What reason did Spock even have to think that old Spock had encountered Khan before? Does he just call him any time he meets a new foe? I would have been fine with a Nimoy cameo if they could have actually worked it into the story in a way that made sense, but they didn't.

"I expected the gals to do the job themselves."

Don was very controlling over Megan in the early part of season 5. The problems in Don's new marriage arose when Megan decided to pursue her career as an actress and Don felt like he was no longer in control. I think thats why Don likes the idea of being able to control his mistress completely.

I thought season 4 had a pretty clear direction in following Don's downward spiral post divorce. The first batch of episodes focus on Don, now a bachelor, spending the holidays alone, losing Anna( the one person who knew him), having sex with his own secretary (something even he wouldn't have done before), and…

I don't agree that Gendry doesn't care about the surrogate family he created with Arya. I think his point was that, that family cannot continue to exist. Whether Arya likes it or not, when she rejoins with the Starks shes going to be a "lady" and hes going to be some commoner. They're separated by class and once they…

I forget what was said exactly, but entertainment weekly did an interview with the new showrunners and I got the impression that they weren't too big on the Troy/Britta relationship. One of them even said they shipped Britta/Jeff.

I think Don picked up on it pretty fast, but it was more of a "Are they really saying what I think they're saying?"

Cudi should have never parted ways with Emile and Plain Pat. They worked well together and Cudi's personal production alone is not enough to carry an entire album. Better yet, Cudi should have looked at working with someone like Pharrell, I'd love to hear him on a Neptunes beat.

I remember Bruce Timm saying that Warner Brothers actually encouraged him to be a little dark with Batman the animated series due to the success of the Tim Burton films. Slowly over the years though they began encouraging him to cater to children more and more. I would have thought that the success of the Nolan films…

@avclub-98ee3569ee1cc83f32587edbfb0b857a:disqus But Ted didn't get Heinz, J Walter Thompson did.

@avclub-6ca57d2774f04ac8acf3d2b10f0338f4:disqus  She may have quoted it back to him during their conversation, but its another thing entirely for her to use it as apart of a pitch to a client.

Loved the moments between Tim and Barbra in this episode, first at the wedding and then again when Barbra tries to hold Tim while he loses his lunch. Very big sister/little brother like.

They definitely could have written the scene more clearly. I had to watch it twice because at first I thought Ted was saying they won as well, but that didn't jive with how he and Peggy were sulking or Ted's rant about the bigger agencies.

It definitely wasn't a bad pitch, but it didn't have the "magic" that Don usually produces when there's something really big on the line.

I think the problem is that Don's character progression was basically stunted at the end of season 4. He finally hit rock bottom, started to pull himself back up and was on the verge of possibly getting a lawyer like Faye suggested and dealing with his problems. Instead he chose to marry Megan, which was like a…

@avclub-5833ab3542dfd68e2bf6585b6bb110c0:disqus I think the reason why they told the story out of chronological order was to create more suspense going into Don's pitch. If we knew already that Joan had slept with the client, then we'd already know the pitch didn't matter much instead of revealing it in the middle of…

Great points. Don basically married Megan because of the way she made him feel and he wanted the relationship totally on his terms. When he couldn't get his way and had to recognize Megan's independence it was like he gave up. I think Don has a real problem dealing with any sort of vulnerability and it always causes…

One of the things this show handles so well is the way in which characters and their relationships subtly change over time. The show is so methodically paced that I feel like you have to go back and rewatch the earlier seasons to really appreciate how much things have changed.

Don wouldn't want to share his wife with anyone else. From what I remember even Don thought the lifestyle of the people he met in California at the end of season 2 to be a bit much.

Ted didn't catch enough of the conversation to know what was going on. He only knew because Peggy told him when he asked. The other firm is one of the biggest around, but Ted's firm is only about the same size as SCDP and probably wouldn't have known if it were not for Peggy.