Replying to my own post, weird. But with regard to Peggy, I do see she's paying a cost in a man's world, but not in being victimized by Ted. I don't see that there's that much difference between 1968 and now. A married man, or woman, with children is eventually going to be making decisions that impact on a bunch of…

How is calling him weak defending him? What he did was predictable. As soon as he stood Peggy up in his office in the episode before the writing was on the wall. But it's not first-season Peggy anymore, either.

I think Sally is the audience — the show gives us a chance to go back to childhood and look at the adults that raised us from adult eyes.

I didn't see Ted bailing so much as being told to go home — like 4 times or more — by Peggy while he was trying to cuddle. Her head never turns off, she was planning ahead, telling him she didn't want a scandal, and that he had to go home. Maybe she doesn't want to admit it to herself, but maybe she just wanted to be…

I think they're limited by the actress who plays Sally, in that it depends how mature she is/looks by then. Of course, I'm assuming she would be pivotal to many scenes.

I just don't see it. There just isn't that extra buzz you need between them that I can see. Peggy is one of the most selfish characters on Mad Men to my mind, which I don't mean as a criticism so much as what it takes to get where she is. But Don seems attracted to women with nurturing qualities. I've never seen that…

I've never for a moment thought that Don and Peggy were in love. Most of the time, I'm not even sure Don notices her as a person, though he's shown some decent impulses toward her. His asset was that he was gender-blind. He liked her work and he's all about the business, so he kept promoting her.

I think Pete just figured out how to be free of the problem. Bob Benson is a nutcase and Pete is the only one who sees it and suffers the results. His solution was quite elegant, with no cost to himself, hence the smile when he left the office. Benson's a new kind of sociopath to me — the predatory gay guy, or gay…

Yes, I have a completely different take on it from Todd's, after another viewing. Don really likes their idea and he doesn't hold back from telling them so. He only turns when he finds out the cost overrun and it's Joan that was clued in already. He's not even pulling it out of thin air.

I'm not necessarily seeing all the subtext Todd van der Werff is — what I get is how incredibly annoying it is to work with a couple of people falling in love in the office. It was hilarious, from the one guy breaking up the meeting to Joan telling them to get going. And I guess it's pedestrian of me, but I also see…

True that — at its best the ensemble had it all, slapstick, timing, kind of a screwball comedy sensibility and really connecting with each other in front of an audience.

Yes, it got bizarre. One season he was utterly heartbroken over her and the next they went back to the jokes about how awful she was. They lost me there.

Monica and Ross had a weirdly physical relationship — weird to me anyway. I thought maybe it was an American cultural thing. So of course she knew when he lost his virginity.

The writers would be nowhere without the actors. While some of the plots and lines make me cringe, the acting was always on. At least once with each episode one of them will make me laugh out loud.

Hey I saw that. I didn't think of the plot as her torn between two men so much as a woman musician's journey, it's full of vignettes spanning 10 or 20 years or so. The music was good. Douglas was good. Matt Dillon…always good.

Betty's got a degree, she's smart enough. Of the three of them — Megan, Peggy and herself — she's the most educated, but not validated for it. She was working on some civic/environmental issue when she met Henry. She was naive with Don, it doesn't mean she's not bright.

Joan also liked Greg — her judgement's not that good.

oh honey, you don't need to steal anyone's lines. Your own are just fine.

I'm not sure they've used up the Moriarty plot. As someone said here, she could probably get off the charge. Basically, Sherlock took possession of the ball. For now.

I watched a bunch of these for the first time a few months ago in reruns, so the seasons were all mixed up, although it didn't matter too much. I kept watching because Patrick Warburton just tickles me, and the others were pretty good, although the women kind of bugged me. The relationship between Jeff and his wife…