 1970</td></tr>
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Betty is ending this series in a very different
position than how she started (and Weiner has said in interviews that he
knew he'd kill off Betty from the beginning). With as beautiful as she
is, she's the type of character who'd enter a room and everyone else
would disappear. She was very, very visible. So Weiner says he's made
her into a person who, in the end, is barely even there. She is receding
into nothingness. And yet she is strangely accepting of this. Her
growth as a character has been to acknowledge that, like Pete, she
doesn't always know the best way to do things. And she has to consider
the feelings of others and stand up for herself when she knows she's
right. Which is why she's able to commend Sally on her individuality, why she can take the risk of going back to school and why she can tell
Don that he needs to stay away from the family as she dies. She is still
not very likable up until the end, sitting there smoking her
cigarettes, but we know that's she's refused to make her children watch
her fight for her life. She wants to die peacefully, out of their sight.
She had to watch both of her parents die and doesn't want to do that to
them. And in so doing, she is fulfilling her best act as a mother yet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this basically the same outfit<br />
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Joan, who we all thought until this episode was out
for the count after her confrontation with Jim Hobart, proves to be a
businesswoman after all in "Person to Person," and an entrepreneur at
that. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipeBWOKIMV98GO1pisDPSVd3uQNGdft-mc8N-ZZ-EFnxXvk41bpImSUmyMzP1lVueO4S1xJ_JcPVUpLcvKajg0dSRz_6Qpn8WiD1iFlzet7UaweN9W3lDYCqngzyY-NgntWV7clfi8jPs/s1600/Joan-Holloway-The-Mountain-King-2-12-joan-holloway-23489301-760-535.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipeBWOKIMV98GO1pisDPSVd3uQNGdft-mc8N-ZZ-EFnxXvk41bpImSUmyMzP1lVueO4S1xJ_JcPVUpLcvKajg0dSRz_6Qpn8WiD1iFlzet7UaweN9W3lDYCqngzyY-NgntWV7clfi8jPs/s320/Joan-Holloway-The-Mountain-King-2-12-joan-holloway-23489301-760-535.jpg" width="320" /></a>She is happy. That's the most important part. In the first
season, Joan was great at feigning happiness, or cheeriness, but like
Marilyn Monroe, whom she mourns severely when she dies, she never seemed
truly content. She was making do with her lot in life, really. And she
never expected to be a person who identified with her profession, though
it was clear even from the start how competent she was at it and how
much she came alive when she walked around that office. By the end of
the series, the woman who once told Peggy that if she was lucky, she'd
be out in the country with a husband and kids and not have to commute to
work at all after a year, is a single mom, working from home in the
city, a millionaire and someone who refuses to compromise herself for
any man (she's already had enough of that, thank you). <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice her fresh face here—we almost never see Joan without makeup.</td></tr>
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In the latest collection of Joseph Campbell's lectures,<a href="http://newworldlibrary.com/NewWorldLibraryUnshelved/tabid/767/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/194/ON-THE-GREAT-GODDESS-an-Excerpt-from-GODDESSES-by-Joseph-Campbell.aspx#.VWAlAqaxC2w"><i> Goddesses, </i></a>the teacher talks about women's representations in myth. This one, "On the Goddess," was given in the 1970s: <br />
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<i>"Many
of the difficulties that women face today follow from the fact that
they are moving into a field of action in the world that was formerly
reserved for the male and for which there are no female mythological
models. The woman finds herself, consequently, in a competitive
relationship with the male, and in this may lose the sense of her own
nature. She is something in her own right, and traditionally (for some
four million years) the relationship of that something to the male has
been experienced and represented, not as directly competitive, but as
cooperative in the shared ordeal of continuing and supporting life. Her
biologically assigned role was to give birth to and to rear children.
The male role was to support and protect. Both roles are biologically
and psychologically archetypal. But what has happened now—as a result
of the masculine invention of the vacuum cleaner—is that women have
been relieved, in some measure, of their traditional bondage to the
household. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>November 1970<i><br />
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<i>"They are moving
into the field and jungle of individual quest, achievement and
self-realization, for which there are no female models. Moreover, in
pursuing their distinct careers they are emerging progressively as
differentiated personalities, leaving behind the old archetypal accent
on the biological role—to which, however, their psyches are still
constitutionally bound. The grim prayer of Lady Macbeth before her deed,
'unsex me here!' must be the unspoken, deeply felt cry of many a new
contender in this masculine jungle.<br /><br />
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<i>"There is no such
need, however. The challenge of the moment—and there are many who are
meeting it, accepting it and responding to it, in the way not of men
but of women—the challenge is to flower as individuals, neither as
biological archetypes nor as personalities imitative of the male. And,
to repeat, there are no models in our mythology for an individual
woman’s quest. Nor is there any model for the male in marriage to an
individuated female. We are in this thing together and have to work it
out together, not with passion (which is always archetypal) but with
compassion, in patient fostering of each other’s growth.</i><br />
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<i>"I have read somewhere
of an old Chinese curse: 'May you be born in an interesting time!' This
is a very interesting time: there are no models for anything that is
going on. Everything is changing, even the law of the masculine jungle.
It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his
or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet
appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping the new in the
shaping of our interesting lives. And that is the whole sense (in
mythological terms) of the present challenge: We are the 'ancestors' of
an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the
mythic models that will inspire its lives. In a very real sense,
therefore, this is a moment of creation; for, as has been said: 'No one
puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the
skins and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for
fresh skins' (Mark 2:22). We are to become the preparers, that is to
say, of the fresh wineskins for a new and heady wine—of which we are
already having the first taste."</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> <br />
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Hence, the main appeal of this show,
really—to watch what our parents and grandparents experienced, to
understand their perspectives better and to realize why we are the way
we are today.<br />
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Peggy, Joan, Betty, Megan and Sally are
characters who are trying things they have no role models for. They are
trailblazers in every sense of the word.<br />
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In my <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2014/05/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-outtakes.html">very first recap, </a>I
said, "From now until the end of the season, Iʼll set out to show you
examples of those changing roles (and some fashion and beauty,
too—promise), as seen through the eyes of characters like Peggy, Joan,
Megan, Betty and even Sally, the womenʼs magazine readers of the series
and—particularly in Joan and Peggyʼs case—the women whose ideas were
changing history." And Matthew Weiner and his writers have made it very
easy for me to do that.<br />
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An<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-ca-mad-men-women-20150405-48-story.html#page=1"> <i>L.A. Times </i></a>article recently revealed Weiner's feminist goals with the show: <br />
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"'I have a powerful mother, I have two professional older sisters, I
have a professional, powerful wife, and there have always been a lot of
women in authority on the show,' Weiner said. 'My mother was what they
called a women's libber. I knew who Betty Friedan was, I knew who
Gloria Steinem was, I knew who Bella Abzug was, I knew who Simone de
Beauvoir was, and then intellectually in college, feminism was the most
prominent idea.' When Weiner was fleshing out the </i>Mad Men<i> universe years ago, two books, which he read in the course of a single week, were particularly instructive: </i>The Feminine Mystique,<i> by Friedan, and </i>Sex and the Single Girl,<i> by Helen Gurley Brown. 'I was like, well, a lot has changed, but not a lot has changed,' he recalled."</i><br />
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The fact that Peggy would be such an important character on the show was a surprise to everyone, even the woman who played her: <br />
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<i>"In the pilot episode of </i>Mad Men,<i>
Peggy Olson, a naive 20-year-old from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, by way of
Miss Deaver's Secretarial School, arrives for her first day of work at
Sterling Cooper, a Manhattan advertising agency, and is assigned to
work for creative executive Don Draper. <br /><br />"She quakes in fear around the poised office manager, Joan Holloway,
and is such an outer-borough bumpkin that account executive Pete
Campbell wonders whether she might be Amish. Nevertheless, there are
hints that Peggy may be more formidable than she appears: When Don,
hungover and waking from a nap in his office, asks her to go out to
entertain Pete, she politely but firmly declines. 'I don't want to seem
uncooperative, but do I have to?' In the nine fictional years since
that moment, Peggy has grown to become Don's protégé, his rival and for
a time his de facto boss. She also bought a brownstone, gave a baby up
for adoption and burned through several doomed romances. The
similarities between Don and Peggy have been widely noted—both are
passionate about their work and have painful secrets in their past—but
unlike Don, whose very identity is a lie, Peggy has a guilelessness
that also makes her an accidental feminist.</i><br />
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</aside> <i>"'Peggy
wants to be the boss, and she has the same ambitions that Don has, and
that's what makes her a pioneer,' Weiner said, 'that she didn't even
think that she's not allowed to have it.'<br /><br />
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"Or as Elisabeth Moss put it: 'She just keeps bumping her head up
against this glass ceiling, not even recognizing that it's there.'</i><br />
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<i>"Weiner said he always envisioned </i>Mad Men<i>
as the 'parallel stories of Don Draper and Peggy Olson,' though he
realizes now that it was 'probably unusual in some way that I thought
about what Peggy wanted.' It took longer for Moss, who has received
five Emmy nominations for </i>Mad Men<i> and another for her work in the
miniseries </i>Top of the Lake, <i>to realize how integral Peggy's journey has been to the series—even though she's billed second after Jon Hamm.</i><br />
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"'It was really only in the third or fourth season when I heard other
people saying things about her place in the show,' said the
actress....'I was like, "Oh, no, no. It's Don Draper's story." There's
still a huge part of me that believes that above anything else.'</i><br />
<i>"While
Moss may not always be comfortable leaning in, she is thrilled that
Peggy, with her personal foibles and professional triumphs, has been an
inspiration to contemporary women. 'There's a lot of talk right now
about equal pay for women. It's a conversation that's really present,
and it's those women that Peggy's an inspiration to,' she said. 'She's always
had a hard time finding somebody who loves her for who she is. You
talk to any girl in 2015 who has a passion for something, and they're
probably going to talk about how it's hard to find a man who respects
that.'"</i><br />
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The
first time Peggy experiences joy and creative fulfillment from winning
an account, she goes out with her coworkers to celebrate. The corny
music of the day gives way to Chubby Checker's "Do the Twist," and
everyone squeals. Peggy joins in, and seductively twists her way over to
Pete, who's sitting sullen in the corner. She very assertively asks him
to dance with her. He says, "I don't like you like this." She glides
back to the dance floor and joins the group again, a stripe of a tear
down her cheek—which you'd miss if you didn't look carefully. This is a
perfect example of the parallels between her and Don. Because when Don
wins an account, it's party time. He can go out and
get any woman he wants, fueled by the fire of his ambition. But it
doesn't work that way for Peggy in 1960.<br />
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The Peggy of 1970, however, has a coworker who is in
love with her. And it's not in the way Pete was, or how Ted felt or even
anywhere close to the lustful pleadings of Duck (whose selfishness made
her miss the Kennedy assassination—he unplugged the TV). Peggy has
dealt with a long line of self-important men—remember when her activist
boyfriend used her in an article decrying the false face of Madison
Avenue? Even Stan, in the beginning, liked to act like he was somehow
superior to her...but only in the sense that she was too uptight. Stan
has come to learn that Peggy acts that way because she truly cares about
her work, and he respects that. He's grown to care about excellence
more because of her. But at the same time, his presence brings her back
down to earth. He is reliable and nurturing, and he makes her laugh. You
might say that she is the man in the relationship, and he the female
role, but I think they're a little bit of both.<br />
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And isn't that how it's supposed to be?<br />
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"I always look at a character from the inside," Weiner said in the <i>L.A. Times</i>
article, "so everyone, rightly or wrongly, is a person to begin with.
And then they're informed by their class, their childhood, their
occupation, their gender, their race."<br />
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The first line Matthew Weiner ever wrote for <i>Mad Men</i> was "I'm not going to let a woman talk to me like that."<br />
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How
fitting then that by the last episode, the truest mark of each
character's growth is how well they can give voice to the
feminine—whether they are women whose ambitions are finally being heard
and recognized or men who need to find balance within.<br />
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In an early episode in this last season of <i>Mad Men, </i>Stan
says to Don, "Where you been? Ridin' the rails?" It's another example
of Weiner's foreshadowing. Because when Don does finally head out West,
he references Jack Kerouac's <i>On the Road</i> a few times. And by the end of his journey, he's really started to look like him.<br />
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Don ends up in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Sur-Jack-Kerouac/dp/0140168125">Big Sur,</a> another title of one of Kerouac's novels. And
despite Kerouac's character's sordid state in the beginning of his quest
in that semi-autobiographical book (he's deluged by depression and
alcoholism), by the last pages he's headed back East in an optimistic
light:<br />
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<i>"I've fallen asleep in a strange way, with my
hands clasped behind my head thinking I'm just going to sit there and
think, but I'm sleeping like that, and when I wake up just one short
minute later I realize the two girls are both sitting behind me in
absolute silence—When I'd sat down they were sweeping, but now they were
squatting behind my back, facing each other, not a word—I turn and see
them there—Blessed relief has come to me from just that
minute—Everything has washed away—I'm perfectly normal again—Dave Wain
is down the road looking at fields and flowers—I'm sitting smiling in
the sun, the birds sing again, all's well again. <br />
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"I still cannot understand it.<br />
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"Most of all I can't understand the miraculousness of the silence of the
girls and the sleeping boy and the silence of Dave Wain in the
fields—Just a golden wash of goodness has spread over all and over all
my body and mind—All the dark torture is a memory—I know now I can get
out of there, we'll drive back to the City, I'll take Billie home, I'll
say goodbye to her properly, she won't commit no suicide or do anything
wrong, she'll forget me, her life'll go on, Romana's life will go on,
old everything (as I'm doing now)—and Cody, and George Baso, and ravened
McLear and perfect, starry Fagan, they'll all pass through one way or
the other—I'll stay with Monsanto at his home a few days and he'll smile
and show me how to be happy awhile, we'll drink dry wine instead of
sweet and have quiet evenings in his home—Arthur Ma will come to quietly
draw pictures at my side—Monsanto will say 'That's all there is to it,
take it easy, everything's OK, don't take things too serious, it's bad
enough as it is without you going off the deep end over imaginary
conceptions just like you always said yourself'—I'll get my ticket and
say goodbye on a flower day and leave all San Francisco behind and go
back home across autumn America and it'll all be like it was in the
beginning—Simple golden eternity blessing all—Nothing ever happened—not
even this—St. Carolyn by the Sea will go on being golden one way or the
other—The little boy will grow up and be a great man—There'll be
farewells and smiles—My mother'll be waiting for me glad—The corner of
the yard where Tyke is buried will be a new and fragrant shrine making
my home more homelike somehow—On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the
yard under the stars—Something good will come out of all things yet—And
it will be golden and eternal just like that—There's no need to say
another word."</i><br />
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I'm
sitting, smiling in the sun. All's well again. A golden wash of
goodness has spread over my body and mind. All the dark torture is a
memory. We'll drive back to the City. The boy will grow up and be a
great man. There'll be farewells and smiles. Something good will come
out of all things yet. There's no need to say another word.<br />
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Unless that word is "om." Or "Coca-Cola." <br />
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Or both. <a href="http://www.kwanumzen.org/?teaching=ko-bongs-try-mind">Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn, founder of the Kwan Um School of Zen, </a>famously said, <i>"</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #40331e; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When
chanting, sitting or bowing, only do it. Practicing will not help if
you are attached to your thinking, if your mind is moving. Taoist
chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting: It
doesn't matter. Even chanting <b>'Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola…'</b> can be just as good, if you keep a clear mind."</span></span><br />
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Seventies fashion came back in a big way as this show came to a close.
Here's my last everything-old-is-new-again pic (head to the <a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/fashion/g2468/hannah-simone-summer-fashion-spread/">Good Housekeeping website </a>for the full story).<br />
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I know there won't be a next time, but just for old time's sake, "Sorry. I already went to high school."<br />
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Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup<br />
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe<br />
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind<br />
Possessing and caressing me.<br />
Jai Guru Deva OM.<br />
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Nothing's gonna change my world<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world,<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world,<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world.<br />
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Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes<br />
They call me on and on across the universe<br />
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box<br />
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.<br />
Jai Guru Deva OM.<br />
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Nothing's gonna change my world,<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world,<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world,<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world.<br />
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Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears<br />
Inciting and inviting me<br />
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns<br />
It calls me on and on, across the universe.<br />
Jai Guru Deva OM.<br />
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Nothing's gonna change my world,<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world,<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world,<br />
Nothing's gonna change my world.<br />
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Jai Guru Deva,<br />
Jai Guru Deva,<br />
Jai Guru Deva,<br />
Jai Guru Deva,<br />
Jai Guru Deva <i>[fade out]</i>.<br />
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Oh very young,<br />
What will you leave us this time?<br />
You're only dancing on this earth for a short while,<br />
And though your dreams may toss and turn you now,<br />
They will vanish away like your daddy's best jeans<br />
Denim Blue fading up to the sky.<br />
And though you want him to last forever<br />
You know he never will<br />
(You know he never will).<br />
And the patches make the goodbye harder still.<br />
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Oh very young,<br />
What will you leave us this time?<br />
There'll never be a better chance to change your mind.<br />
And if you want this world to see a better day,<br />
Will you carry the words of love with you,<br />
Will you ride the great white bird into heaven?<br />
And though you want to last forever,<br />
You know you never will<br />
(You know you never will).<br />
And the goodbye makes the journey harder still.<br />
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Oh very young,<br />
What will you leave us this time?<br />
You're only dancing on this earth for a short while.<br />
Oh very young<br />
What will you leave us this time?
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On the very first episode of <i>Mad Men,</i> "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," a nervous young Don Draper met with a research scientist just before meeting with Lucky Strike. He was desperately grasping for any tidbit he could get for a pitch. Because at that point, he had nothing. <br />
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The researcher told Don that everyone believed cigarettes were poisonous, and it was going to be difficult to convince them otherwise. She suggested they take a Freudian approach: Tell them that Americans all secretly have a "death wish," and would never abandon a habit that made them feel rebellious. Don told her he found her methods perverse, and chucked her research into his waste basket. <br />
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<i>Mad Men</i> is a show about the pleasures of consumption, and when he worked in advertising, it was Don's job to encourage people to believe that buying something could give them the feeling of "being OK." Even if that thing might eventually kill them. He wasn't supposed to care one way or the other. <br />
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Betty is a prime example of Don's consumers, so of course she would fall prey to the ad agencies' tactics. In her book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Glamour-Longing-Persuasion/dp/1416561110">The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion,</a> </i>Virginia Postrel explains: <br />
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<i>"Smoking used to be glamorous, the cigarette an icon of sophistication, power, sex, art and, to the young, all the grand and mysterious privileges of adulthood.... Smoking gave the awkward something to do with their hands and the graceful an extension of their grace. Like a folding fan, a plume of cigarette smoke simultaneously concealed and called attention to the smoker. Depending on the smoker and the audience, it could represent any number of ideals and aspirations.... In Franklin Roosevelt's upturned holder, a cigarette spoke of optimism and progress. In the Marlboro Man's rugged hands, it represented masculine independence. James Dean's cigarette symbolized rebellion, Marlene Dietrich's was all about seduction and a Shanghai calendar girl's epitomized modern femininity."</i><br />
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So when viewers learned Betty Francis had lung cancer in <i>Mad Men</i>'s Episode 7.13, "The Milk and Honey Route," most accepted it as a probable end for this character, one who has smoked just as much as if not more than all the others on this show. And who on this show has been a more glamorous smoker than Betty?<br />
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If you asked Sally Draper in October 1970 why her mother had lung cancer, she might not have made that immediate connection, though. And that's because in 1970, people like Don had been successful. As he told Phillip Morris, he'd "stayed the execution" four different times. Because of Don, general public opinion had not yet caught up with scientific evidence. <br />
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According to <a href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/21/2/87.full">the history department of Stanford University,</a> <i>"lung cancer was once a very rare disease, so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity. Mechanization and mass marketing towards the end of the 19th century popularized the cigarette habit, however, causing a global lung cancer epidemic. Cigarettes were recognized as the cause of the epidemic in the 1940s and 1950s, with the confluence of studies from epidemiology, animal experiments, cellular pathology and chemical analytics. Cigarette manufacturers disputed this evidence, as part of an orchestrated conspiracy to salvage cigarette sales. Propagandizing the public proved successful, judging from secret tobacco industry measurements of the impact of denialist propaganda.... </i><br />
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<i>"In 1954, for example, George Gallup sampled a broad swath of the U.S. public to ask: ‘Do you think cigarette smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer, or not?’ Forty-one percent answered ‘yes,’ with the remainder answering either ‘no’ or ‘undecided.’ In 1960, in a poll organized by the American Cancer Society, only a third of all U.S. doctors agreed that cigarette smoking should be considered ‘a major cause of lung cancer.’ This same poll revealed that 43 percent of all American doctors were still smoking cigarettes on a regular basis, with occasional users accounting for another 5 percent. With half of all doctors smoking, it should come as no surprise that most Americans remained unconvinced of life-threatening harms from the habit.... </i></div>
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Though women's risk of getting lung cancer is still slightly lower than men's, the disease is now the deadliest form of cancer. In the United States, <a href="http://lungcancer.about.com/od/whatislungcancer/f/lungcancerdeaths.htm">according to the American Cancer Society,</a> it's responsible for <a href="http://www.cancer.org/cancer/lungcancer-non-smallcell/detailedguide/non-small-cell-lung-cancer-key-statistics">more deaths</a> than those from breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer combined. The survival rate remains at 15 percent; this is largely due to the fact that, as in Betty's case, there are rarely any symptoms until it is in advanced stages.<br />
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Elsewhere in Italy, especially in the northern courts, princesses were also restrained by rules of female decorum but were portrayed because they were noble, exceptional women. In mercantile Florence, however, that women who were not royal were recognized in portraiture at all appears puzzling, and I think can only be understood in terms of the visual or optic modes of what can be called a 'display culture.' By this I mean a culture where the outward display of honor, magnificence and wealth was vital to one's social prestige and definition, so that visual language was a crucial mode of discourse..."</div>
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A display culture. Yeah, that sounds like <i>Mad Men.</i><br />
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These women were more identified by their possessions—their jewelry, their dress—than by their facial expressions. You were not meant to see their eyes, the windows to the soul, except from a side view—their gaze showed their obedience. And the way they were represented was meant to show off their husband's wealth, because they were an object that belonged to him. They were a trophy. And often, because of the lack of modern medicine, these women died young, in which case their husband had this portrait of them to remember their beauty forever. They would never age, never tarnish. They would always be this perfect representation of success.<br />
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It's all that Betty was ever really raised to be, and something she never wanted to lose, as she explained to Don in season one's "Babylon." As she and Don discussed "The Best of Everything," both the novel and film version, Betty expressed her dismay at the aging Joan Crawford: "To think, one of the great beauties, and there she is...so old. I'd just like to disappear at that point. It makes <i>perfect</i> sense."<br />
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A few episodes later, in "Shoot," Betty tells her psychiatrist, "My mother was very concerned about looks and weight...she wanted me to be beautiful so I could find a man. There's nothing wrong with that. But then what? Just sit...and smoke...and let it go, till you're in a box?"<br />
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By the end of the episode, Betty covers up her abrupt dismissal by Jim Hobart from her modeling job by pretending she was silly to want to work outside of the home. She says being in Manhattan all day was making it impossible to get a decent dinner on the table anyway. Don tells her, "Birdie, you know I don't care about making my dinner or taking in my shirts. You have a job. You're mother to those two little people, and you're better at it than anyone else in the world...at least in the top 500. I would have given anything to have had a mother like you. Beautiful and kind and filled with love, like an angel."<br />
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The next morning, Betty wears a very angelic-looking sheer white robe and serves the children breakfast as <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgykp8_you-are-my-special-angel-mad-men-betty-draper-is-crazy_shortfilms">"You Are My Special Angel"</a> plays on the radio. She plays with Sally's hair affectionately, beaming with pride. Sally gets irritated, of course, and complains that she's trying to eat.<br />
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So Betty, in a perverse way, is now getting her wish: to disappear before she looks old. And Sally is also getting her wish from "The Forecast": to never have to see her parents again. And to "get Betty in the ground," which she said in another episode. Of course neither really wanted this kind of wish fulfillment.<br />
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And later, when Sally opens the note prematurely, of course Betty's main concern is her appearance in the casket. But more importantly, she applauds Sally's individuality and chutzpah—she seems to know she's been more successful than her own mother in the way she's raised her, because Sally is her own person. She's not ever going to be someone's possession; she is going to have her own adventures in life. <br />
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And though Betty says to Henry when she goes off to class, "Why was I ever doing it?" just the fact that she'd pursued going back to school at all is going to provide a great role model for Sally. Because her mother had a brain and wanted to do something with her life other than please a man—even if that pursuit only lasted a few months. She got to see her mother experience fulfillment, and that is priceless. <br />
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Weiner's attempting to illustrate the difference between 1930s America and 1970s America with this. Because, as I've mentioned before, in season one's "The Hobo Code," despite telling their sudden house guest that she'd have to boil his clothes, Don's stepmother Abigail is kind and Christian to the man. <br />
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She reaches into their coin jar and hands him one, saying, "My mama always said, life is like a horseshoe: It's fat in the middle, open on both ends and hard all the way through." There is a concept of human decency here, of camaraderie. Our country hadn't yet experienced the financial boom of the 1950s, a surplus of consumption that would eventually greatly separate the haves and the have-nots.<br />
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Not only that, where you lived in this country suddenly served to delineate who you were much more than before. On his travels, Don listens to "oldies" on the radio, but in the Midwest those songs are still relevant. The dress and hairstyles of the hotel owners and the vets he meets are still mid-1960s, and the main entertainment in town is a revival service every night at the church. It's also rather difficult to find a bar. <br />
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And they are proud of living this way, and defensive about it. Don empathizes with Andy, the cleaning help at the hotel (though he really just cleans out everything he can), because he knows what it is to want to escape a small, boring, repressive town. He even tries to correct his grammar several times, hoping to have an impact on him. But this is a town that has been this way for so long that it feels threatened by the changes going on in the outside world. Hence the song in Don's dream, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYY2FQHFwE">"Okie From Muskogee."</a> That was an award-winning country song that year. And while one could say Don is just returning to whence he came, by visiting these small Midwestern towns, in reality, he can never go home again, and for more reasons than he expresses to Andy (because he'd changed his name and pretended he was dead). He can't go home again because that small-town America of the late 1940s no longer exists.<br />
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Even the Grand Canyon Don's trying to visit was i<a href="http://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/management/statistics.htm">n a decline by the mid 1970s</a>. For most of the century, visiting National Parks had been an important part of being an American and had defined most people's childhoods. But it's hard to make a trip out to visit one <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/05/u-s-income-inequality-on-rise-for-decades-is-now-highest-since-1928/">during a financial crisis.</a><br />
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Another example of the static nature of towns like Alva, OK: The veterans Don meets talk about the wars they fought in like they'd just happened yesterday. Don lives in a world where you are supposed to just move on and embrace the new America. But here, everyone talks of yesteryear fondly and it's very difficult for anyone to move forward.<br />
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And yet somehow, Don finds a way to care about the effects of his actions in a place like this. In "The Milk and Honey Route," he keeps encountering situations that draw on his skills and prior knowledge in ways that are immediately useful to himself and to others—not just channeled into a means of growing bullshit, as his hallucination of<a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2015-04-06T01:13:00-07:00&max-results=5&start=5&by-date=false"> his father Archibald </a>tells him in season three's "Seven Twenty-Three":<br />
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<b>Archibald:</b> Look at you, up to your old tricks. You're a bum, you know that?<br />
<b>Don: </b>No, I'm not.<br />
<b>Archibald:</b> Conrad Hilton? You wouldn't expect him to be taken so easily.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Shut up.<br />
<b>Archibald:</b> You can't be tied down.<br />
<b>Don: </b>That's right.<br />
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And in "The Hobo Code," Bert Cooper rewarded him for his determination and selfishness:<br />
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</b> Don, I am appreciative of your talents, and although that can't be
measured, I have made an effort to quantify [hands him a check].<br />
<b>Don:</b> Twenty-five hundred dollars? I uh...<br />
<b>Bert:</b> Thank you. That's what you say. [Looks at Ayn Rand book] Have you read her? Rand, <i>Atlas Shrugged.</i> <i>That's</i> the one.<br />
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<b>Don:</b> Yes, yes it is.<br />
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See, I know you haven't read it. When you hit 40, you realize you've
met or seen every kind of person there is. And I know what kind you are.
Because I believe we are alike.<br />
<b>Don: </b>I assume that's flattering.<br />
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end, completely self-interested. It's strength. We are different.
Unsentimental about all the people who depend on our hard work.<br />
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Don gets his hands dirty in "The Milk and Honey Route." First he's able to identify exactly what's wrong with his car (he used to sell cars for a living). Then, he fixes a typewriter with ease (night school). And soon after, he manages to fix a Coke machine (the account he was supposed to get at McCann but never did). He even uses his war experience for good here—he commiserates with his new friends. Instead of repressing his memories, a practice that often keeps him isolated from others, he shares them, and is set free.<br />
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It's unfortunate that the person he's pretended to be all these years prevents those friendships from blossoming. In this small town, they can't see the real Don—they see all that he represents: a wealthy liberal East Coast con man. He is like a walking advertisement, and these folks see right through it. He is the one "creating the lie," as Midge's friends told him in season one. So his generosity is immediately questioned. He knows that somewhere along the way, he's made a misstep, which is why he tells Andy, "Don't waste this," when he suddenly gives him his car.<br />
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Don's experience this season seems as though it would be unique to someone who's gone through all that he has—it's easy to think he's just reached a point where he's tired of maintaining a false face to the world. Or that the reason he ran from McCann was because, as his father told him, he "cant' be tied down." McCann represents all that's wrong with advertising, in Don's mind. Except by 1970, Don and other creative minds could no longer escape places like McCann. Much like he can never go home again to that quaint Midwestern town, he also can't move forward in his business quite the way he had been. <br />
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In the PBS program <a href="http://www.thirteen.org/programs/real-mad-men/">"The Real Mad Men and Women of Madison Avenue," </a> retired ad execs explain what happened to advertising in the 1970s: By the end of the 1960s, when ad agencies went public, clients could see exactly what was going on inside the agencies. They started figuring out how much money the agencies were truly making, and so they started bidding down—the agencies often couldn't survive because of that, and had to accept being absorbed by larger places like McCann. The idealism and creativity of the 1960s made a dramatic shift to
the bottom line. So, what happened to advertising was Wall Street. People who would be young, great copywriters became hedge
fund guys instead. Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, sums it up best: "Call me old-fashioned, but I still think Bill Bernbach
and David Ogilvy had it right. There's nothing that works better than a
great idea. The spark of genius, it's the beautiful image juxtaposed
next to another beautiful image in ways that are just emotionally
appealing to you. It's the five words that give you a sense that no five
words ever have before." <br />
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Anyone would want to run from a business they've lost control of and know will never be the same again. Anyone would want to run from the effort it takes to maintain a false persona for 20 years. But Don has a third, even more pressing reason to run away from it all: He's 44 years old.<br />
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At midlife, many people find that what was once satisfactory and fulfilling no longer is. We've watched Don experience this for the entire half season. He spent the first half of season seven humbling himself and attempting to get back into the good graces of his colleagues. Now that he's earned back that respect, and some riches besides, he's unhappy.<br />
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According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlife_crisis">Wikipedia,</a> "Researchers have found men and women, during their 40s and 50s,
experience this time when feelings of happiness and life satisfaction
decrease and feelings of depression and discontentment increase.... During one’s youth and senior years, feeling
satisfied and happy tend to peak and then dip during the middle years of
life. This appears as a U-shaped curve on the time line of a lifespan,
which correlates to the time between 40 and 60 years of age. Some people experience more
difficulty in reconciling their feelings of turmoil while others
transition more easily.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlife_crisis#cite_note-6"></a>"<br />
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The U-shaped curve. Abigail Whitman's horseshoe. It would be great if we could say Don's midlife crisis (a term not known until a doctor coined it in 1966) was foretold in season one, but I'm guessing this is something Matthew Weiner came up with for this season because it's what he's currently going through. He often puts his own life experience into story lines. And right now, he's on the verge of ending what may be the biggest success of his life. As Don says in "The Forecast," "And then what?"<br />
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For some reason, part of me wants this show to end with Don placing that Social Security card and engagement ring on the real Don Draper's gravestone, to put all of the lies to rest. It seems he'd finally be free to live his life as he wants if he were to do that. Of course, that can't really happen—he can't ever be Dick Whitman again. Because according to the United States government, that man is dead. He can, however, return to whence he came in a more metaphorical sense.<br />
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In the article <a href="http://www.midlifecrisismarriageadvocate.com/mlc_shadow_initiatory-experience.html">"Initiatory Experience,"</a> Kenda-Ruth Kumpf writes, <i>"A midlife crisis sufferer seeks to recapture the first experience of splendor and regresses mentally to that time
and place, hoping for a do-over—a replay. It is necessary to return to the prior innocence, but
to repeat the former mistakes is to follow the familiar path that led to his present midlife
collapse. Once at the original place of innocence a person is yet changed and must choose a
new path, applying the experiences and maturity earned and learned from his journey to this
point. Regressing is a backwards movement, whereas returning is using the past as an experience
to propel growth and forward movement. To re-turn is to turn again toward something, but unlike
a regression, it is revolutionary. Midlife is a tumultuous experience for many—whether it is a
crisis or not. Revolution itself is turmoil. But accepting revolution is the first step to
proceeding through it."</i><br />
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This is the reason why I believe Don may come back to his old life renewed from his travels, and will take on new adventures in a different way than before. He will be able to be "tied down" without feeling threatened by it, he can take care of his children in Betty's absence if he has to. Because, as even a TV show tells him in "The Milk and Honey Route," "family is everything."<br />
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This is the ending that would seemingly provide the most growth for this character.<br />
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If you look at all the other characters on this show, Weiner has provided them with the opposite outcomes of what you would have expected in this final season:<br />
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Ted Chaough was once a competitive go-getter, always at Don's heels. And then he was tormented by balancing a passion for Peggy with his need for stability within his family. Now, in this last season, he's landed a rather corporate position, and he's quite happy about it. He's grown to realize that he does better when he doesn't have to experience the stress of running a business, and he's OK with that. And after a half season of chasing mini skirts, he's found love with a woman his age who's "kind of deep."<br />
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Joan has stood up for herself (and all women) this season in a way she never would have in season one. Granted, she was tough, to the point where even Don was intimidated by her, but she accepted her gender role and used her feminine wiles to get ahead. Now, in this final season, she's found love on her own terms and seems to expect that she and Richard treat each other as equals. And though she couldn't stay on at McCann, she's been rewarded for her hard work and will be monetarily secure for the rest of her days.<br />
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And Pete...well Pete has come to realize that unlike his father, he doesn't need to allow his ambition to always be the best and to always have the best of everything rule his life. He seems more aware of the feelings of others now, and that his happiness is only real when shared. Significantly, he calls his daughter <a href="http://comicsalliance.com/wonder-woman-1970s/">"Wonder Woman"</a> in this episode. This is the most powerful female superhero to have ever existed. And it's no coincidence she was created by the man who invented the lie detector test—<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9109220738397250255#editor/target=post;postID=1824480510332283896">Wonder Woman's </a>most important power is her ability to make men tell the truth.<br />
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"The Milk and Honey Route" was directed and written by Matthew Weiner, so it's no coincidence that so many literary references pop up within it. For example, Don reads <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_%28novel%29"><i>The Godfather </i></a>in the hotel, a story about the death of an "old Don." And in the end, the new Don moves out West. <br />
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At the pool, Don encounters a bathing beauty reading <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_of_Rome"><i>The Woman of Rome,</i></a> a 1947 novel in which an idealistic intellectual betrays his colleagues (for reasons he cannot understand) and becomes disillusioned. In <a href="http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Andromeda_Strain_Crichton/Andromeda_Strain_Study_Guide04.html"><i>The Andromeda Strain, </i></a>only two characters are spared complete annihilation, and that's a baby and an old man (the two ends of the horseshoe). The book is about a series of mistakes made by scientists trying to stop an oncological epidemic, only to watch the strain transform into something completely benign by the novel's end. It was one of the most compelling reads that year, because of the way it was written—Crichton used a nonfiction style, so everyone believed the fiction they were reading was truly happening.<br />
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Weiner has said on multiple occasions that one of his main inspirations for Mad Men was the work of John Cheever, most specifically a short story called<a href="http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Cheever_Swimmer.pdf"> "The Swimmer." </a>In this story, a man who is so into his own image and prowess decides to up and swim across the county, via pool-hopping through his neighbors' backyards. But something goes terribly wrong in his swim—in a sci-fi twist, time speeds up...his strokes become more labored, he notices physical changes in his body, the seasons seem to change. And his neighbors, friendly and eager in the beginning of the tale, make comments about his family that bewilder him. By the time the man finally reaches home, his house is empty. He's lost everything.<br />
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As optimistic as I'd like to be about the ending of <i>Mad Men,</i> I sense this is going to most closely resemble what becomes of Don. As much as I would love to see him come home, take his children in and see Sally off to Spain, I think the odds are higher that we will see him continue to strip away the layers of Don, until he is finally living a completely authentic life.<br />
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Or until perhaps he's left naked, with nothing to his name, and steps back into the Pacific Ocean, as he did in season four, this time swimming out until he can swim no more.<br />
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Does Don find Jesus in the end? Maybe. Of course, in the <a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/19.htm">New Testament,</a> Jesus says, "<span class="btext1">If you want to be perfect, go, sell your
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In every opening of every episode of this series, Don falls out of an urban skyscraper, eventually landing in his suit and tie on a couch, with one arm stretched out, facing away from the viewer.<br />
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In the end of "The Milk and Honey Route," he sits on a bench in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by green farmland for miles. He has no suit, he doesn't even have any luggage. He is facing us instead of facing away. And he is smiling.<br />
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If Weiner continues with opposite outcomes for each character, it's hard to find a better ending than that for Don. Of course he'd find happiness in the freedom to be himself. I think in this finale, that is ultimately what we are going to see, no matter what form it takes. <br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ">"The Times, They Are A'Changin',"</a> by Bob Dylan (1964)<br />
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Come gather 'round people<br />
Wherever you roam,<br />
And admit that the waters<br />
Around you have grown.<br />
And accept it that soon<br />
You'll be drenched to the bone,<br />
If your time to you<br />
Is worth savin'.<br />
Then you better start swimmin'<br />
Or you'll sink like a stone,<br />
For the times they are a-changin'.<br />
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Come writers and critics,<br />
Who prophesize with your pen,<br />
And keep your eyes wide,<br />
The chance won't come again.<br />
And don't speak too soon,<br />
For the wheel's still in spin,<br />
And there's no tellin' who<br />
That it's namin'.<br />
For the loser now<br />
Will be later to win<br />
For the times they are a-changin'.<br />
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Come senators, congressmen,<br />
Please heed the call.<br />
Don't stand in the doorway,<br />
Don't block up the hall.<br />
For he that gets hurt<br />
Will be he who has stalled.<br />
There's a battle outside ragin'.<br />
It'll soon shake your windows<br />
And rattle your walls,<br />
For the times they are a-changin'.<br />
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Come mothers and fathers,<br />
Throughout the land.<br />
And don't criticize<br />
What you can't understand.<br />
Your sons and your daughters<br />
Are beyond your command,<br />
Your old road is rapidly agin'.<br />
Please get out of the new one<br />
If you can't lend your hand.<br />
For the times they are a-changin'.<br />
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The line it is drawn,<br />
The curse it is cast.<br />
The slow one now<br />
Will later be fast.<br />
As the present now<br />
Will later be past.<br />
The order is rapidly fadin'.<br />
And the first one now<br />
Will later be last,<br />
For the times they are a-changin'.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEnKEcBvBvw">"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"</a> by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson<br />
(re-released by Diana Ross in 1970)<br />
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If you need me, call me<br />
No matter where you are,<br />
No matter how far.<br />
Just call my name,<br />
I'll be there in a hurry<br />
On that you can depend and never worry.<br />
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No wind (no wind),<br />
No rain (no rain),<br />
Nor winter's cold<br />
Can stop me, babe.<br />
(Oh, babe) baby (baby)<br />
If you're my goal.<br />
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No wind (no wind),<br />
No rain (no rain)<br />
Can stop me, babe,<br />
If you're my goal.<br />
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I know, I know you must follow the sun<br />
Wherever it leads<br />
But remember<br />
If you fall short of your desires<br />
Remember life holds for you one guarantee:<br />
You'll always have me.<br />
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And if you should miss my lovin'<br />
One of these old days,<br />
If you should ever miss the arms<br />
That used to hold you so close,<br />
Or the lips that used to touch you so tenderly,<br />
Just remember what I told you<br />
The day I set you free.<br />
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Ain't no mountain high enough,<br />
Ain't no valley low enough,<br />
Ain't no river wild enough<br />
To keep me from you.<br />
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Ain't no mountain high enough,<br />
Ain't no valley low enough<br />
(Say it again),<br />
Ain't no river wild enough<br />
To keep me from you.<br />
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Ain't no mountain high enough,<br />
Nothing can keep me<br />
Keep me from you.<br />
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Ain't no mountain high enough,<br />
Ain't no valley low enough<br />
(Say it again),<br />
Ain't no river wild enough<br />
To keep me from you.<br />
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Ain't no mountain high enough,<br />
Nothing can keep me<br />
To keep me from you.<br />
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Ah, the stalker's anthem. Probably something Don Draper heard on the radio right after "Sealed With a Kiss" on his long drive out to Racine, WI, in <i>Mad Men</i> Episode 7.12, "Lost Horizon."<br />
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Or probably something he heard before he made the split decision to take that sudden detour in the first place.<br />
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It seemed to me at first that Don was on his way to Milwaukee to get some firsthand knowledge of the Miller brewing plant, to one-up all those jacket-less creative director clones in the McCann Erickson boardroom. Wishful thinking, I guess. I'd forgotten Don's just not that diligent anymore. At least, not about work.<br />
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There were clues throughout this episode and previous ones this season that he might bolt like this. In "The Forecast," he couldn't conceive of the company's future, let alone his own. And, as many recappers have pointed out, he's had so many things coincidentally stripped away from him the past few episodes—his marriage to Megan, his torch for Rachel, his dignity (though he did that to himself long ago—it's just worse this season with the various bedmates), his daughter's respect (though that's likely only temporary—he's earned it back before), the respect of some employees, his money (but only one of his many millions), his furniture, his apartment, his office, his ability to seduce Betty…and now his creative autonomy. What's left, really? His hat?<br />
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It's almost a perfect setup for leaving it all behind.<br />
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And notice how excited he got at the prospect of moving to L.A. in "Time & Life"; the old Don was back and he was ready for action. Writing pitches, coming up with a plan, leading the charge. It seems whenever Don gets a glimmer of a new idea, any new idea, he thinks that's <i>the thing—</i>the thing that will make his life great and finally bring him some happiness.<br />
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Except it never is, is it? He eventually tires of every new thing. Every latest model of woman (and Matthew Weiner does refer to his actresses this way, though it's not meant to be sexist—he's described Betty as being very 1940s, Jane Seigel as early 1960s and Megan as late 1960s) eventually bores him.<br />
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I've quoted it before, and I'll quote it again: As Dr. Faye Miller said, he "only likes the beginnings of things."<br />
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Which really all goes back to a season one episode called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhYTRYjPWdk">"The Hobo Code"</a>:<br />
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<b>Hobo [lighting a cigarette]:</b> Smoke?<br />
<b>Dick</b> <b>[probably around 8 years old]:</b> No.<br />
<b>Hobo:</b> Oh, he speaks.<br />
<b>Dick:</b> I'm supposed to tell you to say your prayers.<br />
<b>Hobo:</b> Prayin' won't help you from this place, kid. Best keep your mind on your mother; she'll probably look after you.<br />
<b>Dick:</b> She ain't my mama.<br />
<b>Hobo: </b>We all wish we were from some place else, believe me.<br />
<b>Dick:</b> Aint'n ya heard? I'm a whore-child.<br />
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<b>Dick:</b> You don't talk like a bum.<br />
<b>Hobo:</b> I'm not. I'm a gentleman of the rails. For me, every day is brand-new. Every day's a brand-new place, people, what have you.<br />
<b>Dick:</b> So, you got no home. That's sad.<br />
<b>Hobo:</b> What's at home? I had a family once, wife, job, a mortgage. I couldn't sleep at night tied to all those things. And then Death came to find me.<br />
<b>Dick [looking bewildered]:</b> Did you see him?<br />
<b>Hobo: </b>Only every night. So one morning I freed myself, with the clothes on my back. Goodbye. Now I sleep like a stone; sometimes under the stars, the rain, the roof of a barn, but I sleep like a stone.<br />
<b>Dick:</b> So where do you go?<br />
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<b>Hobo: </b>Tomorrow I'll be leaving this place, that's for certain. If Death was comin' any place, it's here, kid. Creepin' around every corner. Here [pulls out chalk]...you're an honorary: This is how we talk to each other; on the front gate of every house, there's a mark. It's a code, just like you heard on the radio.<br />
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This one—that means "Watch out for the nasty dog." <br />
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This one—that means "Tell a sad story." [Tosses chalk to Dick.]<br />
Don't be scared, kid. You ain't a man yet.<br />
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The day after this exchange, the hobo (who remains nameless) goes to receive his pay from Archibald, Dick's father, which had been promised to him after a day's work. Archibald pretends to have forgotten all about it, and tells him to be on his way. Dick runs after the hobo and stops by a post at the end of their property. Sure enough, carved into the post is the code for "a dishonest man." And this symbol is not written in chalk—it's carved into the wood with a knife. Which can only mean that it's been there for a while—another traveler, who'd been there before, likely carved it. So this hobo is not the first Archibald has screwed over.<br />
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This was Dick's Sally-catching-him-in-the-act-with-Sylvia moment. Once he knew his father couldn't be trusted, surely his life view changed forever (at the end of the episode, he wakes Bobby and tells him tenderly that he'll "never lie to him"—if only that were true). It's why he remembered it so sharply in that season one episode, and in the one that followed it, "Shoot"—the first in which Jim Hobart tried to woo him over to the dark side.<br />
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Don manages to get a bonus from Bert Cooper in "The Hobo Code" and then his pay raised by Roger Sterling in "Shoot," all because he's seen the mysterious gifts arriving from Hobart in the office, and he's concerned he might lose Don. In the end of the episode, Roger asks Don what made him decide to stay.<br />
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<b>Don: </b>I see no reason to leave...maybe I see a million.<br />
<b>Roger:</b> A million. Is that what it's going to cost me? I was thinking more like…40.<br />
<b>Don:</b> Forty-five is good.<br />
<b>Roger: </b>I'm not going to be a little girl and ask you why you stayed. I know it's not money. And I hope it's not to keep your foot on Pete Campbell.<br />
<b>Don:</b> I like the way you do business.<br />
<b>Roger:</b> Well, I try to be as civilized as you can be.<br />
<b>Don: </b>No contract.<br />
<b>Roger:</b> Forty-five, with no security. What's in it for me?<br />
<b>Don:</b> If I leave this place one day, it will <i>not </i>be for more advertising.<br />
<b>Roger: </b>What else is there?<br />
<b>Don:</b> I don't know…life being lived? I'd like to stop talking about it and get back to it.<br />
<b>Roger:</b> I've worked with a lot of men like you, and if you had to choose a place to die, it'd be in the middle of a pitch.<br />
<b>Don:</b> I've done that. I want to do something else.<br />
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It's no coincidence that part of this clip was shown at the start of "Lost Horizon." Though Weiner only showed the bit where Roger talks about dying in the middle of a pitch meeting. The part I'm interested in is where Don says he wouldn't go back to advertising if he left Sterling Cooper—that he'd actually live his life.<br />
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Because I think that may be what he's about to do.<br />
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Also, just to be clear, that hobo he met as a youth—he wasn't a bum in the traditional sense. Dick points out to him that he doesn't talk like one. This was the early 1930s, this exchange, a time when over 20 percent of the American population was out of work. Many men just plain gave up looking and took to the rails, and the conductors were less vigilant about throwing them off. The life this man is leading is not the most abnormal one. And while Don's family farm does not appear to be in the Dust Bowl, several farms suffered then and they could use the extra hands if a stranger came along.<br />
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Who knows if the hobo's tale is completely true. Don's story about offering a free refrigerator filled with beer certainly isn't. But he's "playing the stranger" all the same. And the reception he receives is somewhat similar.<br />
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Don's hosts only allow him to stay for an hour or so, though, not overnight. It is now 1970, not 1932. There's no way they will be as hospitable. They are almost as religious, though. Diana's ex-husband tells Don that he lost his daughter to God and his wife to the Devil. He tells Don he can't save Diana, because only Jesus can. And he says maybe Don should look into letting Jesus save him, too.<br />
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Probably not the best advice for someone like Don. After all, in "The Hobo Code," he wins over Belle Jolie when he says this, in one of his all-time greatest pitches:<br />
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"You're a nonbeliever. Why should we waste time on Kabuki? You've already tried your plan and you're number four. You've enlisted my expertise, and you've rejected it to go on the way you've been going. I'm not interested in that. You can understand. Listen, I'm not here to tell you about Jesus. You already know about Jesus. Either he lives in your heart, or he doesn't."<br />
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It's a bit of a non-sequitor of a line, and Don is almost certainly a "nonbeliever" himself, having been judged his whole young life by his stepmother as tainted by original sin, through no wrongdoing of his own. Back in 1932, when the hobo tells Abigail that young Dick (who's busy digging holes for no reason—foreshadowing what he'd be doing years later in Korea when he'd abandon his true identity forever) reminds him of himself, she says, "That doesn't surprise me at all." Because Dick is lower than dirt to her, a constant reminder of her ineptitude.<br />
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One thing Don does seem to believe in is the promises told in art and literature. I've been hoping that we may see a bit more of what leads him to enlist in the army this season—just one last flashback!—and as we've only two episodes left, the likelihood of that happening is low. Plus, the actor who plays young Dick, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1865193/">Brandon Killham, </a>isn't slated to appear in any episodes, per IMDB, and Jon Hamm has to be too old to pull off that 20-something heavy makeup. But I digress.<br />
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When Dick/Don went to join the army, the real Don asked him if he'd seen movies about it. And Don has told Diana this season that he wanted to move to New York because he'd read about it, and seen so much about it in the movies.<br />
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Joan Didion moved to New York around the same time as Don, in the real-life1950s anyway. She described that experience profoundly in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Slouching-Towards-Bethlehem-Essays-Classics/dp/0374531382">"Goodbye to All That" </a>(her essay about leaving the city for good and moving to Los Angeles):<br />
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<i>"It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the back of my neck constrict, when New York began for me, but I cannot lay my finger upon the moment it ended, can never cut through the ambiguities and second starts and broken resolves to the exact place on the page where the heroine is no longer as optimistic as she once was....</i><br />
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<i>"In retrospect it seems to me that those days before I knew the names of all the bridges were happier than the ones that came later, but perhaps you will see that as we go along. Part of what I want to tell you is what it is like to be young in New York, how six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve, for that is how those years appear to me now, in a long sequence of sentimental dissolves and old-fashioned trick shots—the Seagram Building fountains dissolve into snowflakes, I enter a revolving door at 20 and come out a good deal older, and on a different street. But most particularly I want to explain to you, and in the process perhaps to myself, why I no longer live in New York. It is often said that New York is a city of only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young....</i><br />
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<i>"I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South. To an Eastern child...New York is just a city, albeit </i>the<i> city, a plausible place for people to live. But to those of us who came from places where no one had heard of Lester Lenin and Grand Central Station was a Saturday radio program, where Wall Street and Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue were not places at all but abstractions ('Money' and 'High Fashion' and 'The Hucksters'), New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' in Xanadu."</i><br />
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"An infinitely romantic notion"—sounds like Don's whole life. Or at least his whole life as Don Draper. Because in a way, Don Draper<i> is</i> New York.<br />
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This essay wasn't published until 1967, and it's never been mentioned on the show, so it's doubtful whether Don would have read it. But he has read a book that was written around the same time as this essay, but published 10 years earlier. He mentions it to the apparition of Bert Cooper in his car: <i><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-the-road-jack-kerouac/1100315194?ean=9780140042597">On the Road.</a></i><br />
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Though Jack Kerouac based his book on experiences he'd had around the same time as Joan Didion's, he was driven to dream about leaving the city far before she even put pen to paper about it:<br />
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<i>"Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon, and believe it at my young age; and a little bit of trouble or even Dean's eventual rejection of me as a buddy, putting me down, as he would later, on starving sidewalks and sickbeds—what did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off. </i><br />
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<i>"Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me."</i><br />
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This is the story of a man who dreams of heading West to find the meaning of life, one he can't find in a city he considers "beat." From <i><a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/57467/Beat-movement">Encyclopedia Brittanica:</a></i> "[The Beat Movement's] adherents, self-styled as "beat" (originally meaning "weary," but later also connoting a musical sense, a "beatific" spirituality and other meanings) and derisively called "beatniks," expressed their alienation from conventional, or "square," society by adopting an almost uniform style of seedy dress, manners and "hip" vocabulary borrowed form jazz musicians. Generally apolitical and indifferent to social problems, they advocated personal release, purification and illumination through the heightened sensory awareness that might be induced by drugs, jazz, sex or the disciplines of Zen Buddhism. Apologists for the Beats, among them Paul Goodman, found the joylessness and purposelessness of modern society sufficient justification for both withdrawal and protest."<br />
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It's odd to think of Don reading the Beat manifesto, though, especially when you remember how he reacted to Midge's beatnik friends in "The Hobo Code." They criticize him for being part of "the system"; they tell him that he is creating the lie. He tells them that there is no system. He seems to think they are fooling themselves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mad Men,</i> "The Hobo Code"</td></tr>
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Yet, in "Lost Horizon," Don finds himself picking up a hitchhiker who could just as easily be Donovan as he could be Llewynn Davis. That is to say, the beatnik and hippie ethoses aren't all that far apart, though Jack Kerouac never wanted to be associated with the latter. In one of his<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-conservative-kerouac/"> last interviews,</a> on William Buckley's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBnIzY3R00">"Firing Line,"</a> he told political activist Ed Sanders, "I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of things I did and ugliness, too. You made yourself famous by saying, 'Down with this, down with that, throw eggs at this, throw eggs at that!' Take it with you. I cannot use your refuse; you may have it back."<br />
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Though Kerouac, a notorious alcoholic, was supposedly drunk in this interview, he speaks a truth for his and Don's entire generation (which I've hinted at <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2014/05/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-edition_18.html">before</a>). They were raised to work hard and pursue success cautiously, to achieve things within the system that their parents could not. As Neil Howe puts it in <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2014/08/13/the-silent-generation-the-lucky-few-part-3-of-7/">"The Silent Generation: 'The Lucky Few,'"</a> "The Silent started out as the children of crisis. They grew up while older people were fighting wars and making great sacrifices on their behalf. Childrearing in America, already more protective for the G.I.'s, approached the point of suffocation. When the Silent began coming of age after World War II, they tiptoed cautiously in a post-crisis social order that no one wanted to disturb. Unlike the G.I.'s, they rarely talked about 'changing the system,' but instead about 'working within the system.' Because they didn't want anything to go on their 'permanent records' and kept their heads down during the McCarthy era,<i> Time</i> gave them the label 'Silent' in a famous 1951 essay."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i><br />
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The biggest problem with growing up silent (as young Dick is usually portrayed in Don's flashbacks—children then were better seen, not heard) was that this generation had a hard time developing their identities. They might have been able to achieve great financial success, the greatest of any generation in that century, perhaps, but by midlife, they didn't know who they were. This is the generation that created the term "midlife crisis," what Don is clearly currently going through. The Beats (who hated the term "beatnik," by the way) just realized this problem of inauthenticity a little earlier than most.<br />
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And the hippies...well the Beats just thought they were lazy as hell. They didn't have the same grit, the same passion. They didn't want to experience life in all its intensity and realness—they wanted to reject their parents' ambition and conservative values and be free to love on their own terms and find peace. The Beats wanted romance, rugged and raw, sort of like Don. The hippies wanted to live in a utopia. A lost horizon.<br />
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But Don has always been torn on this. Because as a creative person, he's a bit of a Beat at heart—its why he embraces novelty so strongly, and why he's able to see a universality that a lot of people lacking depth can't see. Creatives tend to maintain an outsider status whether they want to or not, and this is who Don is, regardless of his impoverished past. His secret identity is meant to conceal that past and enable him to fit into a world of his making. The trouble though, is that though he sought out to create a new life, even the act of maintaining a false face to the world requires some kind of conforming. And while achieving financial success and a glamorous life has certainly helped him reach his goal of rejecting his parents' world and experience, he is left unfulfilled. Because becoming an adult involves doing more than just rejecting your parents' values—it has to do with fulfilling who you truly are.<br />
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So Don has always had empathy for hobos, and certainly sees himself as a vagabond, a drifter, a stranger (the hobo in his childhood called him an "honorary"). But this hippie he's picked up on the side of the road is a different breed.<br />
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Hobos aren't the only people Don's always had empathy for. He's one of the only male characters on this entire series who's never made a sexist comment about women having careers. He did emphasize to Betty in "Shoot" how important her job as a mother was, but that was mostly due to his own yearning to have a good mother. Maybe it's because he grew up around "working girls," euphemistically speaking, but Don has always been an aid in their upward climb. He even asks Joan this episode if he can intervene in her current situation.<br />
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And just as Don has had enough of his "career," and is finally trying to live, Joan and Peggy and Betty are all clinging to theirs. They are blazing the trails for women that the Silent generation blazed for men 20 years prior. And Joan Didion is one of them. And yet she, too, got sick of New York City by the end of the 1960s. It's interesting Don is so aching to leave, when you consider that just a year prior, he was willing to do anything in his power to keep his old position at SC&P.<br />
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But now we've entered the 1970s, and New York and advertising are an entirely different world. As Pete puts it, "The city has <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gritty-new-york-city-1970s-gallery-1.1318521">become a toilet."</a> Joan Didion observed that the city was filled with only the rich and the poor, but by the mid-1970s it was crime-ridden, nearing bankruptcy and overall terrifying. With the economic crisis looming, Don is surely better off in a place like L.A. (the appeal of which I talked about <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2014/06/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-edition.html">here</a>) or wherever else he chooses to go. Because the New York he saw in the movies, the one he tried to get Diana excited about—well, it just doesn't exist anymore, at least not at this point in history. <br />
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This was a great time in New York for struggling artists and musicians, though, because they could actually afford to live in the city proper, a possibility that is now just a distant memory. Here's an amazing documentary on that, the BBC's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WfEZj1dK-o">"Once Upon a Time in New York: The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk."</a> Watch the whole thing. You'll thank me.<br />
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This half-season of<i> Mad Men</i> often utilizes the technique of reflecting back on memorable scenes from the first few seasons—the first season, especially. It's for the true fans, those who remember these scenes with nostalgia. The rest of us are just loving what we're seeing right now but we're not quite sure why. But it's because we've seen some version of it before.<br />
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For example, Peggy's day—and night—of drinking Vermouth with Roger calls back to "The Hobo Code" (I know, I know, enough already—but it was a rich episode!), when she won the Belle Jolie account and Don offered her a drink to celebrate. Normally, as Don's secretary, she was the one who supplied the ice while the men day-drank and laughed, but this time she was invited to the party and she couldn't have been more thrilled.<br />
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So for Roger to ask her to buy him a bottle of alcohol and for her to say no speaks volumes about how far she's come. And Roger sits there and drinks only with her, not with any other men, with seemingly no romantic intentions at all. How many times have we seen Roger do that with a woman? Perhaps, he just misses his daughter and feels the need to pass on wisdom to someone…anyone. And Peggy's smart enough to know that she should stick around to receive it.<br />
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(And <a href="http://www.skatingfitness.com/RollerSkating-History-of-Roller-Skating.htm">roller skating was <i>huge</i> </a>in the 1970s—Peggy is just a little ahead of everyone else trend-wise, as per usual. Again, being ahead on trends was not the case for her in the first season of this show [see above left]—in 1960, she was still dressing like it was 1955.)<br />
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In that same season one episode, Joan tells Peggy that she'd thought she was only becoming a copywriter so she could get closer romantically to Paul Kinsey. She can't comprehend that a woman in that office could have any motivation other than meeting a man, making a living and having a little fun. And now look at her.<br />
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Contrary to what Roger tells her, it is not "all about the money." Now she is the one who says things like, "I finally got the job of my dreams." When offered to be whisked away to Bermuda (the second mention of it this episode—it reached a peak of popularity in the 1970s, somewhat due to the "print ads" Hobart mentions; it was also once considered <a href="http://www.world66.com/centralamericathecaribbean/bermuda/history">"the isle of devils,"</a> and Hobart loved it, so go figure), she tells the man in question that he can't tell her when she needs to go somewhere. Something tells me Joan is not going to go down without a fight in this McCann debacle.<br />
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Every woman on this show has benefitted from second-wave feminism, though this episode brought it more to the forefront. And though I did point out Joan's <i>Ladies' Home Journal</i> in her living room <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/05/good-housekeepings-throwback-thursday.html">last week,</a> and August 1970 was the month of the magazine's "feminist issue" as well as the date of the famous women's rights march down 5th Avenue, I found it strange that Joan would be so well-versed in all this, and that she'd present it to Jim Hobart so assertively.<br />
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On my second viewing, I was able to see the argument from his side, as well. I don't think he really knows what Ferg has been up to—something tells me his employees hide their sexist machismo from him. He is likely so out of touch with his employees that he truly does believe it when he says, "the women are happy here." Also, as I think I've mentioned before, <a href="https://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/feminism-friday-the-origins-of-the-word-sexism/">"sexism"</a> was barely even a word yet in 1970. So, "sexist" for them equals "normal."<br />
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Joan will end this series a career woman. She just has it in her. In fact, though Ferg tells her it is easier for a woman to be the boss of men if she's a "creative," like Peggy, history tells us that wasn't necessarily the case—and still isn't today.<br />
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In <i><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/marketing/mad-women-why-women-walk-away-from-advertising/article9484009/">The Globe and Mail,</a></i> journalist Susan Krashinsky said, "Women's difficulty rising to leadership roles is somewhat particular to the creative departments: media planning and buying, account services and other areas of the industry tend to be more balanced." Only 3 percent of worldwide creative directors are women—that's today's statistic, not 1970's. And it's largely because of the lifestyle required—e.g., staying up until 3 a.m. working on an ad (a la Peggy's night with Don in "The Suitcase")...or having a few drinks with Roger Sterling. As long as Peggy stays "career-primary," as this article puts it—meaning she will not get married or have kids—she'll be on her way to success.<br />
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And after her viral marketing stunt for Sugarberry Ham (which Don dismissed as a cheap tactic immediately) in season four, Peggy is sure to fit in as a creative director in the 1970s, because <a href="http://adage.com/article/adage-encyclopedia/history-1970s/98703/">"positioning"</a> became the name of the game then. Advertising oversaturation in America started in this decade, especially when you consider how much TV was being watched. With so many more ads, companies had to figure out a way to stand apart from the competition—that's why a creative director like Don Draper is such a prize to Hobart, because he knows how competitive the market has become. At the same time, Don isn't interested in competing anymore—he's at the top of his game and wants to stay there. Peggy, on the other hand, is hungry. And she has a good instinct for competitive ads; in <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/04/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-edition.html">"Severance,"</a> she tells Topaz Pantyhose it's better not to mention another brand, to never make yourself appear to be second.<br />
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She will surely do well in the cola wars (and I'm seeing more and more ads for Pepsi in 1970 <i>Good Housekeepings</i> as the months progress). After all, the "Mean Joe Green" Coca-Cola ads of the late 1970s were written by a woman—and she worked for McCann.<br />
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Even Betty seems to be on some sort of path to empowerment now. And based on previews of the next episode, she's bound to start asserting herself more because of it. In the first season's "Shoot," there's a scene in the kitchen of the Draper residence where Betty rubs Don's shoulders, trying to butter him up into letting her model for Jim Hobart.<br />
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Don agrees, and says he wants to support her in whatever she wants to do, despite his initial surprise (there's that feminism again...um, mixed in with the womanizing...). In "Lost Horizon," Don is now the masseur, and it's he who needs validation, permission to have the "life" he wants. He's not sure what that new life is yet, but he's lost his way...almost as much as Betty had in that first season.<br />
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Maybe even more.<br />
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As always, here are our doppelgangers from this weeks' episode:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meredith's plan for Don's new pad</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrpEDj9cnR6gUZHb3o6kDo0X8VcJYtidpTI8xh9FIDlKgaPlKLkcexnQBMky4PkANG6qztV3lWEN-46065kFN0S5ix-mHoGws1MFNXx03f3fZu0yTf6eXkhCJYCb6cYkXBOLAm6RSvPM/s1600/donslivingroom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMrpEDj9cnR6gUZHb3o6kDo0X8VcJYtidpTI8xh9FIDlKgaPlKLkcexnQBMky4PkANG6qztV3lWEN-46065kFN0S5ix-mHoGws1MFNXx03f3fZu0yTf6eXkhCJYCb6cYkXBOLAm6RSvPM/s320/donslivingroom.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> September 1970 <br />
(real-life interior design of the time)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan's secretary, Beverly</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgm-3kRIj1MdY9lhprUVECRAlpKO9S2PlySgDCb_yQyd5f0u08fCXMURY7FKARW-dI2H8q3BpqxwmAOCxhLO2aBNbdwXh0DMq-Vw0u3MmA9IutKS_D4lksvnz7M4R11VjwygzSohyphenhyphen5YA/s1600/beverly1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimgm-3kRIj1MdY9lhprUVECRAlpKO9S2PlySgDCb_yQyd5f0u08fCXMURY7FKARW-dI2H8q3BpqxwmAOCxhLO2aBNbdwXh0DMq-Vw0u3MmA9IutKS_D4lksvnz7M4R11VjwygzSohyphenhyphen5YA/s320/beverly1.jpg" width="217" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>August 1970</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan's 1970s hair</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfacG-yYyLIRabmQtq-20H5Az9B56Tvrb4w_EDqjwTb8f2lhzondpsNS5bz96FFDwVLjwfhehXVS-UugXELRNvAK4LJqH9JQHXOMj9w6AZvMVLWUT54hqTqI5Q25FQOvnz4TmHRkBpk00/s1600/joandouble.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfacG-yYyLIRabmQtq-20H5Az9B56Tvrb4w_EDqjwTb8f2lhzondpsNS5bz96FFDwVLjwfhehXVS-UugXELRNvAK4LJqH9JQHXOMj9w6AZvMVLWUT54hqTqI5Q25FQOvnz4TmHRkBpk00/s320/joandouble.jpg" width="222" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> September 1970</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan's 1970s frosted white nail polish</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> September 1970</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ladies of McCann</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>September 1970</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peggy's shoes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> 1970</td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg">"Here I Go Again,"</a> by Whitesnake (1982; the original version of this<br />
song used the word "hobo," not "drifter")<br />
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I don't know where I'm goin'<br />
But I sure know where I've been.<br />
Hanging on the promises in songs of yesterday.<br />
An' I've made up my mind,<br />
I ain't wasting no more time.<br />
Here I go again.<br />
Here I go again.<br />
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Tho' I keep searching for an answer<br />
I never seem to find what I'm looking for.<br />
Oh Lord, I pray you give me strength to carry on,<br />
'Cause I know what it means<br />
To walk along the lonely street of dreams.<br />
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An' here I go again on my own<br />
Goin' down the only road I've ever known.<br />
Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.<br />
An' I've made up my mind,<br />
I ain't wasting no more time.<br />
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I'm just another heart in need of rescue.<br />
Waiting on love's sweet charity.<br />
An' I'm gonna hold on for the rest of my days<br />
'Cause I know what it means<br />
To walk along the lonely street of dreams.<br />
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An' here I go again on my own.<br />
Goin' down the only road I've ever known.<br />
Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.<br />
An' I've made up my mind,<br />
I ain't wasting no more time.<br />
But here I go again,<br />
Here I go again,<br />
Here I go again,<br />
Here I go...<br />
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An' I've made up my mind,<br />
I ain't wasting no more time.<br />
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An' here I go again on my own.<br />
Goin' down the only road I've ever known.<br />
Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.<br />
An' I've made up my mind,<br />
I ain't wasting no more time...<br />
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But here I go again,<br />
Here I go again,<br />
Here I go again,<br />
Here I go,<br />
Here I go again...<br />
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Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-67748369795807430182015-05-04T00:34:00.000-07:002015-05-07T17:36:25.524-07:00Good Housekeeping's Throwback Thursday, Mad Men Edition: "Time & Life"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6FfjlxZLTk"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"Cracklin' Rosie,"</a> by Neil Diamond (September 1970)<br />
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Aw, Cracklin' Rosie, get on board.<br />
We're gonna ride<br />
Till there ain't no more to go,<br />
Taking it slow,<br />
And Lord, don't you know<br />
We'll have me a time with a poor man's lady.<br />
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Hitchin' on a twilight train,<br />
Ain't nothing here that I care to take along,<br />
Maybe a song,<br />
To sing when I want.<br />
No need to say please to no man<br />
For a happy tune.<br />
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Oh, I love my Rosie child,<br />
You got the way to make me happy.<br />
You and me we go in style.<br />
Cracklin' Rose,<br />
You're a store-bought woman<br />
But you make me sing like a guitar hummin'<br />
So hang on to me, girl,<br />
Our song keeps runnin' on.<br />
Play it now, play it now,<br />
Play it now, my baby.<br />
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Cracklin' Rosie, make me a smile.<br />
Girl, if it lasts for an hour, that's all right,<br />
We got all night <br />
To set the world right.<br />
Find us a dream that don't ask no questions,<br />
Yeah.<br />
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Oh, I love my Rosie child,<br />
You got the way to make me happy.<br />
You and me we go in style.<br />
Cracklin' Rose,<br />
You're a store-bought woman,<br />
But you make me sing like a guitar hummin'<br />
So hang on to me, girl,<br />
Our song keeps runnin' on.<br />
Play it now, play it now,<br />
Play it now, my baby.<br />
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Cracklin' Rosie, make me a smile.<br />
Girl, if it lasts for an hour, that's all right,<br />
We got all night<br />
To set the world right.<br />
Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.<br />
Ba ba ba ba ba..."
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And so now we've entered the age of Neil Diamond. Oh, yeah.<br />
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This song climbed the charts in late summer 1970, around the time we've likely landed on the show. It's a song Ken Cosgrove would have been fond of, as Cracklin' Rosie is actually a bottle of wine. A bottle of wine that helps you find a dream that asks no questions. It's no Chateau Margaux, but I guess it will do.<br />
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<a href="http://stevenseighmanphotos.tumblr.com/">My fiancé</a> started watching <i>Mad Men</i> Episode 7.11 before I did, and about halfway through, he came into the bedroom and said, "<i>Very</i> exciting things are happening..."<br />
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And like many other viewers, he was excited because the gang was all back together again. We've seen lots of individual story lines for these characters so far this season, but when all of them come together to work on one goal...well, that's one of the things this show does best.<br />
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Like many episodes this season, "Time & Life" had callbacks to a previous episode, "Shut the Door. Have a Seat," the third season finale. In fact, for a while there, it seemed it was repeating an identical story arc, perhaps partly because Jared Harris (the actor who played Lane Pryce) <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/mad-men-interview-jared-harris-lane-pryce-directing-season-7/?_r=0">was directing:</a> firm is about to lose its autonomy; members scramble to retain everything they've worked for, even via unconventional methods (e.g., firing themselves, moving to California); in the end, firm is independent and undefeated, though smaller and facing potentially precarious obstacles.<br />
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It's the story of reinvention, of holding onto what's yours, despite the odds. It's quintessentially American, and that's why everyone loves it so much.<br />
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But Don, Pete, Joan and Roger, despite their behind-the-scenes scheming, weren't able to see their last-ditch effort through this time. There is a feeling of the wind being knocked out of their sails when McCann's Jim Hobart tells them to stop. And so we are left wondering at the end—is attaining the "five most coveted jobs in advertising" a good thing? As many recappers have mentioned, Ted Chaough is the only one who looks relieved. But is "advertising heaven" a good place to be?<br />
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And can they really trust Jim Hobart? This is the same man who has doggedly tried to poach Don for the entire series. He even used Betty as bait in a first season episode: He offers her a modeling job with Coca-Cola, and after Don turns him down, he fires Betty on the spot (hence why offering Don Coke as a client might be met with mixed feelings). Recappers have compared Hobart to the devil, and he does often appear like a little devil on Don's shoulder—in a recent season, when Don met with another firm, Hobart popped up behind him, yet again professing his interest. As Peggy's headhunter puts it, ending up at McCann seems inevitable. So why the struggle against it? <br />
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Because ending up at McCann means denouncing one's name. It means becoming a "cog," as Don puts it, a number in a lineup (and we saw many of those this episode, but more on that later). It means becoming what almost everyone who works at a large corporation in this country—and that's a good number of us—takes as a given: It is very difficult to stand out and get ahead, because nobody really knows who you are.<br />
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And that means a special kind of struggle for someone like Joan. She is immediately dismissive of this turn of events. Back in "Shut the Door. Have a Seat," Joan was the mascot of the new firm—she was the only one who knew where anything was, when they had to steal all of their necessary administrative materials in the dead of night. It's why Pete tells her she's supposed to be the "voice of optimism" this time. But this time, she just can't muster it.<br />
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After everyone has left the bar, Roger tells Don he'd made a deal with God that he'd give up smoking if "this worked out." Then he sticks a cigarette in his mouth and says, "Message received." So despite his previous toasts of celebration, Roger clearly believes they've failed. <br />
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He is mourning the loss of his legacy in this scene, too. "No more Sterling Cooper, and no more Sterlings. Margaret is the only daughter of an only son of an only son. All that's left is a mausoleum at Greenwood."<br />
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To which Don says, jokingly quoting Shakespeare, "What's in a name?"<br />
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What <i>is</i> in a name?<br />
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<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/adventures-in-old-age/201001/was-shakespeare-wrong-would-rose-any-other-name-smell-sweet">Well, a lot, apparently.</a> <br />
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In season two's "The Mountain King," Don and Pete take a
business trip to California, and Don essentially disappears. He runs off
with some new fling without telling Pete, and then he holes up at Anna
Draper's house. In this series of events, nobody knows where he is. Not
his family, not his coworkers. And this goes on for three weeks.<br />
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Sitting on her front porch, he
confesses to Anna that he's scratching at the edges of his life, trying
to get in. He says he's really made a mess of things with his wife and family. And he appears confused by the fact that he's able to tell
Anna these things, express his true feelings, in a way he can't with
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<a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2014/06/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-edition.html">As I've discussed in this blog before, </a>Anna gives him a tarot card reading towards the
end of the episode. She tells him the cards say that the only reason
he's so unhappy is because he believes he is alone. She tells him that
once he changes that belief, he can be at peace. <br />
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And then he walks into the ocean, pants on, stretches out his arms and lets gravity take him under. It's a baptism, in a sense. <br />
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most importantly, the camera pulls away in a shot that makes Don seem
so incredibly small. Don Draper, like all of us, is just a grain of sand
on this earth. It's a very different shot than what we're used to on
this show—normally, he is large and up-close. Normally, we are thick
into his life and character development, like he's the most important
person in the world. And normally, so is he.<br />
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He's
created this persona and life for himself that requires he be in
constant control. Because he believes he comes from nothing but pain and
poverty, and was told for most of his childhood that he was worthless,
he has to invent a life for himself that is separate from that stigma.
<a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2014/05/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-edition_18.html">As I've mentioned before, </a>this was a common practice for his
generation—people who wanted to achieve the American dream, to build
something for themselves. Because they weren't held back by family
legacies in this country, in this century. Don just takes it to an
extreme by inventing a character he must become.<br />
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But
being a character all the time is exhausting. For one, you have to make
up all the personality traits yourself and then try to stick to them.
And while you might achieve what you set out to do, you will never truly
feel fulfilled, because you've failed yourself—inner fulfillment
requires being who you really are. You might have an important name, but
in this world, as we've seen in "Time & Life," even that can be
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I've compared Don Draper to Walt Disney <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/04/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-edition_26.html">in the past</a> in <a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2014/06/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-edition.html">this blog</a> because they are both self-made men, each with an iconic name—and a reputation built on their glamour and creativity. <br />
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There is a running theme in much of Disney's movies, many of them derived from Grimm's Fairy Tales. Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel, Pocahontas, Jasmine, Belle, Bambi, Pinocchio, Tarzan, Quasimodo, Nemo and Elsa and Anna...not one of them has a mother. <br />
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Now Walt Disney killed his mother by accident—there was a problem with the furnace in the house he'd bought her. But Don's mother's death involved his very existence—like many fairy tale characters, she died giving birth to him and he then had an evil stepmother to contend with.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrweV2cRzlDzMlKZNLDyqqLGopkRq28EOdwFxjxYTuvqiikY5j7G60bNqh8q7R5JrwhRWKeHQmYkZeRJYnN5Uiizf04UYyCeaZFOJOj-t5cVe0Ut2lG2F4AdSO5Pi800WzZyZuQDw6pm0/s1600/Pinocchio2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrweV2cRzlDzMlKZNLDyqqLGopkRq28EOdwFxjxYTuvqiikY5j7G60bNqh8q7R5JrwhRWKeHQmYkZeRJYnN5Uiizf04UYyCeaZFOJOj-t5cVe0Ut2lG2F4AdSO5Pi800WzZyZuQDw6pm0/s1600/Pinocchio2.jpg" width="200" /></a>Back in the 1800s, in the days of Grimm, this was a fairly common situation. Before antibiotics and modern medicine, many women died in childbirth (in fact, I often think the rise of feminism had much to do with the fact that women were just plain surviving past 30, but that's a whole other discussion).<br />
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A year ago, journalist Sarah Boxer discussed the "dead-mother plot" in an article for <i>The Atlantic </i>called, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/07/why-are-all-the-cartoon-mothers-dead/372270/">"Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead?": </a>"As Marina Warner notes in her book <i>From the Beast to the Blonde,</i>
one of the first Cinderella stories, that of Yeh-hsien, comes from
ninth-century China. The dead-mother plot is a fixture of fiction, so
deeply woven into our storytelling fabric that it seems impossible to
unravel or explain.
But some have tried. In <i>Death and the Mother From Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins </i>(1998),
Carolyn Dever, a professor of English, noted that character development
begins 'in the space of the missing mother.' The unfolding of plot and
personality, she suggests, depends on the dead mother. In <i>The Uses of Enchantment </i>(1976), Bruno Bettelheim, the child psychologist, saw the dead mother as a psychological boon for kids: 'The typical fairy tale splitting of the mother into a good
(usually dead) mother and an evil stepmother…is not only a means of
preserving an internal all-good mother when the real mother is not
all-good, but it also permits anger at this bad 'stepmother' without
endangering the goodwill of the true mother.'"<br />
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Like many people who are raised by a stepparent who doesn't want them, Don's main crisis in life is the desire to be seen and known...and wanted. For most people, nobody really knows them like their mother does. It wasn't just poverty or poor treatment Dick was running from when he switched places with Don Draper in the Korean War. If you look carefully at that scene, the real Don tells Dick that he's just pissed his pants when the two are being shot at. Dick looks down to check, and in doing so, drops his lighter on the ground. The lighter sets gasoline on fire and that in turn triggers an explosion—Dick survives, the real Don doesn't. In his moments of confession, which have been few and far between, Dick/Don tells the story of this like it was an accident, a mishap at the hospital. But in this scene, technically, Dick Whitman is the one who accidentally kills Don, much like he accidentally killed his own mother. And then, he very deliberately removes his own dog tags and takes dog tags off the neck of a freshly burnt body, flesh still bubbling. That is a planned, calculated move. That is not something that just happens by accident.<br />
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What I'm saying is, Dick Whitman wants so badly to be known and loved that he will steal someone's identity the first chance he gets. Because being known and loved while wearing the shoes of another man is the closest he can come to finding happiness.<br />
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He's also, as Matthew Weiner has said many times, a survivor. He knew if he pretended to be Don, he'd get to leave the battlefront. It's what makes the rumors that he might commit suicide at the end of the series almost preposterous.<br />
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So, what<i> is </i>in a name?<br />
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When Roger bemoans the loss of his father's legacy in "Time & Life," the loss of his name, really, it is an important loss to acknowledge. Roger inherited his position. He built his company based on loyalty to his father's name. Because of
this, he's never fully been his own person. <br />
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Pete encounters a similar
chain of events this episode—his family's name also has a long legacy,
but in "Time & Life," the headmaster of a day school tells Trudy she
should be happy to get rid of it. Because with Pete's name comes a
history of backstabbing, apparently, so much so that it follows Pete to
this day, regardless of how he lives his own life, and prevents his
daughter from getting a certain kind of education.<br />
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Even Peggy is limited by her family's legacy in "Time & Life," despite not having a famous name. Her limitation is her gender and religious upbringing. We watch her share a very personal story, with someone other than Don. And Peggy tells Stan, she thinks she should be allowed to make the decision she made, giving up her child, without feeling any guilt about it. She should be permitted to be the author of her life, even if that means sometimes making mistakes.<br />
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To be the author of her life. It's all Don really wants. <br />
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Because really, in the end, who you are is what you do—it's not whom you've been told to be, or the name you've
given yourself. We can try to play a role, whether given to us or self-induced, as much as we want. But we'll never be at peace until we can look in the mirror and see who we truly are looking back...and remember that, as Anna said to Don in California, all of us are in this together.<br />
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It's a value the characters of this show struggle to see or maintain, they are all so caught up in their own dramas and motivations for doing things. And now we have the added issue of the haves versus the have-nots—despite how much Don detests men like Jim Hobart, he's using his new money and position to buy a power suit just like Jim's. And look how quick Roger is to fire people this episode. He seems to announce it with glee.<br />
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Just as an example, here's what Don sees at the end of "Shut the Door. Have a Seat":<br />
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And here's his view at the end of "Time & Life":<br />
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By 1970, they've all been reduced to nameless faces in a lineup, the feel of which is created visually several times this episode (I'm not including the memorable Last Supper homage, because I posted it above):<br />
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Of course, this illustrative strategy emphasizes Don's loneliness all the more when this happens:<br />
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I can only guess that by season's end (in only three weeks!), there will be some sort of uprising against this. Even if that means Don moves to L.A. permanently.<br />
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There were only a few match-ups with old <a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/"><i>Good Housekeepings</i></a> this week. Here's what I've got.<br />
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The reason we see multiple different hem lengths on the secretaries in Roger's office:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>August 1970</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> August 1970</td></tr>
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The results of real-life kids' casting calls:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>August 1970</td></tr>
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A Meredith doppelganger:<br />
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Until next time, "Sayonara, my friend. Enjoy the rest of your miserable life."<br />
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"Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what
it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic
images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is
trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to
yourself, you have misread the image.<br />
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The inner world is the
world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your
possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the
field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both
going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner
and outer worlds meet.'<br />
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that
we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with
being alive, is what it’s all about.”
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"Ooh Child"</a> by the Five Stairsteps (July 1970)<br />
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Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things are gonna get easier,<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things'll get brighter.<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things are gonna get easier,<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things'll get brighter.<br />
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Some day, yeah,<br />
We'll <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">get it together</span> and we'll get <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">it all</span> done.<br />
Some day,<br />
When your head is much lighter.<br />
Some day, yeah,<br />
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun.<br />
Some day,<br />
When the world is much brighter.<br />
<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things are gonna get easier.<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things'll be brighter.<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things are gonna get easier.<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things'll be brighter.<br />
<br />
Some day, yeah,<br />
We'll get it together and we'll get it all done.<br />
Some day,<br />
When your head is much lighter.<br />
Some day, yeah,<br />
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun.<br />
Some day,<br />
When the world is much brighter.<br />
Some day, yeah,<br />
We'll get it together and we'll get it all done.<br />
Some day,<br />
When your head is much lighter.<br />
Some day, yeah,<br />
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun.<br />
Some day,<br />
When the world is much brighter.<br />
<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things are gonna get easier.<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things'll be brighter.<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things are gonna get easier.<br />
Ooh-oo child,<br />
Things'll be brighter.<br />
Right now, right now.<br />
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Twice in <i>Mad Men</i>'s Episode 7.10, "The Forecast," Don Draper tells someone to essentially grow up, to take responsibility for his or her failure to do something correctly.<br />
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And each time, the thing they've failed to do is sell something imaginary. Melanie the realtor and Mathis the copywriter each come to Don for guidance—for the former, it's on how to sell his empty, soulless apartment; for the latter, it's how to get back into a client's good graces.<br />
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These are relatively easy tasks for Don, because he's gifted at creating something out of nothing. He can "paint a picture," as Ted Chaough tells him (which is also what he tells Roger to get out of having to write Roger's "prognostication"—but more on that later). <br />
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And Don has a point, when you think about it—he is paying both of these people to do their jobs. He shouldn't have to hold their hands through it. His frustration with the constant interruptions at work and the amount of instruction his young copywriters (and sometimes Pete) need this episode is palpable.<br />
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But Mathis and Melanie have something Don seemingly doesn't, despite his accusing them otherwise: character. <br />
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Melanie's job is to sell a home, and though nobody ever fully trusts a realtor, doing what she does requires a certain level of transparency. When Don returns to his apartment and asks how her day of meeting potential buyers went, she says, "About how I expected. They loved the lobby, but the emptiness is a problem." Don tells her, "There are other ways to sell things." To which she responds, "I'm not a magician. I'm using everything I have, but this requires too much imagination." <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> July 1970</td></tr>
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Don's suggestion to make up a story falls on deaf ears. He tells her to give people "a little glamour, a little hope." Something that requires imagination is the best opportunity there is, he says.<br />
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She explains, "I have to sell it to people with their eyes open. And do you know what it looks like? It looks like a sad person lives here." She tells him the place reeks of failure.<br />
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Of course, all of these are words you could use to describe Don the man right now.<br />
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<a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2015/04/mad-men-and-1960s-womens-magazine-ads.html">I've mentioned before</a> how the women of this series would begin to switch places with the men, at least as far as adopting a certain persona in the world, as we entered the 1970s. In this episode, we see Don oversleeping and letting a relatively strange woman catch him in his boxers. He walks around the office carrying a bottle of beer (somehow leagues less classy than carrying a low-ball) and is told he needs to get his hair cut. He shaves while standing at his desk, right in front of his secretary. He eats doughnuts and Clark bars (his Hershey's 2.0). He only thinly veils the manipulativeness of his every interaction—each an effort to gather ideas for Roger's assignment. And he manages to disgust his daughter when her young friend flirts with him.<br />
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Just look at the sheer number of women he appears to be sleeping with. The Don Draper we've known for most of this series has been a rather repressed, stoic man—he only seemed to conduct extramarital affairs if they were in his immediate proximity. He probably worked with Midge at some point, for example, and then there's Rachel Menken, a client, and Bobbie Barrett, another client. Then there's the stewardesses he met on planes. And Dr. Faye Miller, a researcher working in his office. The laundry list of secretaries. Sally's teacher. And Sylvia lived in his own building.<br />
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Each of these affairs took very little legwork. He's not the most social guy in the world. But by 1970, not only is he making an effort to juggle all of these women, but he is also presumably having multiple conversations with them. And most of the time, we're supposed to believe, he's doing this just to indulge his carnal desires, not to satisfy his never-ending "need to be known." <br />
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It's strange. It's very un-Don. It's as though even the act of maintaining his persona has become his addiction, and he's gotten increasingly bad at it. The image of Don Draper in the mirror is what turns Dick Whitman on now, it's what keeps him going.<br />
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No wonder he's drinking himself to death.<br />
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The ladies, on the other hand, have only just begun.<br />
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Did you notice how many female characters this episode seem to be sporting way too much makeup? Each one, from Melanie to Meredith to Peggy, has plastered on the wrong color of blush and bright lipstick and some pastel, very '70s eye shadow. The only one who seems to know what she's doing here is Joan, and I have to guess that's because her best friend works at Avon.<br />
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Joan exemplifies the whole what's-real-and-what-is-just-an-image dilemma this episode. When she introduces herself to Richard, she says, "I'm Joan Harris, an account executive and partner," like it's very important that he knows that. Because God forbid he might think she is still a secretary. She is fancy now, but on her own terms. She stays in the Beverly Wilshire on business trips, clad in an elegant emerald nightgown, and when she goes to work, she dresses to the nines, maintaining her femininity in head-to-toe pink and a rose print, no less. This is a big f-you to the oafs at McCann and Peggy, who essentially told Joan to stop dressing so much like an attractive woman. Even her jewels have experienced a major upgrade.<br />
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But this is a difficult road for Joan, who though very pragmatic and an excellent problem-solver at work has always really wanted love. It's why she still hasn't moved out of the apartment she shares with her mother and son and gotten a larger one for the whole family—she suffers from what Iyanla Vanzant calls <a href="http://www.livinglifefully.com/flo/flobelivingoutloud.htm">"living in the meantime."</a> She spends her riches on the clothing she needs to attract a man (notice how she's also always dieting) instead of on a new, bigger, more updated home—which she can certainly afford at this point. Though Bob Benson has warned her otherwise, she still believes in romance.<br />
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So she puts on her nude heels and her matching nude purses and heads in to work every day, living this new, modern role, yearning for the day when someone comes along and makes her feel whole.<br />
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Just like what Don's been doing all these years.<br />
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Notice how when Richard comes back to the office to apologize to Joan, he brings her a bouquet of roses (a gift she's received many times over from multiple admirers). When the camera pans away from them, they are in a bride and groom stance. Except they're in the wrong spots. Joan is standing, holding her bouquet, where the groom normally stands, on the right. Richard is in the bride's position.<br />
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Richard is apologizing to Joan in this scene and essentially telling her that even though he's a man, his needs don't supersede hers. And though she delivers her message sarcastically, Joan very much stands up for herself here and is strong and forthright with Richard. This is new. This is revolutionary.<br />
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It's too bad Don's not in earshot, because THIS is the future.<br />
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He does have an educational Chinese dinner with Sally's friends, though, who each seem to want something out of life that is also quite unprecedented.<br />
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<a href="http://fashionandgrammargripes.blogspot.com/2014/05/ghs-throwback-thursday-mad-men-outtakes.html">As I've mentioned before, </a>in our modern culture, people tend to be highly influenced by media. Betty, for example, tells Glen he'll be just fine in Vietnam, where they "have all the comforts of home," because she read it in a magazine. (Notice, by the way, how she touches his hand in this episode when she tells him he's going to be OK. It's the same way he held hers back in season one, when she told him she was so sad and had nobody to talk to [which was likely what inspired him to become her knight in shining armor once he was older].)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> June 1970</td></tr>
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Joan has a magazine holder in her living room with <i>Ladies' Home Journal </i>peeking out. Kevin watches "Sesame Street" (only on the air for a year by then) and Bobby and Gene "The Brady Bunch." Maureen the baby-sitter has on Carson, and Betty watches a tiny TV in her kitchen now, while she reads the paper. This episode showed more types of TV shows being watched and more TV viewing than ever before. And it's not just a JFK vs. Nixon debate or a boxing match everyone's tuned into at the same time—it's specialized shows for specialized groups of people.<br />
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Which is why Don tells Mathis and Peggy, "Kids won't get it, and adults won't see it," when they pitch their "Dear John"-inspired cookie commercial. This is a commercial that will play during children's broadcasting, which is something adults now largely don't watch.<br />
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It's going to make Bobby and Gene's generation a different breed from Sally's. But more on that another time.<br />
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Like Joan and Betty, Sally and her friends will be influenced by women's media, but in very different ways. Only a few months prior to their Chinese dinner, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/John-Mack-Carter-editor-of-top-3-top-women-s-5784385.php">a group of 100 feminists sat in the offices of John Mack Carter, </a>the editor-in-chief of <i>Ladies' Home Journal,</i> for 11 hours, refusing to leave until he honored their <a href="http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/a/ladies_home_journal_sit_in.htm">demands.</a> Among them: that he hire a female editor-in-chief (even the women's mags were largely run by men then) and an all-female editorial staff; that he have women write columns and articles to avoid inherent male bias; that he hire non-white women according to the percentage of minorities in the U.S.; that he raise women's salaries and provide free day care on the premises; that he open editorial meetings to all employees and stop running ads that degrade women or from companies that exploit women; that he stop running articles tied into advertising; and that he end the "Can this Marriage Be Saved?" column. Numbering among their suggestions for new article ideas were "How to Get a Divorce," "How to Have an Orgasm" and "What to Tell Your Draft-Age Son."<br />
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This event inspired Carter to be more mindful of the woman of the future. "There was more discrimination than I thought," he later said. "I didn't push our women readers far enough in their self-awareness." Carter died in September 2014, the only person in publishing history to have headed <i>McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal</i> and <i>Good Housekeeping</i> magazines. According to his obituary, "his magazines reflected his ever-evolving consciousness, and he became one of the first male members of the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/search/?action=search&channel=bayarea&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Association+for+Women%22">Association for Women</a> in Communications. He remained an advocate for women for the rest of his career, speaking out on issues ranging from equal rights to sexual harassment."<br />
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And that's how you get a 16-year-old girl who wants to be a senator in the summer of 1970. Or one who wants to work at the UN.<br />
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In fact, if Don were more patient about listening to women's suggestions, he might have reached the answer to the question he ponders this entire episode more easily: What will the future look like?<br />
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The reason he struggles to write 2,500 words on the future of Sterling Cooper & Partners is because the future is a place where he just doesn't live. He plumbs anyone he can find for answers, even dutiful but dim Meredith. In a snippet of a scene, she tells Don that she believes the future will be just like the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/20/nyregion/worlds-fair-1964-memories.html?_r=0">1964/1965 World's Fair. </a>She asks him if he went to it—he could have easily, because it took place in Flushing, New York. It was a huge event that attracted about 41,000 people each day. <br />
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The ride was something orchestrated by Disney and GE to illustrate how far we'd come by the 1960s with electrical innovations. Participants would enter a dome-shaped building and sit in chairs on a spherical platform that gradually rotated around a nucleus of rooms. In each room was an animatronic family who represented a different era—the 1890s, the 1920s, the 1940s and the 1960s. The 1960s room predicted what was to come in modern electricity. <br />
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But by far, the best part of the ride was its catchy theme song.<br />
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As Richard Sherman, one of Walt Disney's famed composers, tells it, he and his brother were tasked with crafting a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqBkBxJy470">song</a> that embodied hope for the future. Here are the lyrics they came up with:<br />
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<i>"There's a great big beautiful tomorrow</i><br />
<i>Shining at the end of every day.</i><br />
<i>There's a great big beautiful tomorrow</i><br />
<i>And tomorrow's just a dream away.<br />
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Man has a dream, and that's the start.</i><br />
<i>He follows his dream with mind and heart.</i><br />
<i>And when it becomes a reality,</i><br />
<i>It's a dream come true for you and me.<br />
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So there's a great big beautiful tomorrow</i><br />
<i>Shining at the end of every day.</i><br />
<i>There's a great big beautiful tomorrow</i><br />
<i>Just a dream away."</i><br />
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In June 1967, the Carousel was brought to Disneyland, and in October 1971, it was installed in Walt Disney World, per Disney's instructions (this all happened posthumuously, as Walt died in late 1966).<br />
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But by the time the ride opened in Walt Disney World, GE had abandoned the campaign of "progress is our most important product." The company said they wanted the public to buy now, not in the future. And then they even abandoned the original theme song and forced the Sherman brothers to write a new one.<br />
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"A new president came in, and he said, 'I don't want to talk about tomorrow,' which is the song, 'A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,'" Richard Sherman explains. "He wanted to talk about 'today.' He wanted to talk about 'now': 'I want GE now; I want people to realize that now is what it's all about.' And it was a whole shift of gears for a lot of the people, including Bob and myself. Because they requested, would we come back and write a brand-new song. Not a revised song, but a brand-new song for the Florida GE Carousel of Progress. And so it was not an easy job, actually, to come up with what we did. But we came up with a very positive statement about today. And it was quite different than the one we had done for the original. But I like it as well, it's kind of a powerful song. So for about 25 years, they used <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAcPo1xDvJk">'Now Is the Time, Now Is the Best Time.'"</a><br />
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The lyrics go like this:<br />
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<i>"Now is the time. Now is the best time.</i><br />
<i>Now is the best time of your life.</i><br />
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</i> <i>Life is a prize, live every minute.</i><br />
<i>Open your eyes, and watch how you win it!</i><br />
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</i> <i>Yesterday's memories may sparkle and gleam,</i><br />
<i>Tomorrow is still but a dream.</i><br />
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</i> <i>Right here and now, you've got it made.</i><br />
<i>The world's forward-marching and you're in the parade!</i><br />
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</i> <i>Now is the time. Now is the best time.</i><br />
<i>Be it a time of joy or strife.</i><br />
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</i> <i>There's so much to cheer for, be glad you're here.</i><br />
<i>For it's the best time of your life."</i><br />
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"Be it a time of joy or strife"? "Be glad you're here"? Not exactly the most uplifting lyrics in the world. <br />
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One commenter on the ride's documentary website wrote, "It's very sad that the original concept and the original ride died so soon after Walt Disney himself died. The early to mid-1960s was an era of hope, vision and wonder that was completely dead by the end of the decade. For all of Walt Disney's personal faults, he was a man of vision and a positive belief in the future of the United States, and of the world really. Perhaps it was somehow tragically fitting he passed away when he did."<br />
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Richard Sherman also notes in the documentary that the original song, "A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow," was largely written about Disney himself, a self-made man if there ever was one.<br />
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If anyone was gifted at instilling "a little glamour, a little hope" in people, it was Walt. Even if it was sometimes a bit of a sham.<br />
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Sound like someone we know?<br />
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In this episode, Sally doesn't know what she wants to do with her life (and is tired of being asked about it) mainly because she's still coming to terms with what she doesn't want. It is the experience Don had when he started on his current course—at age 24, he was running away from his family and past because, as he tells his brother, Adam, in season one's "5G," he just "couldn't go back there."<br />
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Don spends much of his life just trying to maintain who he pretends to be. He expends an enormous amount of energy on this, to a point where there is barely any left to put towards thinking about the future. He is a survivor, and a survivor mentality does not leave much room for making optimistic plans.<br />
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When he tells Mathis this episode that he doesn't have any character, and Mathis accuses him of the same, they are giving the word two different definitions. "Character," in Don's book, is hard work, even if it involves a little fibbing. For Mathis, though, "character" means authenticity—and that's something Don is certainly lacking.<br />
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See the problem for Don and Betty's generation is that though they seemed very grown-up by all traditional standards—the well-kept house, the car, the job in the city, the 2.5 kids—they were putting so much emphasis on status that something got lost along the way. Don's just an extreme example of what an entire generation was experiencing. He and Betty have paved the road for their children to somehow be better.<br />
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When he tells Sally, "You're a beautiful girl. It's up to you to be more than that," that's really all he has to say. Because Sally has the chance to live authentically that Don never had.<br />
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Unlike Mathis and Melanie, Don doesn't want Sally to sell something imaginary. He wants her to sell something real.<br />
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The thing about being 16, of course, is you're never really aware of the fact that the people around you are not necessarily internally the age they ought to be. Because when you're 16, and sometimes even when you're 25, it's very "us vs. them." There are children and then there are adults. So why can't these so-called adults get their damn acts together?<br />
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Maya Angelou once said that everybody gets older, but not everybody grows up. Perhaps Sally can teach her parents how to do that.<br />
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It makes it all the more fitting that the only product discussed in this episode is a cookie named after a character who stayed a boy forever: Peter Pan.<br />
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And incidentally, by 1971, Disney's Carousel of Progress added a new line to its repertoire in the 1920s portion of the ride. The narrator/father of the American animatronic family says to his teenage daughter, "It's a man's world out there, Jane." <br />
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Her response? "Well, it won't always be, Father."<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVaqZajq-I"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"Teach Your Children"</a><br />
by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (July 1970)<br />
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You, who are on the road<br />
Must have a code that you can live by.<br />
And so, become yourself<br />
Because the past is just a goodbye.<br />
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Teach your children well<br />
Their father's hell did slowly go by.<br />
And feed them on your dreams<br />
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.<br />
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Don't you ever ask them why<br />
If they told you, you would cry<br />
So just look at them and sigh<br />
And know they love you.<br />
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And you (Can you hear?) of tender years (And do you care?)<br />
Can't know the fears (And can you see?) that your elders grew by (We must be free).<br />
And so, please help (To teach your children) them with your youth (What you believe in)<br />
They seek the truth (Make a world) before they can die (That we can live in).<br />
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Teach your parents well<br />
Their children's hell will slowly go by.<br />
And feed them on your dreams<br />
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.<br />
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Don't you ever ask them why<br />
If they told you, you will cry<br />
So just look at them and sigh<br />
And know they love you.
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<br />Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-29383602868992554122015-04-22T13:17:00.000-07:002015-04-24T12:16:20.820-07:00GH's Throwback Thursday, Mad Men Edition: "New Business"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da69-pu_pqc"><span id="goog_251393506"></span><span id="goog_251393507"></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"Watching the Wheels"</a> by John Lennon, 1981<br />
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People say I'm crazy, doing what I'm doing.<br />
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin.<br />
When I say that I'm OK, well, they look at me kinda strange.<br />
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game."<br />
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People say I'm lazy, dreaming my life away.<br />
Well, they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me.<br />
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall<br />
"Don't you miss the big time, boy? You're no longer on the ball."<br />
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I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round.<br />
I really love to watch them roll.<br />
No longer riding on the merry-go-round.<br />
I just had to let it go.</div>
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Ahhh, people ask me questions, lost in confusion.<br />
Well, I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.<br />
Well, they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind.<br />
I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time.<br />
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I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round.<br />
I really love to watch them roll.<br />
No longer riding on the merry-go-round.<br />
I just had to let it go.<br />
I just had to let it go.<br />
I just had to let it go.<br />
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As I mentioned last week, the Beatles officially broke up in the spring of 1970, around the time we're currently seeing on <i>Mad Men. </i>John Lennon was a successful solo artist for a few years after, but by the mid-1970s, he'd lost interest in fame and had become a devoted father and househusband, spending his days taking care of Sean, his son with second wife Yoko Ono. This song, "Watching the Wheels," was his ode to that activity—he wanted to emphasize how important it was to spend time with his family, that working yourself to the bone isn't the point of life. It was released a year after his death.<br />
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With Don's Draper disillusionment of late, I suspect he'll experience a similar turnaround by series' end. In the meantime, in <i>Mad Men</i> Episode 7.9, "New Business," he's still beating that dead horse he calls love.<br />
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Here's a sampling of the most-heard song lyrics on American radio in May 1970, the time we've landed on in this episode:<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtauQj65_4w">"Band of Gold,"</a> by Freda Payne<br />
I wait in the darkness of my lonely room<br />
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom<br />
Hoping soon<br />
That you'll walk back through that door<br />
And love me like you tried before.<br />
Since you've been gone,<br />
All that's left is a band of gold.<br />
All that's left of the dreams I hold<br />
Is a band of gold<br />
And the dream of what love could be<br />
If you were still here with me.</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_QV97eYqM">"Cecilia,"</a> by Paul Simon (Simon and Garfunkel also disbanded in 1970)<br />
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You're shaking my confidence daily.<br />
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees,<br />
I'm begging you please to come home.<br />
Come on home.<br />
Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia<br />
Up in my bedroom.
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I got up to wash my face,<br />
When I come back to bed,<br />
Someone's taken my place.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8z1EzDouNs"><br />"American Woman,"</a> by The Guess Who<br />
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American woman, stay away from me.<br />
American woman, mama, let me be.<br />
Don't come a-hangin' around my door,<br />
I don't wanna see your face no more.<br />
I got more important things to do<br />
Than spend my time growin' old with you.<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-opxZJvIZ0"><br /><br />"Turn Back the Hands of Time,"</a> by Tyrone Davis<br />
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Your love has been so good to me, baby.<br />
And I just relied without it.<br />
I can't go on and you're the other half<br />
That makes my life complete.<br />
If I had one more chance, we'd have a love so sweet.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqjWWH0mQBQ"><br />"Love or Let Me Be Lonely,"</a> by the Friends of Distinction<br />
Love me, let me be lonely.<br />
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Part-time love I can find any day,<br />
So don't defy Mother Nature's way.<br />
Please make it mine, a love for to stay.<br />
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If I wanted to in this lonely room.<br />
But I don't want to, so I leave it up to you<br />
To wash away my gloom.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-kfDlt1kHU">"Love on a Two-Way Street,"</a> by The Moments<br />
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Love on a two-way street and lost it on a lonely highway.<br />
True love will never die, so I've been told, but now I must cry.<br />
It's finally goodbye, I know.<br />
With music softly playing, her lips were gently saying : "I love you."<br />
She held me in desperation, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">I thought</span> it was a revelation.<br />
And then she walked out.<br />
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Wow. Talk about depressing.</div>
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The age of Motown aside, these are some seriously lovelorn people, all hitting the top of the charts at exactly the same time. No wonder everyone in this episode is either lonely, making horrible choices in love or dealing with the fallout of a marriage's end.<br />
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Let's just review our principal characters' current romantic statuses.<br />
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Divorced:<br />
Don (twice)<br />
Megan<br />
Betty<br />
Henry<br />
Pete<br />
Roger (twice)<br />
Joan (twice) <br />
Harry (most likely)*<br />
Diana<br />
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Married/In a relationship:<br />
Stan and Elaine<br />
Marie (and her husband)<br />
Marie-France (and her husband)<br />
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Sylvia and Arnold<br />
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Single/Never-married:<br />
Peggy<br />
Pima<br />
Meredith (presumably)<br />
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That's about 50 percent divorced—half the major players in this episode, and three of them have done it twice. Those in committed relationships are all philandering (with the exception of one, but that seems to be due to her religious conservatism, and she's incidentally the most miserable of the bunch). <br />
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Years ago, in the first season of this series, a young divorcée named Helen Bishop moved into Don and Betty's quiet Ossining neighborhood and caused quite a disruption. Betty and her gossip hound pals considered her a threat, a victim or a virus, with a mission to infect all the "happy" unions around her. Likely due to his own outsider mentality, Don treated her with respect. And bored with her own life, Betty approached her with curiosity.<br />
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In fact, she may have been one of her first "patients."<br />
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Betty's jab at Don this episode brings up an important point: Betty's an example of the many housewives forced by their husbands to seek psychotherapy, but by 1970, seeing a psychologist had become the norm. This contributed to the culture shift at the time, as W. Bradford Wilcox explained in a 2009 article for <i><a href="http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divorce">National Affairs:</a> </i><br />
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<i>"The psychological revolution of the late '60s and '70s, which was itself fueled by a post-war prosperity that allowed people to give greater attention to non-material concerns, played a key role in reconfiguring men and women's views of marriage and family life. Prior to the late 1960s, Americans were more likely to look at marriage and family through the prisms of duty, obligation and sacrifice. A successful, happy home was one in which intimacy was an important good, but by no means the only one in view. A decent job, a well-maintained home, mutual spousal aid, child-rearing and shared religious faith were seen almost universally as the goods that marriage and family life were intended to advance.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> June 1970</td></tr>
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<i>"But the psychological revolution's focus on individual fulfillment and personal growth changed all that. Increasingly, marriage was seen as a vehicle for a self-oriented ethic of romance, intimacy and fulfillment. In this new psychological approach to married life, one's primary obligation was not to one's family but to one's self; hence, marital success was defined not by successfully meeting obligations to one's spouse and children but by a strong sense of subjective happiness in the marriage—usually to be found in and through an intense, emotional relationship with one's spouse. The 1970s marked the period when, for many Americans, a more institutional model of marriage gave way to the 'soul-mate model' of marriage.</i><br />
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<i>"Of course, the soul-mate model was much more likely to lead couples to divorce court than was the earlier institutional model of marriage. Now, those who felt they were in unfulfilling marriages also felt obligated to divorce in order to honor the newly widespread ethic of expressive individualism. As social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead has observed of this period, 'divorce was not only an individual right but also a psychological resource. The dissolution of marriage offered the chance to make oneself over from the inside out, to refurbish and express the inner self and to acquire certain valuable psychological assets and competencies, such as initiative, assertiveness and a stronger and better self-image.'"</i><br />
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It brought the chance to begin again.<br />
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Pete Campbell says something profound about that this episode, as he's giving Don advice, while Don is only reluctantly commiserating. I chuckled while watching this scene, because it reminded me of Don and Pete's exchange in Episode 1, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."<br />
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Don tells Pete while walking to the Lucky Strike meeting, "Campbell, we're both men here, so I'll be direct. Advertising is a very small world. And when you do something like malign the reputation of some girl from the steno pool on her first day, you make it even smaller. Keep it up and even if you do get my job, you'll never run this place. You'll die in that corner office, a mid-level account executive with a little bit of hair, who women go home with out of pity. And do you know why? Because no one will like you."<br />
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While driving to the golf course, Pete says to Don, "You think you're going to begin your life over, and do it right. But what if you never get past the beginning again?"<br />
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This typically isn't a problem for Don, because as Faye Miller once told him, he only "likes the beginnings of things." But think for a moment of what it must be like to be the man who "has no people," as Grandpa Gene used to say.<br />
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We've now reached a point in time where no one seems to have people. And even when they do, as in Megan's case, the generational differences make relating to them nearly impossible (Weiner makes this quite literal as Megan switches from French to English and back again this episode—she and her family don't even speak the same language anymore). Over several seasons, we've watched these characters suffer silently or act out in relationships that were making them miserable, but the misery they experience now has a different tint to it. It is filled with striving and self-loathing and the desire for self-actualization and power. The vibe is busy and disorienting, and it's not only in the wallpaper.<br />
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It's why few viewers really enjoyed this episode. It had very little sweetness and very little charm. And much like Stan's interaction with Pima, every experience of intimacy was fueled by something selfish and quite the opposite of love. Pima's not the only hustler, as Peggy calls her. Every sexual act was an exchange of goods.<br />
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It was new business.<br />
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Though Don does seem to be feeling the first glimpses of love for Diana. There is something different about her.<br />
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Though I'm not sure how different she really is.<br />
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After all, she did have sex with Don in an alleyway for money.<br />
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When Don tells Diana he thinks he knows her, it's her shame that he knows. It's similar to the shame he carries around constantly, so to find someone who's enduring just as much brings him a sense of relief.<br />
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But while Don has adopted a persona that helps mask his inner shame (yet really only perpetuates the cycle), Diana wants her shame to stand center stage. She lives in a room of shame, she wears dark colors, she wears uniforms so that she can blend in. She even blends into the walls of the elevator in this episode.<br />
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Janie Bryant often uses this trick to convey how connected a person is to his or her environment or current situation. She does it with aplomb when Roger meets with his two secretaries—Roger's gray and navy suit and tie matches the Op art poster behind him perfectly, while Shirley's orange-and-blue floral print blends in with her background and Carolyn's neutral suit matches the curtains. <br />
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We are used to seeing Roger dressed in all gray, sitting in a completely white, minimalist, serene environment. His old office decor made it seem like he did almost nothing all day (albeit in style). His new decor better conveys the workload he's begrudgingly inherited and his level of discomfort as the new Bert Cooper. And when he needs to hide from the mayhem, he naturally chooses the only place nobody frequents before 11 a.m.: Don's office.<br />
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(OK, so Don is sometimes there by 10, but Weiner sure seems to be hammering home the fact that he's late nearly every day this season.)<br />
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So Diana in her blue waitress uniform is very much at one with that diner. And Diana in her brown waitress uniform has merged with the dimly lit steakhouse. Nobody could ever find her there. Except for maybe a private detective. Or someone as persistent as Don.<br />
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It's likely the reason some viewers believed Diana was imaginary at first.<br />
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Women didn't wear waitress uniforms or even really work in restaurants until the 20th century. What we know now as the traditional diner waitress uniform came about during the Great Depression, when the only luxury people often allowed themselves was a piece of pie at the corner diner. Because of this, there was a greater demand for female servers—as Jennifer Wright points out in her recent article on <i><a href="http://www.eater.com/2015/1/30/7934459/the-history-of-diner-waitress-uniforms">Eater,</a></i> <i>"restaurants were one of the few places still hiring, and respectable women joined men in search of jobs. Women were willing to work cheap, and diner owners found that a female staff could entice both male clients (who enjoyed having pretty women bringing them food) and female clients (who felt more comfortable among other women). The new workforce needed a uniform that was serviceable, attractive and respectable. Though there wasn't one definitely 'original' design, a pattern emerged among mass-produced uniforms. The white—often detachable—trim around the sleeve was attractive, but more importantly, it made the outfit reminiscent of those worn by ladies' maids (as did the little hat). Imagine a stereotypical French maid outfit: Chances are, you're picturing the same thing as a diner waitress uniform, but in black. The typical waitress uniform therefore needed to seem servile enough to make customers feel as though they were getting a little bit of luxurious treatment with their coffee and dessert."</i><br />
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(The John Dos Passos book Diana reads in the diner was published in 1937, just after the Great Depression. And the novel <i>Mildred Pierce</i> was published four years after.)<br />
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As outrageous as fashion trends are becoming as we enter this new decade on <i>Mad Men,</i> Diana's normal garb is a sensible throwback. And so is much of what Don wears, by the way. Which is what makes his decision to put on his suit to answer the door, and her remark about whether he sleeps in it, even funnier.<br />
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This is also an episode that brings us a woman dressed in a full man's suit for the first time (Peggy's plaid pantsuit and Joyce's blazer don't count). Pima's look is almost laughable to a modern audience, but it seems to be taken quite seriously by the people around her—her uniform conveys power, because it resembles a man's. She is mostly shot from below, so she appears stronger and taller than she is. There is nothing servile about her whatsoever. She takes what she wants, even if it means stealing from a nurse (another servile uniform). As I've mentioned earlier in this blog, this was a time when feminists often took fashion very literally—Annie Hall wasn't the only one dressing like this.<br />
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Speaking of fashion, Don encounters three different exes this episode, and each is overdressed for an appointment. Each found excitement with Don at one time, and each gave him her trust. And when Don didn't respect that trust, each ended up taking something from him.<br />
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For Betty, it was his children, on whom he looks back wistfully from the backdoor. For Sylvia, it was his dignity in front of his children (though Sally's catching them in the act was accidental). And for Megan, it's a million dollars (and all of his furniture—also accidental).<br />
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So Don is left at the end with a blank slate of a room and a blank slate of a woman.<br />
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But unlike his exes, Diana is on to him from the start. Each ex has told him she wants nothing from him, but Diana truly means it. And when you're wanting nothing, there's no reason to conduct any business. For Diana, Don is merely an escape from her personal hell. And even that is too expensive.<br />
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And while Don might recognize his hidden shame in Diana, her shame is self-generated—he was born into his. He didn't actively abandon a child, like she did. Rather, his childhood was so bad that he actively abandoned himself. Much like his own mother abandoned him at birth. He was born a bastard, the product of an affair. After his alcoholic father died, the woman who never really wanted to raise him anyway brought him along with her to a whore house, where he was defiled by the only people who offered him any sense of camaraderie: prostitutes.<br />
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This level of abuse is very difficult to undo. With each new romantic encounter, he is hoping the woman will be the one who loves him for who he is. But as long as he keeps attracting women who just want an escape, who want to be with this debonair, charming man, if only for one night, that healing can never occur. He will never reach the level of a trusting relationship necessary for him to feel whole.<br />
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And no matter how much wealth and prestige he accrues, there is a place in Don's mind that resembles Diana's dump of a studio apartment. It is a bare and dingy room where he put teenage Dick to rest, and he's been waiting to be let out ever since.<br />
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Until next time, "Good luck with your bright future."<br />
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The changing of sunlight to moonlight<br />
Reflections of my life, oh, how they fill my eyes.<br />
The greetings of people in trouble<br />
Reflections of my life, oh, how they fill my mind.<br />
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All my sorrows, sad tomorrows<br />
Take me back to my own home.<br />
All my cryings (all my cryings), feel I'm dying, dying,<br />
Take me back to my own home.<br />
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I'm changing, arranging, I'm changing,<br />
I'm changing everything,<br />
Ah, everything around me.<br />
The world is a bad place, a bad place,<br />
A terrible place to live, oh, but I don't wanna die.<br />
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All my sorrows, sad tomorrows<br />
Take me back to my own home.<br />
All my cryings (all my cryings), feel I'm dying, dying,<br />
Take me back to my own home (oh, I'm going home).<br />
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All my sorrows, sad tomorrows<br />
Take me back to my own home.<br />
All my cryings (all my cryings), feel I'm dying, dying,<br />
Take me back to my own home.<br />
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*I've added the phrase "most likely" to Harry's name because it's been pointed out to me that he still wears his wedding ring when he meets with Megan. Also, two reddit users (chaiceratops and Rept4r7) reminded me that though Harry said Jennifer was talking about divorce in "Waterloo," Weiner has never made it clear whether or not they went through with it.<br />
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Someone to hold you too close,<br />
Someone to hurt you too deep,<br />
Someone to sit in your chair,<br />
To ruin your sleep.<br />
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Someone to need you too much,<br />
Someone to know you too well,<br />
Someone to pull you up short<br />
And put you through hell.<br />
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Someone you have to let in,<br />
Someone whose feelings you spare,<br />
Someone who, like it or not,<br />
Will want you to share<br />
A little, a lot.<br />
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Someone to crowd you with love,<br />
Someone to force you to care,<br />
Someone to make you come through,<br />
Who'll always be there,<br />
As frightened as you<br />
Of being alive,<br />
Being alive,<br />
Being alive,<br />
Being alive.<br />
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Somebody, hold me too close,<br />
Somebody, hurt me too deep,<br />
Somebody, sit in my chair<br />
And ruin my sleep<br />
And make me aware<br />
Of being alive,<br />
Being alive.<br />
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Somebody, need me too much,<br />
Somebody, know me too well,<br />
Somebody, pull me up short<br />
And put me through hell<br />
And give me support<br />
For being alive,<br />
Make me alive.<br />
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Make me confused,<br />
Mock me with praise,<br />
Let me be used,<br />
Vary my days.<br />
But alone is alone, not alive.<br />
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Somebody, crowd me with love,<br />
Somebody, force me to care,<br />
Somebody, make me come through,<br />
I'll always be there,<br />
As frightened as you,<br />
To help us survive<br />
Being alive,<br />
Being alive,<br />
Being alive! <br />
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">When Stephen Sondheim's "Company" opened last spring, Clive Barnes completely missed the basically idealistic and optimistic point of the show, namely: that despite whatever difficulties there may be in any deep relationship, we all risk losing our membership in the human race if we fail to make an emotional commitment to somebody.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>He says of "Follies": "It carries nostalgia to where sentiment finally engulfs it in its sickly maw." What Barnes fails to see is that the sentiment is supposed to engulf us as it engulfs the characters in the show. It is precisely this mindless nostalgia and sentiment, this rose-colored hindsight, this longing for "the good old days" that prevent the people of the story from facing the problems of their present lives. Here is that universal human failing of yearning for something you can never have and for a time you can never return to. And Mr. Sondheim shows us the "folly" of that failing with consummate brilliance. You do not solve the problems of your 45-year-old marriage by taking your wife to see "No, No, Nanette" simply because you were so happy and so in love in 1925.</i></span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">This letter was written to the <i>New York Times</i> to complain ab</span>out a bad review given to Stephen Sondheim's "Company" after it opened in April 1970. The show's plot? A single man who's unable to commit to marriage, much less a steady relationship.<br />
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The start of <i>Mad Men</i>'s Episode 7.8, "Severance," was really about the end of things. Look at the word itself. Merriam-Webster defines "severance" as: "(n) the act of ending someone's employment; the act of ending a relationship, connection, etc."<br />
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Many viewers expressed dismay that this long-awaited half-season premiere took place when it did. Matthew Weiner and his writers chose to skip over the second (and rather tumultuous) half of 1969 to bring us straight into 1970, a move few predicted. And even just one look at Roger Sterling's moustache in the first scene of this episode seems to have hurled viewers into a state of culture shock.<br />
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The energy of this time is so different than what we're accustomed to on this show. The bold, bright crispness of the 1960s is gone...even the filming quality seems somehow...browner. It's nearly Tarantino-esque.<br />
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The promos for these last seven episodes have called the series' send-off "the end of an era." "Severance" just gave us our first gulp of it. The characters all seem to be sharing one massive group hangover from the wildness of 1969 (which makes the song in the promos, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy185xXA93E">"Love Hangover,"</a> even more apt).<br />
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So what happened in those last few months we didn't get to see? How did we get here? This is not my beautiful wife. This is not my beautiful house. (Sorry, I can't help myself.)<br />
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In his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Seventies-American-Culture-Politics/dp/030681126X"><i>The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics,</i> </a>Bruce J. Schulman explains:<br />
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</i> <i>"The 1960s appeared as a historical divide, a decade of turmoil with the future hanging in the balance. [1968] has been recalled as 'the Year the Dream Died'—the year, to quote one journalist, 'when for so many, the dream of a nobler, optimistic America died, and the reality of a skeptical conservative America began to fill the void.'</i><br />
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</i> <i>"As even professional men discarded their fedoras and gray flannel suits, the entire culture opened up. Curse words ceased to shock; many moved into the accepted lexicon. Legal restrictions on personal behavior softened as states relaxed or repealed obscenity laws, abortion restrictions and regulations prohibiting the sale of contraceptives. The new laws reflected broader, more informal shifts in sexual mores, living arrangements, dress, food and social behavior. Young people shunned long-accepted routes to social and professional success. More and more young people chose to 'live together without benefit of matrimony' or even just to share dwellings with groups of unrelated men and women on an entirely platonic basis. </i><i>The experiments in living arrangements pointed out broader changes in sex roles. Many women were demanding, as the newly formed National Organization for Women insisted, admittance to the rights and privileges of citizenship in truly equal partnership with men.</i><br />
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</i> <i>"The prospect of a genuine counterculture, a real alternative to the corrupt, violent, greedy, tactless mainstream, exerted powerful appeal. Only a small part of the '60s generation had succumbed to the 'hippie temptation'; during the fabled 1967 Summer of Love, the best estimates placed the number of hippies at roughly 100,000 young Americans. But that small, if rather boisterous, minority blossomed, in the words of one chronicler, into a 'garden of millions of flower people by the early 1970s.'</i><br />
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</i> <i>"Young people concluded that protest had to evolve, somehow become more fundamental. If you could not convince the older generation to change its beliefs, to stop the war, you could refuse to participate.</i><br />
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</i> <i>"In fact, a general alienation from mainstream America, not just disillusionment with politics, fed the counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. </i><i>Polls revealed widespread disenchantment among American youth. In 1970/1971, one-third of America's college-age population felt that marriage had become obsolete and that having children was not very important. The number identifying religion, patriotism, and 'living a clean, moral life' as 'important values' plummeted. Fifty percent held no living American in high regard, and nearly half felt that America was 'a sick society.' In this setting, many young Americans no longer saw any reason to heed established conventions about sex, drugs, authority, clothing, living arrangements, food—the fundamental ways of living their lives.</i><br />
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</i> <i>"So what could you do if you found yourself in such a supposedly sick society? 'You take drugs, you turn up the music very loud, you dance around, you build yourself a fantasy world where everything's beautiful.'"</i><br />
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This is the world in which a 44-year-old Don Draper shares a late-evening, post-party meal in a dingy diner with three wannabe models, then comes home to a lonely apartment and calls his answering service to ask about his various lady friends. It's a world where one of those friends comes over likely after midnight with very few questions asked, and when she finds an earring on the floor, inquires very casually whether it belongs to another lady friend. It's a world where that same woman can spill red wine all over pristine (and likely expensive) white wall-to-wall carpet, and Don's response is to hurl his (also likely expensive) comforter on top of it and copulate.<br />
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Not exactly the Donna Reed society of <i>Mad Men</i> Episode 1, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."<br />
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In fact, this episode is some sort of backwards homage to that one. I say "backwards" because nearly everything we first learned about these characters when it aired seven years ago has somehow irrevocably reversed.<br />
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For example, in the pilot, we were introduced to Peggy Olson, the newbie secretary who all the guys ogled simply because she was new. She's the lowest on the totem pole, a rather innocent visitor to the fast-paced world of advertising. She's encouraged to dress more provocatively in the office. She's told that her typewriter might seem daunting, but it's made so "even a woman can use it." She is shy, inhibited. Pete Campbell asks her if she's Amish.<br />
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In "Severance," we find Peggy nine years later as a brash, snippy copy chief—she's modeled her work persona after a man (Don) and doesn't know how to behave otherwise. She struggles to find the attention of men now, probably because they are intimidated by her success, but mostly because she's been burned by love and has shut off that part of her life. We finally see her on a decent romantic date with a seemingly decent man who appreciates her "fearlessness," but the next day she discounts her behavior as foolish. I imagine we'll never see that man again. She wakes up alone in her apartment, which she does every morning. The road to romance is one she's subconsciously chosen not to take—her passport is at work, of all places, which completely makes sense because work equals "home" for Peggy.<br />
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Think about it. If you had to figure out where your passport was at this very moment, I'd bet 95 percent of you could answer correctly. A passport just isn't something people often misplace.<br />
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Don has similar problems. In "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," he was an ad man still trying to prove himself. In a conversation with Midge, his mistress, the night before his big meeting with Lucky Strike, he confesses that he fears he'll be laughed at, that he'll lose his job, if he botches the pitch. But in the office the next day, he's unflappable. A dashing vision in his pressed white shirts and dark gray suit.<br />
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On a recent panel at Lincoln Center, Jon Hamm described his first day as Don: "I had to walk in, take my shirt off, open the drawer, get another shirt out, unwrap the shirt from the laundry, pour a glass of water, put two Alka Seltzer in—which used to come, by the way, in screw-top bottles and not just paper—the water. While that's fizzing, I'm taking the shirt out, unwrapping the shirt, putting the shirt on, unbuttoning the shirt, putting my tie back on, tying my tie, picking up the Alka Seltzer, drinking the Alka Seltzer, all while talking to John Slattery, who is waiting for me like a dog waiting for a treat, waiting for me to fuck up. And I had to miss a button because the last line of the scene is, 'You missed a button.' So that was my first day."<br />
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Hamm did all of that without missing a beat, which was appropriate for the well-oiled machine that was Don Draper then; he revealed nothing. This was a Don with a tightly guarded secret past. He carried many secrets—for example, he makes an effort to keep his mistresses separate and unaware, he makes sure nobody knows he takes naps in the office and he tries to act benevolent and fair to his coworkers, to embody American ethics of hard work. Even more importantly, he revels in his creativity. But this Don has also adopted a dangerous philosophy. As he tells Rachel Menken, he's "living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one."<br />
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"Severance" finds him in that non-existent tomorrow.<br />
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In "Severance," Don is disillusioned by the world he once found so invigorating. His tendency to nap in his office has become common knowledge. He spends his days perversely auditioning half-naked models in fur coats—but instead of writing copy for a fur coats ad like he did in the old days, he's trying to create a sex-fueled ad for moisturizer. He shows up to work late regularly. (Speaking of which, anyone catch that glimpse of the Accutron ad, framed on the wall behind Meredith? It says, with a wink, "The most accurate watch in the world.")<br />
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This Don wears blue shirts and striped shirts, not crisp white ones, freshly pressed by the dry cleaner's. He's back to drinking heavily. He comes home to an empty apartment instead of his beautiful family in the suburbs. He spends time in a glum diner, searching for one of the exciting romances he once found in vulnerable, unappreciated women like Di, only to later find that their alleyway tryst was the result of a mix-up—she'd thought Roger's ridiculously generous tip was a pre-payment.<br />
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Most significantly, though, this is a Don who tells tales of his impoverished past to strangers and friends alike. Dick Whitman's Don Draper front has all but vanished, and the rude awakening is, nobody even cares.<br />
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It's understandable that viewers might find this last development a tad disappointing. After all, Don Draper's efforts to hide his true identity have only been the main plot points of the entire series. But now, in one fell swoop, it's a nonissue.<br />
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It's like we're meant to feel just as disillusioned as Don does.<br />
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It's funny how in this episode, Peggy is the one drinking the Alka Seltzer (also a tribute to "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"), by the way. But she manages to get two male employees to serve it to her. As much as she tries to convey a dignified, unflappable front, like Don used to, her authentic emotions often get the best of her.<br />
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It's something that also happens to Joan this episode, who's always been better at concealing her true feelings than Peggy is.<br />
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Joan is the new Miss Blankenship in this episode. Her character development could never have been imagined based on her season one persona. It calls to mind the late Bert Cooper's ode to his longtime secretary: "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut."<br />
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When we first met Joan seven years ago, she was a sexy secretary who used her looks and charm to win over clients. She was very much a master of her domain. She also didn't suffer any fools. While her world was somewhat limited monetarily and her career advancement strained, she made the most of what she could control. She was prepared to marry and have a child and eventually leave the world of Sterling Cooper behind. And she was the ultimate Girl Friday—Joan is definitely someone you want on your side in an emergency, because she always knows the best, most practical thing to do (even if your foot was just cut off by a lawn mower).<br />
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In "Severance," Joan finds herself a partner, and a millionaire at that. She depends on no one but herself financially. She's attempting to do a job she doesn't necessarily know how to do effectively—it's one that requires diplomacy, not forcefulness. She's always been much more suited to a managerial role than a creative one, so she suffers a bit here.<br />
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And she still has her pride. Her disillusionment comes when Peggy points out that she "can't have it both ways." You'd think she'd be used to the kinds of comments hurled at her in the meeting with the McCann execs, but these are a different animal (pig, maybe?) than what she's dealt with before.<br />
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For example, here's the exchange that took place in the first half of this season, when Bob Benson brought the Chevy reps to visit the New York offices:<br />
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Joan: Welcome back, Bob. Gentlemen.<br />
Chevy exec: How the hell did we end up with him instead of you?<br />
Joan: No one asked!<br />
Bob: This is Bill Hartley. Bill's been bumped to vice president of the brand.<br />
Joan: Congratulations! You certainly picked the right place to celebrate.<br />
Hartley: You mean New York City or this very spot? [Laughs.]<br />
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Despite the overt flirtations, there was an air of sweetness to it. Joan's attractiveness was appreciated by the execs. They weren't necessarily demeaning her. (It also helped that Bill Hartley was a closeted homosexual, but that's beside the point.)<br />
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The problem with the boys at McCann is that they find a woman who looks like Joan completely unacceptable in her current role. They don't know how to relate to someone as an equal when she looks and acts the way Joan does. And though Joan wants to be treated with respect and as a person who is good at her job (something she's always had confidence in), she's not prepared to give up her persona to get it. She doesn't want to have to dress like Peggy. Her appearance is such an integral part of her identity. After all, she told Don in an episode a few seasons back, her mother raised her to "be admired." She didn't raise her to be assertive with men, to behave as a man would in business, to cloak her natural sex appeal.<br />
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In this episode, we find Joan attempting to sell a product she knows a great deal about: pantyhose. You'd think this would be easy. But she faces hurdles on all sides—from the client, from Don, from the McCann execs and even from Peggy. Misunderstood, she ducks a business call to go on a shopping spree, spending some of her newfound wealth. But is she buying extravagant clothing to look sexy? Or is some of that loot business-appropriate?<br />
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It's probably the former. And she will probably continue to dress the way she does. The world is going to have to change, in that sense, not Joan. As Mary Quant says in this advertorial in the April 1970 <i>Good Housekeeping:</i><br />
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"Interviewer: In the past you could tell someone's economic or social class by the way they dressed. Is that disappearing?<br />
Mary Quant: That was part of a woman living off a man. She dressed the part of her husband's wife. If he was a lawyer, she dressed the part of a lawyer's wife, because her clothes were bought by her husband. And before that her clothes were bought by her father, so she dressed the part of Daddy's little darling. As soon as she was economically free, she dressed to please herself—to <i>be</i> herself."<br />
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Much like when Don advised Peggy, "It will shock you how much this never happened," Joan has denied the existence of her previous, dependent-on-a-husband life. In her mind, she has always been this rich and powerful advertising firm partner—because she cannot look back on the life she might have led otherwise...the life she knows she will now never lead.<br />
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Weiner has said he went to great lengths to display the obscene wealth of the main characters in this episode, and I imagine this will continue up to the finale. But somehow it only comes across as crass. Maybe it's the new fashions. Or hairstyles. Or excessive sloppiness.<br />
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Here's what I found when I checked out the April 1970 issue of <i>Good Housekeeping.</i><br />
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Many of the clothing ads in April 1970 tout something Joan embraces in this episode: women's individuality. There are also plenty that focus on saving time, of key importance to working women.<br />
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And here are our "Severance" match-ups:<br />
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It's not surprising that Peggy's new hairstyle might show up in an ad for hair color. She very much seems to be dyeing hers that solid, shiny chestnut.<br />
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Oh, and here's that magazine Joan reads while waiting to talk to Don (though her issue is May 1970).<br />
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And I found a dress with a neckline awfully similar to the Oscar de La Renta Joan tries on during her shopping spree and the one worn by Roger's friend in the diner:<br />
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And the dress on Roger's other friend, albeit in blue, can be found in an ad for feminine deodorant spray (no doubt something she might need after that evening with Roger...I'm just sayin').<br />
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And here's that pastel bra and panties set. Colorful prints in underwear were the big thing in April 1970.<br />
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Now let's talk about something that happened in this episode that refuses to escape my mind for some reason.<br />
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Inevitably, Weiner seems to be calling back to viewers' memories that scene where Don strangles a mistress in a fever dream in this very spot. The wine is reminiscent of blood, etc. But more importantly (to me anyway) is HOLY GOD, HE JUST LET RED WINE SPILL ON WHITE CARPET.<br />
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Let's just get one thing straight: Wall-to-wall carpeting was a very big deal in 1970. Emily Morrow, director of color, style and design, residential carpet and hard surfaces at Shaw Floors, explained this in a 2012 interview:<br />
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<i>"In the '60s and '70s, there was a 'revolution' in terms of the industry’s ability to create new piles and textures. 'There were highly creative shags… textured sculpted multicolors creating all these different visuals… and imprinted carpet for kitchens,' Emily explains. These played into 'people’s excitement about change in general,' she said. 'Consumers liked anything hip and new.' Tastes were changing as consumers’ view of the world expanded through the evolution of media. By going from black and white to color television, they were able to see into TV homes such as 'The Brady Bunch,' where colorful shag or sculpted carpet was used.</i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>"Technology played a key role in developing the shag carpets to be synonymous with the 1970s. Emily said that the industry was experimenting with endless combinations both in yarn types as well as dyeing multiple layers of color. She explains that the 1970s were a time when consumers were trying new things 'just because.' Shag carpets once made from 100 percent polyester evolved into 100 percent nylon, resulting in a much more appealing aesthetic and improved performance.</i><br />
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The April 1970 issue of <i>Good Housekeeping</i> devoted an entire feature to carpeting alone:<br />
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Earlier this season, in <i>Mad Men</i>'s "The Strategy," Peggy asks Don what he worries about. He says, "That I never did anything, and that I don't have anyone."<br />
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Weiner revisits that sentiment this episode, when Don goes to Rachel's shiva.<br />
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As he explains to her mourning sister that he divorced his first wife and is now experiencing divorce number two, she says that Rachel did what she wanted in life, that she had everything.<br />
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This is confusing to Don, who is discovering by this time that "having everything" is a rather difficult if not impossible proposition. He's made decisions he's afraid cannot be unmade. Now that he is in his mid-40s, he is no longer that young, cocksure guy, out to conquer the world, that he was in "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." He's thinking more along the lines of what he's going to do with the rest of his life.<br />
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Because, at the moment, he's wealthy and considerably successful, and yet it's still not enough. He's seeing what Bert predicted to be true, "The best things in life are free."<br />
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And Rachel Menken had those things, and not with him. And now she's dead, and she was younger than he was.<br />
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In his dream about her, she tells him that he "missed his flight." Has he really missed his chances at happiness? Have those ties all been severed now?<br />
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Has he "broken the vessel"?<br />
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It's a theme Weiner will delve into even deeper as the rest of the series plays out.<br />
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In the meantime, here's a highly influential song released in April 1970, one that Don could likely benefit from (but which came out with a great deal of sadness, as it coincided with Paul McCartney's announcement that The Beatles were, indeed, dead).<br />
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The end of things.<br />
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Until next time, "I'm going to be your client. And I hate to tell you, but I'm very hard to please."<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goBjVxN3YcY">"Let It Be"</a> by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (1970)<br />
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When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me<br />
Speaking words of wisdom,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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And in my hour of darkness, she is standing right in front of me<br />
Speaking words of wisdom,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be.<br />
Whisper words of wisdom,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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And when the broken-hearted people<br />
Living in the world agree.<br />
There will be an answer,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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For though they may be parted,<br />
There is still a chance that they will see.<br />
There will be an answer,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be.<br />
There will be an answer,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be.<br />
Whisper words of wisdom,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be.<br />
Whisper words of wisdom,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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And when the night is cloudy,<br />
There is still a light that shines on me.<br />
Shine until tomorrow,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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I wake up to the sound of music,<br />
Mother Mary comes to me.<br />
Speaking words of wisdom,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Yeah, let it be.<br />
There will be an answer,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Yeah, let it be.<br />
There will be an answer,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be,<br />
Let it be.<br />
Whisper words of wisdom,<br />
Let it be.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">At the end of the mid-season finale of <i>Mad Men</i> last spring, something interesting happened. Don Draper handed over the reins at a pitch meeting with a new client to Peggy Olson. Peggy’s made pitches on the show before, but this one was different. This was one Sterling Cooper & Partners had wanted Don to make—because he’s Don, because he’s a man (and for various other less than noble reasons). But at the last minute, Don told Peggy it had to be her. <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He knew that with Bert Cooper's death, there was a chance he could be voted out of the company, thus making his pitch null and void. But more importantly, he knew that Peggy’s idea, her perspective on the product, was more valuable than his own.</span></div>
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This was a tremendous few minutes in the history of <i>Mad Men, </i>not only because it meant watching Don express some humility (a rare sight), but also because it meant seeing Peggy in a moment of triumph.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And I don’t know about you, but I can’t recall this ever happening to any other female character on this show.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the second episode of the first season, Betty Draper finds herself suddenly unable to use her hands. It’s a reference to the all sorts of mysterious ailments that plagued real-life bored housewives in the early 1960s. After she accidentally beaches the family car on a neighbor’s front lawn, her doctor suggests she visit a psychiatrist. To which Don says, “I always thought people saw a psychiatrist when they were unhappy. But, I look at you…and <i>this</i> [gestures at the room]…and <i>them</i> [nods towards the children’s bedroom]…and <i>that</i> [affectionately strokes her cheek]. And I think, <i>Are</i> you <i>unhappy?</i>” <br />
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When viewers watched this seven years ago, it made sense that Betty might be so unhappy, knowing what we know now about Betty Friedan’s <i>The Feminine Mystique, </i>the “problem that has no name.” Today, we’re well aware that the concept of a woman’s place being only in the home was one that just couldn’t work out. We know that going the way she’s going, Betty, a college-educated woman, has no hope of finding what she desires in life. And Don can’t provide much assistance, as he himself asks aloud later in the same episode, during a creative meeting about Rite-Guard, “What do women want?” He doesn’t know any better than she does.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The reason Peggy nailed the Burger Chef pitch was because she was able to tap into something Don couldn’t—the notion that it’s OK to have a family that isn’t nuclear. As a divorced dad—and soon to be experiencing divorce number two, most likely—Don doesn’t exactly have the white picket fence anymore. But the difference between him and Peggy is that as a man, he does not let his temporary aloneness define him. His career is the locus of his success. Peggy’s definition is more complicated. In season seven’s “The Strategy,” she and Don brainstorm about the Burger Chef pitch, and she confesses that she’s just turned 30. And even though career-wise, she’s at the top of her game, she breaks down because she is still unmarried, and asks Don, “What did I do wrong?”<br />
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After all the strides they’d made, out of the kitchen and into the workforce, how did women in this time period get to a question like that? And how do they today?<br />
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In an effort to unravel this, I looked at what these female characters would have been reading in abundance at that time: magazines.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Mad Men</i> creator Matthew Weiner has said time and again how much he hates heavy-handedness as a TV writer. So he sometimes skirts around major historical events, using them just to fuel character development (for example, Betty says she’s divorcing Don after the Kennedy assassination). But he often reflects lifestyle trends, fashion and consumerism in his story lines, and 1960s magazines are a great source of that. In a public interview at the Hearst building on March 19th, he told <i>Town and Country </i>Editor in Chief Jay Fielden, “<i>Life</i> magazine was very good. Anyone who ever wrote a word in the 1960s had one assignment in <i>Life</i>. We use it as a big source of research; I have them all over the set.”<br />
<br />Though I typically only compare the episodes of this show to 1969 issues of <i>Good Housekeeping,</i> this time I looked at a handful of the magazine titles Weiner and his staff use for inspiration—two issues per year from 1960 through 1969, the show’s duration. And because <i>Mad Men</i> is about advertising, I zeroed in on the ads. Then I compared those ads with the types of clients Sterling Cooper (and various iterations thereof) worked with through the show’s seven seasons.<br />
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What real-life ads would these characters have been noticing? What information would have been shaping their lives…and guiding their opinions? And most importantly, what kind of reading material might have been influencing this seemingly never-ending source of women’s distress?</span></div>
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In the second episode of season one, when Don is still struggling to help Betty (or solve an advertising problem—you be the judge), he consults Roger Sterling. “What do women want?” he asks. And then a few beats later, “Who could not be happy with all this [points around the office, at the skyscrapers outside]?” And Roger replies, “Jesus, you know what they want? Everything. Especially if the other girls have it. Trust me, psychiatry is just this year’s candy-pink stove. It's just more happiness.”<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When I flipped through those first few 1960s issues of <i>Ladies’ Home Journal</i> (and I only looked at March and November, in an effort to remain neutral—March is often fashion-heavy, while November tends to have a lot of food ads; those numbers next to the issue dates are page counts), I was struck by the dominance of ads for food and domestic goods. But I’d suspected as much; when Betty Friedan pored over the previous 20 years of women’s magazines back in the early 1960s, she discovered a remarkable uptick in ads and articles revolving around the home. And this is, after all, a magazine with the word “home” in its title.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And the domestic ads in the late 1960s started bleeding into ads for other things—e.g., Palmolive is called a “dish manicure” (remember Madge?), and Ivory Liquid is touted for its “Young Hands Formula” (see left).</span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“The marketers’ reports described how to manipulate housewives into becoming insecure consumers of household products. ‘A transfer of guilt must be achieved,’ they said. ‘Capitalize…on ‘guilt over hidden dirt.’ Stress the ‘therapeutic value’ of baking, they suggested…they urged giving the housewife ‘a sense of achievement’ to compensate her for a task that was ‘endless’ and ‘time-consuming.’ Give her, they urged manufacturers, ‘specialized products for specialized tasks’; and ‘make housework a matter of knowledge and skill, rather than a matter of brawn and dull, unremitting effort.’ Identify your products with ‘spiritual rewards,’ an ‘almost religious feeling,’ an almost religious belief.’ For objects with ‘added psychological value,’ the report concluded, ‘the price itself hardly matters.’ </i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Wolf says women’s magazines began losing readers in the mid-1960s when more women became “Career Women,” like Peggy, and were less and less interested in reading articles pertaining to housewives. So the magazines pursued them more aggressively using a new tactic: “Stripped of their old expertise, purpose, and advertising hook, the magazines invented—almost completely artificially—a new one. In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a ‘problem’ where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on women’s natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma.”</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the early 1960s, a good number of magic elixirs marketed in <i>LHJ</i> were health-related. They were usually ads for laxatives, hemorrhoid creams, dentures, toothpaste or aspirin. And there were a good number of child-care ads—but those plummeted early on (see above) and never quite recovered. Both categories were likely affected by the surplus of beauty and anti-aging advertisements. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the late 1960s, <i>LHJ</i> just starts looking younger overall—the models are younger, and they’re often photographed next to children to emphasize their youthfulness. At-home hair color becomes much more prevalent—women who previously never would have considered such a thing were buying dye in droves. The word “feminine” suddenly becomes equivalent to the word “young,” which pops into nearly ever beauty ad. It’s even used to describe the vessels that hold their youth-inducing makeup (see above).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">At first glance, it seems beauty ads went up only slightly towards the end of the decade in <i>Vogue,</i> but if you look at where they hovered (around 20 per issue) in the early 1960s, 50 ads per issue was a pretty big jump. Fashion ads would of course always stay high—it is the “fashion bible,” after all—but those dipped a bit, too, starting in 1968. And this was somewhat due to the effect of the sexual revolution, and how <i>Vogue</i> followed suit: “High-fashion culture </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">ended, and the women’s magazines’ traditional expertise was suddenly irrelevant,” Naomi Wolf writes. “With the rebirth of the women’s movement, </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Vogue</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> in 1969 offered up—hopefully, perhaps desperately—the Nude Look. Women’s sense of liberation from the older constraints of fashion was countered by a new and sinister relationship to their bodies…”</span></div>
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Nearly every beauty or fashion ad, often startlingly so, in the issues of <i>Vogue</i> from 1968 on was somehow also an ad for weight loss, anti-aging or sex (the last being so risqué that I can barely show them here). I’ve categorized them below and placed them in chronological order, to better illustrate the shift.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yardley, early 1960s: “He never kisses you and </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">he never tells you he loves you? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Frances Denney, mid-1960s: “Next to ‘I love you’…</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">nothing thrills a woman more than, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">‘How lovely you are.’ </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; letter-spacing: 0px;">These are words said to a </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small; letter-spacing: 0px;">woman </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">who is warm and alive, young </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Germaine Monteil, late 1960s: “The whole—</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a beguiling, man-oriented, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">petal-y look you could eat </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">with a spoon.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Age-Wise Cosmetics, mid-1960s: “Helps older women, </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">too, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">but not as spectacularly.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Paradox by DuBarry, late 1960s: <br />
“Young, beautiful and getting older.”</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elizabeth Arden, late 1960s: "21 today...<br />
30 tomorrow. Face up to time flying."</td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Relax-A-Cizor, late 1960s: “I’m for smaller hips…</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Yes, this is the product Peggy </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Warner’s, late 1960s: “Suddenly you look inches younger—</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">‘Inches’ by Warner’s </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">shapes you the way your own </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Liquessence by Dorothy Gray, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">late 1960s: "Its exclusive, antique </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">penetrating moisturizer gives your lips </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">youthful </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">loveliness always."</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Caress, late 1960s: "A new face for your legs."</span></td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A strange fascination with wigs developed mid-1960s, too—here’s the approach advertisers took in</span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> Vogue,</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> both early on and near the end of the decade:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fashion Tress Inc., mid-1960s: </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Are you in love enough for a wig?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Reid-Meredith, late 1960s: </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“The only thing she’s wearing is </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Martex, late 1960s: “The made-up colors. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Flipping through the pages of the early 1960s issues of this weekly,<i> </i>it occurred to me what a voice box Don Draper truly is for Matthew Weiner. Because this is the magazine a man like Don would have read most fervently (we all know it wouldn’t have been <i>Ad Age</i>). </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s clear how much Weiner has drawn from </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Life, </i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">as its ads seem to most closely mirror the clients Don works with on the show.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In this promo shot, the women are in the foreground as much as the men (and even more so, when you consider Pete and all the creatives joking around in the way back). The strongest female characters stand out in bold reds—their former muted yellows and greens now show up on the mid-level men’s jackets. Instead of holding their formerly assertive, fierce businessmen stances, Don and Roger retire into chairs—their positions showing their age (Bert Cooper often sat in group photos like this). But Joan is sitting, too—as a partner, she no longer has to wait on anyone. And Betty—well the sheer fact that Betty even exists in this photo is a big step up from that shot from season one. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So a show that often reflects the magazines mostly men were reading has now let the influence of women’s publications gradually seep through. Don’t forget that <i>Life</i> magazine published its last weekly issue in 1972. Though it continued on as a monthly, it was only moderately successful, never regaining its once acclaim.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Ladies’ Home Journal </i>lasted until just a few years ago, and in 1970, its editor-in-chief agreed to put more news-worthy, topical content in the magazine after feminists staged a sit-in in his office for 11 hours.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In <i>Wonder Women,</i> Debora L. Spar writes, <i>“Feminism was meant to be about expanding women’s roles and choices; about giving them the freedom, for the first time in history, to participate with men as equals, and to use their minds and bodies and talents and energies as they desired. Yet somehow this expansive and revolutionary set of political goals has been squeezed—or hijacked or mistaken—into something much more narrow and personal. Rather than trying to change the world, women are obsessed too often with perfecting themselves. Rather than seizing the options and challenges that society presents them, they are focused on controlling what they think they can: their bodies, their children, their homes.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">As an ad woman, Peggy will be largely responsible for conveying society’s malleability, for creating trends, regardless of how inadequate they might make her feel. In a way, the women on the show are switching places with the men. The series began with a strong, cool, handsome ad man who at the end of the first episode, goes home to his wife and kids…and whose dashing persona is revealed to be a sham. Perhaps if the women’s ideas and influence become stronger in these final episodes, Peggy can learn from her mentor and create ads with some authenticity to them, and not just guides for women to feel empowered by their sex appeal.</span><br />
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The moon belongs to everyone,<br />
The best things in life are free.<br />
The stars belong to everyone,<br />
They gleam there for you and me.<br />
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The flowers in spring, <br />
The robins that sing,<br />
The moonbeams that shine,<br />
They're yours, they're mine.<br />
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And love can come to everyone.<br />
The best things in life are free.<br />
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And love can come to everyone.<br />
The best things in life are free.<br />
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Since <i>Mad Men</i>'s mid-season finale, "Waterloo," aired, many have said that Bert Cooper's performance of "The Best Things in Life Are Free" was an odd choice for such a conservative, money-minded individual (after all, the man has
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But if Bert is 80 at the time of his death in 1969, that would make him about 38 when this song was originally written, in 1927, for the musical <i>Good News—</i>so for him, it's likely a beloved show tune.<br />
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But what does the song really mean?<br />
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Towards the end of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_%28musical%29">Good News,</a></i> the character Connie Lane sings "The Best Things in Life Are Free" to college football player Tom Marlowe, who's fumbled a ball in a major game, then watched his buddy make the winning touchdown. Tom has just confessed to Connie that his fumble was no accident—he did it so he wouldn't have to marry his girlfriend, whom he'd promised to wed if they won the game. But he's no longer in love with her. He's fallen for her cousin Connie, his astronomy tutor, instead.<br />
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When Connie learns of this, she tells Tom that he'll never have to win a football game to win <i>her</i> love. Because, like the moon and stars they study together, the best things in life are free.</div>
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"Waterloo" is an episode where Don, a "football player in a suit," as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4LDNsdYZT8">Cutler</a> so affectionately describes him, fumbles a ball on purpose. But it's for a good cause.<br />
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In the aftermath of the mid-season finale, Matthew Weiner has been answering a lot of questions about the episode and about the half-season in general. Here's what he had to say about Don and Peggy's relationship when he talked to <i><a href="http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/matthew-weiner-interview-mad-men-mid-season-7-finale-joan-hates-don-bert-cooper-dance.html">Vulture:</a></i><br />
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"Part of the story of the season was them repairing their relationship. It has the structure of a romantic relationship, but to me it was about: Don cannot give Peggy confidence and Peggy cannot give Don integrity; both of them have to earn it for themselves. We wanted to bring it back to a place where Peggy did it her way, and Don did something—[giving her the Burger Chef pitch] wasn't a huge sacrifice, but it certainly wasn't the old Don."<br />
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Peggy's been talking about "shared experiences" quite a bit these last few episodes, and about people feeling disconnected. And, when you think about it, it's been a disjointed half-season for every character on the show—you have lonely, desperate Megan and miserable, lovelorn Ted in L.A.; a disrespected, fussy and equally lovelorn Peggy (especially on Valentine's Day); a meandering, drug-and-orgy-dabbling Roger (who misses Don, because nobody gets his jokes anymore); a frustrated, ladder-climbing, power-hungry Joan, who says she's not willing to settle for a loveless marriage, despite being near 40 with a child, as Bob so eloquently reminds her; a now very clearly closeted Bob, who seems destined for a lonely life if he insists on marrying a woman; a half-blind and fully overwhelmed Ken Cosgrove, who's been left with nearly every account; a defensive Betty, who for the first time seems to be seriously questioning her role as a wife and mother; a disenfranchised Freddie Rumsen, who to this day is still essentially a door-to-door salesman; an artistically oppressed Stan, whose creativity is limited by his new boss; an annoyed Lou, who feels invisible much of the time thanks to Don's legacy, no matter how many fits he throws; two black secretaries, Dawn and Shirley, who feel unimportant because their coworkers can't tell them apart; two young daughters, Margaret and Sally, who want to run away from home—one of whom does so successfully; the worried and confused family Margaret leaves behind; a pregnant runaway hippie who's literally homeless—and Stephanie's the only representation of "home" Don has left; a pushed-to-the-edge Ginsberg, who's so disconnected from reality that he thinks a computer is out to get everyone; a number of rejected women who've flocked to Don's new mostly sober, faithful-to-his-wife vibrations; a number of rejected ad firms, who've attempted to poach SC&P talent; and, last but not least, an alienated Don, whose isolated state has been the main focus for the entirety of this half-season.<br />
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Viewers seem to have a hard time remembering why Don Draper might be faced with so much hardship, animosity and real loss this season. Maybe because he's the hero, because he's so charming, they keep saying, "But why is Joan so mean to Don?" "Why is Peggy so mad at him?" "Why is Bert being so harsh?" But re-watch season six. And parts of season five. And you'll be reminded of what a raging asshole Don was for most of those episodes.<br />
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Every time this character is on top, he finds a way to self-destruct. Whenever Don Draper experiences the threat of loss or damage to his reputation—whether it's Betty's case of nerves; seeing his second wife for what she really is, a full-blooded human being who has ambitions of her own, not just some mirror of his most perfect self; having to say goodbye to his protégée, Peggy, because she's leaving to work for his rival; or feeling the need to compete with that rival after asking him to join his company, just to prove that he's still the best at what he does—Don typically goes back to his Dick Whitman roots and starts drinking excessively and philandering, just like his good ol' man. What's that they say about the father's sins...?<br />
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But Don hates that version of himself and wants to deny its existence. At the same time, his Don Draper coat of armor has so many chinks in it now that it's almost too heavy to keep carrying. As Megan sums up so well in this episode, both referring to his position at Sterling Cooper and his role in his marriage to her, "Aren't you tired of fighting?"<br />
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The best things in life are free. Don tries to smooth over the effects of his emotional and physical distance and (presumed) infidelities by promising to take care of Megan financially. In previous episodes, he's given money to Lane's widow after his suicide and told Betty he'll "pay for all of it" when Sally wants to go to Miss Porter's School just to escape the trauma of seeing him in bed with "that woman." Don is consistently spending money on things to cover up possible mars. <br />
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Like when Joan became a partner thanks to spending a night with Herb from Jaguar. In "The Other Woman," Don comes to her apartment and cautions her against it. But by then it's too late—Joan has already gone through with it after realizing she'd have a lot to gain in the company.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Joan: Just once I'd like to hear you use the word "we." Because we are all rooting for </span><i style="text-align: center;">you </i><span style="text-align: center;">on the sidelines as you decide what is best for all of our lives.</span></div>
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"You're born alone and you die alone, and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget…I'm living like there's no tomorrow. 'Cause there isn't one."<br />
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Don's most impetuous, careless maneuvers even go as far back as season four. In "Blowing Smoke," he takes it upon himself to write a letter to the big tobacco companies in the <i>New York Times </i>just to save face when he hears SCDP is losing the Lucky Strike account:<br />
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He annoys Bert the most with this, who says he should have alerted him. Before he leaves Don's office, telling everyone it was "nice knowing them," he mentions that Don shouldn't have sent a letter on the company's behalf without the signatures of every partner included—quite the opposite of what he says to Cutler in "Waterloo," when he learns he's sent Don's breach-of-contract letter with forged signatures.<br />
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(Which may be why Cutler's "not on his team.")<br />
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Don's letter to big tobacco works in the company's favor in season four by bringing in some new, more wholesome clients, but the whole thing is still very self-promoting—especially when you consider that this season, Don goes back on everything he wrote in an act of pure self-preservation.<br />
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Though he was guilty of taking Peggy for granted numerous times in previous seasons, in the past few, he took it to another level.<br />
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In the middle of season six, Don realizes that neither SCDP nor Cutler Gleason & Chaough is big enough to win Chevy and comes up with an idea to merge the companies. When Ted Chaough agrees, it means that Peggy has to go back to her previous workplace with her tail between her legs.<br />
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Working for Ted, she's experienced much more freedom, encouragement and generosity than she ever had working for Don. But when Don recognizes that her mutually beneficial working relationship with Ted has developed into a romantic one, he does everything he can to dissolve it.<br />
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Don can't tolerate their enthusiasm while collaborating on the <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> spot for St. Joseph's Aspirin—partly because he's threatened by Ted's influence on Peggy, but mostly because his relationship with Sylvia has fallen apart, and if he can't be happy, nobody can. Peggy and Ted's giddiness starts as a minor, sometimes amusing, annoyance, but it eventually becomes a thorn in his side.<br />
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And after Peggy's former boss and mentor has removed any chance of her getting credit for coming up with the commercial (Don tells St. Joseph's the idea came from the recently passed-away Gleason—and leaks their outrageous budget plans), Ted tells her that he's volunteered to go to California.<br />
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She's not convinced, of course, that it's really Ted's idea to leave, so she accuses Don of sending him away just to be cruel.<br />
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It's the second time in the series Don's been referred to as such. In response to Don's letter to big tobacco, Bert Cooper says to the partners, "We've created a monster."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don: I slept last night for the first time in a month.<br />
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So in this final season of <i>Mad Men,</i> Don has to learn how to be human again. How to choose his battles wisely, how to avoid talking out of turn—how to "take the deal, don't negotiate," as he advises Harry Crane in "Waterloo."<br />
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Jon Hamm's acting is always top-notch in this series, but he revealed yet another layer to his skill set in the mid-season finale: He now primarily expresses himself in reaction to other characters. He does a lot of silent emoting, using only his facial expressions, and that's not something we've seen much of before. Don is usually a man of action. He is the one doing things, while other characters "root from the sidelines." You might say, he is the one who knocks. Not so in "Waterloo":<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2001, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos and recorded music—combined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">"On any given day in the United States, about one-quarter of the adult population visits a fast food restaurant. During a relatively brief period of time, the fast food industry has helped to transform not only the American diet, but also our landscape, economy, workforce and popular culture. Fast food and its consequences have become inescapable, regardless of whether you eat it twice a day, try to avoid it or have never taken a single bite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">"In 1975, about one-third of American mothers with young children worked outside the home; today, almost two-thirds of such mothers are employed. As the sociologists Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni have noted, the entry of so many women into the workforce has greatly increased demand for the types of services that housewives traditionally perform: cooking, cleaning and child care. A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants—mainly at fast food restaurants.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"[In 1940], Southern California had recently given birth to an entirely new lifestyle—and a new way of eating. Both revolved around cars. The cities back East had been built in the railway era, with central business districts linked to outlying suburbs by commuter train and trolley. But the tremendous growth of Los Angeles occurred at a time when automobiles were finally affordable. Between 1920 and 1940, the population of southern California nearly tripled, as about 2 million people arrived from across the United States…it was the first large-scale migration conducted by car. Los Angeles soon became unlike any other city the world had ever seen, sprawling and horizontal, a thoroughly suburban metropolis of detached homes—a glimpse of the future, molded by the automobile. About 80% of the population had been born elsewhere; about half had rolled into town during the previous five years.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"The automobile offered drivers a feeling of independence and control. Daily travel was freed from the hassles of rail schedules, the needs of other passengers and the location of trolley stops. More importantly, driving seemed to cost much less than using public transport—an illusion created by the fact that the price of a new car did not include the price of building new roads. Lobbyists from the oil, tire and automobile industries, among others, had persuaded state and federal agencies to assume that fundamental expense. Had the big auto companies been required to pay for the roads—in the same way that trolley companies had to lay and maintain track—the landscape of the American West would look quite different today.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"The nation's car culture reached its height in southern California, inspiring innovations such as the world's first motel and the first drive-in bank. A new form of eating place emerged. 'People with cars are so lazy, they don't want to get out of them to eat!' said Jessie G. Kirby, the founder of an early drive-in restaurant chain. Kirby's first 'Pig Stand' was in Texas, but the chain soon thrived in Los Angeles, alongside countless other food stands offering 'curb service.' In the rest of the United States, drive-ins were usually a seasonal phenomenon, closing at the end of every summer. In southern California, it felt like summer all year long, the drive-ins never closed and a whole new industry was born. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: center;">"The southern California drive-in restaurants of the early 1940s tended to be gaudy and round, topped with pylons, towers and flashing signs. They were 'circular meccas of neon,' in the words of drive-in historian Michael Witzel, designed to be easily spotted from the road. The triumph of the automobile encouraged not only a geographic separation between buildings, but also a manmade landscape that was loud and bold. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"After World War II, business soared at Carl [Karcher's] Drive-In Barbeque, along with the economy of southern California. The oil business and the film business had thrived in Los Angeles during the 1920s and 1930s. But it was World War II that transformed southern California into the most important economic region in the West. The war's effect on the state, in the words of historian Carey McWilliams, was a 'fabulous boom.' Between 1940 and 1945, the federal government spent nearly $20 billion in California, mainly in and around Los Angeles, building airplane factories and steel mills, military bases and port facilities. During those six years, federal spending was responsible for nearly half of the personal income in southern California. By the end of World War II, Los Angeles was the second-largest manufacturing center in America, with an industrial output surpassed only by that of Detroit. While Hollywood garnered most of the headlines, defense spending remained the focus of the local economy for the next two decades, providing about one-third of its jobs. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"By the end of the 1940s, [Richard and Maurice McDonald] had grown dissatisfied with their drive-in business. They were tired of constantly looking for new carhops and short-order cooks—who were in great demand—as the old ones left for higher-paying jobs elsewhere. They were tired of replacing the dishes, glassware and silverware their teenage customers constantly broke or ripped off. And they were tired of their teenage customers. The brothers thought about selling the restaurant. Instead, they tried something new. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The McDonalds fired all their carhops in 1948, closed their restaurant, installed larger grills and reopened three months later with a radically new method of preparing food. It was designed to increase the speed, lower prices and raise the volume of sales. The brothers eliminated almost two-thirds of the items on their old menu. They got rid of everything that had to be eaten with a knife, spoon or fork. The only sandwiches now sold were hamburgers or cheeseburgers. The brothers got rid of their dishes and glassware, replacing them with paper cups, paper bags and paper plates. They divided the food preparation into separate tasks performed by different workers. To fill a typical order, one person grilled the hamburger; another 'dressed' and wrapped it; another prepared the milk shake; another made the fries; and another worked the counter. For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen. The new division of labor meant that a worker only had to be taught one task. Skilled and expensive short-order cooks were no longer necessary. All of the burgers were sold with the same condiments: ketchup, onions, mustard and two pickles. No substitutions were allowed. The McDonald brothers' Speedee Service System revolutionized the restaurant business. An ad of theirs seeking franchisees later spelled out the benefits of the system: 'Imagine—No Carhops—No Waitresses—No Dishwashers—No Bus Boys—The McDonald's System is Self-Service!'</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"America's fast food chains were not launched by big corporations relying upon focus groups and market research. They were started by door-to-door salesmen, short-order cooks, orphans and dropouts, by eternal optimists looking for a piece of the next big thing. The start-up costs of a fast food restaurant were low, the profit margins promised to be high and a wide assortment of ambitious people were soon buying grills and putting up signs.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"'One of the highlights of my 61st birthday celebration,' President Richard Nixon wrote in 1974, 'was when Tricia suggested we need a "break" on our drive to Palm Springs, and we turned in at McDonald's. I had heard for years from our girls that the "Big Mac" was really something special, and while I've often credited Mrs. Nixon with making the best hamburgers in the world, we are both convinced that McDonald's runs a close second...The next time the cook has a night off, we will know where to go for fast service, cheerful hospitality—and probably one of the best food buys in America.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">"Ray Kroc could only dream, during McDonald's tough early years, of having such marketing tools at his disposal. He was forced to rely instead on his wits, his charisma and his instinct for promotion. Kroc believed completely in whatever he sold and pitched McDonald's franchises with an almost religious fervor. He also knew a few things about publicity, having auditioned talent for a Chicago radio station in the 1920s and performed in nightclubs for years. Kroc hired a publicity firm led by a gag writer and a former MGM road manager to get McDonald's into the news. Children would be the new restaurant chain's target customers. The McDonald brothers had aimed for a family crowd, and now Kroc improved and refined their marketing strategy. He'd picked the right moment. America was in the middle of a baby boom; the number of children had soared in the decade after World War II. Kroc wanted to create a safe, clean, all-American place for kids. The McDonald's franchise agreement required every new restaurant to fly the Stars and Stripes. Kroc understood that how he sold food was just as important as how the food tasted. He liked to tell people that he was really in show business, not the restaurant business. Promoting McDonald's to children was a clever, pragmatic decision. 'A child who loves our TV commercials,' Kroc explained, 'and brings her grandparents to a McDonald's gives us two more customers.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The late-1960s expansion of the McDonald's restaurant chain coincided with declining fortunes at the Walt Disney Company. Disney was no longer alive, and his vision of America embodied just about everything that kids of the 1960s were rebelling against. Although McDonald's was hardly a promoter of whole foods and psychedelia, it had the great advantage of seeming new—and there was something trippy about Ronald McDonald, his clothes and his friends. As the McDonald's mascot began to rival Mickey Mouse in name recognition, Kroc made plans to create his own Disneyland…. Instead of investing in a large theme park, the company pursued a more decentralized approach. It built small Playlands and McDonaldlands all over the United States. </span><br />
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"The fantasy world of McDonaldland borrowed a good deal from Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom. Don Ament, who gave McDonaldland its distinctive look, was a former Disney set designer. Richard and Robert Sherman—who had written and composed, among other things, all the songs in Disney's <i>Mary Poppins, </i>Disneyland's 'It's a Great, Big Beautiful Tomorrow' and 'It's a Small World After All'—were enlisted for the first McDonaldland commercials. Ronald McDonald, Mayor McCheese and the other characters in the ads made McDonald's seem like more than just another place to eat. McDonaldland—with its hamburger patch, apple pie trees and Filet-O-Fish fountain—had one crucial thing in common with Disneyland. Almost everything in it was for sale. McDonald's soon loomed large in the imagination of toddlers, the intended audience for the ads. The restaurant chain evoked a series of pleasing images in a youngster's mind: bright colors, a playground, a toy, a clown, a drink with a straw, little pieces of food wrapped up like a present. Kroc had succeeded, [like Walt Disney], at selling something intangible to children, along with their fries."</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">"In May of 1996, the Walt Disney Company signed a 10-year global marketing agreement with the McDonald's Corporation. By linking with a fast food company, a Hollywood studio typically gains anywhere from $25 million to $45 million in additional advertising for a film, often doubling its ad budget. These licensing deals are usually negotiated on a per-film basis; the 1996 agreement with Disney gave McDonald's exclusive rights to that studio's output of films and videos. Some industry observers thought Disney benefited more from the deal, gaining a steady source of marketing funds. According to the terms of the agreement, Disney characters could never be depicted sitting in a McDonald's restaurant or eating any of the chain's food. In the early 1980s, the McDonald's Corporation had turned away offers to buy Disney; a decade later, McDonald's executives sounded a bit defensive about having given Disney greater control over how their joint promotions would be run. 'A lot of people can't get used to the fact that two big global brands with this kind of credibility can forge this kind of working relationship,' a McDonald's executive told a reporter. 'It's about their theme parks, their next movie, their characters, their videos…It's bigger than a hamburger. It's about the integration of our two brands, long-term.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">"The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks.* The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth."</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As George Peyton explains to Pete Campbell about Burger Chef's business in Los Angeles, "You can't be in the hamburger business without taking a swing at Disneyland." Though Schlosser's book largely talks about McDonald's, the fast food trajectory is relatively the same. After all, the Happy Meal idea originated at Burger Chef.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She nixes the gray suit and the </span>stripey number with the tie (which she probably loves because she wore it the day Lou gave her that promotion) <span style="font-family: inherit;">and goes with a more youthful number instead. Many have noticed how much it resembles Julio's striped shirt, which makes sense because she's very much representing him and his sensibilities as a Burger Chef customer.</span><br />
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But she also looks an awful lot like these guys (or at least her neckerchief does):<br />
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"I will do my best to be <br />
honest and fair,<br />
friendly and helpful, <br />
considerate and caring, <br />
courageous and strong<br />
and responsible for what I say and do,<br />
and to respect myself and others, <br />
respect authority, <br />
use resources wisely, <br />
make the world a better place <br />
and be a sister to every Girl Scout." </td></tr>
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Yeah, that sounds like Peggy.<br />
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So, to recap: Peggy represents children. Peggy represents Burger Chef. Peggy represents America.<br />
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Sounds like a winning pitch to me.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And then again a few minutes after that:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In her 2013 article </span><a href="http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2804" style="font-family: inherit;">"The History of Hemlines," </a>writer<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Nina Koo-Seen-Lin talked about this for the Women's History Network:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The designers, the haute couture fashion houses and the ever-changing seasons—they all have a high influence on fashion. But have you ever considered the historical impact on style trends? According to the 1927 Hemline Index, the length of our ancestors' skirt or dress could actually indicate a country’s wealth, prosperity and general well-being of the time. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Swinging 1960s: </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The '60s saw rising levels of fiscal prosperity and—with the invention of the teenager—young people began to rule the roost for the very first time. Short hemlines are unmistakably interwoven with this era, thanks to the arrival of the miniskirt (created by Mary Quant): the physical embodiment of a world daring to push new boundaries.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Disco Dancing 1970s: </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Social and economic discontent increased by the '70s, with the onset of the Vietnam War, unexpected inflation and the embargo on oil in 1973. Stock values began to slump and floor-length maxi skirts came back into fashion for the first time since the Depression. Laura Ashley was a popular designer with her peasant style smock dresses and tunics."</span></div>
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<i>Good Housekeeping,</i> June 2014</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As women with more financial power, like Peggy, continued to follow the youthful trends in the late 1960s, they found that those short hemlines inevitably required a great pair of hose. In "Waterloo," this really stands out—many of the female characters, including Sally, are in a tight pair of stockings and <i>it's the</i> <i>middle of July.</i></span><br />
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</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In July 2009, Joseph Caputo uncovered the history of this phenomenon for the Smithsonian in </span><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/50-years-of-pantyhose-33062523/?no-ist" style="font-family: inherit;">"50 Years of Pantyhose":</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Love them or hate them, the once-ubiquitous women’s accessory was a revolutionary invention that helped transform women’s fashion.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The story of pantyhose runs in the Gant family. Since the late Allen Gant Sr. introduced the first pair in 1959, his descendants have watched the garment move from high fashion to optional accessory. Three generations of women have now experienced waist-to-toe stockings, and few would be surprised to discover that a man invented pantyhose. But here’s the twist—it was at the request of his wife.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"According to Allen Gant Jr., the inventor’s son, Gant Sr. and his wife Ethel Boone Gant were on the overnight train to North Carolina, returning home from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, when a pregnant Ethel informed her husband that this would be her last trip with him—at least until the birth of their child. It was nothing personal, just a matter of comfort. Managing her stockings and garter belt over her expanding belly was becoming difficult, and being a proper lady, she would not be seen in public without her hosiery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The year was 1953 and if you were a woman, a night on the town meant either squeezing into a girdle or slipping on a garter belt. Formal dress dictated that females wear such intimate, and often uncomfortable, articles of clothing. How else could you hold up your nylons?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Allen Gant Sr., then running textile company Glen Raven Mills, was inspired by his wife’s lament. 'How would it be if we made a pair of panties and fastened the stockings to it?' he asked Ethel. She stitched some crude garments together, tried them on and handed the products to her husband. 'You've got to figure out how to do this,' she said. Allen brought his wife’s experiment into the office, and with the help of his colleagues Arthur Rogers, J. O. Austin and Irvin Combs, developed what they later called 'Panti-Legs.' Their product—the world’s first commercial pantyhose—began lining department store shelves in 1959.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"'It was wonderful,' a 74-year-old Ethel Gant told the Associated Press 30 years later. 'Most people my age loved them from the very beginning and couldn’t wait to get a hold of them. I don’t think we’ve ever changed our minds,' she said.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Allen Gant Sr. had at least one satisfied customer, but the panty-stocking combo did not grab most women’s attentions at first. Though the convenience of not having to wear a girdle or garter belt was a plus, what helped pantyhose take hold was the rise of the miniskirt in the mid-1960s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"For the fashion-conscious woman looking to wear a skirt shorter than stockings are long, pantyhose were the perfect fit. When iconic models such as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy donned their mini skirts, demand for pantyhose exploded and women flocked to the stores for pairs of their own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"'When Twiggy came along, you couldn’t even bar the door,' says Gant Jr., who now holds his father’s previous position as president of Glen Raven Mills. Simultaneously, new kinds of sewing techniques and fabrics—like spandex—brought the cost of the pantyhose down while increasing the range of sizes that could be offered.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"By the 1970s and 1980s, pantyhose were a staple in every teen and woman’s wardrobe. As more women headed into the workplace, sales of pantyhose only grew. In return, hosiery manufacturers continued to market new colors, textures, sizes and technology. 'The silkiest ever,' teased one Hanes advertisement. 'No one knows I’m wearing support pantyhose,' declared another.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Those glory days came to an end in the 1990s, a shift that Hosiery Association President Sally Kay attributes to a more relaxed work environment. 'You saw the fashion pendulum swing more towards the casual,' she says. The industry witnessed a decline in pantyhose sales, and an increase in other products, such as tights and—with the rise of pants in the workplace—trouser socks.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Today, many women no longer feel pressured to don hosiery at all. First Lady Michelle Obama, considered a fashion trendsetter, has placed the garment in the retired pile. 'I stopped wearing pantyhose a long time ago because it was painful. Put 'em on, rip 'em—it’s inconvenient,' she said on talk show <i>The View</i> last year. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, is also not a fan. 'It doesn’t look good for pantyhose,' she says, 'The long-term trend is for people to dress more and more casually.'</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Though numbers are down, with 1.4 billion pairs of pantyhose sold in 2008, it doesn’t appear that pantyhose will go extinct anytime soon. For women in more conservative work environments, pantyhose are still a must. Some others still prefer the more traditional option. 'Today’s consumer envisions hosiery as more of an accessory,' Kay explains.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Although Allen Gant Jr. doesn’t distribute pantyhose through Glen Raven Mills, his father’s legacy remains. 'I don’t think he had any idea pantyhose would change fashion the way it did,' Gant Jr. says. From the runway, to the office and now stored away in women’s dresser drawers, the garment has gone through several life cycles. But that’s the order of things in the industry. As designer Coco Chanel once said, 'Fashion is made to become unfashionable.'"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At least </span>there's<span style="font-family: inherit;"> some evidence of women going bare-legged right down to their feet and wearing sandals in this time period (see </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Life</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> magazine, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">above</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">), though on the show so far we've only seen that on Megan in California and Bonnie (in New York, to her regret—regardless of </span>what that <i>Life</i> magazine depicts, shopping in only sandals all day on Fifth Avenue is almost always a mistake<span style="font-family: inherit;">), and Megan's almost always barefoot anyway:</span><br />
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And speaking of California, it's basically SC&P's latest client. The company has invested in it, and based on what <i>Fast Food Nation </i>has to say about the powerhouse state in that time period, you can bet they'll be successful.<br />
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Considering SC&P's nearly guaranteed success rate now, you can plan on seeing a lot more of <a href="http://blog.stylitics.com/power-suit-fall-fashion-trend/" style="font-family: inherit;">Peggy's gray suit idea</a> next half-season.<br />
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"Men had experimented with the colorful peacock look of the 1960s and the hippie look of the 1970s, but by 1974 store buyers had 'retreated' to the 'relative safety of the classics'—the usual navy blue jacket, gray trousers and button-down shirt. This made the timing of John Molloy's first Dress for Success book in 1975 perfect...<span style="font-family: inherit;">Molloy also turned his eyes toward women who were entering the business world in the 1970s with greater ambitions than the secretarial pool. Fashion offered them nothing, he complained. European designers, who were peddling a haute peasant/hippie look, were trying to keep women barefoot and pregnant. The current fashions made women look sexy and weak, Molloy wrote, and women who aped menswear too closely—fedora, pinstriped trouser-suit, tie—simply frightened people. Neither style of dress was going to get women into the corporate boardroom.</span><br />
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"Molloy's answer was a female version of the men's suit…with a long blazer cut along men's lines and a plain skirt. Only this type 'tested' well with businessmen of a certain age, the same men who controlled almost all of corporate America. As the Dress Doctors had decades earlier, Molloy recommended that businesswomen limit their suit colors to shades and tones. But, he warned, if you can only buy one suit, it had better be medium gray. Never mind that gray had never been recommended as a flattering color by the Dress Doctors. The idea was not to look good, but to look acceptable. This book became a best-seller, too. Thousands of women wrote Molloy thanking him for helping them up the career ladder by putting them in suits."<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Which is only to say, as Gant Jr. noted in the Smithsonian article, the 1970s are only the beginning of the end for pantyhose. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peggy and Joan are both seen wearing pants this episode. And Megan wore jeans in "The Strategy." The only times I can remember seeing Betty wear pants were in the episode where she visits Bobby at summer camp and the day she and Don tell the kids about the divorce—while I'm sure there were other times, they weren't frequent. But I think we'll be seeing a lot more of them going forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And we'll likely see less modesty and formality in the dress of female characters around the house. Peggy greets male characters at the door in her pajamas and house coat <i>twice </i>in this episode (and something tells me she hangs out in that robe all the time, not just after a shower). In July 1969, <i>Good Housekeeping</i> ran an entire article on the new "lounging lingerie":</span><br />
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<i>Vanity Fair, </i>June 2014 <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And as women like Peggy gain more confidence outside of the home, their hairstyles are bound to be a bit more loose and free-flowing. Based on nearly every red carpet shot in the past month or so, it's safe to say that most of the ladies of <i>Mad Men</i> will be long-haired next season. And if they don't naturally have long hair, they'll find some way to supplement that (as Jessica Paré has done in almost every Megan episode this half-season):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a very different look from how women were wearing their hair after the last big shared television experience of the 1960s, depicted on the show:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The date of that issue is February, which means the editors orchestrated this photo shoot in November 1963, just after JFK was assassinated. It's no coincidence that so many of these models look just like Jackie (and are featured in the issue only a few pages after her own profile):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It seems that any time Matthew Weiner and crew decide to incorporate a real, iconic, nation-changing event from history into an episode of </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Mad Men</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">, the inevitable result is a <a href="http://www.amctv.com/mad-men/videos/inside-mad-men-1962-hair-makeup">major shift in appearances</a> like this. Even Peggy <a href="http://www.lippsisters.com/2010/07/13/the-evolution-of-peggy%E2%80%99s-hair/">went from long-haired ponytail to shorter bob</a> in season two after the "Are you a Jackie or a Marilyn?" campaign:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">And soon after the nation fell even more in love with Jackie O., after Kennedy's death, we see Peggy with more of a Jackie-esque bouffant in season three:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Around the time Peggy gets her hair makeover in season two, Don takes a business trip out to southern California. In that episode, "The Mountain King,"</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> Anna Draper gives him a tarot card reading (which is unsurprising, since it's California in the 1960s).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5em;">What is surprising, though, is what the reading reveals.</span></div>
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<b>Don:</b> I have been watching my life. It's right there. I keep scratching at it, trying to get into it. I can't.<br />
<b>Don: </b>[holding out <i>Meditations in an Emergency</i>] Did you read it?</div>
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<b>Anna:</b> I did. It reminded me of New York. And it made me worry about you.</div>
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<b>Don: </b>What about the cards? Should I be worried?</div>
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<b>Anna:</b> It's all here. You're definitely in a strange place. But here's the Sun.</div>
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<b>Don:</b> [pointing to the Judgment card] That can't be good.<br />
<b>Anna:</b> It is.<br />
<b>Don:</b> It's the end of the world.</div>
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<b>Anna:</b> It's the resurrection. Do you want to know what this means or not?</div>
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<b>Don:</b> No, I don't. I can smell the ocean.</div>
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<b>Anna: </b>She's the soul of the world. She's in a very important spot here. This is you; what you are bringing to the reading. She says you are part of the world. Air, water, every living thing is connected to you.</div>
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<b>Don:</b> It's a nice thought.</div>
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<b>Anna: </b>It is.</div>
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<b>Don: </b>What does it mean?</div>
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<b>Anna:</b> It means the only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone.</div>
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<b>Don:</b> What if it's true?</div>
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<b>Anna: </b>Then you can change.</div>
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<b>Don: </b>People don't change.<br />
<b>Anna: </b>I think she stands for wisdom. Once you live, you learn things.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Line Hollis does an excellent analysis of this scene and what the reading means for Don, coming from an experienced tarot reader's perspective, <a href="http://www.linehollis.com/2014/04/16/reading-mad-men-introduction/">here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is my favorite part of </span>what she writes<span style="font-family: inherit;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Anna sees major painful change coming for her friend (Judgement, The Wheel of Fortune, 8 of Wands) and she tries to focus him on the positive aspects of it and how he can survive it. In her read of The World, she's telling him he needs to stop separating himself from others if he's going to make it through what's coming."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don has to learn the meaning of "we."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As so many characters who have telescopes in their vicinity (Cutler, Megan, Bobby and Neal—though his is technically missing) become immersed in moon-landing fanaticism in "Waterloo," the character who's expressed the most wonder and fascination with the idea likely has no access to watching it unfold: </span>Marigold.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet she's likely interested in the cosmos in other ways, like Anna Draper, and studies tarot cards and astrology, which had a big boom during this time period.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Skip Stone explains that further in "The Astrology of the Hippy Movement," <a href="http://www.hipplanet.com/books/atoz/astrology.htm">here:</a> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Hippy Movement was less of a movement and more of an unseen force that permeated the minds and hearts of hippies around the world. In cities, on college campuses, in communes, hippies everywhere were part of a collective consciousness that appeared rather suddenly in the 1960s. We shared a growing awareness of ourselves, our humanity and our environment. As we interacted with each other, we taught and learned about life, love, sex, drugs, peace, activism, freedom, cooperation, beauty, art and music. What is so amazing about this font of knowledge is its source. Virtually none of it came from our parents (unless they happened to be very aware themselves). None of it came from our schools, government or churches (unless you happened to be Buddhist or Hindu or Taoist already).</span><br />
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<dl style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">"So where did all this knowledge and awareness come from? Astrologers point to the stars and the positions of the outermost planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Beginning in October 1965, we witnessed a rare, powerful conjunction of Uranus and Pluto (it happens about once every 200 years or so). Uranus represents the urge to be free. It brings sudden changes usually by destroying the old to make room for the new. It replaces outdated attitudes with new, more constructive ones.</dl>
<dl style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">"When people ask, 'What happened to the Hippies?' they are wondering why the Summer of Love ended. Astrologically, planets and people change their positions over time. What motivated and inspired us astrologically no longer exists. Other forces dominate our lives at the present. However it serves no purpose to forget and bury the past. Let the past inspire us to improve our lives and those conditions surrounding us so that new generations may benefit from our wisdom and enlightenment. The moral, social, ethical and environmental dilemmas we face now are but a taste of things to come for our children and grandchildren. It's time we reexamine our lives, put the past in proper context, learn some important new lessons and relearn some old ones. </dl>
<dl style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;">"I believe that we all have within us this incredible store of knowledge and wisdom. Certain conditions bring it out, be they astrological, social, chemical or spiritual. We must reignite the spiritual lamp so we can light the way for the generations to follow."<br />
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Let's take Don's tarot card reading one step further, then. Here's what the position of Uranus at his time of birth meant for him and his generation, according to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Astrologers-Handbook-HarperResource-Book/dp/006272004X">The Astrologer's Handbook,</a> first published in 1973:</dl>
<dl style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The sign position of Uranus indicates the motivations behind a person's wishes, hopes and goals, especially the goals set by the mind. It points to the type of friends a person is likely to seek, and the purpose and style of activity of the groups in which he belongs.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ6g3Rq4HnVPRxEj5Tr9sKzpuIMYJkJDSolrfxHIMa7sU6yMjpGh15PWfN7wbWYKtKi28iZYc0OSJ1TdgQT2Cq1IYirn7EP9VYR-Bpb2q3Mw8CWIacMmUgUDDQqGyacoIcFgL0Y5OPNBM/s1600/51QKBPGCJML._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ6g3Rq4HnVPRxEj5Tr9sKzpuIMYJkJDSolrfxHIMa7sU6yMjpGh15PWfN7wbWYKtKi28iZYc0OSJ1TdgQT2Cq1IYirn7EP9VYR-Bpb2q3Mw8CWIacMmUgUDDQqGyacoIcFgL0Y5OPNBM/s1600/51QKBPGCJML._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="209" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Since Uranus takes seven years to go through one sign of the Zodiac, everyone born during a given seven-year period has Uranus in the same sign...Consequently, the sign position of Uranus is important in indicating generational differences—the common destiny of a large group of people who are born at the same time.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Uranus in the sign of Pisces [Don's generation] indicates intuitive abilities and a scientific curiosity about the workings of the unconscious...They receive ideas through intuition and dreams. The fundamental motivating factor of Uranus in Pisces is to seek liberation from the mental and emotional influence of the past. There is a spiritual struggle to overcome past materialistic tendencies, combined with a seeking for higher spiritual identity....there can be impractical idealism, as well as unreliability and deceptiveness toward friends. There can also be an inclination to avoid facing unpleasant situations."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They receive ideas through intuition and dreams. You might even say they have visions.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, Bert Cooper's song-and-dance number on the floors of Sterling Cooper & Partners was an unusual turn of pace for the show—but Don has received visits from any number of dead loved ones on this series—his half-brother, his father and Anna, to name a few. Interestingly, they never show the real Don Draper, whose identity he stole, coming back to talk to him. Maybe that's to come.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But who will remember Don when he's gone? Will he have negated his </span>biggest worries, that he never did anything and never had anyone<span style="font-family: inherit;">? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Will he have realized, like Anna said, that "air, water, every living thing" is connected to him?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite Marigold's literal disconnection from society, she has something so many of the other <i>Mad Men</i> characters are searching for this half-season: a tribe.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And they find it together through watching a significant historical event on TV.</span></dl>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who is it that really makes the unknowable man feel known?</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe Pete? (Don <i>has </i>helped him out time and again—he even paid his share so he could become a partner.)</span><br />
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There was a terribly influential song that came out the same month as this episode, in the real 1969, absolutely more wide-stretching than "The Best Things in Life Are Free." As Don's around the same age Bert was when this song was written, it's likely to be an anthem for him the rest of his life (whether it ends, as many people are predicting, or doesn't by next year's finale). It goes something like this:</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZC7sqImaM&feature=kp">"Give Peace a Chance,"</a> by John Lennon (1969)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two, one two three four</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everybody's talking about</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ragism, Tagism, this-ism, that-ism</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ism ism ism</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">All we are saying is give peace a chance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All we are saying is give peace a chance</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everybody's </span>talkin<span style="font-family: inherit;">' 'bout ministers, sinisters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bannisters and canisters, bishops and fishops</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rabbis and pop eyes, bye bye, bye byes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All we are saying is give peace a chance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All we are saying is give peace a chance</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let me tell you now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everybody's talking about revolution</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Evolution, masturbation, flagellation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Regulation, integrations, meditations</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">United Nations, congratulations</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All we are saying is give peace a chance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All we are saying is give peace a chance</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everybody's talking about John and Yoko</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy Smothers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper, Derek Taylor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna, Hare Hare Krishna</span><br />
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All we are saying is give peace a chance<br />
All we are saying is give peace a chance<br />
All we are saying is give peace a chance<br />
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Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-15836361477189412992014-05-27T01:49:00.000-07:002014-05-30T12:32:21.514-07:00GH's Throwback Thursday Mad Men Edition: "The Strategy"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m0dJXtwwiY&feature=kp">"My Way"</a> performed by Frank Sinatra (1969)<br />
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And now, the end is near<br />
And so I face the final curtain<br />
My friend, I'll say it clear<br />
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain<br />
I've lived a life that's full<br />
I traveled each and ev'ry highway<br />
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.<br />
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Regrets, I've had a few<br />
But then again, too few to mention.<br />
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption.<br />
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway<br />
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.<br />
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Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew<br />
When I bit off more than I could chew<br />
But through it all, when there was doubt<br />
I ate it up and spit it out<br />
I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way.<br />
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I've loved, I've laughed and cried<br />
I've had my fill, my share of losing<br />
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing<br />
To think I did all that<br />
And may I say, not in a shy way,<br />
"Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way."<br />
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For what is a man, what has he got?<br />
If not himself, then he has naught.<br />
To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels<br />
The record shows I took the blows and did it my way!<br />
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Yes, it was my way.<br />
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Frank Sinatra was 53 when he first performed Paul Anka's "My Way," a huge hit in 1969, as featured on "The Strategy," <i>Mad Men</i>'s penultimate episode before its midseason finale. But according to several accounts, it was a composition the singer grew to detest.<br />
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Will Friedwald of the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124389543795174079"><i>Wall Street Journal</i></a> documented this in June 2009, on the song's 40th anniversary:<br />
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"How could Sinatra hate a song that had done so much for him? He had spent the first 35 years or so of his career singing, essentially, one kind of song, the kind in which one human being expresses romantic love for another. It simply never would have occurred to Sinatra to sing a pretentious anthem in celebration of himself. If anything, that shtick was the territory of his sidekick, Sammy Davis Jr., who had raised his own career to a whole new level with a series of iconic hits that were inevitably about singing his own praises—most famously 'Once in a Lifetime' and 'I Gotta Be Me.' That's why Sinatra hated 'My Way': Although it was anticipated, to a degree, in his 1966 hit 'That's Life,' before Paul Anka's lyrics entered his world, it would have seemed like the tackiest thing imaginable to stand in the middle of Madison Square Garden and shout out to the world how great he was. Deep down, Sinatra was a genuinely humble man who never took his own success for granted. Even though the outline of Mr. Anka's text seemed to be based on The Sinatra Story—a superstar who stumbled, fell, and against unbelievable odds scaled the mountaintop of fame a second time—the attitude of the song was something he just couldn't relate to."<br />
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Like Sinatra, Don Draper, 10 years his junior, is closer to being part of the World War II generation, a much more modest group of people than its progeny, than he is to the Baby Boomers. Their scrimping and saving during the Great Depression taught them the value of self-sacrifice—they worked hard, appreciated family and community ties and were loyal to institutions and traditional religion. In other words, their values had nothing to do with saying things like "and through it all, I stood tall, and did it my way" and they certainly wouldn't have talked about a man "being himself" or "saying what he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels." <br />
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They were like Shirley Polykoff, an advertising copywriter highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's 1999 <i>New Yorker </i>study, <a href="http://gladwell.com/true-colors/">"True Colors: Hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America":</a><br />
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"In 1956, when Shirley Polykoff was a junior copywriter at Foote, Cone & Belding, she was given the Clairol account...Miss Clairol gave American women the ability, for the first time, to color their hair quickly and easily at home. But there was still the stigma—the prospect of the disapproving mother-in-law. Shirley Polykoff knew immediately what she wanted to say, because if she believed that a woman had a right to be a blonde she also believed that a woman ought to be able to exercise that right with discretion. 'Does she or doesn’t she?' she wrote. 'Only her hairdresser knows for sure.'<br />
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"Shirley Polykoff wrote the lines; Clairol perfected the product. And from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Polykoff gave up the account, the number of American women coloring their hair rose from 7% to more than 40%.<br />
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"This notion of the useful fiction—of looking the part without being the part—had a particular resonance for the America of Shirley Polykoff’s generation. As a teenager, Shirley Polykoff tried to get a position as a clerk at an insurance agency and failed. Then she tried again, at another firm, applying as Shirley Miller. This time, she got the job. Her husband, George, also knew the value of appearances. The week Polykoff first met him, she was dazzled by his worldly sophistication, his knowledge of out-of-the-way places in Europe, his exquisite taste in fine food and wine. The second week, she learned that his expertise was all show, derived from reading the <i>Times. </i>The truth was that George had started his career loading boxes in the basement of Macy’s by day and studying law at night. He was a faker, just as, in a certain sense, she was, because to be Jewish—or Irish or Italian or African-American or, for that matter, a woman of the 1950s caught up in the first faint stirrings of feminism—was to be compelled to fake it in a thousand small ways, to pass as one thing when, deep inside, you were something else.<br />
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"'That’s the kind of pressure that comes from the immigrants’ arriving and thinking that they don’t look right, that they are kind of funny-looking and maybe shorter than everyone else, and their clothes aren’t expensive,' Alix Nelson Frick [Shirley Polykoff's daughter] says. 'There were all those phrases that came to fruition at that time—you know, "clothes make the man" and "first impressions count."' So the question 'Does she or doesn’t she?' wasn’t just about how no one could ever really know what you were doing. It was about how no one could ever really know who you were. It really meant not 'Does she?' but 'Is she?' It really meant 'Is she a contented homemaker or a feminist, a Jew or a Gentile–or isn’t she?'"<br />
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No one could ever really know who you were.<br />
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What is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught.<br />
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But in June 1969, when they were right on the verge of the 1970s, "My Way" was the perfect anthem for the Baby Boomers and their natural reaction to their parents' "fakery."<br />
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According to a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation"> Wikipedia page</a> on the subject, "The term 'Me' generation refers to the self-involved qualities that some people associated with it. Americans born during the 1946–1964 baby boom were dubbed the Me generation by writer Tom Wolfe during the 1970s. The phrase caught on with the general public at a time when 'self-realization' and 'self-fulfillment' were becoming cultural aspirations among young people, who considered them far more important than social responsibility."<br />
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"The cultural change during the 1970s was complex. The 1960s are remembered as a time of political protests, radical experimentation with new cultural experiences (the Sexual Revolution, happenings, mainstream awareness of Eastern religions). The Civil Rights Movement gave rebellious young people serious goals to work towards. Cultural experimentation was justified as being directed toward spiritual or intellectual enlightenment. The 1970s, in contrast, were a time of disillusionment with idealistic politics, particularly after the resignation of Richard Nixon, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the end of the Vietnam War. Unapologetic hedonism became acceptable among the young, expressed in the disco music popular at the time.<br />
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"The development of a youth culture focusing so heavily on self-fulfillment was also perhaps a reaction against the traits that characterized the older generation. Baby Boomers gradually abandoned those values in large numbers, a development that was entrenched during the 1970s.<br />
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"Health and exercise fads, New Age spirituality, discos and hot tub parties, self-help programs such as EST and the growth of the self-help book industry became identified with the Baby Boomers during the 1970s. The marketing of lifestyle products, eagerly consumed by Baby Boomers with disposable income during the 1970s, became an inescapable part of the culture."<br />
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Last week, when we talked about the runaways of the late 1960s—or at least the difference between a WWII runaway and a hippie in 1969, those members of society who had chosen to leave society altogether—we left a large part of the younger generation out. What were the rest of the Baby Boomers up to, if not smoking pot and listening to The Fifth Dimension?<br />
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With "The Strategy," Matthew Weiner answered that question: They were all busy shopping.<br />
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We've yet to see an episode of this series where there are more mentions of this activity. On that June weekend in 1969, these characters get in more retail therapy than at any other time in the series' past seven years.<br />
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"I want you shopping all day and screwing all night."<br />
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(I guess at least she gets to do the first part.)<br />
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"We're going to eat this delicious breakfast, and then I'm taking you shopping."<br />
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And I assume Don does, because Megan goes home looking like this:<br />
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Even Bob seemingly spends his whole Saturday shopping, then shows up Sunday at Joan's place bearing gifts:<br />
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All of which is why Copy Chief Peggy Olson, an active member of the "Me" generation, has absolutely nothing to worry about.<br />
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And why her mentor Don Draper, who worries about a lot of things (that he "never did anything," that he "doesn't have anyone"), never worries about her.<br />
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"Do you hear this? Do you think that's a coincidence?"<br />
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When Don dances with Peggy to "My Way," it resembles a father-daughter dance at a wedding for a reason—Don is indeed giving her away. He's passing a baton.<br />
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Peggy is concerned that she doesn't know how to sell to mothers, to women she can't relate to, to women a big part of her envies. So Don tells her not to worry about telling people what they should want, that instead she should focus on communicating her own desires in her ads.<br />
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Peggy wants a sense of family that is less proscribed, that might just be a group of friends, so that is what her Burger Chef ad ends up being about—and the reason it will be successful is because it is the truth. As much as Don is a product of his time, Peggy is a product of hers, and rather than denying her age, she should be relishing it, because her insights, wisdom and perspective are about to form and shape a whole generation of working women just like her.<br />
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Peggy doesn't have to worry about not knowing how to advertise to stay-at-home moms. Because pretty soon, nearly all the moms will be working outside the home.<br />
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And as illustrated by the youngest characters on this episode, they'll be spending for reasons neither she nor Don could ever imagine.<br />
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Lizabeth Cohen talks about this in her 2004 book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Consumers-Republic-Politics-Consumption-Postwar/dp/0375707379"><i>A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America:</i></a><br />
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"By 1965, a majority of Americans would make their homes in suburbs rather than cities. The home ownership at the heart of the Consumers’ Republic [Cohen's term] did more than expand the numbers and enhance the status of suburbanites over urbanites. Through their greater access to home mortgages, credit and tax advantages, men benefited over women, whites over blacks and middle-class Americans over working-class ones. Men, for example, secured low VA mortgages and the additional credit that home ownership made available, as a result of their veteran status in World War II and the Korean War, while women generally did not. White Americans more easily qualified for mortgages, including those dispensed through the GI Bill, which worked through existing—and consistently discriminatory—banking institutions, and more readily found suburban houses to buy than African Americans could. And while some working-class Americans did move to suburbs, increasingly they tended to settle in “cops and firemen” suburban towns quite distinct from where successful professionals and entrepreneurs lived. A metropolitan landscape emerged where whole communities were increasingly being stratified along class and racial lines. <br />
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"The stratification of the residential metropolis in postwar America was accompanied by a similar segmentation, as well as commercialization and privatization of public space, of what previously had been the urban downtown. By the mid-1950s, a new market structure—the regional shopping center—well-suited to this suburbanized, mass consumption-oriented society, emerged, a vision and soon a reality where the center of community life was a site devoted to mass consumption, and what was promoted as public space was in fact privately owned and geared to maximizing profits. As developers and store owners set out to make the shopping center a more perfect downtown, they explicitly aimed to exclude from this community space unwanted social groups such as vagrants, racial minorities, political activists and poor people. They did so through a combination of location, marketing and policing.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuLCPcMBF22gP_6DI1rq-rToQ6oyEvaISUx3NpybwyyZkDTgYMIATTTWCcZ5Tsz9-FDim_9a9xXO9zo0EIq0qtYVdsv_tgmCrQBcBlrDfEq8oTF-ZhUv3i9uPjsHOalHmZvUB7ivR3b4g/s1600/4541039960_604459c606_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuLCPcMBF22gP_6DI1rq-rToQ6oyEvaISUx3NpybwyyZkDTgYMIATTTWCcZ5Tsz9-FDim_9a9xXO9zo0EIq0qtYVdsv_tgmCrQBcBlrDfEq8oTF-ZhUv3i9uPjsHOalHmZvUB7ivR3b4g/s1600/4541039960_604459c606_o.jpg" height="270" width="320" /></a>"The shopping centers of the 1950s and 1960s also contributed to a new calibration of consumer authority in the household between men and women that in many ways limited women’s power over the family purse. For all the attention that shopping centers lavished on women, they did little to enhance their social and economic power. Rather, as mass consumption became more and more central to the health of the economy, shopping centers and the stores within them celebrated the family as a consumer unit and paid increasing attention to men as the chief breadwinner and consumer. Men’s increased involvement in family purchasing was also reinforced by the huge expansion of credit that shopping centers encouraged, making credit cards and other forms of credit the legal tender of mall purchasing. Until the passage of equal credit legislation in the 1970s, the growing importance of credit deepened men’s oversight of their wives and daughters, as male names and credit ratings were required for women’s own access.<br />
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"The economic and social stratification of metropolitan America was reinforced by marketers and advertisers, who simultaneously discovered the greater profits to be made in segmenting the market into distinctive submarkets based on gender, class, age, race, ethnicity, and lifestyle. The Consumers’ Republic was founded in the 1940s and 1950s on the conviction that mass markets offered endless potential for growth and appealed to all Americans. 'The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio and TV set,' and drives a car with only minor variations, <i>Harper’s Magazine</i> typically asserted. But by the late 1950s, advertisers, marketers and manufacturers began to worry that mass markets would soon be saturated as more and more Americans bought a house, car, refrigerator and washing machine.<br />
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"The alternative that emerged, and flourished by the 1960s, was market segmentation, the division of mass markets into smaller market segments defined by distinctive orientations and tastes, each to be sold different products, or if the same product, to be sold in a totally different way. As segmenting pioneer Pierre Martineau argued in a groundbreaking article in the<i> Journal of Marketing</i> in 1958, a member of a market segment defined by social class or other criteria is 'profoundly different in his mode of thinking and his way of handling the world.... Where he buys and what he buys will differ not only by economics but in symbolic value.'<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPNzhNkX5dtP0ejP4gV4w161T6lOTFhpvh4Q6FIOdYpkeJqAbIAmYdh5c48xopyl8IgGNXBo0bQyQsmTPh6p9zxDT8jannhxdo3aGHDk5djLDYb0wW3nR0z9WQzujEaiFXM-ki44Awz0/s1600/1270978.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPNzhNkX5dtP0ejP4gV4w161T6lOTFhpvh4Q6FIOdYpkeJqAbIAmYdh5c48xopyl8IgGNXBo0bQyQsmTPh6p9zxDT8jannhxdo3aGHDk5djLDYb0wW3nR0z9WQzujEaiFXM-ki44Awz0/s1600/1270978.jpg" height="320" width="301" /></a>"During the last half century, Americans’ confidence that an economy and culture built around mass consumption could best deliver greater democracy and equality led us from the Consumers’ Republic to what I call the 'consumerization of the republic.' Americans increasingly came to judge the success of the public realm much like other purchased goods, by the personal benefit individual citizen-consumers derived from it.<br />
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"I do acknowledge in this book that the linkage made in the Consumers’ Republic between citizen and consumer spawned some important grassroots, democratic political action, most notably the Civil Rights Movement that began as a drive for access to public—often commercial—accommodations in the North right after World War II. If citizens had a patriotic responsibility to consume, then denying them was a violation of both a free market and a free society, it was argued. And I also explore how the democratic expectations raised by the Consumers’ Republic fueled the impressive consumer movement of the 1960s and 1970s, as citizen consumers aimed to hold corporations and government to higher moral and quality standards.<br />
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"But by the beginning of the 21st century, more often than not, Americans are asking of the public domain, 'Am I getting my money’s worth?' rather than 'What’s best for America?' Knowingly or not, they speak in an idiom that evolved out of the perhaps initially naive but ultimately misguided conviction of the Consumers’ Republic, that private markets could solve the nation’s social and political as well as economic problems, somehow delivering greater democracy and prosperity to one and all at the very same time."<br />
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By the 1970s, as Juliet B. Schor notes in her 1999 book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Overspent-American-Want-What/dp/0060977582"><i>The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need,</i></a> "expert observers were declaring the death of the 'belonging' process, which had driven much competitive consumption, and arguing that the establishment of an individual identity—rather than staying current with the Joneses—was becoming the name of the game. The new trend was to consume in a personal style, with products that signaled your individuality, your personal sense of taste and distinction. But, of course, you had to be different in the right way. The trick was to create a unique image through what you had and wore—and what you did not have and would not be seen dead in."<br />
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In this self-serving, self-defining, youth-worshiping culture, it could hardly be a surprise then that the women who'd previously read women's magazines for tips on homemaking were now suddenly consumed by the desire to go shopping for clothes and buy beauty products that would keep them looking forever 21.<br />
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And it was no different in <i><a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/">Good Housekeeping.</a></i> As the months progressed from spring to summer to fall in 1969, the magazine started publishing more and more ads for clothing (which were much more geared toward going to a department store and buying the clothes, rather than—what had been more popular previously—buying the fabric and using the patterns to sew the clothing yourself).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> August 1969</td></tr>
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"When asked to describe themselves in the late 1960s," writes Linda Przybyszewski in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Art-Dress-America/dp/0465036716"><i>The Lost Art of Dress: The Women who Once Made America Stylish</i></a> (in bookstores now), only 38% of people over 60 years of age were willing to call themselves old or elderly. Another 60% preferred to think of themselves as middle-aged. Which meant they were planning on living to 120. This loss of perspective was propelled by two shifts in the nature of the American population. The less obvious of the two was that more people were living longer.... The more obvious shift was the arrival of the Baby Boomers and their influence on our culture. During the Youthquake, growing up no longer seemed a worthwhile goal. 'Middle age has been abolished by the new fashions,' Mary Quant assured us in 1967. 'Provided you're prepared to take trouble about it, you just suddenly get old somewhere between 65 and 80, and until then, you can stay looking young.' Quant was 32 when she made this announcement. She was still being photographed in childish jumpers, and already wearing the hairstyle that became a necessity among designers who profited from the Youthquake: bangs halfway over the eyes. This coiffure covers as much of the face as possible in order to hide the lines that mark the no longer young. The Baby Boomers and their favorite designers couldn't avoid middle age any more than anyone else. Their problem was that they turned it into a tragedy, while discarding all the styles that their elders had claimed the privilege of wearing."<br />
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<a href="http://naomiwolf.org/">Naomi Wolf</a> wrote an entire book in 1991 about what she considered to be the most harmful result of this time period, a heightened realization of "the beauty myth," which she defined as follows: "The beauty myth tells a story: The quality called 'beauty' objectively and universally exists. Women must want to embody it and men must want to possess women who embody it. This embodiment is an imperative for women and not for men, which situation is necessary and natural because it is biological, sexual and evolutionary: Strong men battle for beautiful women, and beautiful women are more reproductively successful. Women's beauty must correlate to their fertility, and since this system is based on sexual selection, it is inevitable and changeless."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping</i>, July 1969</td></tr>
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In Wolf's chapter on women's magazines, she writes, "Though many writers have pointed out that women's magazines reflect historical change, fewer examine how part of their job is to determine historical change as well. Editors do their jobs well by reading the <i>Zeitgeist</i>; editors of women's magazines—and, increasingly, mainstream media as well—must be alert to what social roles are demanded of women to serve the interests of those who sponsor their publication. Women's magazines for over a century have been one of the most powerful agents for changing women's roles, and throughout that time—today more than ever—they have consistently glamorized whatever the economy, their advertisers, and, during wartime, the government, needed at that moment from women.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> June 1969</td></tr>
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"By the 1950s, the traditional women's magazine's role was re-established: 'In psychological terms,' writes Ann Oakley in <i>Housewife,</i> 'they enabled the harassed mother, the overburdened housewife, to make contact with her ideal self: that self which aspires to be a good wife, a good mother and an efficient homemaker.... Women's expected role in society [was] to strive after perfection in all three roles.' The definition of perfection, however, changes with the needs of employers, politicians and, in the postwar economy that depended on spiraling consumption, advertisers.<br />
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"In the 1950s, advertising revenues soared, shifting the balance between editorial and advertising departments. Women's magazines became of interest to 'the companies that, with the war about to end, were going to have to make consumer sales take the place of war contracts.' The main advertisers in the women's magazines responsible for the Feminine Mystique were seeking to sell household products. <br />
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"In a chapter of Betty Friedan's <i>The Feminine Mystique</i> entitled "The Sexual Sell," she traced how American housewives' 'lack of identity' and 'lack of purpose...[are] manipulated into dollars.' She explored a marketing service and found that, of the three categories of women, the Career Woman was 'unhealthy' from the advertisers' point of view, and 'that it would be to their advantage not to let this group get any larger....they are not the ideal type of customer. <i>They are too critical.</i>'<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> July 1969</td></tr>
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"The marketers' reports described how to manipulate housewives into becoming insecure consumers of household products: 'A transfer of guilt must be achieved,' they said, 'Capitalize...on "guilt over hidden dirt."' Stress the 'therapeutic value' of baking, they suggested: 'With X mix in the home, you will be a different woman.' They urged giving the housewife 'a sense of achievement,' to compensate her for a task that was 'endless' and 'time-consuming.' Give her, they urged manufacturers, 'specialized products for specialized tasks'; and 'make housework a matter of knowledge and skill rather than a matter of brawn and dull, unremitting effort.' Identify your products with 'spiritual rewards,' 'an almost religious feeling,' 'an almost religious belief.' For objects with 'added psychological value,' the report concluded, 'the price itself hardly matters.' Modern advertisers are selling diet products and 'specialized' cosmetics and antiaging creams rather than household goods. In 1989, 'toiletries/cosmetics' ad revenue offered $650 million to the magazines, while 'soaps, cleansers, and polishes' yielded only one-tenth that amount. So modern women's magazines now center on beauty rather than housework: You can easily substitute in the above quotes from the 1950s all the appropriate modern counterparts from the beauty myth. <br />
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"When the restless, isolated, bored and insecure housewife fled the Feminine Mystique for the workplace, advertisers faced the loss of their primary consumer. How to make sure that busy, stimulated working women would keep consuming at the levels they had done when they had all day to do so and little else of interest to occupy them? A new ideology was necessary that would compel the same insecure consumerism; that ideology must be, unlike that of the Feminine Mystique, a briefcase-sized neurosis that the working woman could take with her to the office. To paraphrase Friedan, why is it never said that the really crucial function that women serve as aspiring beauties is to buy more things for the body? Somehow, somewhere, someone must have figured out that they will buy more things if they are kept in the self-hating, ever-failing, hungry, and sexually insecure state of being aspiring 'beauties.'<br />
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"The modern form of the beauty myth was figured out, with its $33-billion thinness industry and its $20-billion youth industry....the beauty myth simply took over the function of Friedan's 'religion' of domesticity. The terms have changed but the effect is the same. Of the women's culture of the 1950s, Friedan lamented that 'there is no other way for a woman to be a heroine' than to 'keep on having babies'; today, a heroine must 'keep on being beautiful.'"<br />
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(I think that last one's the creepiest.)<br />
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Of course all of this explains a great deal about what I wondered a few posts back: How <i>GH</i>, and women's magazines in general, could have suddenly been publishing diet story after diet story at the same time they were publishing more ads for sandwiches you could make for the husband and kids.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> June 1969</td></tr>
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And in the summer of 1969, just in time for Peggy's Burger Chef ad, <i>GH</i> started pushing one other thing more than before: burgers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> June 1969</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>June 1969</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> June 1969</td></tr>
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This was a few years before the slogan "Have It Your Way" even existed. But back to that in a moment.<br />
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In his "True Colors" article for the <i>New Yorker </i>in 1999, mentioned above, Malcolm Gladwell also talks about another haircolor line: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_GvlikmZzc">L'Oreal. </a><br />
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"In 1973, Ilon Specht was working as a copywriter at the
McCann-Erickson advertising agency, in New York. She was a 23-year-old college dropout from California. She was
rebellious, unconventional and independent, and she had come East to
work on Madison Avenue, because that’s where people like that went to
work back then.<br />
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"At McCann, Ilon Specht was working with L’Oreal, a French company that was trying to challenge Clairol’s dominance in the American haircolor market. L’Oreal had originally wanted to do a series of comparison spots, presenting research proving that their new product—Preference—was technologically superior to Nice 'n Easy, because it delivered a more natural, translucent color. But at the last minute the campaign was killed because the research hadn’t been done in the United States. At McCann, there was panic. 'We were four weeks before air date and we had nothing—nada,' Michael Sennott, a staffer who was also working on the account, says. The creative team locked itself away: Specht, Madris—who was the art director on the account—and a handful of others. 'We were sitting in this big office,' Specht recalls. 'And everyone was discussing what the ad should be. They wanted to do something with a woman sitting by a window, and the wind blowing through the curtains. You know, one of those fake places with big, glamorous curtains. The woman was a complete object. I don’t think she even spoke. They just didn’t get it. We were in there for hours.'<br />
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"'I was a 23-year-old girl—a woman,' she said. 'What would my state of mind have been? I could just see that they had this traditional view of women, and my feeling was that I’m not writing an ad about looking good for men, which is what it seems to me that they were doing. I just thought, <i>Fuck you. </i>I sat down and did it, in five minutes. It was very personal. I can recite to you the whole commercial, because I was so angry when I wrote it.' <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> August 1969</td></tr>
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"Specht sat stock still and lowered her voice: 'I use the most expensive hair color in the world. Preference, by L’Oreal. It’s not that I care about money. It’s that I care about my hair. It’s not just the color. I expect great color. What’s worth more to me is the way my hair feels. Smooth and silky but with body. It feels good against my neck. Actually, I don’t mind spending more for L’Oreal. Because I’m'—and here Specht took her fist and struck her chest—'worth it.'<br />
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"The power of the commercial was originally thought to lie in its subtle justification of the fact that Preference cost 10 cents more than Nice 'n Easy. But it quickly became obvious that the last line was the one that counted. On the strength of 'Because I’m worth it,' Preference began stealing market share from Clairol. In the 1980s, Preference surpassed Nice 'n Easy as the leading haircolor brand in the country, and two years ago L’Oreal took the phrase and made it the slogan for the whole company. An astonishing 71% of American women can now identify that phrase as the L’Oreal signature, which, for a slogan—as opposed to a brand name—is almost without precedent.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping, </i>August 1969</td></tr>
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"The truth is that Shirley Polykoff’s sensibility—which found freedom in assimilation—had been overtaken by events. In one of Polykoff’s 'Is it true blondes have more fun?' commercials for Lady Clairol in the 1960s, for example, there is a moment that by 1973 must have been painful to watch. A young woman, radiantly blond, is by a lake, being swung around in the air by a darkly handsome young man. His arms are around her waist. Her arms are around his neck, her shoes off, her face aglow. The voice-over is male, deep and sonorous. 'Chances are,' the voice says, 'she’d have gotten the young man anyhow, but you’ll never convince her of that.' Here was the downside to Shirley Polykoff’s world. You could get what you wanted by faking it, but then you would never know whether it was you or the bit of fakery that made the difference. You ran the risk of losing sight of who you really were. Shirley Polykoff knew that the all-American life was worth it, and that 'he'—the handsome man by the lake—was worth it. But, by the end of the '60s, women wanted to know that they were worth it, too."<br />
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If Peggy and others like her are able to tap into this concept of treating oneself, no matter the cost, now that women actually have their own money—and soon their own credit cards—to spend, then her work on the Burger Chef ad in <i>Mad Men</i>'s "The Strategy" could be taken to a whole new level. She could be responsible for helping a whole generation of tired, working, guilt-ridden mothers—moms who just want a chance to relax and do something nice for themselves at the end of a busy day. She could be the brain behind Value Meals at McDonald's—a specialized, individual menu item, just for you—behind the Frappuccino at Starbucks and the multitude of stipulations you can give your local barista. She could someday be responsible for the first iPod, available in a variety of colors—whichever one suits your temperament. Hell, she could be the generator of the million-dollar wedding business in this country, because a "Career Woman" would absolutely want her wedding to be done "her way."<br />
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And she could be the ad director for Cabbage Patch Kids, My Buddy, for the burgeoning, unique-to-you toy industry in general, as seen on those summer <i>GH </i>pages and in the Barbie and Erector set purchased by hopeful dads on this episode:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah, that's gonna go well... (and remember, Bonnie bought this Barbie, not Pete himself)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> June 1969</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> July 1969</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Good Housekeeping,</i> August 1969</td></tr>
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But back to Burger King. <br />
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Two days after "The Strategy" aired last week, the 61-year-old restaurant chain <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/05/20/burger-king-ditches-have-it-your-way-slogan/">announced </a>that it would be discontinuing its "Have It Your Way" slogan: <br />
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"Burger King is scrapping its 40-year-old slogan in favor of the more personal 'Be Your Way.'<br />
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"Burger King says in a statement that the new motto is intended to
remind people that 'they can and should live how they want anytime. It's OK to not be perfect... Self-expression is most important and it's our
differences that make us individuals instead of robots.'<br />
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"It may seem odd for a fast-food company to champion individuality,
but Burger King isn't the only one trying to project a hip,
non-corporate attitude to gain favor with customers. Since 2012, for
instance, Taco Bell has been touting its 'Live Mas' slogan, which means 'live more' in Spanish.<br />
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"Fernando Machado, Burger King's senior vice president of global brand
management, noted in an interview that 'Have It Your Way' focuses only
on the purchase—the ability to customize a burger. By contrast, he
said 'Be Your Way' is about making a connection with a person's greater
lifestyle.<br />
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"'We want to evolve from just being the functional side of things to
having a much stronger emotional appeal,' said Machado, who joined the
company in March."<br />
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So, in 45 years, we've gone from "What if there was a place where there was no TV, where you could break bread, and whomever you were sitting with was family?" to "Be your way."<br />
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No wonder we're such a lonely, overspending, overeating, disconnected country of technology addicts.<br />
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But there is hope: According to the article, "whether the new tag line can help Burger King's image over the long term
remains to be seen. The company, along with McDonald's Corp., is
fighting to boost sales at a time when people are moving toward foods
they feel are fresher or higher quality."<br />
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I still think the cradle-to-grave advertising means fast food is stuck with us forever, though.<br />
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Because if your childhood was anything like mine and you're between the ages of 25 and 45, a huge part of why you watch this show is because of scenes like this one. There is something heartwarming about watching the beginning of divorced or single parents taking their kids out to eat if it's something you yourself have experienced. Whether it's Don eating in a diner with Sally or the three single parents sitting at a table at a burger chain above, there's a certain nostalgia triggered in Gen X and Gen Y, the next generations.<br />
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Adam Gopnik talked about this a bit in his 2012 story for the <i>New Yorker, </i><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/04/23/120423taco_talk_gopnik">"The 40-Year Itch"</a>: <br />
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"When the new season of <i>Mad Men</i> began, just a few weeks ago, it carried with it an argument about whether the spell it casts is largely a product of its beautifully detailed early-1960s setting or whether, as Matthew Weiner, its creator, insisted, it’s not backward-looking at all but a product of character, story line and theme. So it seems time to pronounce a rule about American popular culture: the Golden 40-Year Rule. The prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to have happened, in the decade between 40 and 50 years past. (And the particular force of nostalgia, one should bear in mind, is not simply that it is a good setting for a story but that it is a good setting for you.)<br />
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"Our aughts arrived with the 60s as their lost Eden, right on schedule. That meant too many 60s-pastiche rock bands to mention (think only of Alex Turner, of Arctic Monkeys, sounding exactly like John Lennon), with the plangent postmodern twist that in some cases the original article was supplying its own nostalgia: there were the Stones and the Beach Boys on long stadium tours, doing their 40-year-old hits as though they were new. With the arrival of <i>Mad Men,</i> in 2007 (based on a pilot written earlier in the decade), 1960s nostalgia was raised to an appropriately self-conscious and self-adoring 40-year peak.<br />
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"That takes us to the current day, and, at last, to the reasons behind the rule. What drives the cycle isn’t, in the first instance, the people watching and listening; it’s the producers who help create and nurture the preferred past and then push their work on the audience. Though pop culture is most often performed by the young, the directors and programmers and gatekeepers—the suits who control and create its conditions, who make the calls and choose the players—are, and always have been, largely 40-somethings, and the four-decade interval brings us to a period just before the 40-something was born. Forty years past is the potently fascinating time just as we arrived, when our parents were youthful and in love, the Edenic period preceding the fallen state recorded in our actual memories. Matthew Weiner, born in 1965, is the baby in his own series."<br />
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I have quite a few more matchups from "The Strategy" that I'll be posting next week along with my midseason-finale post. <br />
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Until then, "I bring the authority. He brings the emotion."<br />
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<br />Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-83411681511650786472014-05-18T20:44:00.000-07:002014-05-20T15:09:45.460-07:00GH's Throwback Thursday Mad Men Edition: "The Runaways"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLagAgoPCE">"Runaway"</a> by Del Shannon (1961)<br />
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As I walk along, I wonder<br />
Oh, what went wrong with our love<br />
A love that was so strong.<br />
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And as I still walk on<br />
I think of the things we've done together<br />
Oh, while our hearts were young.<br />
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I'm a-walking in the rain, tears are falling and I feel a pain<br />
A-wishing you were here by me to end this misery<br />
And I wonder, I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder<br />
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Why, why why why why why she ran away<br />
And I wonder, oh where she will stay-ay,<br />
My little runaway, a-run-run-run-run-runaway.<br />
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I'm a-walking in the rain, tears are falling and I feel a pain<br />
A-wishing you were here by me to end this misery<br />
I wonder, I wa-wa-wa-wa-wonder<br />
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Why, why why why why why she ran away<br />
And I wonder, oh where she will stay-ay<br />
My little runaway, a-run-run-run-run-runaway<br />
A-run-run-run-run-runaway, a-run-run-run-run-runaway.<br />
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Thursday, May 8th, would have been the 94th birthday of Saul Bass, had he lived to see that age, a man famous for designing virtually <a href="http://annyas.com/saul-bass-logo-design-then-now/">everything worth buying</a> in the 1960s. By May 1969, the time period we're likely seeing on <i>Mad Men</i>'s Episode 7.5, "The Runaways," he'd already generated posters for the decade's most famous films—films like <i>Vertigo,</i> <i>Spartacus</i> and <i>The Man With the Golden Arm</i> (talked about in greater detail on Steven Seighman's blog, <a href="http://www.the-jump-cut.com/?s=saul+bass">The Jump Cut</a>). Some have even said that the <a href="http://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/mad-men-intro-title-sequence/">opening credits</a> of <i>Mad Men</i> resemble Bass's work—the silhouette of a suited man falling, falling, falling...<br />
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But it wasn't until 1969 that Bass would create a logo for something that would make his work truly ubiquitous: the Dixie cup.<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-unnatural-history-of-the-dixie-cup-119828457/?no-ist">the Smithsonian,</a> Dixie cups offered "something at once refreshing and profoundly sobering. [They were] a pioneering product that ushered in the wave of single-use items—razors, aerosolized cans, pens, bottles of water and the paper cups you can find at doctor’s offices, backyard barbecues and, of course, the office water cooler."<br />
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It's the kind of item that promotes a great deal of freedom, an item you can easily throw away. <br />
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With the exception of maybe this smarmy fellow, we haven't seen many characters drinking out of disposable paper cups on <i>Mad Men</i>. And Bob Benson only ever really drinks <i>coffee</i> from a paper cup, and it's always one specific kind of cup, the <a href="http://www.coffeecrossroads.com/equipment-and-drinkware/cups-and-mugs/we-are-happy-to-serve-you-new-york-coffee-cup">Anthora</a>—though something tells me he often has to drink from two. (You might have spotted a box of Dixie cups in the background in an episode in the show's early years, seen below, but I don't recall anyone ever drinking from one.)<br />
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In 1962, Peggy and Joan probably would have been horrified by the idea of consuming a cocktail at a party from a paper cup. And in May 1969, they might still be.<br />
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You know who wouldn't be? These guys:<br />
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In one of <a href="http://www.amctv.com/mad-men/videos/fashion-and-style-episode-705-mad-men-the-runaways">AMC's</a> "Behind the Scenes" videos this week, <i>Mad Men</i> Property Master Ellen Freund said, "It was a lot of fun doing two parties in one episode because they're totally different parties. For Betty's party, the silver came out, all the good stuff came out. Perfect appetizers. But everything for Megan's party was very casual—plastic glasses, paper cups—things that were appropriate for 1969 youth Los Angeles."<br />
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The effort Betty puts into preparing for Henry's party is becoming a hallmark of the older generation at this point (much like her feelings about the Vietnam War, the state of which she apparently blames on the younger generation's lack of patriotism).<br />
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And in spring 1969, <i>Good Houskeeping</i> published party-planning ads that would have appealed to her:<br />
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And some that would have appealed to Megan:<br />
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(Paper cups with handles <i>and</i> a photo with amazing graphics? I'm sold.)<br />
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And here's Betty's latest spring 1969 <i>GH</i> doppelganger, from a Breck ad on the back of the May issue:<br />
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I can't decide which one looks happier.<br />
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Here's Megan's:<br />
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As Don struggles to find authenticity this season, he is surrounded by younger folks like the ones drinking beer out of paper Dixie cups at Megan's party (the red <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/branded/2011/10/red_cups_how_solo_s_disposable_drinking_vessel_became_an_america.2.html">Solo cup</a> was soon to follow in the 1970s) who are doing the same thing—but their struggle is mainly with "the phonies," as Holden Caufield might say, the older, World War II generation and its stodgy ways.<br />
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Matthew Weiner titled this episode "The Runaways," and Don Draper is the epitome of such. As a younger man coming of age, he escapes a life that looks like this:<br />
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Dick Whitman steals his new identity and throws away his old one. It's disposable. <br />
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As Don Draper, he makes an exciting new world for himself. He's the hero of his own story—and though much of his reality is essentially false, he's happier than what he considers the alternative.<br />
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Or is he?<br />
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In the past few seasons, we've learned that it's actually impossible for Don to run away from his true self, and no matter how much he might achieve as Don Draper, it will never be enough to heal Dick.<br />
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Dick Whitman's story is a 20th-century adventure. Though he has to do it as Don, when he runs away, he experiences the American dream, rags to riches. He makes a life out of nothing.<br />
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By 1969, though, young runaways, like Roger's daughter Margaret and Don's niece Stephanie (both in ponchos, coincidentally), were embarking on a very different kind of odyssey:<br />
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Karen M. Staller explains this well in <i>Runaways: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped Today's Practices and Policies:</i> <br />
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"As evident in the <i>New York Times,</i> there was a dramatic shift in the construction of runaway stories and thus in runaway discourse between 1960 and the late 1970s. In the early part of the 1960s, runaway adventures were characterized as safe, harmless, and predictable. Intervention by police (or other adults) was quick, in part, because runaways were so easy to identify by their dress or demeanor. If children weren't quickly caught by adults, they were forced back home by lack of resources (such as food or shelter). Children came from relatively happy homes or, at the very least, ones to which they could return. They did not go very far away or, if they did, they went to predictable places at predictable times of year (making intervention easier).<br />
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In the mid-to-late 1960s (with a crisis year in 1967), runaway discourse commingled with that on hippies. During this period, the story frame of the safe adventurer imploded as it mixed with discussions about wandering long-haired youth of the counterculture and its underground. Adventures were no longer safe. Children were drawn to counterculture areas (rather than to fairs and carnivals). Children could be gone for long periods of time, and they were not easy to identify because they blended into the counterculture scene. Adult hippies were uncooperative, and police no longer were effective agents of social control. In short, runaway children could vanish in the underground counterculture abyss and disappear forever. The earlier 1960s story frame of safe runaway adventures could not survive these new rhetorical and social conditions.<br />
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As public discussion on hippies receded, a newly constituted 'typical' runaway emerged. This one represented an entire population of similarly situated children. This typical runaway was street-based, left home for long periods of time, and was in danger of exploitation and victimization. These runaways came from unhappy homes to which they were unwilling to return. So rather than being forced home by lack of resources (as in the early 1960s), these runaways were driven to 'survival sex.' Police were no longer able to thwart runaway episodes nor could they protect children. In fact runaway youth were mostly on their own."<br />
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This does not bode well for Miss Sally Draper, who's already run off to school after witnessing her father's adultery, attempted to alter her identity via a fake license and said on a couple of occasions that she's willing to hitchhike if necessary, the most recent of which happened Sunday night:<br />
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"They'll never let you out. You're too little."<br />
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The poncho: the standard runaway uniform of 1969.<br />
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And I meant to post this last week, but here's a throwback to <i>Good Housekeeping</i>'s idea of hippies at the time:<br />
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Yeah, that's pretty far off.<br />
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That sweet scene shared by Sally and Bobby showed the most authentic connection and intimacy of any this entire season (rivaled only by Roger and Margaret's looking up at the stars in "The Monolith"—during which they didn't likely "think of a number"). And really, that's what the New Wave runaway was mostly looking for, as represented accurately this episode: an authentic connection. It's something that doesn't often seem possible in a world that is all pretense and facade, constructed by people like Don Draper, who can hide within it, and Betty Francis, who was literally a model when she met him.<br />
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(That "perfect nose" of hers seems to have gotten her involved with another phony, hasn't it? Somehow in her self-righteousness Betty failed to notice the very slim difference between a politician and an ad man.)<br />
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"Are there others like you?" Peggy asks Michael Ginsberg in season five's "Faraway Places," after he tells her that while he believes he's a Martian, his adoptive father has told him he was born in a concentration camp. <br />
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"I don't know," he responds. "I haven't been able to find any."<br />
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Is there any runaway in history braver or more alienated than a survivor of the Holocaust?<br />
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In Michael Ginsberg, you have the perfect storm this episode: a Holocaust survivor who has post-traumatic stress that's being triggered by extenuating circumstances, a.k.a. "the computer."<br />
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He's working for an unbearable boss who is stunting his creativity. He stays late in the office to finish tag lines for HandiWrap, which was also quite a disposable product of convenience—here are the ads <i>Good Housekeeping</i> ran for it in spring of 1969 (and it got the Seal, so you know it was a hot commodity): <br />
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He's trying to come up with creative verbiage to sell this modern-convenience dreck, not to mention the Burger Chef ads, which would only contribute to this new on-the-road, no-need-to-go-home American lifestyle—except those would be even more insidious because they'd appeal to children, if guys like Lou had anything to do with it (the inspiration for his "Scout's Honor" comic was "Underdog," which, like many other cartoons of the time, was used invariably to sell junk food to kids—below is one of many that sprouted up in <i>GH</i> that year).<br />
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So besides the stress of the computer, Ginsberg has the stress of coming up with tag lines that have to be right but can't be too creative or his boss will veto them—the same boss who is currently holding a secret weekend meeting next to the computer, during which he likely says the phrase "final solution" while Ginsberg reads his lips (a term Lou and Cutler have used to describe what they plan to do to Don; it's conveniently also a term Nazis used to refer to their plan to annihilate Jews). And Ginsberg's also the kind of guy who immerses himself in government conspiracy theories and anti-establishment literature—and he probably does so more than most at that time.<br />
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It's no coincidence that Weiner has altered Ginsberg's appearance through the years to resemble the most famous <a href="http://udini.proquest.com/view/the-inward-urge-1960s-science-goid:594663136/">social sci-fi</a> writer of that time period, whose 1969 novel described horrible incidents he experienced during World War II, and whose 1968 short story <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House_(short_story)">"Welcome to the Monkey House"</a> somewhat resembles Ginsberg's ideas about the computer "turning everyone into homos."<br />
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Besides seeing <i>2001: A Space Odyssey,</i> Ginsberg is surely watching films like <i>Night of the Living Dead</i> and TV shows like <i>Star Trek</i> and <i>The Twilight Zone.</i> And he is most likely reading books like this one:<br />
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His world view is informed by many different things, none of which match the pop culture world of Betty Francis, who glorifies the government's decision to stay in Vietnam and then goes to her bedroom to watch <i>Gomer Pyle.</i><br />
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Ginsberg is merely trying to do what <a href="http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript119.html">Kurt Vonnegut Jr. described once in a PBS Think Tank</a> interview about Woodstock. It's what every other runaway of this time was doing—looking for a tribe.<br />
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Unfortunately, after going so far as to cut off his nipple to deal with the pressure (just look at his word choice the past few episodes, by the way, to catch the PTSD-related references: "They're trying to erase us"; "It's going to get us, one by one..."; "It's like a hydrogen bomb in my head"), Ginsberg is headed somewhere to join a tribe he never wanted to join. I hope for his sake, he's able to get out of it and express himself authentically without being labeled as a lunatic.<br />
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Because by the early 1970s, the fallout of the hippie movement would have many people feeling as such. Or at least feeling let down, or confused by what had happened. As Martha Bayles says in the PBS Think Tank interview about the concert we'll probably see by the end of this season, the largest gathering of runaways at that time, "I think [Woodstock] was a failed project because a lot of young people believed in peace and love, but they didn't have a very good guide as to what peaceful or loving actions really were. And it was very much about personal liberation and not very much about how to treat other people. How to treat other people became a very confused and chaotic issue for a lot of young people. Even if they weren't at Woodstock or they weren't at the extremes, there was a lot of moral confusion. And by moral confusion, I mean how to treat other people. And if you add in the toxic emotions that are brought about by drug abuse, you have a recipe for real disaster. And people who felt mistreated by their friends and their lovers and so forth in the '60s were always accused of having middle-class hangups, you know. 'Hey, you know, what's your problem? Why do you object to what I just did to you? You know, you're just hung up on middle-class morality.' And that affected a lot of people. I don't know how the polls would measure that, but that affected a lot of people."<br />
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Reminds me a bit of the scene where Don says he doesn't want anything, he just wants to go to bed. And Megan and her friend Amy from Delaware say, "What you need is more drugs."<br />
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It's a very different "tucking in" than Lou Avery offers him.<br />
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This week I'll be posting even more fashion and interior decor matchups (there were tons this time). <br />
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Until then, "I'm smart. I speak Italian."<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3kKUEY5WU&feature=kp">American Tune</a> by Paul Simon (1973)<br />
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Many's the time I've been mistaken, <br />
And many times confused <br />
And I've often felt forsaken, <br />
And certainly misused. <br />
But it's all right, it's all right, <br />
I'm just weary to my bones <br />
Still, you don't expect to be <br />
Bright and bon vivant <br />
So far away from home, <br />
So far away from home. <br />
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I don't know a soul who's not been battered <br />
Don't have a friend who feels at ease <br />
Don't know a dream that's not been shattered <br />
Or driven to its knees. <br />
But it's all right, it's all right, <br />
We've lived so well so long <br />
Still, when I think of the road we're traveling on, <br />
I wonder what went wrong, <br />
I can't help it, <br />
I wonder what went wrong. <br />
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And I dreamed I was flying. <br />
I dreamed my soul rose unexpectedly, <br />
And looking back down on me, <br />
Smiled reassuringly, <br />
And I dreamed I was dying. <br />
And far above, my eyes could clearly see <br />
The Statue of Liberty, <br />
Drifting away to sea <br />
And I dreamed I was flying. <br />
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We come on a ship we call the Mayflower, <br />
We come on a ship that sailed the moon <br />
We come at the age's most uncertain hour <br />
And sing the American tune. <br />
But it's all right, it's all right <br />
You can't be forever blessed <br />
Still, tomorrow's gonna be another working day <br />
And I'm trying to get some rest, <br />
That's all, I'm trying to get some rest.Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-52245147126337829382014-05-08T21:10:00.000-07:002014-05-09T00:34:07.875-07:00GH's Throwback Thursday Mad Men edition: "The Monolith"Before we get into this week's Throwback post, let's settle something really quickly: Lou Avery might not be such a jerk after all.<br />
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According to this <a href="http://adage.com/article/75-years-of-ideas/1960s-creativity-breaking-rules/102704/">article</a> in Ad Age, some of his attitudes towards advertising were fairly common at that time: <br />
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"The 1960 U.S. Census began to offer segmented research, not only on per-capita income and population density but also on lifestyles. Advertisers could more narrowly target their consumers, and increasingly did so using 'psychographic' data to create image campaigns. In the late 1960s, when it became apparent that an economic recession was likely, marketers moved away from image advertising and toward research-backed, results-driven strategies. Some marketers even canceled ad campaigns or took their marketing activity in-house."<br />
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Research-backed, results-driven strategies. Yup. That's Lou Avery. <br />
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It's also the new computer being installed in the offices of Sterling Cooper & Partners on this week's <i>Mad Men,</i> Episode 7.4: "The Monolith"—a computer the agency is only really able to afford because they've decided to bring Don Draper back on board. <br />
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If the partners had chosen to set him loose, as they mentioned on "Field Trip," they would also have to buy his shares, which would be a pretty pricey move.<br />
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So whether he realizes it or not, Don is somewhat responsible for the introduction of this computer, the very thing that seems to be "erasing" creatives like himself.<br />
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Speaking of creatives, let's revisit the reasons Don was forced to leave the offices in the first place.<br />
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In the final episode of season six, “In Care Of,” Don's pitch to Hershey was unintentionally emotional and revealing, putting an end to a season full of impulsive, sometimes alcohol-fueled, behavior on his part: <br />
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"I'm sorry. I have to say this because I don't know if I'll ever see you again. I was an orphan. I grew up in Pennsylvania in a whorehouse. I read about Milton Hershey and his school in <i>Coronet</i> magazine or some other crap that the girls left by the toilet. And I read that some orphans had a different life there. I could picture it. I dreamed of it—of being wanted. Because the woman who was forced to raise me every day would look at me like she hoped I would disappear. The closest I got to feeling wanted was from a girl who made me go through her johns' pockets while they screwed. If I collected more than a dollar, she'd buy me a Hershey's bar. And I would eat it alone…in my room…with great ceremony…feeling like a normal kid. And it said 'sweet' on the back. It was the only sweet thing in my life."<br />
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So was anyone surprised on Sunday night to see this?<br />
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There's that little boy again, whom nobody wants, which Weiner has gone to great lengths to illustrate in both "Field Trip" and "The Monolith." And what is his snack of choice?<br />
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A candy bar.<br />
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And a can of Coke, which he later fills with vodka.<br />
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But back to the candy bar. <br />
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the first time we've seen Don eating candy, much less any kind of snack on <i>Mad Men</i> (not including those Ritz crackers two weeks ago). He's usually satisfying his oral fixation with drinks (which he's had to quit), women (which he's also had to quit, with the exception of his long-distance wife, Megan, and somewhat erotic books like <i>Portnoy's Complaint</i>) or cigarettes (OK, he's still <i>way </i>into those...but he does drop one under a radiator this episode, only to reveal a Mets pennant that belonged to a dead man, like the office he's working in, so maybe those will be on the way out soon, too). <br />
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By the way, before Lane's suicide, when Don fired him, he told him, "I've started over lots of times. It will get better."<br />
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Will it, Don? Ironic that he should have to start over in the office where Lane couldn't.<br />
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But back to the candy bar.<br />
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How, I have to ask, could the guy who's so emotionally attached to Hershey's, whose confession of which ultimately led to his downfall last season...how could this guy be sitting in his office—finally back at work despite multiple severe stipulations—eating a Hershey's bar?<br />
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But wait...maybe it's not a Hershey's.<br />
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It's a Clark Bar.<br />
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"Don't eat that; you're so trim."<br />
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Poor, sweet, dim Meredith. "She has the mind of a child," as Peggy noted two episodes ago. And yet the libido of a teenager, apparently, as Weiner's utilizing her as the reminder that women are extra-hot for Don now that he's basically gone celibate.<br />
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Makes sense that Don might develop a distaste for Hershey. Plus, as Lou noted last episode, Ogilvy's now working on the Hershey account. <br />
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And that happened in real life, too.<br />
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About a year ago, Shawn Zupp of Ogilvy & Mather spoke at a <a href="http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2001/04-27/hershey.html">Boston college</a> regarding Hershey's first ads, designed by his company. Up until the late 1960s, just like Don said on the show, the company had no need to advertise.<br />
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But by 1969, candy ads were becoming more prevalent. And Hershey had Mars/M&Ms to contend with.<br />
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"They were very touchy-feely," Zupp said of the first ads, "because Hershey was just trying to evoke an emotional connection with consumers. This was a brand that was an American staple, had been passed down for generations and that people could remember enjoying as a kid."<br />
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My sources who lived through this time period told me, coincidentally, that when they saw Don eating the candy bar, it made them think of the only candy bar advertisement they remembered well from the 1960s: the Clark Bar's. That's because it featured an endearing, funny talking camel. And 20 years earlier, the print ads looked something like this: <br />
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The Clark Bar, the Center of Attraction. <br />
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That sounds like the kind of candy a grown-up Don might identify with. The bizarro bar to Dick Whitman's Hershey's.<br />
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As I perused the 1969 <i>Good Housekeeping</i>s for this week's matchups, I was startled by how many more ads there were for candy and snacks than I'd noticed previously. Much like the sandwich-ad trend I mentioned in last week's post, from March through June (the timeframe of "The Monolith" is a bit up for debate, so I searched through several), there was a definite trend towards salt and sweetness. <br />
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Here they are, in order of appearance:<br />
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And this one's not even technically a snack food, but doesn't it look nutritious?<br />
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In Don's early days at Sterling Cooper, he was pitching a certain image, a kind of glamour. Coming off the 1950s, he was dealing in more prosperous times. <br />
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"Advertising is based on one thing: happiness," he told the men at Lucky Strike. "And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is OK. You are OK."<br />
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And when he was pitching to Kodak, he was dealing in sentiment, because many people missed those more prosperous times:<br />
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"My first job, I was in-house at a fur company, with this old pro copywriter. Greek, named Teddy. And Teddy told me the most important idea in advertising is 'new.' Creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of…calamine lotion. But he also talked about a deeper bond with the product: nostalgia. It's delicate…but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means, 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship. It's a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the Wheel. It's called a Carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Around and around, and back home again…to a place where we know we are loved."<br />
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Except for Don, as we learned last season, that place did not exist. He showed slides of his wife and kids as part of that presentation, not his childhood home. And, as we all know, those wife and kids don't exactly make up such a pretty picture anymore.<br />
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In 1969, the country was in a state of unrest. And Don knows that in a time of unrest, when public figures are being assassinated, when mass murderers take center stage, during a time of war, when protests for peace are killing students left and right, when your babies are leaving their babies behind to go live in hippie communes, when machines seem to be replacing man, when, as Don McLean might say, the music has died, America wants the comfort of a Hershey's.<br />
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Or maybe a French fry.<br />
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We leave Don at the end of "The Monolith," after watching him break every single SC&P rule he'd agreed to follow (and yet somehow not get caught), sitting at his typewriter, trying to come up with 25 tags for a popular fast-food restaurant called Burger Chef. In the 1960s, this company created the Fun Meal, a precursor to the McDonald's Happy Meal—a treat that would bring comfort to kids in its sweet and salty goodness and later to those same kids once they'd become adults.<br />
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It's cradle-to-grave marketing. And Don's going to be a genius at it.<br />
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In case you were wondering, you don't have to look far these days, either, to find those sweet and salty comfort foods in<a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/"> <i>Good Housekeeping.</i></a> What could be more comforting than the treat on the cover of our June issue, Grown-Up S'Mores?<br />
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Tomorrow in my Outtakes post, I'll share with you some of the coolest fashion matchups I found this week. <br />
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Until then, "You're in charge, sweetheart."<br />
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(I hate to quote Lou, but I just had to do it. Good for Peggy for getting some authoritah.)<br />
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Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-18773579716090096602014-05-03T11:49:00.000-07:002014-05-03T11:49:57.285-07:00GH's Throwback Thursday Mad Men Outtakes: "Field Trip"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsompXwD-GKqTLCv6x-5e5u2e_Opi5YtISJfPPgkzb_gZgATweT8848RfUh38GnBtJCcOa_2So9CR8NmIMYqKK2yoQdd5s534tX0XCfNHJQ1UaTVP4c5Dsw-T3JkJLZCneK2B-AZ1-33I/s1600/bettysandwich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsompXwD-GKqTLCv6x-5e5u2e_Opi5YtISJfPPgkzb_gZgATweT8848RfUh38GnBtJCcOa_2So9CR8NmIMYqKK2yoQdd5s534tX0XCfNHJQ1UaTVP4c5Dsw-T3JkJLZCneK2B-AZ1-33I/s400/bettysandwich.jpg" /></a></div><br />
This week, my <a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/parenting-tips/throwback-thursday-hunger-in-america">recap</a> on the <i>Good Housekeeping</i> website zeroed in on the child hunger issue in the 1960s and what <i>GH</i> was trying to do about it...<br />
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...and on what <i>GH</i> is trying to do about it today. A No Kid Hungry story appears in every issue of <i>GH</i> now, and it's a cause we really believe in.<br />
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In the May 2014 issue of <i>GH,</i> for example, we published a guide to hosting your own No Kid Hungry bake sale and an essay by novelist Melanie Thorne about her experiences trading gumdrops for sandwiches, so to speak, growing up.<br />
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I really couldn't help but think of this when I watched that field trip scene, despite the fact that we don't know for sure that Bobby Draper's little friend is having hunger issues. It just seemed awfully odd to me that she would have gone to school without a proper sandwich, even if she may attend a private school (who's to say her parents aren't sacrificing nutrition for education)?<br />
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As usual, <i>GH </i>has chosen the best of these finds for my weekly recap, and I'm here to give you the rest. Here's what else I found for episode 7.3, <i>Mad Men:</i> "Field Trip."<br />
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I'm guessing Betty Draper Francis is unconcerned about the little girl who doesn't have a sandwich because a) she's obviously more focused on herself, b) she's hungry, dammit—those cigarettes do not equal "lunch," c) she thinks she's unappreciated by her children after all she does for them, or d) she assumes the mother of this child has just started working, like her "friend" Francine does, so she's clearly too harried to remember packing lunches.<br />
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In April 1969, many <i>Good Housekeeping </i>readers would have concurred with theory d). Betty would have been one of about 44% of U.S. mothers who didn’t work outside of the home then, according to the U.S. Census. Here's a (somewhat?) facetious editorial written by one of them in that month's <i>GH:<br />
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Is it a coincidence that there's a white bread ad dovetailing this column? Methinks not.<br />
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Working women and feminism and, you know, just feeling fulfilled for being a person, aside, let's talk about how non-old-fashioned Betty's hair is in this episode.<br />
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Here's the April 1969 cover of <i>Good Housekeeping:</i><br />
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And here's Betty's very glamorous field-trip look:<br />
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If Betty Francis wasn't getting hair tips out of <i>GH,</i> I don't know where she was getting them from (and yes, I realize she is a fictional character). The March 1969 issue, a month before her lunch with Francine, had a guide to styling your hair with hot rollers, a relatively new concept (no more sleeping on Coke cans—hurray!), that looked like this:<br />
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And here's Betty in her half-up do for her ladies' lunch:<br />
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Coincidentally, we also ran a <a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/hair/celebrity-wavy-hairstyles#slide-1">hairstyle story</a> in the April 2014 <i>GH,</i> this time on the innovative things you can do with curling irons (all of which were tested in the <i>GH</i> Beauty Labs for effectiveness, with the winners highlighted):<br />
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As has been noted around the Web this week, Betty barely touches her salad at this lunch with Francine, so you can hardly blame Bobby for assuming his mother doesn't plan on eating on the field trip!<br />
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I'm wondering if there's a theme here with the Jenny Craig program that changed "fat Betty" into "hot mama Betty," and women's focus on thinness at that time in general. I mentioned in an earlier post the shift in this era from fashion shoots featuring models posing in the home to those that showed the "single girl," fun, youthful, jumping around, etc. As I've flipped through these old issues of <i>GH,</i> the mecca of housewife magazines at that time, I've been noticing a slight shift—i.e., lots more articles about diet and low-fat recipes for women. <i>And</i> lots more sandwich ads geared towards men.<br />
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What's the one thing we've noticed the gentlemen of this season eating more than anything else? Sandwiches.<br />
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Don in California with Pete. Don with Freddie and some Orange Crushes at the end of the first episode. The chicken salad sandwich Don eats while on pins and needles at the end of "Field Trip," waiting in the creatives' room to meet his fate. That scene juxtaposed with Bobby eating his gumdrops, thinking about the extra sandwich he's given away (I have to guess Matthew Weiner put these scenes side by side for a reason). <br />
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The BLT Roger is waiting for in the Algonquin when he gets Don Draper instead.<br />
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I think we're seeing a trend this season of working women and apparently also housewives who are doing all they can to look thin and young, including not eating much. And men who are eating a ton of sandwiches because fewer people are making home-cooked meals. Just a theory...we'll see if it keeps happening.<br />
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Back to the matchups.<br />
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There's a whole lot going on in fashion on "Field Trip." Let's start with Megan, the most fashion-forward of the bunch.<br />
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When Don surprises her in L.A., her wardrobe blends with her creepy apartment so well that her curtains might even be the same fabric as her blouse. But it's her crochet-knit vest and skirt that I'm more interested in.<br />
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In our everything-old-is-new-again category, check out the near-perfect match on Monica Potter in our June 2014 issue, on newsstands now:<br />
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It's been noted that Peggy wears the same outfit this episode that she wore when SCD&P combined with Ted's company last season. Somehow, it looks like a colder color than before, though. Don's been gone so long, that it seems many viewers have forgotten Peggy's reasons to say, "I can't say we miss you." Don't forget that it was his decision to send Ted off to L.A., which effectively ended her relationship with him.<br />
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But, in her way, Peggy is very much in style for April 1969. A close match to her coat and skirt appeared in the March <i>GH:</i><br />
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Even the clothing on the extras on this episode were chosen with precision. When a strange woman comes on to Don (as several seem to be doing this season), she's wearing a look straight out of the February 1969 <i>GH:</i><br />
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Why is Weiner having Don turn down these offers left and right this season, by the way? Is it meant to illustrate, as he said recently on <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/05/01/308608611/mad-men-creator-matthew-weiner-on-the-end-of-don-drapers-journey">NPR to Terry Gross,</a> what a changed man Don has become?<br />
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And it's not like I'm ignoring Don's character arc here. As I mentioned in the first post, I just think the focus Weiner's bringing to the female characters this season is really interesting and gels nicely with what was happening in magazines like <i>GH</i> at that time. <br />
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One thing that really stood out to me (besides the sandwich ads and abundance of feminine deodorant sprays—that's a combo you'll never see again anywhere else!) in these spring <i>GH</i> issues was the number of stories that featured a large photo of a woman coddling a child. In the March issue in particular, for some reason, the number of these skyrocketed:<br />
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And even in the ads, like the ones for beauty products:<br />
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Let's hope those 1969 moms were happier and more fulfilled than this one:<br />
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Until next time, "Eat your candy."<br />
Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-56078532856576919002014-05-02T17:07:00.001-07:002014-05-02T17:07:55.444-07:00GH's Throwback Thursday Mad Men Outtakes: "A Day's Work"As promised, here are my outtakes from the second episode of the season, "A Day's Work."<br />
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Episode 7.2: “A Day’s Work”<br />
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It’s the second episode of the season, and it’s beginning to seem like the film <i>It’s a Wonderful Life.</i> What is life like without Don Draper in it? What is the office like? One thing’s for sure—there’s clutter, clutter everywhere, both at SC&P and in Don’s swank apartment (or formerly swank). One of the opening scenes of this episode shows Don with his hand in a box of Ritz crackers, watching <i>The Little Rascals</i> on TV. According to my sources, who actually lived through this time period, snacking out of a box like that was relatively unheard of. And yet today you can pop into almost any deli or bodega and be overwhelmed by the vast variety of snack options.<br />
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In February 1969, it was just the beginning…<br />
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Several women get promoted at work, seemingly randomly, this episode. But I think what lies at the heart of these promotions is their loyalty to the company. Dawn ends up with Joan’s old job by episode’s end, and by then we’ve learned that she’s still updating Don at home on the goings on of the company and wants to do so without extra pay (though Don insists otherwise). Joan, it turns out, has been working two jobs, and finally gets her promotion to ad man.<br />
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Peggy, on the other hand, is capsized by the weight of Valentine’s Day and the sheer number of women in the office with flowers on their desks, especially her very own secretary, whose roses she mistakes for her own. “Look at you, every inch a girl,” her employee Stan teases her.<br />
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While she seems embarrassed about her meltdown, there’s really very little she can do about it. <br />
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And is it just me, or do those roses seem to multiply in size throughout the episode? They look like a dozen at first, and I'm pretty sure someone, Dawn or Peggy, says there are a dozen of them. But by episode's end, there are definitely at least three dozen roses in that vase.<br />
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We get an interesting look at race relations of the time period this episode, too. The only two black secretaries in the office, Dawn and Shirley, refer to each other by their own names, a nod to how often their coworkers mix them up. And in an office that has become more and more conservative in the absence of their fearless leader, Shirley is anything but:<br />
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But check out her dress doppelganger in the February 1969 <i>GH:</i><br />
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Incidentally, another Shirley, Shirley Chisholm, was the first black woman to join the House of Representatives in 1968, and yet Bert Cooper can’t handle having a black woman work the reception desk at SC&P because “someone might see her.”<br />
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Ponder that one. <br />
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Until next time, as Sally Draper would say, "Just tell the truth."Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-83735946505385409862014-05-02T16:38:00.000-07:002014-05-19T21:10:43.515-07:00GH's Throwback Thursday Mad Men Outtakes: "Time Zones"Since I started doing <i>Mad Men</i> "Throwback Thursday" posts for the <i>Good Housekeeping</i> website a week ago, some of you have asked me, "Hey Laura, whatever happens to all those sweet, sweet Diptic match-ups that never make it into your recap?" So, for your viewing pleasure, I'll be posting those outtakes here, on my personal blog, each Friday. There are so many great discoveries in the <i>GH</i> archives that I'd be remiss <i>not</i> to share these with you.<br />
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Here are the ones from the first episode.<br />
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Episode 7.1: "Time Zones"<br />
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Itʼs <i>Mad Men</i>ʼs final season, and in seven short years weʼve jumped nine years in TV time—from 1960 to 1969.<br />
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The first scene of nearly every season premiere of this much-loved series has centered on our anti-hero, ad man Don Draper, usually panning in on the back of his head, mimicking the animation in the showʼs opening credits. But this season was just a little bit different. The first minutes were filmed through the lens of Donʼs mentee, Peggy Olson (which was also the case in one of the final scenes last season, if you remember). <br />
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We the audience watched what she watched, as though we were viewing the 1960s ad world through the eyes of a woman for the first time.<br />
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When this series began, the idea of a woman working as an ad executive was laughable. And yet Don knew that his success in advertising relied largely on figuring out what women wanted. In <i>Mad Men</i>'s premiere episode, when Don asks a waiter in a restaurant what cigarettes he smokes and why, the man adds that his wife hates it that he smokes because she read in <i>Readerʼs Digest</i> that it could kill him, which he quickly dismisses by saying, “Women sure love their magazines.”<br />
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“Yes, they do,” Don agrees.<br />
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But that waiter could easily have found the same info in <i>Good Housekeeping<i><i></i></i>,</i> which stopped publishing cigarette ads in 1952. Compared to all other media in the ʼ60s, womenʼs magazines showed the best examples of changing womenʼs roles in society. A study published by <a href="http://www.csub.edu/~cgavin/Communications/art7.pdf"><i>The Journal of Psychology</i></a> in 1992 found a “slow and steady increase in stories with feminist themes” in the years after Betty Friedanʼs 1960 article in <i>GH,</i> the precursor to her <i>The Feminine Mystique.</i><br />
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From now until the end of the season, Iʼll set out to show you examples of those changing roles (and some fashion and beauty, too—promise), as seen through the eyes of characters like Peggy, Joan, Megan, Betty and even Sally, the womenʼs magazine readers of the series and—particularly in Joan and Peggyʼs case—the women whose ideas were changing history.<br />
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Before "Time Zones" even aired, we had weeks of promotions from series creator Matthew Weiner, several of which showed the newly L.A.-glamorous Megan Draper. We’ve seen her wear a fall before, but never quite like this. A quick peek into the January 1969 <i>Good Housekeeping</i> reveals a startlingly uncanny example of the trend. Can you tell which is which? <br />
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On the left is an illustration by Howard Terpning for an excerpt of a 1968 novel by Norah Lofts, called <i>The Lost Queen.</i> Terpning’s style was similar to that of his contemporary, Brian Sanders, the 75-year-old illustrator Weiner recruited to design the promotional ads for the sixth season of<i> Mad Men,</i> who was also once a regular <i>GH</i> contributor (his artwork appears in the March 1969 issue).<br />
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This particular illustration style was often called <a href="http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/04/brian-sanders-and-womens-magazine.html">"bubble and streak,"</a> a method that involved mixing soap with gouache paint. Below is an example of Brian's <i>GH</i> work.<br />
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And here are some other Megan Draper-esque characters from the February 1969 <i>GH</i> (part of an Avon ad, no less, one of Sterling, Cooper & Partners’ newest clients), along with a close-up of Megan’s makeup at the airport as she greets Don.<br />
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In February 1969, <i>GH</i> interviewed six or so acclaimed makeup artists for explanations on how to achieve this look. My favorite part of this is where he calls lavender a "nothing color."<br />
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January 1969 would see Richard Nixon’s inauguration, the last public performance by the Beatles and a Southern California oil spill that would inspire a senator to organize the first Earth Day the next year.<br />
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After hearing former full-timer Freddie Rumsen’s amazing pitch (which unbeknownst to Peggy was actually conceived by Don, who seems to be using Freddie as a voice box during his paid leave), Peggy tries to adjust the catchphrase for Accutron watches to blend with her own vision, a signature Draper move. It’s not just the opening scenes of this first episode that center on a woman’s perspective—it’s nearly all of it. We don’t even see Don Draper until several minutes in, and even then he is traveling to visit his wife who’s finding success in her acting career in Los Angeles and essentially now lives alone. Other than his work with freelancer Freddie, Don seems to have a good amount of time on his hands (pun intended), though his wife believes he’s still going to work every day.<br />
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When Megan picks up Don at LAX, it’s in a new car. His first instinct is to open the passenger’s side door for her, but she whispers to him that she has to be the driver because she can’t figure out how to adjust the seats yet. <br />
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Here’s what <i>GH</i> readers thought women knew about cars in January and February 1969. <br />
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Around this time, the concept of “the single girl” was becoming prominent in women’s magazines. Whereas models had once been photographed posing in the home, a youthful woman, running around and jumping outside, had become the norm. A single career girl is something Megan has clearly begun to see herself as, despite the fact that she’s already married.<br />
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One of the funniest parts of this episode is when a stressed-out Ken Cosgrove scolds secretary-turned-partner Joan Holloway for using his phone to save the Butler Footwear account, one SC&P might have lost had Joan not shown so much ingenuity, despite her sexist treatment by its new head of marketing. Joan’s usually pretty good at conducting these business deals in secret, but this time she slips up and leaves an earring in Ken’s office. Ken throws it at her but misses because of his recent eye injury at the hands of Chevy.<i> Mad Men</i> costumer Janie Bryant was right on when she put those bulky earrings on Joan—they were very trendy that year.<br />
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As for Peggy’s wardrobe this season, is anyone else missing those glorious bell bottoms from the sixth season finale? Those pants made a real statement as she hung out in Don’s office like she owned the place. And they were well represented in the January 1969 <i>GH.</i><br />
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She’s still wearing a ton of plaid in 1969, but not in a good way. And she insists on wearing that white knit tam every episode and is veering more towards schoolgirl than fashion-forward woman with those miniskirts and knee socks. Could this change be due to Ted’s absence? Or because of Lou’s oppressive treatment of her?<br />
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What did everyone think of Megan’s very woodsy bungalow in the Hollywood Hills? It definitely doesn’t have Don’s touch, and she scoffs when he tries to add a modern TV to it without asking her permission first (that’s new!). I wonder where she got the idea to decorate with so much wood? Maybe from the January 1969 <i>GH</i>? (Surely not from <i>Playboy.</i>)<br />
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That's a bathroom, guys! A bathroom.<br />
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By the way, while that orange scarf look Megan's got going on here might seem like a bold and original move on her part (I'm sure Don had meant for her to wear it kerchief-style while driving), it's not. Here's how the ladies were wearing headscarves in 1969.<br />
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And, in an everything-that's-old-is-new-again twist, here's how Monica Potter wears one in the June 2014 <i>GH,</i> on newsstands now.<br />
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Megan’s cooking style is seeing a few changes this season. When Don comes home from visiting Pete and the L.A. offices, prominently displayed on the stove is a casserole dish (though Megan says she’s making Coq au Vin). This time period saw an upswing in casseroles, meant to save the modern woman time in the kitchen.<br />
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By the time Don boards his red-eye back to New York, he seems to be feeling fairly ubiquitous ("I wonder if I broke the vessel"—a biblical reference?), or “invisible,” as Pete would say in the next episode. He sits next to a gorgeous middle-aged widow (Neve Campbell in what I believe to be the first wrap dress we’ve seen yet on this series, though von Furstenberg wasn't making these yet then) who offers him sleeping pills, then jokes that he can “blame Madison Avenue” for his misconceptions about glamorous seatmates. When Don refuses, she decides that she’ll hold back, too. <br />
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And they’re not the only ones. Millions of readers were getting the same idea from <i>GH</i> that month.<br />
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Finally, if you saw the <a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/fashion/throwback-thursday-mad-men-gingham"><i>GH</i> recap</a> that showed off the crazy-amazing gingham match-up, you're going to love this. Here's Peggy Olson in her gingham dress, the original gingham-wearer, the O.G....oh, you get the picture.<br />
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Until next time, "'Accutron: It's time for a conversation.'"<br />
<br />Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-8417326103119838812013-03-22T10:53:00.001-07:002013-03-22T10:53:28.508-07:00I'm BaaaccckkkStay tuned, folks. A new blog post soon to come.
Too much is happening in grammar and fashion for me to ignore it any longer.Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-17955697964362314132013-03-22T10:41:00.001-07:002013-03-22T10:49:20.778-07:00Transformations, revelations and big, fat lips and lashes(This post was written in 2008 and is now being reposted.)
Believe it or not, on the day after my last post, I received an e-mail regarding my meeting with the aforementioned magazine editor. And ...? I now have a fact-checking job at a major, national consumer magazine in New York City.<br /><br />Of course, it is only a three-week-long project. But! I will network like crazy while I am there ... and this editor sent my resume to many other influential editors at six women's magazines. So that has to lead to something, right? My plan right now is to search for job openings at those magazines online and then ask the mag editor about them, since she sent my resume to people who already work for those places.<br /><br />And I will continue on my full-time job search, but in a much-less frustrated way, now that I know I will be able to cover the expenses for getting to my friend's Jamaican wedding after all. And -- I get to feel extra fancy because I have accomplished one of my lifelong goals -- I will be working at a major women's magazine. Even if it is freelance.<br /><br />Yay!<br /><br />Maybe I should start asking for things on this blog as an experiment, just to see if I get a response the next day. I really need a million dollars. No, really.<br /><br />OK, so personal things aside, back to fashion. It seems like minimalist looks are going to be very big this fall, so I might not have a whole lot to complain about. Minimalist fashion usually involves very well-tailored, simple looks. And a lot of black or gray with maybe one or two stand-out items. I've loved the idea of wearing bright shoes with black clothes for some time now, and I also love the idea of buying classic, well-made pieces that will never go out of style. And I wear a lot of black. But black with one bright color just makes me feel more like an artist. See? In this incredibly blurry photo?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7HkxEbIam0pF02mGH6_RS9Dmy-Gj7Tt7mOsWnxGnWMd0tTCBM2aTzt8P3OiWwrPGmlVXMp27xPe_b02fqpQ9vhts8eRByOcNI5ffrIXhOQkh5uBtMsu27E8v4nDibNrgDuCr0nww9NkA/s1600-h/laurayellowshoe.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7HkxEbIam0pF02mGH6_RS9Dmy-Gj7Tt7mOsWnxGnWMd0tTCBM2aTzt8P3OiWwrPGmlVXMp27xPe_b02fqpQ9vhts8eRByOcNI5ffrIXhOQkh5uBtMsu27E8v4nDibNrgDuCr0nww9NkA/s200/laurayellowshoe.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230926875326916194" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />What else is happening? Oh, here is the new bridesmaid dress my friend would like us to wear: <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.davidsbridal.com/db/s08_81591_2.psd.xml&cmp-color=top,x99062A&ftr=5&cmp-end=1&wid=330&hei=460&cvt=jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://img.davidsbridal.com/db/s08_81591_2.psd.xml&cmp-color=top,x99062A&ftr=5&cmp-end=1&wid=330&hei=460&cvt=jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />It's basically the same as the other dress, but shorter -- which will be helpful in slimming down our calves since we have to wear flat sandals. (The Ann Taylor dress hit about mid-calf, as many bridesmaid dresses do -- but without heels, it's like the least-flattering leg look you can get). This new dress also has a boat neck, which might emphasize my chest too much ... but not if I lose the 25-30 pounds I plan to lose before this December wedding. <br /><br />Think it can't be done? Think again ... I put on the weight in the past year due to a medicine that increased my appetite and slowed my metabolism dramatically. I haven't gained a pound in the two months I've been off the medicine, so this should be smooth sailing. <br /><br />I started an exercise routine last week, using this Pedal Exerciser from Target: <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx4Jg6CE4fnJTE4vdDtJZ4lVX0q7VkeLwPaH2_1sdUOhi0PO74RioVil25jvYEntwXE6PwQLuXQYhpsNXBQQzvjAcz94NA626aXGQFdcX1bsJrZV4lRUfvL-zVtkBSgoNOk_e7k73CRE0/s1600-h/pedaler.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx4Jg6CE4fnJTE4vdDtJZ4lVX0q7VkeLwPaH2_1sdUOhi0PO74RioVil25jvYEntwXE6PwQLuXQYhpsNXBQQzvjAcz94NA626aXGQFdcX1bsJrZV4lRUfvL-zVtkBSgoNOk_e7k73CRE0/s400/pedaler.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230931573205410578" /></a><br /><br />Laugh, if you must. But it really works! My boyfriend already lost 10 pounds from using it ... but then, he uses it for about 2 hours every day.<br /><br />Also, as I was searching for those flat, dressy silver sandals for the Jamaican beach wedding, I came across a Web site seemingly sent by God to waste all of my time. <br /><br />It's called <a href="http://www.shopstyle.com">Shop Style</a> and it enables you to create various looks based on a database of chothing, shoes, makeup, etc. Amazing. That's all I have to say.<br /><br />Here's my favorite shoe so far for the bridesmaid dress:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6R4IbdPCBJMRwXSbC7SojNMWuTBmfjvlR4gXEsVUu-dmU9oe-rBlbCAkuNNB7eIFe6Igio0iUNVN8WxnLGC6EfvWFoGypJ0hU9bevMuXz1w3POuh3Ngf027zCh-shEyu9l1takui8Xo/s1600-h/silversandal.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6R4IbdPCBJMRwXSbC7SojNMWuTBmfjvlR4gXEsVUu-dmU9oe-rBlbCAkuNNB7eIFe6Igio0iUNVN8WxnLGC6EfvWFoGypJ0hU9bevMuXz1w3POuh3Ngf027zCh-shEyu9l1takui8Xo/s400/silversandal.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230940686257958578" /></a><br /><br />In the end, that site might actually <span style="font-style:italic;">save </span>me time -- it's not the easiest thing to bring a dress to lots of shoe stores to get a difficult-to-find shoe. Shop Style allowed me to place the bridesmaid dress next to the wedding gown and then place up to 600 different silver sandals next to them to see if they matched.<br /><br />And no, I am not getting paid to say any of this.<br /><br />As for makeup gripes, I'm still not sure what the major makeup trends will be for fall ... but I do know which lip-plumping lipstick to never, ever use -- in the fall or any other time.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_lPkfwBUyPZJcM5zSGjF41jrnASwlf8u46uP4XvOl-WYiaW-cAhK3HxWRPb_grURiEZPXeoQrPu59ZDxWF6p9_S9iyHQND2HwJlv5z-Q9rXYdWKcAFj6EYaUDkBY0Fu1-K3Q3k4A508/s1600-h/lipinjection.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_lPkfwBUyPZJcM5zSGjF41jrnASwlf8u46uP4XvOl-WYiaW-cAhK3HxWRPb_grURiEZPXeoQrPu59ZDxWF6p9_S9iyHQND2HwJlv5z-Q9rXYdWKcAFj6EYaUDkBY0Fu1-K3Q3k4A508/s400/lipinjection.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230934455830835090" /></a><br />It's called "Too Faced Lip Injection." I guess I should be wary when I see an illustration of a needle on a lip plumper, but here is how the product is described on the Sephora Web site: "Its patented formula is based on medically-proven blood vessel dilating technology touted to create the sexiest pout this side of a plastic surgeon's office."<br /><br />After trying this gloss on Saturday, I left the Short Hills Sephora store with swollen, painful red lips that looked somewhat like I had been drinking cherry Kool-Aid for seven hours. Even though I rubbed the stuff off vigorously, it still took a good thirty minutes for my mouth to return to a normal, less Angelina-Jolie-on-a-bad-day size ... and color.<br /><br />If you are really looking to plump something, I recommend that you try this Christian Dior mascara, which did something amazing to my eyelashes, especially after I used it three times. (I was waiting for my friend to get a makeover). Geez, it seems like I left that place looking like Pamela Anderson ...<br /><br />Anyway, here's the mascara, which I will most likely not be able to fit into my budget any time soon: <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://a1377.g.akamai.net/7/1377/8278/20070904182031/www.sephora.com/assets/dyn/product/P40404/P40404_hero.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://a1377.g.akamai.net/7/1377/8278/20070904182031/www.sephora.com/assets/dyn/product/P40404/P40404_hero.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />A pretty good find, I'd say, for a company that promotes itself with zebra-print and leopard-print eye-shadows -- on its Web site and on its staff. Eek!<br /><br />As far as grammar gripes go, the other day my bride-to-be friend said one wedding gown she tried on was more "bridally" than the other ... I think I understood what she meant, but I'm still not completely sure.<br /><br />I learned something tremendously serendipitous, language-wise, just yesterday, however. My friend is getting married in the mayoral office on Friday, August 8th (but then technically renewing her vows in Jamaica in December). Friday turns out to be 08/08/08. That's a super lucky number in China, hence the start of the Olympics at 8:08 p.m. on Friday and the reason many Chinese couples are marrying on that day. The New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee even wrote a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/fashion/weddings/03field.html?ex=1375502400&en=a64c3a8d4109213e&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">piece</a> about 08/08/08 weddings in the Sunday Styles section. <br /><br />But August 8th has been an unlucky day the past five years for me, because it's the anniversary of my father's sudden, accidental passing. Shortly after his death, I began seeing lots of 88s -- in license plates, street signs, on clocks. I also saw variations of it, like 11s and 8s. It drove me a little crazy at first. I couldn't figure out if I was fixated on those numbers or if they really were just magically appearing. I think it falls under the category of "magical thinking" ... something Joan Didion talks about in her memoir of her husband's death. It's something the brain does in order to make sense of something horrifying. That healing potential of the mind is really quite a beautiful thing. But it can be confusing when it is happening.<br /><br />The other night, after reading Lee's article, I decided to research the reason for the luckiness of the number 8 in China. I discovered that in Mandarin, 8 is pronounced "ba," which sounds like "fa" -- the word for prosperity. But the word "ba" said twice in Mandarin means "father." So August 8th is traditionally Father's Day in China. Another neat fact about "ba" is that in Mandarin slang, the term "88" is often typed to say "goodbye" in e-mails and text messages -- because "ba-ba" sounds like "bye-bye" in English. <br /><br />Put those together and August 8th stands for "bye-bye" and "father" in Mandarin. How incredibly freaky is that? <br /><br />I couldn't believe that those are the only three meanings for "ba-ba" -- 88, father and bye-bye -- so I did some further research. The word "ba" also brought up a link to a Feng Shui site, which talks about the "ba gua" or eight ways. The ba gua basically form the eight directions on a compass. Feng Shui uses an octagon-shaped map to separate different parts of a room and to indicate which items of furniture should be placed in those eight areas.<br /><br />Strangely enough, at my dad's funeral, I recited an essay I had written about his teaching me how to navigate through the woods as a little girl. I called it "The Navigator." I wrote it on Father's Day -- the American one. And many times, I've considered getting a tattoo of a compass to commemorate him, without even realizing it consisted of eight directions.<br /><br />Very weird. And yet, it makes me feel incredible that maybe this is what all those 88s I used to see meant. At one point, when I got tired of the nonsensical nature of it all, I decided that it would mean my dad was trying to get in touch with me ... and now I think maybe I was right.<br /><br />Please don't think I sound like Jim Carrey in the movie "23"! I think this stuff is too much of a coincidence to not be true!<br /><br />On a lighter note, anyone notice all those typos in that recent Sunday Styles section? Is the copy editor on vacation??<br /><br />Also on a lighter note, I'll leave you with the top half of that minimalist yellow-shoes photo ... <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTEH4jhklgbMIAazFBUeuUSXC07XeMWV0L8bJjq-979AxYVavNbPJ05QBXz5TUspty1TmgBu_wtfVLJ7Za37mzEA1qc5y_JrHGrKOVFjNYfa56DOKdDvY_Lc1mP3gSS8nPaFtNRHOmwEU/s1600-h/laurapizza.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTEH4jhklgbMIAazFBUeuUSXC07XeMWV0L8bJjq-979AxYVavNbPJ05QBXz5TUspty1TmgBu_wtfVLJ7Za37mzEA1qc5y_JrHGrKOVFjNYfa56DOKdDvY_Lc1mP3gSS8nPaFtNRHOmwEU/s320/laurapizza.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230958844421344162" /></a><br />Taken at Lorenzo's Pizza in Philadelphia in March 2007. Also, clearly the start of that chemically-altered, ravenous appetite I mentioned earlier.Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-28580392099173697522010-05-25T17:15:00.000-07:002014-06-24T17:15:57.283-07:00From the Archives: Lost's Last Call: Live Together, Die Together<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br />
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note: While the </em>Lost<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> finale aired Sunday night, it took a whole day to process it all!</em></div>
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Despite all its plot twists and turns, <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> has always dealt with one vital world mystery, something not unique to any one generation.</div>
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It’s about science versus faith.<span id="more-337534" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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But for young adult viewers, the same age as the main characters (and likely most of the writers), that debate takes on a special meaning.</div>
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An article on the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em>’ Arts Beat blog on Monday said that the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>finale, “The End,” will “probably end up being the best rating among young adult viewers for a concluding episode of any scripted drama this television season.”</div>
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That’s not a coincidence.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/polls/poll-are-you-happy-lost-finale" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OK</em>! POLL: ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST </em>FINALE?</strong></a></div>
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The castaways ask a lot of questions on <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>. All the time. They ask things like, “Why would you do that?” And “How do you plan on doing that?” And “What would that be?” And Jacob’s the kind of guy who loves giving people choices. He needed the candidates’ help, but he made it seem like it was their idea all along. He guided the candidates and acted like they were special. He was all for taking a dysfunctional family background and turning it into something positive.</div>
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If your childhood was anything like mine, you had baby boomer parents who also encouraged you to ask questions. Like Jacob, they encouraged you to do something unique with your life, to figure things out in a way they couldn’t.</div>
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My father’s youth was a product of the 60s. He was rebellious. It was a time of reform. He wrote a book about the period called <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Why Generation</em>. I remember as a 10-year-old learning about that book and not really understanding it.</div>
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“We were the generation that asked questions,” he explained to me. “We were always asking, ‘Why?’”</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-see-wizard" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD</strong></a></div>
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So much in the world was in upheaval at that time (the stuff we’re now nostalgic for, if you look at shows like <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mad Men</em>). Our parents were the children of a more repressed society. When they came of age, they tried to change things, to do things in a different way.</div>
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They passed their liberated ways onto us, their children, the first generation truly encouraged to do whatever we wanted with our lives. The first group told that any one of us could be a candidate for president. A candidate.</div>
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But here’s the thing: It’s great and all to grow up in a world filled with so many opportunities. But, much like Jacob, baby boomer parents opened lots of doors with their idealism and didn’t always prepare us for life’s harsh realities. These were also the first parents who were so individualistic that they got divorced in large numbers.</div>
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So many of these <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> characters had parents like this. So many of them had abandonment issues, daddy issues, mommy issues — they were trying to find their way in a world that finally attempts to accept all religions, all races, both genders and all sexual orientations. They have their parents to thank for that. But it was up to them to navigate it … and with so many options and possibilities, many of these characters felt alone. And many of them lost trust in their parents, who, based on their split marriages, often had to promote self-efficiency in order to survive.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/lost-memorabilia-auction-summer" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OK</em>! NEWS: <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em> MEMORABILIA UP FOR AUCTION THIS SUMMER</strong></a></div>
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That’s why Jack’s mantra, “Live together, die alone,” resonates so strongly for so many young adult viewers. Our generation is building a new world together, as the castaways did on the island. We have lots of freedom and second chances, thanks to our parents, but we have to decide what the rules are. We have to decide what we believe.</div>
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We’ve grown up in a time when technology advances almost as rapidly as religious-service attendance declines. Most young adults say they’re either an agnostic or atheist, or that they have their own personal relationship with God. They also have their own personal computers, their own social networking profiles, their own states they’ve moved to, far away from their families. Their own little, private islands they’ve created …</div>
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What the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> castaways showed us is that if we want to find spiritual redemption, we’ve got to find it together. And for a generation essentially raised on TV, what better way to deliver that message?</div>
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So much about Sunday night’s finale was a tribute to the characters we’ve grown to love that it’s hard to do a typically deconstructive post. At the same time, so many things are still a mystery. Some of you are satisfied with the results. Some of you are disappointed. So, let’s give this a shot, just one last time.</div>
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In the early morning beginning of “The End,” Sideways Jack starts his day in his office. When paralleled with the pilot episode, this is an appropriate start. This is what Jack would have been doing, had he not woken up on an island on Sept. 22, 2004.</div>
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Jack’s office is serene, a mood definitely helped by Michael Giacchino’s musical score. At his desk, Jack grabs an x-ray from a file folder. His face visible through the transparency, he holds the x-ray to the light. One guess whose x-ray this could be.</div>
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In “The End,” both Sideways Jack and Island Protector Jack would finally find their way into Locke’s mindset. The writers were just reminding us what we were in for.</div>
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The scene cuts to early morning on the island, where Jack drinks water from a creek, just as Jacob did in “Across the Sea.” This back and forth between worlds, something we’ve seen all season, is paced very well in this episode.</div>
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Island Jack looks down at his hands, expecting them to be different than they were before, now that he’s the new Jacob. They shake a little.</div>
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Note how this opening sequence occurs with no dialogue. It’s like the musical beach reunions at the end of many <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> season finales. It’s done to remind the viewers of the parallel predicaments.</div>
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As Sideways Ben dips his gentlemanly tea bag, island Ben loads his weapon — but each action is done delicately. As the supernatural entity who has taken over Locke’s body aggressively wraps rope around his arm, Locke is wheeled on a stretcher into spinal surgery, glancing behind him at his wheelchair.</div>
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And as Sideways Sawyer puts on his badge in the police station locker room, touching the mirror he’d punched earlier, island Sawyer tenderly attends to Kate’s bullet wound.</div>
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In the Sideways world, an Oceanic Air package marked “Human Remains” is being delivered. That statue of Jesus in front of the church should remind viewers where Kate and Desmond are parked: This is the church where the Ajira passengers met with Eloise Hawking in her underground Lamp Post station. It’s one of the electromagnetic energy pockets that helped the Dharma folks find the island.</div>
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This statue was shown then too, but it was nighttime and harder to see. Seems significant that this is a “heralding good news” Christ and not a crucified one.</div>
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We know from last week that Desmond disguised his voice and called Jack to report that the airline had found his missing baggage. But it seems odd that someone would so easily sign Christian’s coffin over to him. This is just one of many things that seem off about the Sideways world, things that have happened all season.</div>
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For example, did it ever make sense that Kate would just go back and find Claire on the highway and then help her find Aaron’s potential adoptive parents? How about when Desmond rammed his car into Locke and he survived it? And then, when he tried to do it a second time, Ben and Locke didn’t call the police!</div>
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Remember when Sideways Charlie walked through a busy intersection with no negative consequences? Or when he drove Desmond’s car off a pier and they both left the scene without a scratch?</div>
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How about when Sun got shot in the stomach and was miraculously fine — and so was her baby? Or when she arrived at the hospital at the same time as Locke, despite the fact that in the story’s time line, she had been shot days earlier?</div>
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And it makes complete sense that Sideways James Ford could stop someone like Sayid by tripping him with a garden hose.</div>
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A lot of these things have made a lot of<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lost </em>naysayers (you know the type — they once loved the show, but somewhere along the way, for whatever reason, they lost the ability to suspend their disbelief) get up in arms this season.</div>
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But these plot anomalies were not accidents. The writers just couldn’t reveal the reasons for them until “The End.”</div>
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Desmond finally shares some clues as to what this Sideways world <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">really</em> is in his conversation with Kate. He tells Kate that no one can tell her why she’s here,<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">certainly</em> not him. When she asks if he means the church, he clarifies that he doesn’t — he means “here.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/04/losts-last-call-heroic-hurley/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: HEROIC HURLEY</strong></a></strong></div>
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Back on the island, Kate watches the delivery of a different Shephard. This Kate is a little more appreciative of spiritual concepts. She understands why Jack thinks he needs to be the island’s protector. He even seems transformed by the ritual. He stands in the middle of the water like he’s been baptized, dressed completely in blue, blending in … it’s like he and the island have become one. He looks to the sky, meditating.</div>
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Kate understands this, but she doesn’t want to lose Jack. And she knows that’s going to be inevitable.</div>
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Thank God for Sawyer and Hurley in this episode. Sawyer’s wit was desperately needed. And Hurley is often the perfect voicebox for the audience. Jack explains what they need to do to kill Fake Locke and save the island, but the idea’s still pretty vague. Hurley, with <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Star Wars</em> on the mind, says Jacob’s worse than Yoda. Then, as Sawyer calls Desmond a “magic leprechaun,” Hurley says, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” You can’t get any more Han Solo than that. And in one of many callbacks in this episode to scenes throughout the series, Sawyer tells Kate she can’t come along. This stuff just shows how much the writers have grown to love these characters.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/04/losts-last-call-whatever-happened-happened/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: WHATEVER HAPPENED, HAPPENED</strong></a></strong></div>
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Back in the Sideways world, Hurley is just as childlike, as he attempts to refresh Sayid’s island memories. He takes Sayid to the motel where they once tried to hide, after Sayid freed him from the mental hospital. At that time, Hurley took the blame for Sayid tossing a guy onto a dishwasher pin cushion. Now he thinks that all he has to do to get Sayid to remember is bring him to the motel and say, “You, me, tranquilizer gun?”</div>
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It seems Sideways Hurley knows everything about his island mentality — like he has downloaded all these memories and he’s back to being the Hurley viewers know and love. So of course he would be thrilled to see Charlie alive again — Charlie was his closest friend on the island. When Hurley carries the spritely drunk out to the car, he says to Sayid, “That was Charlie,” like Sayid should just <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">know</em>who it is.</div>
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The suspense that built up all season about whom the Smoke Monster could kill and whom he couldn’t swiftly comes to an end in this episode with Sawyer’s elbow to Ben’s nose (it’s okay, he’s used to it) and declaration to Flocke, “We’re not candidates anymore.” Such a great scene. He then grabs the gun that would eventually extinguish the Monster.</div>
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Why does the Man In Black/Flocke/Smoke Monster admit to his lies left and right in this episode? Is it because he knows he’s running out of time? Could he know that the torch had been passed, that Jack had become the new Jacob? Maybe that’s why he wanted to destroy the island — because he knew that was the only viable way to leave.</div>
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How is it possible for Jack to try to kill the Man In Black when he couldn’t earlier? Is it simply because he doesn’t have Jacob’s limitations (i.e., Mother said they couldn’t hurt each other)?</div>
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I’m still not sure if Rose and Bernard were used effectively. Viewers have wondered all season if those characters could still be alive. But they wondered about that for the entire fifth season, too. If they turned out to be alive then, why wouldn’t they also be alive now? They do serve the purpose of illustrating just how evil MIB is, though. I mean, really — who would kill Rose and Bernard? Would he stop with the dog? Maybe. Even Smoke Monsters need pets.</div>
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The whole story line with Miles, Richard and Lapidus also seemed awkward. I guess it’s necessary — some of these characters have to be warriors while the others have to actually try to get off the island. But the fact that these three guys are just doing what any human being would do (run as far away as possible) while the other six fight a battle between good and evil … well, I’m just not sure that the first premise adds to the believability of the second.</div>
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The viewers must have known that Richard would survive that Smoke Monster throat punt. So why is it only now revealed that he’s capable of aging? Maybe at the moment when Jack replaced Jacob, the old rules no longer applied and Richard got his freedom. He’s kind of like Pinnochio, getting to be a real boy. He’s bound to be mighty confused once that Ajira flight gets back to Los Angeles. He visited the outside world a bunch of times — but <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">living</em> in it is another story. If any spin-offs could come from this, that would be the best one. Ricky-boy Meets World. I dare you to come up with a better title.</div>
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Sideways world Miles has always seemed ineffective as a character. This episode proves no different. In another Sideways anomaly, Miles finds Sayid sitting in Hurley’s Hummer in front of the concert benefit. He calls Sawyer only to tell him to go make sure the shooting victim (Sun) is okay. They’re dismayed that Sayid, Kate and Desmond never made it to the county jail, but they don’t do anything about it.</div>
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And does anyone ever explain why the museum is holding this concert benefit, anyway? (Other than to provide an excuse for Charlie to meet Claire, for Kate to play midwife and for creepy David to disappear forever?)</div>
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The scene where Sideways Juliet (yay!) checks on Sun and Jin’s baby more than makes up for their sudden submarine deaths. As that island Dharma ultrasound was such an emotional moment in Sun’s life (when she discovered that she and Jin could actually conceive a child), this was exactly what she needed to jog her memory.</div>
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It’s really a triumphant moment for Jin, too. Lots of viewers have struggled with the fact that he abandoned his daughter, Ji-Yeon, when he chose to drown with his wife. I say, since he’d never met his daughter, it was a much easier and more instinctive choice for him to make.</div>
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Viewers have grown a little weary of this whole “now they can speak English” routine, but it does work in this scene. Sun and Jin, as dull as many have accused them of being, are really the first characters to clarify what’s actually going on here. We know they both just died in a recent episode. When they have their enlightenment moment, they remember everything about their lives on the island. It’s not like with Desmond, where he’s special and might have the ability to jump between parallel worlds anyway. It’s not like with Hurley, where he can already talk to the dead and he’s a little crazy.</div>
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These two were always just normal people. Once they can remember their island lives, they seem very changed. And they remember it together, which makes it seem all the more real. When they start speaking in English, it’s obvious that the island Jin and Sun have become one with the Sideways Jin and Sun. Something has happened that transported their island souls into their Sideways bodies.</div>
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The next exchange in the hospital, between Locke and Sideways Jack, brought back that famous Lost phrase, “It worked.” After an island scene where Jack predicts Fake Locke’s demise, Sideways Jack jokes with Sideways Locke that he could “kill him” during his surgery. He asks Locke if he’s nervous, and Locke says, “Are you sure this is going to work?”</div>
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When Locke asks him about his father’s coffin, Jack glosses over it. He tells Locke that fixing him is all the peace he needs.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/03/losts-last-call-a-better-ben/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: A BETTER BEN</strong></a></strong></div>
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It used to be that Jack could not get over his father’s death. He couldn’t deal with the notion that maybe his father was right about him. But once he reached the island, he began to see past these fears. He became a leader in a real crisis situation. And, in this episode, he eventually becomes responsible for saving the world, if what Jacob said about the “light” is accurate.</div>
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So of course “fixing Locke,” as in “killing the creature that now looks like Locke,” is all the peace he needs.</div>
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What did everyone think of that island scene where Flocke confronts Jack and the others Sharks-meet-Jets style? After Kate shoots at him unsuccessfully, Flocke tells Jack that he assumes he’s the new Jacob, albeit an obvious choice, and he assumes Jack will try to stop him.</div>
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Jack’s reaction here made this one of <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew Fox</strong>’s top five scenes of the entire series. “Now you’re going to the corner of the bamboo forest,” he says. “To the place that I’ve sworn that I’d protect. And then you think you’re going to destroy the island. That’s not what’s going to happen.” Flocke scoffs at this and asks, “What is going to happen?” And Jack says, “I’m gonna kill you.”</div>
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Flocke then asks another typical <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost </em>question, “How do you plan to do that?” And Jack looks off to the side ever so slightly, like the island is providing him with the answer.</div>
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And then he says, quietly, “It’s a surprise.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/02/losts-last-call-the-other-side-of-the-mirror/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR</strong></a></strong></div>
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Do you think that in that moment, the island tells him what he needs to do? It’s a great bluff on Jack’s part, if not. Even Sawyer’s impressed. He compliments him on his long con.</div>
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From this point on, “The End” takes a major turn (in normal circumstances, this would probably be the beginning of another episode). The island world becomes decidedly dark as the Sideways world gets ever brighter. With each horrible, scary, life-threatening thing that occurs on the island, a tearful, happy reunion occurs in the Sideways world. The writers chose a very interesting placement of these scenes.</div>
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On the island, Desmond willingly lets Jack and Flocke lower him into the abyss because he believes when he reaches the light, he’ll return to the Sideways world and Penny. He assumes it will be an identical experience to the electromagnetic-activity test Widmore gave him. When his consciousness visited the Sideways world before, he didn’t know where he was — he just knew that everything felt secure there, in a way that it definitely doesn’t on the island.</div>
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The thing about Desmond that is so special is that ever since he imploded the Swan station, he has been able to travel into both the past and future in his mind. Nobody ever said anything about him being able to shift his consciousness into parallel universes, right? So the Sideways world has always been a place that exists either in the past or in the future. Those are the only two options.</div>
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Why didn’t we see this all season? Bravo, writers.</div>
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“This doesn’t matter, you know,” Desmond tells Jack. “Him destroying the island, you destroying him. It doesn’t matter. You’re going to lower me into that light and I’m going to go somewhere else — a place where we can be with the ones we love and not have to ever think about this damn island again … You know, maybe I can find a way to bring you there too.”</div>
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Jack has no idea what Desmond’s talking about, of course. Even if he does have a newly Jacobean omniscience, he has no knowledge of what ends up being a sort of “afterlife.” He tells Desmond that yes, in fact, all of it does matter. Jack already tried to time travel once, even though his time travel was a little different than Desmond’s. He thought he could change the order of events and fix everyone’s lives. It turned out he couldn’t. “Whatever happened, happened,” he says. This is what Daniel Faraday used to say about how time course-corrects itself.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/02/losts-last-call-kate/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: CON-DUIT KATE</strong></a></strong></div>
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So I guess Jughead didn’t blow up the Swan station after all. It didn’t work. Now that we know what the Sideways world really is, we have no reason to believe otherwise.</div>
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There’s something about this scene where they tie the rope around Desmond that is very reminiscent of <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Steven Spielberg</strong>’s <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poltergeist</em>. Except Desmond doesn’t come back covered in supernatural goo.</div>
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I’ve accidentally deleted all my notes about Sayid’s enlightenment moment, but I don’t think that matters much anyway. Most viewers found it ultimately very disappointing and I have to agree. Sayid was such a confusing character, especially towards the end. His Zombie-like killing ways combined with his alive-assassin ways didn’t make him the most sympathetic of the bunch. Yet his early story line on the island made viewers root for him. The fact that meeting up with Shannon is what brings his memories back does make sense in that regard. But if he becomes enlightened and remembers loving her, wouldn’t he also be horrified, remembering the murders he committed?</div>
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Maybe island enlightenment is just that — island memories only. In the Sideways world, we’ve watched Sayid find redemption with Nadia, but she was never on the island. The other relationships that spark enlightenment all involve the island in one way or another — even Penny traveled there by boat to pick up the Oceanic 6.</div>
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If Sayid didn’t kill anyone while on the island (Zombie-Sayid killings don’t count, because he was undead), then it’s fair that he wouldn’t remember any. Maybe if we hadn’t watched Sayid go back to being an assassin when he left with the Oceanic 6, all of this would be more palatable. I did enjoy Hurley’s try at raising Sayid’s self-esteem, though (a callback to the pilot episode, when Hurley said to Sayid, “You’re okay, I like you”). After all, he did sacrifice his life to save his friends. What did you all think about this?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/02/the-lost-diaries/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: PLAYING CATCH-UP</strong></a></strong></div>
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When Flocke and Jack stare down after Desmond, it looks a lot like the season two episode, “Man of Science, Man of Faith,” when Locke lowered Kate into the hatch. Even back then, Hurley called the hatch a “burning death hole.” Did the writers know they would be repeating this theme? “If there was a button down there to push,” Flocke inappropriately jokes to Jack, “we could fight about whether to push it. It would be just like old times.”</div>
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Jack and Locke always had that basic argument, over whether or not to push the button. Sometimes it was over whether or not they were on the island for a reason. It’s the same as any fate versus free will debate. But in this scene, Jack says Locke was right about “most everything.”</div>
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This set the tone for the first of the most tearful reunions … maybe because the characters are so beloved. Or maybe because we haven’t seen them together in such a long time.</div>
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The viewers always ask why Aaron was so special. They complain that the writers have never fully explained that. (Just like they never explained the big to-do about Walt.)</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/02/last-call-for-lost-the-final-season-begins/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE FINAL SEASON BEGINS</strong></a></strong></div>
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But he’s special simply because he’s a child born on the island. He represents a stubborn faith against all odds. The kind of faith Locke defended. And in “The End,” just as a practical man-turned-evil is about to be destroyed on the island, a baby that was the product of faith on the island is ready to be born. The writers did a great job pairing these scenes. Now if only someone could tell Aaron that he’s being born into the afterlife, like his poor cousin, David.</div>
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And by the way? Sideways Jack and Juliet are pretty crappy parents. Juliet just leaves David with Claire, while Jack couldn’t even make it to the concert! No wonder that kid’s so messed up. Not to mention the fact that he doesn’t actually exist.</div>
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As Desmond embarks on his <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indiana Jones and the </em><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Crusade</em> moment and pulls out the “cork,” whatever Jacob said the light represents is diminished. The funny thing about Desmond is that he’s the only one who could pull that cork out and survive. When he does pull it out, the light dims and the island gets darker. The glue that holds things together starts to loosen. Rocks fall. Earthquakes, avalanches and hurricanes abound. You know, end-of-the-world stuff.</div>
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But what he does in the Sideways world is the opposite of this. In that world, he’s turning the light <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">on</em>. He’s the first one to remember the island (except for Charlie) and realize what he needs to do next. He gets all these other people together and enlightens them, too. He gets them to see how they are connected, how they <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">were</em>connected. Things come together in that world while the island world falls apart.</div>
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As I’ve said before in this blog, he’s definitely the man for the job because if it wasn’t for him (and Jacob), the castaways never would have crashed on the island to begin with.</div>
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I’m still not sure I totally get this (a little help?), but as the Smoke Monster was created in that all-powerful light, his powers seem to also diminish. Jack discovers his vulnerability and tells him it looks like he was “wrong too.”</div>
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In the Sideways world, Claire and Charlie’s eye contact triggers Claire’s labor pains. And despite how predictable this scene is — we all knew as soon as she saw her that Kate’d be the one to help Claire give birth — it’s very emotionally powerful. Even if it doesn’t make much sense that they couldn’t get Claire to an emergency room.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evangeline Lilly</strong> is so great here. The look she gives Claire — it’s clear that she remembers everything. I suppose Aaron had to be born in this world in order for Kate to have this. And once she does, she is transformed. All the good things about island Kate come back to her.</div>
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It’s as though these actors were instructed to play these Sideways characters on a very superficial level, just to illustrate how different they’d be if they had never crashed. That’s why they look into mirrors all the time. They’re looking for their spirits but can’t find them.</div>
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Charlie’s the only one who had an enlightenment moment while looking into a mirror. He got a glimpse of his time with Claire on the island when he started choking on his stash of drugs in the Oceanic 815 bathroom. But what if he <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">had</em>died? What does it mean to die in this afterlife realm? What happened to Keamy and his goons when Sayid shot them? Where did Mikhail go?</div>
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In direct contrast to that warm and fuzzy moment, the scene where Jack and Kate kill Flocke is the darkest we’ve ever seen on this show. This is the closest <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> has come to resembling epic cinema.</div>
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I’m still not entirely sure why Flocke would run towards Jack instead of continuing with his escape plan. It was going rather successfully. I can’t decide which was more tremendous in this scene — that Jack leaps out mid-punch at Flocke or that he’s doing this with the knowledge that Flocke has a knife.</div>
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Flocke/MIB stabs Jack in the side with the same knife he had used to kill his mother. He also stabs Jack in the neck, finally explaining why Sideways Jack has discovered a mysteriously bloody neck twice now.</div>
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Did anyone find it weird that he could kill Jack if he could never kill Jacob?</div>
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“You died for nothing,” Flocke tells him. And then, just as I said last week, as Flocke threatens to harm Jack/the Scarecrow, Kate/Dorothy ends up killing him. Her annoying tendency to follow people comes in handy for once.</div>
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Just after a very relieved Jack kicks Flocke off the cliff (can I even begin to tell you how happy I am to no longer have to write that name?), the scene cuts to the Sideways world, where a nurse says, “Nice work, Dr. Shephard.” But she’s referring to his successful spinal surgery (again, something oddly miraculous that could not happen in real life). Locke wakes up despite the heavy anesthesia. That’s just how powerful his enlightenment moment is.</div>
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“It worked,” he tells Jack. Like the nurse, he could easily be describing the island scene here. “I can feel my legs,” he exclaims. And in that moment, he can also finally feel all the other wonderful things he experienced on the island. <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Terry O’Quinn</strong> is amazing in this scene. “Did you see that?” he asks Jack. “You don’t remember? Jack, I hope that somebody does for you what you just did for me.”</div>
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Meanwhile, back on the island, the storm is over. But the place is still in shambles, including Jack. “I’ll be fine,” he says to Kate. “Just find me some thread and I can count to five.” He realizes that whatever Desmond turned off, he has to turn back on again. Kate tells him he doesn’t have to do it, but Jack insists that it’s his responsibility.</div>
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Jack’s goodbye to Sawyer is heartfelt. He shakes his hand and wishes him luck. He calls him James (which most everyone has called him this season). Sawyer, who heroically jumped from the helicopter the last time Jack got them off the island, thanks Jack “for everything.”</div>
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In the Sideways world, he thanks Jack again — for telling him where he can find “some grub.” Sawyer looks a little shaken in that scene, even though he doesn’t know why, and he should be. What he’s really thanking Jack for is showing him where he can go find Juliet.</div>
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Jack was a serious role model for Sawyer, whether or not he’d care to admit it. If Jack had never left the island with the Oceanic 6, Sawyer wouldn’t have had the opportunity to step in as the leader. He wouldn’t have fallen in love with Juliet. He may not have fully understood the importance of “having someone’s back,” because for most of his life, nobody had his. In that regard, Kate was an inspiration for Sawyer, too.</div>
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It’s interesting that Sawyer would be a detective in this Sideways world because it’s really what he got to be best at on the island — being able to tell if someone was lying and then protecting his friends from that person. His reasons for leading were always more compassionate than Jack’s in that sense.</div>
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It’s odd that his meeting with Juliet should revolve around an electrical outlet, considering that she died when magnetic energy pulled her into the Swan station site. She tells Sawyer he has to unplug the machine in order to get the stuck candy bar. When she hands it to him, she says, “It worked.” Which basically calls into question every part of Miles’ gift for talking to the dead. Just after Juliet died, he told Sawyer her last words were “It worked.” Sawyer wasn’t dumb enough back then (though most of us were) to believe that her phrase meant that Jughead had exploded successfully. In fact, I can’t recall one moment this entire season that made that claim. Except for maybe Daniel Farraday/Widmore’s notion that he had set off a nuclear bomb.</div>
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No, Juliet had been talking about vending machines. Her spirit had gotten a glimpse of this other world. She was experiencing the moment when she finds Sawyer in her afterlife as she said goodbye to him in life. And Sawyer picks up right where he left off. “Juliet, it’s me,” he says. “I gotcha.” Their dialogue here is identical to when she died on the island.</div>
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And as if this weren’t emotional enough, the writers decided to have Sideways Jack find Kate directly after.</div>
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Jack goes to the concert grounds and tells Kate he’s looking for his son. “It’s over,” Kate tells him. Jack recognizes her but can’t figure out how. But when she tries to kiss him, he gets weirded out and tries to walk away.</div>
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Back on the island, Jack tells Hurley that he has to go down into the hole after Desmond alone. Hurley gets upset because he knows that if Desmond couldn’t survive it, Jack couldn’t either. In another very emotional scene, Jack tells him that maybe he was just supposed to take Jacob’s job so he could sacrifice himself. Maybe the next protector is supposed to be Hurley. This was definitely foreshadowed last week when Jack asked Jacob how long he’d have to do the job and Hurley quipped that he was glad it wasn’t him.</div>
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It’s cool what the writers do here. Because if Hurley has always been such an audience voicebox, his sadness over Jack’s death fairly represents how the viewers might feel. And for Jack to hand the job of island protector over to him means that the viewers should now be inspired to protect their <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">own</em> figurative islands. It’s like Jack saying goodbye directly to the audience.</div>
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When Ben and Hurley lower Jack into the hole, he finds Desmond lying face-down. Desmond’s upset about his plan not working. “I thought I’d leave this place,” he moans. “But I’m still here.” Desmond says he has to put the cork back in, that it was like a drain (which finally explains why Ben’s Smoke Monster summoner functioned the way it did). When Jack asks him how he did it, Desmond protests and says he has to be the one to replace the cork because the electromagnetic activity would kill Jack.</div>
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This scene reminded me very much of the first time Jack met Desmond, when they were both running in the stadium. Jack was worried that he’d promised to “fix” Sarah’s spine and that he hadn’t succeeded.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack</strong>: I told her, I made her a promise I couldn’t keep. I told her I’d fix her and I couldn’t. I failed.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desmond</strong>: Right. Just one thing – what if you did fix her?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack</strong>: I didn’t.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desmond</strong>: But what if you did?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack</strong>: You don’t know what you’re talking about, man.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desmond</strong>: I don’t? Why not?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack</strong>: Because with her situation, that would be a miracle, brother.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desmond</strong>: Oh, and you don’t believe in miracles?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack laughs at him and shakes his head to say no.</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desmond</strong>: Right. Well, then, I’m going to give you some advice anyway. You have to lift it up.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack</strong>: Lift it up?</div>
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When Desmond said that to Jack, he was talking about a sprained ankle. But it always seemed like he was referring to something more. In the context of this finale, Jack really needed that advice. After instructing Desmond to go home to his wife and son, Jack has to “lift up” the cork Desmond pulled out and put it back in. That’s what saves the island.</div>
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And in the Sideways world, he follows the same advice when he finds Christian’s coffin.</div>
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On the way to the Ajira plane, when Kate finds Claire, she decides she can’t leave her behind. It’s odd that Claire’s only issue is “craziness” here, because the writers made it seem like she was “undead,” that the temple dwellers had put her through the same tests as Sayid and she had failed. What do you all think about this? Is Kate making a good choice by bringing her back to Aaron, or is she making the only compassionate choice she can?</div>
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As Jack tries to plug the drain back up, Lapidus finally gets the Ajira plane in the air. When they lift off, he says, “Amen.” An interesting choice of words for a guy who only believes in duct tape. But just as he says that, on the other side of the island, Jack feels the water trickle back down into his stony drain and the light comes back on. And as the electromagnetic activity slowly kills him, he cries deliriously happy tears. Because it finally worked. He lies there, with his arms lifted up in nearly the same position as the Jesus statue we saw earlier.</div>
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And in case we’d forgotten, the writers show the statue again, when Locke pulls up to the church in a taxi. Right, because a guy who just had spinal surgery can just show up at a church directly afterward? The writers saved the best for last with Ben and Locke’s reunion. Both are island-enlightened, and Ben probably didn’t like what he remembered. He tells Locke that most of the group is inside the church, but he’s not going in. He has some things to work out.</div>
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It might be because of the astonishing abilities of these two actors that this scene is so great. Ben finally apologizes to Locke for everything he did to him. And Terry O’Quinn is so believable as Locke, a role we haven’t watched him play in some time. As Sideways Locke, he was a different man than on the island. He had the trappings of island Locke, but not the drive. Not the spirit. And obviously, playing the Man In Black in Locke’s body was another task altogether.</div>
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But now that he’s enlightened, the finally sincerely smiling Locke (I still think they used some kind of computer technology to make him grimace so menacingly as MIB) tells Ben that he forgives him. He sheds his wheelchair like a second skin. We watched him get up and walk on the island after 815 crashed, too. But that wasn’t as powerful as this.</div>
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From that point, the episode takes a decidedly different turn, something everyone’s still debating about.</div>
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As Jack dies on the island, his Sideways counterpart enters the church, the setting of his father’s funeral, according to Kate. This was where Desmond accepted the coffin at the beginning of the episode.</div>
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Did anyone recognize the statue Jack walks by in the church? Is it St. Thomas? This is the same location of the doubting Thomas painting Jack encountered with Ben before he boarded the Ajira flight.</div>
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He enters a room that was once Eloise’s office, where she gave Jack a “suicide” note from Locke and told him he had to take a leap of faith.</div>
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The room is filled with religious iconography: crosses, a menorah, statues of Buddha, a Shiva painting, a bust of the Virgin Mary, rosary beads and a setting for holy communion. Jack walks over to the centerpiece, his father’s coffin. Anyone notice the symbols in the stained glass window behind him? They look an awful lot like Dharma stations, at least in their arrangement. And a light (like the source on the island) shines in the middle of them. The symbols represent multiple religions and philosophies (including a donkey wheel!).</div>
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Jack looks afraid as he circles the coffin. He places his hand on it. And then he remembers.</div>
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The following scenes flash through his mind, but the ones that stand out most involve him helping people: saving Claire on the beach after the plane crash, reviving Rose, trying (but failing) to save Boone, helping Shannon with her asthma, meeting and then leading Charlie, Sayid and Hurley, debating with Locke, hearing about his dad from Sawyer, getting everyone rescued on the phone with the freighter, sacrificing himself so Kate and Sawyer could leave Otherville and kissing Kate goodbye before saving the island.</div>
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But when he follows Desmond’s advice and lifts up the lid of the coffin, it’s still empty. In “White Rabbit,” when Jack found Christian’s coffin empty on the island, he smashed it to pieces. But here, he just starts to cry. That is, until Christian shows up behind him.</div>
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“I don’t understand,” Jack says. “You died.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Yeah, yes I did,” Christian says.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Then how are you here right now?” Jack asks.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“How are <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you</em> here?” Christian says.</div>
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Jack finally realizes that he’s dead and cries like a scared child, which is important here. Because through that, he finally makes peace with his father, who hugs him and tells him that everything will be okay.</div>
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And like a child, Jack asks him if he’s real. After the Man In Black’s mimicry, and Jack’s realization that his current existence is a sham, it makes sense that he’d ask that.</div>
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After Christian tells Jack that <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">everyone</em> there is real. Unfortunately, they’re also all dead. Some of them died before Jack did and some died long after him (I’m guessing that would be Island Protector Hurley).</div>
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“Why are they all here now?” Jack asks.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Well, there is no ‘now’ <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</em>,” Christian explains. His eyes move upward when he says “here.”</div>
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This is the first time on this show that Jack has asked so many important questions. He proceeds to ask Christian where they are.</div>
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“This is the place that you all made together so that you could find one another,” Christian says. “The most important part of your life was the time you spent with these people. That’s why all of you are here. Nobody dies alone, Jack. You needed all of them and they needed you.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“For what?” Jack asks.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“To remember,” he responds. “And … to let go.”</div>
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So, as far as I understand it, this Sideways world, this purgatory or afterlife — this is where the spirits of these people had to go because they wanted to move on together? Maybe the notion of heaven for all of them consists of being with these people, all at the same time.</div>
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Maybe they’re what’s called a “soul group.” This <a href="http://www.crystallinks.com/soulgroup.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">website</a> explains the concept a little bit, but I mainly mention it because of the illustration at the top. It looks a lot like the figures in the textile Jacob was weaving.</div>
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Christian explains to Jack that they’re not leaving but moving on. This is all a great comparison to what the audience has to do with this show now. Let go of it but still remember.</div>
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The final scenes are like a party. A funeral for the show, but a happy one.</div>
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As these characters all celebrate finally finding one another, they embrace and then sit down in the pews, which look a lot like the way they were seated on Oceanic 815.</div>
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The scene then cuts to Jack, straggling along on the island. He walks by his old white sneaker, as beaten-up looking as he is. It’s been hanging on that bamboo stalk for three and half years. It reminded me a bit of the cocoon Locke tells Charlie about in the episode “The Moth.” Whatever had been preparing in there, being tested and strengthened, had finally broken free. Jack finds the spot where he woke up after 815 crashed. As he falls down into the same position, his Sideways counterpart sits down in a pew next to Kate.</div>
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She holds his hand.</div>
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Of the characters on this show, I could only find the following featured in this church scene: Kate with Jack, Sayid with Shannon, Locke, Penny with Desmond, Bernard with Rose, Sun with Jin, Juliet with Sawyer, Hurley with Libby, Charlie with Claire and Boone.</div>
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There’s been some debate this week about why these particular characters are there. And why so many of them are coupled up. I suppose the writers left that up to interpretation. My thoughts are that within this soul group, many of the people are soul mates, and soul mates often end up in romantic relationships. It doesn’t always happen that way. Sometimes they’re just friends. But in this case, several of these spirits needed another half. Locke, who was supposed to marry Helen, is noticeably sitting alone here. Does that mean Helen wasn’t his soul mate? Maybe not. And maybe Nadia wasn’t Sayid’s.</div>
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Desmond touches on this topic when Eloise Hawking confronts him at the concert benefit.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eloise</strong>: I thought I made it perfectly clear you were to stop this.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desmond</strong>: Perfectly clear.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eloise</strong>: And what’s to happen once they all know? What then?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desmond</strong>: Then, we’re leaving.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eloise</strong>: Are you going to take my son?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desmond <span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</em></span></span></strong>taking her hand)</em>: Not with me, no.</div>
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If the fedora-wearing Daniel is going to move on, he has to do so with his own group. That might include his parents. Maybe Charlotte and Miles.</div>
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These people weren’t ready to “move on,” yet, like Ana Lucia wasn’t. And Ben. Maybe Ben would move on with Alex.</div>
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And what of Michael, whose soul was supposedly stuck on the island? Where is he?</div>
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What I find really strange is that some of the children produced by these couples aren’t in the church. Like Charlie Hume. Should we just assume that he doesn’t get to have a soul connection with his parents?</div>
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Also, we know that Penny has a different last name in this world, “Milton” (presumably a reference to the author). But why is Juliet’s last name “Carlson”?</div>
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The notion that these soul groups often meet in life through synchronicities increases the odds that this is what the writers meant here. Look at all the synchronicities that drew these people together, which they largely ignored until they reached this “afterlife.”</div>
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Look at all the synchronicities each character experienced with Christian Shephard alone. And he didn’t even make it to the island alive.</div>
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As Christian prepares to leave the church, he touches Jack’s shoulder, as if to say, for the first time, “I’m proud of you.” He’s commending Jack on the job he did, leading all these people.</div>
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Back on the island, Vincent finds Jack dying in the bamboo thicket. He was the first to find Jack on the island in the pilot episode and these final moments are nearly identical to that scene. Jack watches the Ajira flight go by above him and he smiles, knowing that his friends are on it. He finally got them back home.</div>
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As Christian opens the church doors, the light fills the room. This is the same light Christian was bathed in when he appeared to Sun and Lapidus in the Dharma barracks on the island, back when Ajira had landed and Sun was looking for Jin.</div>
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As Sideways Jack smiles in the light, a smiling Jack on the island closes his eyes — presumably already seeing this church scene in his mind.</div>
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As his eye closes, the screen fades to black.</div>
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Many episodes of this series start with an eye opening. This was the first time we watched one close. And at the end of the fifth season, last year, it didn’t fade to black as it normally would. It was a white screen. Was that meant to hint at what this Sideways world was going to be?</div>
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The<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> New York Times </em>blog post I mentioned earlier, in this, my final <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>’s Last Call, talked about the high number of young adult viewers of the finale, that it would surely beat the number of young adults watching any other finale this season. The post continued to say that “the almost unwavering rating Lost scored over such a long period of prime time [two and a half hours] is highly unusual for any television show, but it is reflective of the extraordinary loyalty of the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost </em>audience — and the show’s demands on them.”</div>
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To say this show is demanding is an understatement. Back when my brother introduced me to<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lost</em>, it seemed there was nothing good on TV anymore. YouTube was becoming a real phenomenon for young adults. But then this came along. It attracted men and women equally and created a real community of viewers. If you wanted to talk about this show, you surely could find someone who’d dissect it with you, whether or not they actually liked it.</div>
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And <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost </em>examined so many kinds of viewpoints about so many things. It got people talking about religion, literature, philosophy and even physics in ways they might not have otherwise.</div>
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I’ve been honored to have the privilege to write about this all season. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading these entries as much as I’ve enjoyed making them. I’m sure there is a ton of stuff I missed in this last one, so now I leave this to you. What did you think? Were you surprised? Sad? Let down? Moved to tears? Inspired?</div>
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I’m hoping it’s the last one. When I started watching this show, I was going through a particularly difficult, isolating time. <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> reminded me to have faith in what I was doing. That I was not alone. I could relate to Jack because I too needed to learn how to let go.</div>
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As I mentioned earlier, when Jack left the island to Hurley to protect, it was like the writers saying, “Here, it’s your turn now. Go do something this creative and celebrate life — don’t let this light go out.”</div>
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It’s not easy to create a story as multi-dimensional as this was, least of all on television.</div>
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It’s your turn. Tell me what you believe.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />By Laura Carney</strong></div>
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Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-5221850074710788972010-05-19T17:13:00.000-07:002014-06-24T17:13:31.462-07:00From the Archives: Lost's Last Call: Off to See the Wizard<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br />
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Now, after watching “What They Died For,” I’m reconsidering. Maybe I was wrong to say little Ghost Jacob is like an Ewok. Did Lindelof ever promise anything about Munchkins?</div>
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Last night viewers finally got to see the meeting they’ve been waiting for — Jacob’s ghost talked with the remaining candidates (surprise, Kate’s still in the running!) and tried to answer their questions. And while watching this, it occurred to me that we’ve seen this before.</div>
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It’s been nagging at me for weeks now… back when Jack and Sawyer teamed up so they could escape from Fake Locke. Something about the two of them together, fighting for the same cause… these two heroes — not exactly sidekicks, but not rivals, either. One’s the all-American good guy, one’s sort of a rogue. One’s the all-star athlete while the other’s a cowboy.</div>
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How many times have we seen this combination? Sawyer isn’t just Batman to Jack’s Superman. He’s Han to Jack’s Luke.</div>
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Who’s the real leading man here? Can there only be one?</div>
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When I was a kid, my younger brother and cousin often ran into this dilemma while playacting. If we had all decided to put on a performance of <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Star Wars </em>for our parents, one boy had to be Luke Skywalker and one had to be Han Solo. It was always the same debate.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-letting-go" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: LETTING GO</strong></a></div>
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When it came to me and my much younger female cousin… well, the roles were easier to dispense. Youth won out every time. She would be Leia. I would be Darth Vader.</div>
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The play would usually consist of the four of us making a journey around a basement pool table, on some imaginary road. The road was the story, I suppose, in our 7-year-old minds.</div>
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But maybe we borrowed this approach from playacting <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wizard of Oz</em> — a story that actually utilizes a physical road. Just as with <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Star Wars</em>, the same debate would ensue. Who would play the Scarecrow? And who would play the Tin Man? (Nobody ever wanted to be the Cowardly Lion. We’d scoff at the mere suggestion.)</div>
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When it came to the female roles, I had a few more options: Dorothy or the Wicked Witch. We sometimes tried for Glenda, but she doesn’t get much screen time in the movie, so she eventually got ruled out. I’d try to con my younger cousin into playing “cute little” Toto, but she usually tired of walking on all fours. So, yet again, I’d have to play the villain.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/lost/losts-last-call-making-progress" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: MAKING PROGRESS</strong></a></div>
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By age 9, I circumvented this situation by writing a script for an original play. It was a detective story. I tried to give the two boys equal parts. I made my 5-year-old cousin a femme fatale/piano bar singer.</div>
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The play did not work out well. Despite my rehearsals, they couldn’t memorize the lines. In the final performance, they started improvising to make it funnier. The boys resorted to slapstick because they didn’t know what sort of hero to play. The problem was the two equal roles and lack of a villain — I’d unintentionally written a buddy comedy.</div>
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Usually when we staged <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Star Wars</em>, my brother got to be Luke. And when we did<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oz</em>, he was the Scarecrow. He was a pretty hyper, wiry kid, so maybe that was part of it. But I think there’s more to it than that.</div>
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The real question is this: Can a man play Odysseus and Romeo at the same time? Even kids can’t do it.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/04/losts-last-call-heroic-hurley/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: HEROIC HURLEY</strong></a></strong></div>
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Last night, we saw a definite brainy Scarecrow in Jack. And a compassionate Tin Man in Sawyer. And, needless to say, a (formerly cowardly) Lion in Hurley. And a rebellious Dorothy in Kate. And the wizard? Well, Jacob wants them to essentially kill the Wicked Witch of the West.</div>
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If the rest of the story follows suit, in the finale we’ll find Kate saving Jack’s life when MIB somehow threatens it. And she’ll do so by revealing MIB’s hidden weakness, something even Jacob doesn’t know about.</div>
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Of course, that might be a stretch. But maybe not, considering Lindelof’s self-proclaimed love of Frank L. Baum’s <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wonderful Wizard of O</em>z. He’s used this stuff before (think Hurley asleep in a field of poppies, “The Man Behind the Curtain,” etc.).</div>
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Could the light/”source” be the yellow brick road? Is the Sideways world kind of black-and-white like Kansas, while the island is in Technicolor? Will Kate wake up in her bedroom, telling Aaron all about the strange dream she had… ?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/04/losts-last-call-whatever-happened-happened/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: WHATEVER HAPPENED, HAPPENED</strong></a></strong></div>
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No, no, anything but <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</em>. Despite how often the writers show characters waking up on this show, viewers are shouting now, more than ever, “I don’t want it all to be a dream!”</div>
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But more on that later.</div>
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Fittingly, “What They Died For” begins with a familiar shot of Jack’s awakening eye. He opens it slowly this time, without that eyes-wide-open kind of anxiety we usually see with him.</div>
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Maybe it’s because in the Sideways world, when Jack wakes up, he’s still not truly “awake.”</div>
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And in case we forgot about his lack of enlightenment, the writers then placed him in front of his bathroom mirror — he’s one of two Sideways characters who gaze into mirrors this week. When he sees his reflection, Jack is surprised to find another cut on his neck, in the same spot as before (on Sideways Flight 815). But he has no time to fully examine it — his life is too busy for that.</div>
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Mini-Jack( I mean, David) shows up in his bathroom doorway, so excited to start the brand new day with his best friend, his dad.</div>
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It’s not normal. Especially since up until recently, this kid couldn’t stand to be around his father.</div>
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Besides the missing booze in Sideways Jack’s apartment, has anyone noticed how his artwork is different, too? Island Jack had a painting in his dining room that was abstract, almost cubist. It featured a very shadowy figure in the middle of it. Sideways Jack is still a fan of abstraction, but he’s chosen a swirly, circular piece. There’s no human figure in it. Sideways Jack also prefers pitchers of milk to cartons. And, as I said two weeks ago, he can get his own candy bars.</div>
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I don’t think I much like Sideways Jack and his smug, “Making cereal isn’t the same thing as making breakfast.” Do you?</div>
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Does it seem kind of odd to anyone that Claire, still a relative stranger, is staying there?</div>
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The real star of that scene, the Super Bran cereal, has to be some kind of Easter Egg. Anyone get an anagram on that? Here’s what I got, from most logical to least: reap burns; pure barns; urban reps; paner rubs; bane purrs; and saner burp. Could it just mean “Super Brain”? Because Jack will be the new “super brain” of the island? At least we know now what Sayid meant two weeks ago on the submarine when he said to Jack, “It will be you.” Maybe he had tapped into that same enlightenment Charlotte and Juliet had when they were close to death.</div>
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All I know is that real Super Bran enthusiasts couldn’t possibly be this anal retentive in their attention to detail. I doubt Sideways Jack would be.</div>
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Seems Sideways Jack always gets interrupted by things, doesn’t it? In the middle of breakfast, he gets a phone call from Desmond, who’s apparently able to disguise his accent in the Sideways world.</div>
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How does Desmond know about the coffin, brotha? Not that he’d call you “brotha” anymore — he seems to have neglected that habit.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/03/losts-last-call-live-together-die-alone/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: LIVE TOGETHER, DIE ALONE</strong></a></strong></div>
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I liked last night’s callback to the pilot episode, when Jack sews up Kate’s wound on the beach. But while getting stitched up, Kate doesn’t talk about “counting to five.” She starts plotting murder.</div>
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I also liked the irony of the two or three life preservers washing up onto the beach. Sawyer looks out so despondently at them. And the winner for best transition between island scenes and Sideways scenes (to date)? Jack tells everyone that Locke wants Desmond dead. And then we see Sideways Desmond, revving up to run over Locke a <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">second</em> time.</div>
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Another great parallel in this episode was provided by the Ben storyline.</div>
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In the island world, he appears to have reverted to his old ways. Does he shoot Charles Widmore because of his nagging rage? <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael Emerson</strong> did a fantastic job of reminding the audience of this. Remember, the last time Ben saw Charles, he had turned the donkey wheel, left the island, gotten Sayid to assassinate Widmore’s employees and visited Charles in his bedroom to threaten revenge for Alex’s death. He hasn’t seen Widmore since then and didn’t know he was even on the island. So he reacts purely emotionally to Widmore’s presence (despite Ben’s penchant for hiding his true emotions).</div>
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Basically, we know by now that anytime Ben gets into that creepy, monotone speaking voice, he’s up to something. Do you think he truly wants to go with MIB’s plans and kill everyone? Has he become MIB’s assassin, like Zombie Sayid was? Or is he conning him, a la Sawyer?</div>
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Ben’s behavior doesn’t change much after MIB enters the barracks. So it’s likely that he’s conning him. For example, when Ben shoots Widmore, it could be because of his anger towards him, but it could also be because he wants to stop him from revealing things to MIB that could get everyone else killed. Maybe Ben thinks Widmore’s a necessary sacrifice in that situation, for the greater good.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/02/losts-last-call-the-other-side-of-the-mirror/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR</strong></a></strong></div>
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Back in the Sideways world, Ben’s still a good guy. After getting beaten up by Desmond (which provides flashes of his island world beatdown — one of many — when he shot Desmond on the piers and Desmond fought back), Ben encourages Locke to do what Desmond said: to let go. This message, in turn, sends Locke to revisit Jack and tell him he’s “ready to get out of the chair.” And Ben’s injuries get sympathy from Alex, who asks him over for dinner with her mom, Rousseau, who insists, even if she has to “kidnap” Ben (a nice wink there), that he must join them. Rousseau strangely thanks Ben for everything he’s done for Alex, for being a father figure, which would be bittersweet for Ben if he was aware of his island existence.</div>
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Is he aware? He gets pretty choked up over this.</div>
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How funny is it that Alex tells Ben he looks like Napoleon, by the way? This episode’s filled with darkly humorous moments like that and not just from the usual candidates.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/02/losts-last-call-kate/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: CON-DUIT KATE</strong></a></strong></div>
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Best funny moments:</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. </strong>While the long-lost Miles, Ben and Richard walk towards the barracks, Miles says, “I lived in these houses 30 years before you did, otherwise known as last week.” (Despite this not really being accurate — Ben was a child in the 1970s and technically living there at the same time as Miles — this was still pretty funny.)</div>
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Then, when Ben tells the other two about the whereabouts of the explosives, Miles says, “Let me guess — cookie jar!” To which Ben replies, “Don’t be ridiculous. It’s in my secret room behind the bookcase.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. </strong>Sideways Sawyer and Miles show off their usual banter in this episode. Sawyer asks Miles, “What’s with the getup? Did somebody die?” This is funny considering Miles’ island world powers.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. </strong>When MIB hurls Richard into a tree by his neck (is Richard dead now? Can Richard die? And why does he always grab him by the neck like a kitten?), Ben turns around and slowly walks back to the front porch. He then offers MIB a glass of lemonade. While sitting on Ben’s porch, MIB proceeds to file his nails with a knife. With a knife! Part of me wonders if <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Terry O’Quinn</strong> came up with this on the spot.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/02/the-lost-diaries/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: PLAYING CATCH-UP</strong></a></strong></div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4.</strong> Not the funniest moment per se, but the most smile-inducing one for sure, is when Sideways Desmond enters the jail and greets Kate and Sayid. He says hello to each of them with a broad grin on his face, almost like he’s as delightfully surprised by this plot twist as the audience undoubtedly is.</div>
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What does everyone think will happen at this concert? Surely Faraday and the Widmores will be there, with Daniel performing along with Jack’s son. Who else? Could Juliet be Jack’s ex? Will Sawyer end up attending with Miles? How will Sun and Jin get there? And Locke? Will Farraday play “Rocket Man” and give everyone Stendhal Syndrome/flash of island memories?</div>
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Or maybe “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” would work better. Perhaps his music is so beautiful, it will make everyone time travel.</div>
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All joking aside, here are a few of the mysteries left to be solved in the finale — some just introduced this week (good Lord):</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.</strong> Why was the Smoke Monster summoning Ben all those years? In “What They Died For,” he finally reveals what that weird toilet bowl-summoner thing was doing (in, as Miles says, his “secreter room.”)</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. </strong>What does Widmore mean when he tells Ben that if he shoots him, his last chance of survival will be gone? Is he bluffing?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3.</strong> Do you think Jacob really visited Widmore? Will we ever be able to find the answer to that now?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/02/last-call-for-lost-the-final-season-begins/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE FINAL SEASON BEGINS</strong></a></strong></div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. </strong>Why does not talking to the Smoke Monster render that person pointless (as MIB says just after he slits Zoe’s throat)?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. </strong>And this is a big one: How do you protect the light from the monster? (Incidentally, this was the first episode where anyone even calls him that.)</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6.</strong> And an even bigger one: How do you kill the monster?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7.</strong> Will Jack and the others be able to kill him because they don’t have Jacob’s limitations (his mother made it so he couldn’t kill MIB)? Does the person who kills MIB have to be someone who has yet to speak to him? Does this mean Miles will save the day?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8.</strong> How does Hurley know who Ana Lucia is at the end of this episode? Does island enlightenment entail remembering every single part of the island?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. </strong>How will MIB use Desmond as the key to destroying the island? Was destroying the island part of his plan all along? Did Claire help Desmond out of the well?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/tag/lost/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CLICK HERE FOR ALL OF <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OK</em>!’S LOST NEWS</strong></a></strong></div>
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And finally, some theories:</div>
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As Desmond is resistant to the electromagnetic material that made the Smoke Monster, he (if not Miles) might be the only thing that can kill him.</div>
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Jack’s induction as island protector happened too easily. Will he really survive and protect the island? Something tells me one of the others might replace him. Maybe Sawyer. He’s got less to lose. Oh, except for the fact that he has a kid! Just like Kate! Anyone else find that kind of sexist? How about the cute little dress Desmond has ready for her to put on?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></strong><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/03/2010/03/2010/02/matthew-fox-on-lost-final-season-im-looking-forward-to-moving-on/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OK</em>! NEWS: MATTHEW FOX ON LOST’S FINAL SEASON — I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING ON</strong></a></strong></strong></strong></div>
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Kudos obviously go to the writers and <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Pellegrino</strong> for that moving fireside scene that’s been so long in the making. <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew Fox</strong> was very believable as well. At this point, though, I’m more interested in Sawyer and the guilt he now feels over potentially causing Jin, Sun and Sayid’s deaths. I think the writers will do a lot with that in the finale.</div>
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And, no, I don’t think it will “all be a dream.” It can’t be. The best part of this entire show is that it reawakens the child in everyone… when the castaways land on the island, they become the innocent child Jacob once was. They lose the limitations of adulthood. The world is wide and they can become anything they want to be. That doesn’t happen quite the same way in the Sideways world. I think the electromagnetic-resistant Sideways Desmond is serving as a tool to enlighten them in that world and will use his unique reactions to light to save people on the island. In the Sideways world, most characters are all still asleep, just like many of the viewers, who are inspired by this show to stop “sleeping” through their lives. It’s a common occurrence and one all too hard to avoid.</div>
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So, we invest what remains of our childlike whimsy into shows like this, written by people inspired by other works of literature, cinema and art.</div>
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So, it can’t all be a dream. It just can’t be.</div>
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once said that writers are incredibly important because they are our “myth-makers.” They created the myths of our leaders, so we should “pray that they be humane.”</div>
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Be humane, Damon and Carlton. You’ve reacquainted us with our childhood myths. At this point, it’s the least you can do.</div>
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As usual, all comments, questions and (hopefully) answers are welcome below. See you in five days! Enjoy the finale!</div>
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Before we get into this week’s deconstruction, it’s important that we address something: <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost </em>has developed an Ewok problem.<span id="more-342579" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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And when I say “Ewok problem,” I don’t mean that next week we’ll see a tribe of cute, buck-toothed, hamster-ish creatures trying to defeat the Smoke Monster with slingshots.</div>
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No, the Ewok problem developed in last night’s episode and it’s going to disappoint a lot of viewers. It’s surprising, considering what one of the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>writers said in the most recent <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Entertainment Weekly</em>:</div>
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“Right now, it’s like the end of <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Empire Strikes Back</em>,” says Damon Lindelof. “Your hand has been cut off, your tail is between your legs, so what do you do now? Our characters can’t hide. There’s only four hours of the show left. What are they going to do?” After this quote, Lindelof’s interviewer, the great Jeff Jensen, added: “[Lindelof] only promises one thing: ‘No Ewoks.’ ”</div>
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Lindelof lied.</div>
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In his book<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto</em>, writer Chuck Klosterman mentions his <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">own </em>distaste for the furry guys: “I once knew a girl who claimed to have a recurring dream about a polar bear that mauled Ewoks; it made me love her.” He then goes on at length about <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Empire Strikes Back</em>, the penultimate film in <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">George Lucas</strong>’ beloved series.</div>
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Klosterman’s thoughts echo Lindelof’s (or inspired Lindelof’s, as he wrote his book years before Lindelof’s <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EW </em>interview). He explains why people his age prefer <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Empire</em> to the sci-fi series’ “finale”:</div>
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“<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Empire Strikes Back</em> is the only blockbuster of the modern era to celebrate the abysmal failure of its protagonists. [A] movie about the good guys losing — both politically and romantically — is so integral to how people my age look at life. When sociologists and journalists started writing about the sensibilities that drove Gen Xers, they inevitably used words like <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">angst-ridden</em> and <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">disenfranchised</em> and<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lost</em>.”</div>
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Lost. They used words like “lost.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/04/losts-last-call-heroic-hurley/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: HEROIC HURLEY</strong></a></strong></div>
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What would you say the average age is of our beloved castaways? I seem to remember seeing a 7-year-old Sawyer sitting on the front steps of a church, receiving a pen from Jacob in about … 1977. And a young Jack reeling from a playground fight at around the same time.</div>
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And note how in a recent episode, Sawyer didn’t get Hurley’s <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Return of the Jedi</em>reference. “Who the hell’s Anakin?” he asked. Viewers have been up in arms about this. “How could the well-read Sawyer not know who Anakin is?” they’ve been asking. Easy. The name Anakin wasn’t mentioned until the final chapter of the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Star Wars</em> films. Up to that point, he was just the dark monster known as Darth Vader. Maybe Gen Xer Sawyer was too distracted by the collapse of his childhood to go out and watch <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jedi</em>.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/04/losts-last-call-whatever-happened-happened/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: WHATEVER HAPPENED, HAPPENED</strong></a></strong></div>
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It was 1983 when the wonderful Ewoks were written into the trilogy.<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Jedi</em>, while maybe not appealing to Sawyer, was a movie that younger castaways, like Hurley, might have watched in theaters before they even knew <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Empire Strikes Back</em>existed. The Ewoks were a perfect addition for little kids. They fit into McDonald’s Happy Meals. They even had their own short-lived cartoon.</div>
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But as Hurley said in “Some Like It Hoth,” “Dude, the Ewoks suck.” And the reason they suck is this: By the time devoted <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Star Wars</em> fans made it to <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Return of the Jedi</em>, they had gone through all those feelings of angst, disenfranchisement and loss along with the main characters. They became attached to Luke, Leia and Han. They were invested in their relationships, in their individual and spiritual development.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/03/losts-last-call-heart-and-soul/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: HEART AND SOUL</strong></a></strong></div>
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The last thing they wanted was to watch these characters team up with annoying little forest elves.</div>
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And what else can you call young Jacob (<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kenton Duty</strong>) and mini Man In Black (<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ryan Hanson Bradford</strong>) but little forest elves?</div>
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It’s going to be very, very hard for <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> viewers to accept a sweet and simplistic story as the background for everything that has happened on this show. So many literary, philosophical and religious references have been put out there by the writers. So many that, at this point, it’s hard not to want to believe that this island is a very real place, a mythological origin of all of existence. Viewers want names to go with these demigods. They want the demigods’ story to closely parallel something they understand or have seen before.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/03/losts-last-call-ricardus-everlasting/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: RICARDUS EVERLASTING</strong></a></strong></div>
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They want answers.</div>
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And instead, they’re getting vague illustrations. They’re getting cute little kids. They’re getting Ewoks.</div>
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And it’s impossible to even think about Ewoks without getting their irritating song stuck in your head. Why irritating? Because Lucas was so great at telling a monumental story that combined the hero’s journey with action adventure and the space age. As Joseph Campbell used to say, Lucas’ story is a modern-day myth. And stories like that aren’t supposed to include dance numbers with lyrics like “chub-chub.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/03/losts-last-call-live-together-die-alone/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: LIVE TOGETHER, DIE ALONE</strong></a></strong></div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> is a story about morality and philosophy. It talks about the importance of unity, of living together or dying alone. It delves deeply into the power of love. It’s about basic human survival. It’s about science vs. faith, free will vs. fate.</div>
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But people often forget: Not only is <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> a time-travel-obsessed work of science fiction. It’s also a fantasy. And fantasy writers, like Lucas, Cuse and Lindelof, have artistic license to do whatever the heck they want … which might mean introducing totally implausible plot points and pissing off loyal viewers.</div>
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The only way they can make this work is if they can somehow tie together what they gave us this week, in “Across the Sea,” with the very modern-day problems the castaways are experiencing. <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>’s finale could only be deemed a success if it gives a satisfactory sci-fi-type answer to all the mysteries on the island as well as a satisfactory mythological one. Doing both at the same time is not easy. This week, we got neither. I can only hope that this week’s story is going to be expounded upon as we reach the end.</div>
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Because I’d rather not watch a series finale that features Hurley on a floating wooden throne.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/03/losts-last-call-a-better-ben/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: A BETTER BEN</strong></a></strong></div>
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For now, the best we can do with last night’s <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> episode is analyze its symbolism.</div>
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“Across the Sea” starts with a view of the sea, appropriately, and a woman emerging from the water, looking much like Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus.”</div>
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The time period is hard to discern. Is the story meant to take place in the age of the Roman Empire? Is it the Middle Ages, just before the Renaissance? It’s probably the former.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/02/losts-last-call-the-other-side-of-the-mirror/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR</strong></a></strong></div>
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Whenever it is, people are still speaking in Latin. (And then switching to English suddenly at the sound of a magical flute.) Did anyone expect Jacob’s origins to at least go as far back as Egyptian times? When were the Egyptians on the island?</div>
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My sense is that the character played by <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Allison Janney</strong> was there in Egyptian times and that’s why she’s appropriated some of their culture. She never says how long she’s been on the island.</div>
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The opening scene of the sea pulls together the symbolism of baptism and woman’s connection to water. What doesn’t make sense is how that woman is able to swim to shore in that condition, especially in that time period.</div>
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The shipwrecked woman’s bloody foot that draws the “Earth Mother” type’s assistance (although it’s more likely that the real draw is the sign on her stomach broadcasting “Free Baby!”) makes more sense when you consider the meaning of her name, Claudia. It means “lame.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/02/losts-last-call-kate/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: CON-DUIT KATE</strong></a></strong></div>
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Look at another form of the word: “claudicate.” It means to “give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another.”</div>
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The Earth Mother takes Claudia back to the Adam and Eve caves (where the Losties would reside years into the future). She feeds her patient, who eats ravenously, just like Richard Alpert did when he landed on the island and MIB “rescued” him.</div>
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As they’re getting to know each other, Earth Mother gets a sly look on her face. It’s reminiscent of the baby-coveting French chick.</div>
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Claudia gives up asking her anything when she gets this response: “Every question I answer will just lead to another question.”</div>
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A line overheard in the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> writers’ room?</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/uncategorized/2010/02/the-lost-diaries/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: PLAYING CATCH-UP</strong></a></strong></div>
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When Claudia goes into labor, Earth Mother seems very happy about it, almost like she willed it to happen. If she is like Jacob (as she tells him later in the episode), maybe her touch or her fertility-enhancing energy did jumpstart the birthing process.</div>
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Just as with Claire, Claudia knows that the baby’s name is Jacob. She doesn’t count on him having a twin.</div>
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The name Jacob is Biblical and means “he who follows upon the heels of one.” If only all of this story told the Biblical tale of Jacob and Esau. But only parts of it do.</div>
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For example, in the Bible, Esau was born first and Jacob followed. These two on<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> are the reverse of that. The second baby, the future Man In Black, doesn’t get a name … but later in the episode, the Earth Mother seems to whisper “Esau.”</div>
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It’s only the same in that Jacob takes his brother’s birthright in the Biblical story. And he kind of does the same thing in “Across the Sea,” even if it’s due to a series of miscommunications. Perhaps Earth Mother (EM) names MIB “Esau” because she needs something like this Biblical story to occur. She needs to groom one of them to be her replacement and the other one to get angry about it and kill her. When the Man In Black stabs her, she thanks him.</div>
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I mean, every mother of twins dresses one in all white and one in all black, right? Because that has no psychologically devastating effects whatsoever!</div>
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Why it’s okay for EM to kill people but not for the “very bad” humans to do so is never quite explained. One thing’s for sure: Mothers on this show often have to give birth and then abandon their children. And fathers don’t always leave, but they do generally cause all sorts of problems.</div>
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The next scene of the babies is set 13 years later, long after their adoptive mom clobbered their real mom with a rock (a white rock, by the way). The boys have no knowledge of this — or of much else, for that matter. All they really know about is weaving and hunting.</div>
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Little <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zac Efron</strong> finds the Egyptian game of Senet (a backgammon precursor) washed up on the beach. He tells his more innocent brother Jacob that he “just knows” how to play it, kind of like how Walt used to “just know” things.</div>
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After MIB discovers the game, it’s like he’s found the tree of knowledge. He starts asking important questions.</div>
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NEWS: MATTHEW FOX ON LOST’S FINAL SEASON — I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING ON</strong></a></strong></strong></strong></div>
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He asks his mother what it means to be dead, for example. She tells him mysteriously that it’s something he will never have to worry about.</div>
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This questioning is crucial to his development. That game teaches him how to strategize, to think ahead. When he gets a little visit from his Ghost Mom, Claudia, he stops trusting anything on blind faith. Eventually, he gets so desperate to leave the island and satisfy his curiosity that he’d even kill his adoptive mother.</div>
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For the loyal Jacob, that’s a step too far.</div>
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Note how when MIB goes to live with “the people,” he agrees with EM that they are “bad.” He says they are “greedy, manipulative, untrustworthy and selfish.” They’re a means to an end, he says.</div>
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Jacob disagrees with this. He says they don’t seem so bad.</div>
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An important thing about Jacob in this story, what we finally learn about him, is why he’s always talking about making choices. He’s essentially forced into the job of protecting the light. He’s chosen by default. His mother feeds him “live forever” wine (does that cup have an ouroboros on the bottom?) and he reluctantly agrees to do her job — albeit in a rather bratty speaking voice for a 43-year-old (“Why do I have to?” he whines. And then he shouts, like a teenager: “I don’t care!”).</div>
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Jacob’s mother doesn’t give him a choice. So when he picks his replacement, he wants them to choose the job themselves.</div>
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Despite this episode’s simplicity and propensity to disappoint viewers, a few very interesting mysteries emerged — and so did some much anticipated answers.</div>
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For example, how can EM insure that Jacob and MIB never “hurt each other”? Does this have more to do with her magical powers, the same ones Jacob later uses to protect the candidates?</div>
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What are we to make of her description of the light (probably the electromagnetic energy) at the core of the island? “It’s light. The warmest, brightest light you’ve ever seen or felt. And we must make sure that no one ever finds it. A little bit of this very same light is inside of every man. But they always want more. If they try, they could put it out. And if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere. And so I’ve protected this place but I can’t protect it forever.”</div>
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Later, she tells Jacob the light is “life, death, rebirth. It’s the source.”</div>
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How much can we really trust EM?</div>
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Just before her son stabs her in the back, she finds his Senet game. She examines a black stone like she had never really looked at the game before. What does this symbolize? Is that the first time MIB uses his dark rock as a “calling card”?</div>
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We finally know now where the donkey wheel came from. But how did the mechanism get finished if the Man In Black was turned into Smokey (which was unbelievably awesome, in a very comic-book villain way — probably the best part of this episode!) in the middle of construction? Should we assume that Jacob went down to the well and built it himself?</div>
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Maybe Jacob got other people to do it for him. As his mother’s replacement, he is definitely much better at delegating tasks.</div>
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Also, about that donkey wheel – is that how Jacob later gets off the island? Is it the only way to do it? If he leaves the island to visit candidates, who’s protecting the light? Did it have the temple built around it by then?</div>
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Another mystery answered: We now know that when MIB crushed the wine jug, he was crushing Jacob’s everlasting life, which makes him furious.</div>
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Did anyone find themselves feeling kinda sorry for MIB in this episode? Regardless of how he became evil, he was mostly just angry and misunderstood. He might have killed his own mom, but does that mean he should have to exist as a lightning bolt-filled, destructive cloud of smoke forever?</div>
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For a series that revolves around the notion of light versus dark, this episode had a lot of shades of gray.</div>
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Do you think the reason Jacob chooses candidates with dysfunctional families is because he wants them to overcome what he couldn’t?</div>
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I’m not convinced that the candidate/protector of the island can exist without the Man In Black, his opposite. As the physicist Niels Bohr once said, “The opposite of a great truth is also true.” Interestingly, Niels Bohr had a lot to do with electromagnetic activity theories.</div>
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Hopefully we will get a better explanation of that in the next two weeks, of what this “light” truly is.</div>
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John Locke once said, “I’ve looked into the eye of this island and what I saw was beautiful.” Why was he the only one who could see that light-filled part of the Smoke Monster?</div>
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Allison Janney was fantastic in this episode, despite having to play such a vague, confusing, deceptive, unnamed character. Her concern over her children definitely felt real.</div>
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As usual, all comments, questions and answers are welcome below. Especially if you found that Adam and Eve skeletons flashback (the one where Jack and Kate find the caves) as unnecessary as I did.</div>
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The title of this week’s episode of <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>, “The Candidate,” was misleading … it led viewers to believe they’d finally see which remaining castaway would replace Jacob.<span id="more-345277" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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But instead of being an episode about claiming a job (and despite the demise of four major characters), it was an episode about the importance of letting go — a phrase uttered so many times throughout this series by Christian Shephard to his son, Jack, and one viewers haven’t heard for a while.</div>
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It’s apt advice. After all, we’ll be letting go of this 6-year-old show in only a few weeks. But this was the first episode that depicted Jack actually <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">giving</em> this advice. (Well, <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sideways Jack</em>, that is, a slight mutation of the original.)</div>
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The <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> writers have typically placed this catchphrase in Christian’s dialogue at very inopportune times. He said it when Jack accused him of sleeping with his wife. He said it again in response to Jack’s confrontation at his AA meeting. We’ve even heard the phrase on the island: When Ben was keeping Jack captive in the Hydra station and Juliet was questioning him, Christian’s voice crackled through a broken intercom: “Let it go…” And then Jack abruptly ended his hunger strike, if only to stop the hallucinations.</div>
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Whether that was truly Christian or the Man In Black, pretending to be Christian, remains to be seen. It’s a topic up for debate since “The Last Recruit,” in which Fake Locke told Jack that he had appeared as Christian on the island.</div>
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I’m not convinced that MIB would have known that phrase or its importance to Jack. It’s as good an argument as any that Christian’s ghost has indeed been hanging around.</div>
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And, by the way, it’s not like Christian was totally misguided in continually telling Jack to stop holding onto things. It’s just that, like Dr. Frankenstein, he was trying to tame his own creation.</div>
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When Jack was a child, Christian told him that he could never be a leader like he was because he didn’t have “what it takes” to deal with failure. He was trying to protect him, in his own insensitive way. But young Jack misunderstood that and focused on that one line: “You don’t have what it takes.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/04/losts-last-call-whatever-happened-happened/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: WHATEVER HAPPENED, HAPPENED</strong></a></strong></div>
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So thanks to his dad’s callousness (and, perhaps, his alcoholism), pre-island Jack personified persistence. He spent his life trying to prove his father wrong, which meant trying to show that he was a leader. That he could be decisive and make things happen. That he could “fix” things.</div>
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The one time Christian seemed to recognize that fact was just before Jack’s wedding to Sarah (the spinal surgery patient Jack miraculously saved). Jack told his dad that he was concerned that his devotion to her wasn’t so much about love as it was about his need to rescue people.</div>
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Christian’s response? “Commitment is what makes you tick, Jack.The problem is you’re just not good at letting go.”</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/03/losts-last-call-heart-and-soul/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: HEART AND SOUL</strong></a></strong></div>
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The irony of Christian’s insistence that he wasn’t like Jack, that he <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">could</em> “let things go,” is that it wasn’t true. A man who drinks himself to death in an alley after losing his job and his son’s respect is not good at letting things go. A man who can’t call his son on the phone to confess how “weak” he is, and instead confides in the con man (Sawyer) sitting at the end of the bar, is not good at letting things go.</div>
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As I’ve mentioned in the case of Juliet and Sawyer, when a loved one passes on, people often take on some of their characteristics — depending on how close the relationship was, how closely tied it was to the person’s psyche. So when Christian died, things changed drastically for Jack. He’s been learning how to let go ever since, in very dramatic ways. He had to let go of three, maybe four, friends in this episode.</div>
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When <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sideways</em> Christian died, things changed for Claire, too. As seen in this week’s episode, she inherited a mysterious music box from her father, a man she had never met. When she brings it to Jack, he can’t explain the meaning of it because, as he says, if he hadn’t even known about her existence, he definitely wouldn’t know anything about the music box. Then Jack tells Claire how Christian died. Strangely, his life ended the same way in the Sideways world as it did in the island world. But Jack’s guilt over it seems to be absent this time.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/03/losts-last-call-ricardus-everlasting/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: RICARDUS EVERLASTING</strong></a></strong></div>
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In the Sideways world, Dr. Jack Shephard can put a quarter into a vending machine and get the candy bar he wants with no struggle whatsoever. Pay attention to that. It’s going to be important.</div>
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Who else guessed that Claire’s music box would play “Catch a Falling Star”? How could it not? It’s the song Christian sang to Claire when she was a baby, the same one both she and Kate sang to Aaron. Is it at all possible that Claire did in fact meet her father in the Sideways world and he did sing that song to her, but she was too young to remember it? And maybe he still said some of the same horrible things to Jack? Maybe they just don’t remember any of it because these characters are blissfully ignorant to a lot of things. The Sideways world is kind of like <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Truman Show</em>.</div>
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I said earlier in this blog that the Sideways characters live more consciously than the island versions because they are always staring at themselves in mirrors and they seem to make better, more healthy choices. Later, in my “Happily Ever After” post, I revised that statement. I said I was wrong. It turns out that the “love” that helps the Sideways characters is not the passionate, soul-mate-type love that makes someone feel truly alive. Without that (or a near-death experience, apparently), the characters aren’t able to get in touch with their spirits. They are staring into mirrors longingly, not able to see the world on the other side.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/03/losts-last-call-live-together-die-alone/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: LIVE TOGETHER, DIE ALONE</strong></a></strong></div>
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In “The Candidate,” Sideways Jack and Claire exemplify that obliviousness. They dismiss the meaning of the music box when they can’t figure it out quickly enough, not paying any attention to their intuitions. This is an episode where Jack interacts with his long-lost sister, an emergency room patient and that patient’s dentist, only to discover that each person was on Oceanic 815, the flight that lost his father’s body. Does he bat an eyelash (or many eyelashes, as <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew Fox</strong>tends to do when Jack gets upset)? Maybe a little bit. But not nearly enough.</div>
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The only really interesting part of the Sideways world now is watching these characters have these moments — these little flashes of recognition, déjà vu, memories, whatever you want to call it — where they become briefly aware of the parallel island world. It happens to Sideways Locke a few times in this episode.</div>
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When he awakes after his surgery, he recognizes Jack. He says, “I know you!” It doesn’t seem like he’s only referring to their baggage claim meeting in LAX. Later, when Jack visits him in his hospital room, Locke talks in his sleep. The first thing he says sounds an awful lot like “Boone.” Then he says, “Push the button.” And then, “I wish you had believed me.”</div>
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Eerie. And nicely done by the writers.</div>
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So are we meant to believe that the Sideways characters can get in touch with the island world in their dreams? It certainly seems like Desmond was aware of the Sideways world when he woke up on the island after his Charles Widmore-induced “electromagnetic experience.”</div>
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How do you think things will play out for Sideways Locke and Jack? How odd is it that a plane crash caused Locke’s paralysis in this world while the crash of 815 healed him in the other one?</div>
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Matthew Fox and <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Terry O’Quinn</strong> are so powerful in that final scene:</div>
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Jack: You can punish yourself as much as you want and that’s never going to bring him back. What happened, happened. And you can let it go.</div>
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Locke: What makes you think letting go is so easy?</div>
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In the Sideways world, Jack has definitely replaced Locke as the man of hope, if not faith. Just like the ease with which his candy bar falls through those vending machine springs, Sideways Jack doesn’t need “a push.” He can accomplish things in this world without that old sense of trepidation, without the need to prove himself. Maybe his relationship with Christian was vastly improved in this world. He sticks to his convictions just like John Locke did back on the island.</div>
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That one line of Jack’s, “I wish you’d believe me.” Locke pauses after it. Is that another flash of island memories for Locke? Was all of this Desmond’s reason for running him over?</div>
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Other examples of inter-world consciousness (what else can you call it?) in this episode: Bernard (<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sam Anderson</strong>) seems very spiritually aware. Maybe this is due to his finding Rose (<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">L. Scott Caldwell</strong>) in both worlds. Locke’s dad, Anthony Cooper, is mentally checked out. Is this karma for what he did to Locke in the island world (even if Sideways Locke isn’t aware of it)? And despite her blissful ignorance, Sideways Claire finds redemption with her music box.</div>
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The only other <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> character with a music box attachment was Danielle Rousseau (<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mira Furlan</strong>). Given to her by her husband, it represented her connection to other people, to family. When Ben stole Alex from her, he knocked her music box off the table, presumably breaking it. It wasn’t until she captured Sayid that she could find someone to fix it for her. It wasn’t until the music box could play again, 16 years after she landed on the island, that she could once again feel connected to the world.</div>
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Island Claire has gone through something similar. She’s been called “the new Rousseau” this season by many reviewers. But her Sideways counterpart gets a working music box and she finds a family at the same time — Jack invites her to stay with him. If the island version of Claire could find this, if she had caught her falling star (Aaron) and held it in her pocket, maybe she wouldn’t be in such a mess (or nuts).</div>
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So why was she so easily manipulated by the Man In Black? Why was Sayid? Doesn’t it seem like those two are the only ones he shows his true colors around? Why is that? Is it because both of them really are dead?</div>
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At least we can say for sure now that “there is no Sayid.” I don’t mean because I won’t miss Sayid, just that it clarifies things more. Jack <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">has </em>to put it that way because he can’t quite say “Sayid’s dead” for the second time. What did everyone think of Sayid’s sacrifice? Can it really be called a sacrifice if he was sorta, you know, undead? Does it make up for all the people he killed?</div>
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I loved that scene in the beginning with Jack waking up in the outrigger, kind of like he was in a coffin (like Locke’s coffin? Christian’s?), in the black of night on the beach. I can’t say much more than I already have about Widmore and his goons, shown directly after that scene, because it’s still nonsense as usual with those people. Why is Widmore so obsessed with timing that he can’t even notice what idiots he’s hired?</div>
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Widmore’s lines still aren’t much more believable than they were a few weeks ago. And how did Widmore acquire the list of names? How would he know which candidates are left? Despite Sawyer’s doubts, I believe Widmore really is trying to protect them by putting them in the cages. And of course, he’s very unsuccessful at doing that. Man, how did this guy get to be a billionaire?</div>
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I went through a bit of analysis of the Man In Black in my “Last Recruit” post, so I won’t bore you with it now. I’ll only say this: The writers have done a wonderful job of trying to convince viewers that this guy might actually be a good guy, and it served an important purpose.</div>
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This season, the viewers have had to transform their perspectives, just as the main characters have had to. This episode in particular hit on some long-running themes in <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>, namely, the practice of letting go (as mentioned earlier) and the ability to make decisions on faith. If viewers had been using their gut instincts (as Desmond recommended in “Happily Ever After”), they would have been able to tell by now that MIB has been evil all along. Making decisions on faith is something John Locke always preached, so it’s interesting that the castaways have to use that same method now to decide whether or not to believe the Man In Black, the entity possessing Locke’s body.</div>
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<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/2010/02/last-call-for-lost-the-final-season-begins/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE FINAL SEASON BEGINS</strong></a></strong></div>
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Ugh, the whole thing makes my brain hurt.</div>
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I mean, how surreal was it when Jack pushed Fake Locke into the water (as Sawyer had instructed, knowing that MIB could potentially melt like the Wicked Witch … although water only seems to slow him down a little)? Jack tells MIB that John Locke told him to stay on the island, but he says it while clobbering someone who looks exactly like the man he’s defending!</div>
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Okay, I know I said I wouldn’t analyze him again, but I just can’t help it. Another fascinating thing about the Man In Black is that not only can he look at someone and imitate their behavior and speak as they do in an effort to manipulate them, but he can convince them to <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hate</em> someone else. Every single thing he says in this episode about Charles Widmore could easily be applied to himself. He says that he doesn’t trust Widmore’s intentions. That he doesn’t believe he’ll get a straight answer from him. He says Widmore wants to get them all into an enclosed space, one they can’t escape, so he can kill them.</div>
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He’s giving the castaways the play-by-play of what he’s about to do to them. It’s kind of like when he told Richard Alpert that he had to go kill Jacob because he’s the devil.</div>
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Does that make the Man In Black the real devil? Maybe we’ll find out next week.</div>
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Did anyone think that bomb on the Ajira plane was put there by MIB? He takes that goon’s watch before boarding it. Why would he do that if he’s unaware of the bomb? He would have had access to the plane this whole time — he explains how Widmore’s sonar fences weren’t surrounding it.</div>
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As much as I loved “The Candidate,” it had a couple things I could do without. One example is Lapidus’ cornball remarks. I am sorry to see him go … but I’m sad that just before he had to go, the writers had him say things like “Nothin’ personal” while hitting a guy and “Aw, hell” about the door that explodes onto him. If main characters die on the island after finding their redemption does that mean minor characters die after acting more annoying? Probably.</div>
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Another thing: Hurley tells Jack on the submarine that he can’t find a first aid kit and moments later, there’s a shot of the kit right behind Lapidus’ head.</div>
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I can’t say much about that submarine scene because I was on the edge of my seat and couldn’t take notes! No, but seriously, it has to be the most compelling scene ever on <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>, rivaled only by the Swan station implosion … or maybe the potential Swan station <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">explosion</em>.</div>
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Sawyer still can’t blindly trust Jack. He still can’t let go. Can you blame him? Jack’s decision-making led to Juliet’s death! Do you think the bomb would have gone off if Sawyer didn’t mess with it? As I said two weeks ago about Jack’s decision to leave the sailboat: Sawyer is continuing on his road to becoming more like Jack at the same rate as Jack is becoming more like Locke.</div>
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I still can’t understand how Jack figures out that MIB “isn’t allowed” to kill them. That statement seemed like a stretch to me. Even Matthew Fox didn’t seem like he bought it when he delivered that line.</div>
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NEWS: MATTHEW FOX ON LOST’S FINAL SEASON — I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING ON</strong></a></strong></strong></strong></div>
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The Jin and Sun death scene was completely unexpected, brilliantly played and sob-inducing for so many viewers. Their hands clasped in front of the red blinking light, just before pulling apart … the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> death music in the background … the Charlie-esque martyrdom (they die so Jack and Sawyer can live, essentially) …</div>
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Anyone disagree with Jin’s decision to stay behind with her? Now Ji-Yeon will be an orphan!</div>
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Of course, Sideways Jin walks by Sideways Locke in the hospital immediately following this scene, which is meant to quickly bandage the wound of losing both Jin and Sun simultaneously, not to mention Sayid and Lapidus.</div>
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My prediction, as sad as it might sound: It won’t be long before we’re saying goodbye to the rest of them on that island. Maybe one might survive. Maybe Jack. But I think that Sideways world is there to dull the pain, no matter what happens. Which is a shame, because the Sideways world is pretty dull.</div>
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I’m not a huge fan of talking about the promos, but, holy crap, does next week’s episode look absolutely unbelievable! The backgammon game. The two sides. The dark. The light. The good. The evil.</div>
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I hope a lot of questions are answered next week. Like, what the heck happened to Richard, Ben and Miles?</div>
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As usual, any questions, comments and (hopefully) answers are welcome below. Especially if you weren’t too sad to say goodbye to “Doughboy.”</div>
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Of all the mysteries solved last night in yet another info-filled sixth season episode of <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>, one mystery still stands out remarkably: Who is the Man In Black? And why does he think Jack knows who he is?<span id="more-349271" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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In the first few minutes of “The Last Recruit,” Jack shares a fireside chat with the man who goes by so many names: Man In Black (often shortened to MIB, which just reminds me of <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Will Smith </strong>and <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tommy Lee Jones</strong>), Fake Locke (often shortened to Flocke, which just makes him seem like a shepherd), the Smoke Monster (sometimes capitalized, sometimes not — depending on how angry he gets), Cerberus (the name the Others gave him), evil incarnate (used by Dogen) and “that thing,” elaborated on last night by Frank Lapidus (<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeff Fahey</strong>) to become “that swamp thing.” Which is pretty ironic, considering the Smoke Monster can’t travel across swamps.</div>
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In their talk, Mr. Anonymous explains to Jack why he chose to take the appearance of John Locke:</div>
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“You look just like him,” Jack says.</div>
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“Does it bother you?” Flocke replies.</div>
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“No, what bothers me is I don’t have any idea what the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hell </em>you are,” Jack explains.</div>
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And then, with no hesitation, Flocke says it.</div>
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“Sure you do.”</div>
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Are we meant to assume that Jack does, in fact, know the identity of this supernatural entity? Or is he like us and just gets a bad feeling about the guy?</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/featured/losts-last-call-heroic-hurley" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: HEROIC HURLEY</strong></a></div>
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Fortunately, the subplot of <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em>’s sixth season, as mentioned in my “Ab Aeterno” post, is still going strong. It’s called “Jack finally asks the right questions.” He asks if Flocke could resemble other dead people on the island, too — namely, his dear old dad.</div>
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So now we know that the real “shepherd” of the show, Christian, was impersonated several times by the man we now call Flocke. As Christian, the Man In Black led Jack to water in the first season (a scene where Jack almost fell off a cliff, until Locke saved him); he led Claire away from Sawyer and Miles (abandoning Aaron in the process); he visited Locke in Jacob’s cabin (in which Claire eerily said, “I’m with him.”); he visited Locke by the donkey wheel; he told Michael when it was time for him to die; and he encountered Sun and Lapidus in abandoned Dharmaville, revealing that Jin and the others were stuck in 1977.</div>
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<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whew</em><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">!</em> That’s a lot of visits. I’m not sure they were all helpful, though, as Flocke claims. Jack doesn’t seem sure about it either. And I’m still not 100 percent positive that those visits were all made by the Man In Black. For example, how could he have shown up as Christian in Dharmaville after Ajira had crashed if he was already in Locke’s body?</div>
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One of the strangest parts about the Man In Black is that not only can he shapeshift, but he can also mirror people. It’s just like when the Smoke Monster freezes in someone’s face and that person’s memories appear in the black cloud. Flocke can look at someone and instantly mesh with that person’s typical demeanor.</div>
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But it only works sometimes, because, as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, the Smoke Monster is a<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> cloudy </em>mirror. He can assess the ego but not the spirit.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-whatever-happened-happened" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: WHATEVER HAPPENED, HAPPENED</strong></a></div>
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For someone like Jack, who was once very ego-dominated, Flocke’s shtick about John Locke being “a sucker” should have worked wonders. But this is a new-and-improved Jack Shephard. He’s no longer guided by the need to prove himself or fix things. He finally has respect for other people’s beliefs, namely John Locke’s.</div>
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See, Jack has found island redemption. Any person left on the island who’s yet to find that is going to have a hard time resisting Flocke’s persuasions. Which means that in addition to Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Sun, Jin, Hurley, Desmond, Miles, Ben and Richard are all immune. But Claire and Sayid aren’t. Look at what they did just before meeting Flocke – Sayid shot a 14-year-old and Claire abandoned her child.</div>
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Oh, <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </em>they were dead.</div>
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Basically, if you’ve yet to find redemption or you’re swimming with the fishes, your soul is not fully inhabiting your body — all the better for the Man In Black to steal it.</div>
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There was a lot of soul-saving going on last night, in both the island world and the Sideways world. For the first time this season, it was not a show that centered around one character’s story. The writers could deftly weave the events of “The Last Recruit” in and out of each other, much like Jacob at his loom.</div>
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Also for the first time this season? These two worlds are finally starting to resemble each other. We’re not looking at Alice in one world and Wonderland in the other anymore. We’re not looking at Kansas versus Oz. We’re looking at one universe, which has certain demands, regardless of what series of events leads up to the results.</div>
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As Jacob said, “It only ends once. Everything else is just progress.”</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-heart-and-soul" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: HEART AND SOUL</strong></a></div>
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For example, on the island, we see Claire calling Jack her “brother” for the first time. Then the same thing happens in the Sideways world, albeit under different circumstances.</div>
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On the island, Claire comes out from behind the bushes, interrupting Jack and Flocke. It seems like something Flocke previously convinced her to do. She’s completely under his control now, just like Sayid; they are soldiers, carrying out orders. But when Claire finds Jack in the Sideways world, it’s thanks to Desmond, who seems to be on a mission to unite all the castaways.</div>
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(It’s an interesting choice by the writers. Why Desmond? Why is he the man for this job? Is it because he’s the one who accidentally brought them all to the island when he didn’t push the button? So he’s inextricably linked to each passenger? Is he doing a Jacob impression? Is it because it was his love for Penny, and her search for him, that initially got the castaways saved?)</div>
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Sideways Claire ends up finding a “family,” at a time when she really needs one. She would have given up Aaron without Desmond’s intervention. On the island, Claire also finds a sense of family. Island Claire is like the girl who plans a birthday party and nobody shows up. She can cry if she wants to. But in this episode, Kate recruits her to join them on the sailboat, seemingly breaking through Claire’s crazy/tough veneer.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-ricardus-everlasting" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: RICARDUS EVERLASTING</strong></a></div>
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In another example of the interwoven worlds, Sideways Sawyer interrogates/flirts with Sideways Kate in the police station, one of two central locations for all the castaways in the Sideways world. (The other one? Sideways Jack’s hospital.) This is a significant scene because Kate has finally been caught. Despite how lightheartedly this was played, she’s still doing everything she can to break free.</div>
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(By the way, did you notice Sawyer offering that apple? He’s already had his Sideways redemption moment, with Miles. So he can now eat from the apple of knowledge, reminiscent of the apple consumed by Adam and Eve. Could Sawyer and Kate be the cave skeletons? Yeah, that’s a stretch. But everything happens for a reason on this show. A baseball is never just a baseball.)</div>
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When Kate learns of Sawyer’s escape plan on the island, he again confines her. She’s not thrilled about the idea of leaving Claire. But she follows him anyway. When Jack jumps off the boat, Kate’s conflicted emotions are palpable. She’s caught between the two men she loves. It’s as though she’s held captive by Sawyer, just like in the Sideways world. And she’s doing whatever she can to break free.</div>
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And as for Sideways Sawyer … well, his meeting with Kate gets interrupted by Miles’ announcement that they’ve got “a live one” (which is ironic, since he’s referring to Sayid). Just before this scene, island Sawyer points out to Hurley that Sayid had “gone over to the dark side.” In the Sideways world, as Detective Jim Ford, he trips Sayid with a garden hose and arrests him for murder (something Sawyer probably wishes he could do on the island, especially after those three years of Dharma police training).</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/lost/losts-last-call-live-together-die-alone" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: LIVE TOGETHER, DIE ALONE</strong></a></div>
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And a third example of the two worlds converging occurs with Sayid. Zombie Sayid is instructed yet again to kill someone in this episode, this time an “unarmed man.” But when he goes to shoot Desmond, he gets an earful of wisdom (and brothas — why would you call someone “brotha” when he’s got a gun pointed at you?). Desmond asks Sayid what he’ll tell Nadia he had to do to “get her back” and Sayid has no answer for that.</div>
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In the Sideways world, Sayid does get a chance to tell Nadia what he did, but he doesn’t get her back. After killing Keamy and his goons, and saving his brother’s family from peril, Sayid must run from the law, albeit unsuccessfully.</div>
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Do you think Desmond’s pleas could bring Sayid back from the “dark side”? When he tells Flocke the result of his meeting with the man in the well, he doesn’t seem to be telling the truth.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/lost/losts-last-call-better-ben" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: A BETTER BEN</strong></a></div>
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Besides the similar worlds, there’s one phrase that’s repeated by lots of characters in this episode: “Everything will be okay.” Sideways Sayid says it to Nadia. Sideways Jin says it to Sun, when she wakes up in the hospital.</div>
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The reunion of the Sideways Kwons should have foreshadowed their island reunion, but the writers still managed to catch me off guard with that one. Anyone else just expect it at that point? When they run through the sonar fences to each other, their drive to embrace is stronger than any concern over sudden death. Anyone else miss the fact that those fences had been turned off?</div>
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Why do you think Sun is able to speak English again after she finds Jin? Perhaps this was a way for the writers to show that if Flocke <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">did </em>take away her English (of which she humorously accuses him), and then her discovery of Jin makes her speak English instantly (the first phrase she can say is “I love you”), then love is one of the things that can defeat Flocke.</div>
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But we probably already knew that.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-other-side-mirror" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR</strong></a></div>
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It was a touching scene. Even more touching? Sawyer’s sad reaction, watching them reunite. Despite Jack’s apology for causing Juliet’s death, Sawyer obviously still wishes he could reunite with her.</div>
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Another person who says, “Everything will be okay,” is Jack, as he’s preparing his son, David (aka “Mini Jack”), for the reading of Christian’s will.</div>
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Jack’s an interesting example of the island imitating the Sideways world, or vice versa. In the Sideways world, he’s much more confident than he ever was before. He leaves the reading of the will to go and operate on Locke, and just before the surgery he says, “I’ve got this.” He used to be very unsure of himself with surgeries. He’d have to count to five to deal with his anxiety.</div>
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On the island, he shows similar confidence in his convictions. He used to want to do everything he could to get off the island. But now he’s brave enough to “make a leap of faith,” as Sawyer says, and swim back to the beach from a moving sailboat. Acting like the new John Locke (which would make Sawyer the new Jack), Jack tells Sawyer that leaving the island doesn’t feel right. He says that the last time he left, he felt like a part of him was missing. It’s darkly humorous that Sawyer would say, “They got pills for that, Doc.” Jack already tried every pill and alcoholic beverage he could think of. Those didn’t solve anything when he left the island before (but they did help him grow a horrible beard).</div>
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Both the Sideways and island versions of Jack seem to believe in having a sense of purpose now, even if island Jack might be much closer to it. The island version even tries to convince Sawyer to stay behind, that the island still needs him; it’s something John Locke tried to tell Jack on many occasions.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/ok-blog-losts-last-call-con-duit-kate" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: CON-DUIT KATE</strong></a></div>
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As I mentioned earlier, Jack finally recognizes John Locke now. He understands and agrees with some of his beliefs. When he sees the Man In Black pretending to be Locke, he seems to <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">know </em>who he is.</div>
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And more importantly, when Sideways Jack sees Sideways John Locke’s face in the mirror on his operating table, he recognizes him. “I think I know this guy,” he says.</div>
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He <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">does</em> know him. As different as each of these castaways are, they are all one and the same. Regardless of the universe, they need to live together, or they’ll die alone. They are all “brothas,” as Desmond might say.</div>
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Maybe that’s why it’s his job to bring them together.</div>
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Despite Flocke’s claim, that “it’s great to see them all together again,” I think that’s the last thing he wants. Unless it makes it easier for them all to die. We already know he needs them dead, even if he isn’t allowed to kill them.</div>
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Some funny and brilliant moments of this episode (and there were many):</div>
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When Flocke drops the walkie on the ground and smashes it with his stick (nature overcoming technology), he says, “Well, here we go.” Just magnificently played by <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Terry O’Quinn</strong>, as usual.</div>
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Hurley makes a reference to Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader.</div>
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On the island, Jack spends a lot of time looking like a scared little boy in this episode. He looks like he’s worried that his lost dog might be dead. <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matthew Fox</strong>did a great job with this.</div>
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Sawyer’s quips were hilarious, as usual. A crisis seems to make his nickname machine work more efficiently. He calls Sayid a zombie and Claire nuts. I thought for sure that he calls Jack “handsome,” but he really just whispers, “Give me a hand with somethin’.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As Jack and his son walk around together in those suits, they just look like carbon copies. There’s something definitely comical about it. And what about how they just laugh off the discovery of Christian having another kid? They think it’s hilarious. The old Jack never would have reacted like that.</div>
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At the very end, Flocke tells Jack he’s “going to be okay,” repeating the episode’s common phrase one more time. “You’re with me now,” he says.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/lost/losts-last-call-final-season-begins" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE FINAL SEASON BEGINS</strong></a></div>
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As any dutifully, crazy <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost </em>follower would do, I noticed some interesting anagrams in the finale promo. Some of the letters were blurred in the message paired with the creepy video of Terry O’Quinn walking determinedly toward the camera. The message said, “His soul had gone mad, being alone in the wilderness.”</div>
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The blurred out letters in the message could spell, “Irises going hello.” The clear letters in the message could spell, “As undead man then shined below.”</div>
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Or, at least, this was the best I could come up with. Hey, at least they rhyme! Did anyone else try to figure this one out?</div>
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Let me know if you did! And as usual, any questions, comments and answers are welcome below. See you in two weeks!</div>
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Laura Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379120283873695437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109220738397250255.post-12775096562761000352010-04-14T16:56:00.000-07:002014-06-24T16:56:52.958-07:00From the Archives: Lost's Last Call: Heroic Hurley<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
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One of the more humorous conversations in season one of <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> took place just after Jack had his first encounter with the smoke monster. It went something like this:<span id="more-352140" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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Hurley: Was it a dinosaur?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jack: It wasn’t a dinosaur.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hurley: You say you didn’t see it.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jack: I didn’t.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hurley: So how do you know it wasn’t a dinosaur?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jack: Because dinosaurs are extinct.</div>
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So it was even funnier last night when the paleontology wing of an L.A. museum, the workplace of Dr. Pierre Chang (Miles Straume’s dad), was dedicated to Hugo “Hurley” Reyes (<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jorge Garcia</strong>), for his large financial contributions. He left the celebratory banquet, his man-of-the-hour moment, carrying a tyrannosaur-shaped plaque.</div>
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And much of last night’s episode, “Everybody Loves Hugo,” played out like that. We all know that Hurley is the comic book-enthusiast of the show, so a lot of his story lines hold comic book-type action. The <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> writers are doing that often this season, if they only hinted at it before. Take a look at what piece of art or culture, whether it’s a book or something else, each character identifies with most. For Sawyer, it’s <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of Mice and Men</em>. For Desmond, it’s Charles Dickens novels, specifically, <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our Mutual Friend</em>. Examine these works and then look at the characters’ story lines. You might find some similarities.</div>
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It isn’t really all that different in “real life” (that’s right, the world that exists outside of <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lost</em> that we’ve all forgotten about). We all live by our own myths. What we are most attracted to and interested in skews the way we view the world. We are all our own heroes, on our own personal journeys.</div>
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Hurley’s just happens to involve ultra-rich people who win the lottery, crazy lost islands, giant smoke monsters, time travel, talking to dead people, mental institutions, mysterious numbers, blowing up giant pirate ships, battles of good and evil and dinosaurs. Oh, and guys who can travel to different dimensions and visit you in a fried chicken restaurant.</div>
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And that’s not even the half of it.</div>
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Sound like a comic book to you?</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-whatever-happened-happened" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: WHATEVER HAPPENED, HAPPENED</strong></a></div>
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Unfortunately, enjoying a comic book does require a tremendous suspension of disbelief, and I think that caused some problems with the plot last night. But let’s put that critique aside for now and discuss the major reveal of the episode: Holy crap, dead people are stuck on the island???!!!</div>
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Of all the questions finding answers this season, the writers have still managed to introduce infuriatingly confusing new mysteries. In a very important scene – one of five such scenes that <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">made</em> the episode – the ghost of Michael Dawson (<strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Harold Perrineau</strong>) visited Hurley and told him that people who die on the island after doing bad things get stuck there. That they can’t “move on.”</div>
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After watching something like that, the viewer has to make a judgment call, much like with many of the scenes involving ambiguously good or evil “deities” this season: Is Michael what he appears to be? Is it really Michael? Is he telling the truth?</div>
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The writers want viewers to follow Sideways Desmond’s advice for something like this: “Follow your gut.” Of course, that might be easier for Hurley, the direct recipient of his advice, than it is for the rest of us. For <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">several</em> reasons.</div>
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Is it possible that Michael was just the Man In Black in disguise, trying to manipulate Hurley? If so, it worked tremendously well. But we still don’t know if MIB is capable of taking on other forms while inhabiting Locke’s corpse.</div>
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And trying to figure this out is, as I mentioned, infuriatingly confusing.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-heart-and-soul" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: HEART AND SOUL</strong></a></div>
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One thing that makes Michael’s explanation of his whereabouts seem odd is that he is the first dead person who’s spoken to Hurley on the island who could be seen as a “sinner.” And he gives the impression that all the dead people stuck there have also done bad things.</div>
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But Hurley has talked to other spirits on the island who, from what we can tell, are intrinsically good, such as Jacob and Isabella. And, when you consider the spirits Hurley’s chatted with in his off-island life, you get people like Charlie, Eko and Ana Lucia. We all know Charlie made a great sacrifice for the island, so it makes sense that his spirit would not be trapped there. But Ana Lucia was a murderer. Eko was a drug dealer <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and</em> a murderer. And you can’t say their repentance before their deaths makes a difference, because Michael also repented. When he boarded the freighter under the alias Kevin Johnson, he sacrificed his life for his friends. Until that point, he had been suicidal because of his guilt (even though he was incapable of killing himself, a la Richard).</div>
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Plus, think of all the people who’ve died on the island and really <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">did</em> do bad things. Like the freighter goons. Hurley hasn’t seen them at all.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-ricardus-everlasting" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: RICARDUS EVERLASTING</strong></a></div>
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All these clues point to the Man In Black, the master manipulator. But they still don’t explain how he could inhabit one body and throw himself around like a hologram at the same time. There’s also a good chance those whispers are not dead people, as Michael confirmed, but those little forest nymphs, the children Flocke keeps running into and ignoring. But more on that later.</div>
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When Michael visited Hurley in the island graveyard, his message was frantic. He told him that he shouldn’t blow up the Ajira plane or a lot of people would die and it would be his fault. When Hurley wondered why Michael would tell him that, Michael explained, “Because people listen to you now, Hurley!”</div>
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He had a point. Hurley is only one of a long line of castaways whose personalities have changed since landing on the island. Nobody used to really listen to Hurley. He was a good-time, fun guy; his major contributions to the castaways’ lives included creating a golf course and finding a van from the 1970s filled with beer.</div>
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But as the series has progressed, Hurley has become a leader. Characters are more willing to believe in his ability to talk to dead people, when before he was just considered insane. And Jack made a major leap last night, too. He had already promised Sun that he would get both her and Jin off the island and he knew that blowing up the plane might prevent that (neither he nor Hurley knew about the existence of the submarine). But then Jack decided to blindly follow Hurley, saying how he used to be a fixer but he’s now decided to “let go.” The same words of advice Christian gave him on numerous occasions.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/lost/losts-last-call-live-together-die-alone" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: LIVE TOGETHER, DIE ALONE</strong></a></div>
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Other characters who are acting differently? Ben. He used to mainly manipulate people, but since his experience with island redemption, he’s started telling the truth, in a helpful way. And since Richard’s experience with island redemption, he’s shifted from being just a guide to being a man of action.</div>
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Last night’s Sideways story line wasn’t much different than any of the others so far. When Sideways Hurley found love, he also found closure. The island story line wasn’t vastly different, either (although those are getting darker and darker every week).</div>
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What <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was</em> different was that many of the plot points just didn’t gel very well and probably made viewers feel like it was kind of an “eh” episode. The writers are trying to answer so many questions while still adding to existing mysteries that they sometimes neglect to write believable dialogue (as mentioned earlier, it’s also a side effect of the comic book-style storytelling in this episode).</div>
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For example, who had a hard time staying focused on that scene where Hurley “pretended” to talk to Jacob? And why is Richard so dead-set on blowing up the airplane? It wasn’t something Jacob told him to do. It was his own idea. And if Richard knew he was the only one the dynamite would not harm (with the exception of possibly Jack), why would he let anyone else handle it?</div>
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Ilana’s death was beyond shocking. Here was someone who trained her whole life for something, who was largely guided by faith, and then died in such a frivolous way. And yet, while her death might seem meaningless and tragic, as Ben pointed out, she did serve as a very powerful example for all the candidates. Despite Jacob’s ability to guide, he can’t completely protect everyone. Ilana’s purpose was to tell them Jacob selected them as candidates and then show them what <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not </em>to do, that they must be careful or they might meet a similar demise.</div>
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And here’s another plot problem: Why would Hurley, someone with firsthand knowledge of how unstable the dynamite is (see Dr. Arzt), try to set it off himself and blow up the Black Rock? Anyone wonder how he could survive that explosion? No way could he run away fast enough. His survival had to have something to do with his candidate status.</div>
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In the Sideways reality, did it make any sense to you that Hurley would continue to see Libby after she told him that not only did she remember him from the island, but she also remembered him being in the hospital with her previously? In another life? The average person would be seriously weirded out by that.</div>
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A lot of those scenes between those two provided a nice wrap-up to the Libby story, but while we now know why Libby is in the mental hospital in the Sideways world, we still don’t know why she was there (with Hurley) in the original reality. Was she having “reality” problems <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">then</em>? Also, that part about how she could leave the hospital whenever she wanted was definitely baffling. If that was the case, then why did her doctor physically remove her from Hurley’s presence in the restaurant?</div>
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The ending seemed to make up for these issues, however, because it was just plain creepy. When the Man In Black found Desmond and then realized that the Scotsman mistook him for John Locke, he altered his voice to sound more like the real John Locke and gain Desmond’s trust. <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Terry O’Quinn</strong>’s John Locke voice is always a bit more nervous than his MIB one. He emphasizes his consonants more. It’s fascinating how he can make those subtle changes as an actor. And as for not-so-subtle changes, why is Desmond suddenly acting so calm and content? Did the electromagnetic energy generator truly fry his brain?</div>
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Or is he acting like that because he’s remembering experiences from the Sideways reality in his dreams, as alluded to last week? Why is he so much of a threat to the Man In Black that he’d have to get tossed down a well (and who didn’t see <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</em> one coming)? Is it possible that Charles Widmore knew that would happen and somehow Desmond’s electromagnetic activity within his body would blend with the electromagnetic pocket he was tossed into? Maybe MIB just did Widmore’s work for him? It certainly sounded like Desmond would end up sacrificing his life, one way or another.</div>
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What did you all make of Sideways Desmond (so far, on a seemingly peacemaking mission) ramming his car into a cripple? Notice how Sideways Locke landed on the ground in a very similar way to how he landed on the beach, when Flight 815 crashed on the island. It doesn’t seem likely that he’ll wake up able to walk this time. But maybe he’ll meet Sideways Jack again, once he’s in the hospital.</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/losts-last-call-other-side-mirror" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR</strong></a></div>
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The real question is, did Sideways Desmond do this to him because it was the best way to get Locke to remember his island identity? Or did S-Des do it because his memories of the island come to him in flashes and they get blurred sometimes … and he mistakenly thought it was the real John Locke who threw him down that well. In other words, this was retribution.</div>
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I just hope Sayid doesn’t shoot him next week. The eerie, Willy Wonka-soundtracked preview seemed to forecast that. The island surely must have more use for Desmond than <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</em>.</div>
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Even more eerie: What’s going to happen between Jack and Flocke? When Hurley showed up with Jack, Sun and Lapidus trailing behind him, Flocke only said hello to Jack. Is Jack the “last recruit”? He’s the only one Flocke/Man In Black has not yet tried to persuade to help him off the island.</div>
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And even eerier: those little boys running around the island! Why is the Man In Black so unnerved by them? Why was he surprised when people like Sawyer and Desmond could see them? Are they both versions of Jacob, at different ages? Why are they dressed identically?</div>
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<a href="http://okmagazine.com/news/ok-blog-losts-last-call-con-duit-kate" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0099cc; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</em>‘S LAST CALL: CON-DUIT KATE</strong></a></div>
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What is Hurley going to do with Ilana’s pouch (presumably filled with Jacob’s ashes)? What is the Man In Black going to do with that spear? Will Sawyer ever stop twiddling his thumbs?</div>
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As usual, questions, comments and answers are <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: pragmatica-web-n4, pragmatica-web, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">extremely</em> welcome below. Especially if they include the words “dude” or “brotha.”</div>
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