No. He interfered; called the client himself to "check" on the budget (after the others had assured him that it was no problem). Not his client; not his problem. Total Dick Move.

You're looking at it through modern eyes. Shakespeare doesn't like Jews. He's just, you know, Shakespeare, so whenever he writes a villain's speech he finds a way to humanize and make sympathetic the villain.

No, what Don should have done was left the ad alone, let Ted and Cutler finesse the budget issue, and let Peggy win her Clio. (And not force Peggy to not take credit for maybe the best idea she's ever had.)

"Oh, they shot me in the FACE….and my blood began to FOUNT…
So I want SOMEONE ELSE….to take over the ACCOUNT…."

It's like the end of Clear and Present Danger. Just because you can go to war and you want to go to war…doesn't mean you do it. Sometimes it just means that you bank the chit.

Yeah, that wasn't bad.

Glen is turning into Kyle MacLachlan!

I thought of it, too. In fact, putting the whole Pete story together, it occurred to me very quickly that that's where they're going. (Particularly when he flung the Raisin Bran.) (And I can't express how much I enjoyed typing that sentence.)

@avclub-011d0b4fe6835bb3d37ef4e0ea713de6:disqus Fine with me. You're right, and I accept all your edits with no reservations at all. (It was the part that bothered me, too.)

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus I was aware I'd inadvertently provided a rhetorical loophole, and I figured you'd be clever enough to jump through it (and you did). If I may, let me try to make myself more clear:

@avclub-f62296b9393b6ab9229ebde91ed8469f:disqus My point is that The Avengers is the superhero movie in its purest, most unleavened form, joyously and unabashedly, made by an unreconstructed comic book geek, who wasn't trying to "improve" the genre by explaining it, "deconstructing" it, apologizing for it, ironically…

I've been wondering the same thing. We certainly haven't seen any pictures of him in glasses etc.

Thanks. I like the Fassbender idea, but I wonder if he could be schlubby/angsty enough to play Michael Moran.

If you didn't like The Avengers, you should just give up…you're never going to like any superhero movies.

Idris Elba as Cream? Toby Jones as Gargunza?

It was aimed toward gay men who fixate on the sexual subtexts of power and repression implicit in the story, and who, like Warhol, enjoy creating crossovers from gay iconography to religious imagery (i.e. Warhol putting Marilyn Monroe behind tabernacle doors).

Oh, come on…the man is made of boredom.

The Alien series?

It's so awful.

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus Well, thanks for the clarification, and for taking the time to elaborate as you did.