Defend.
Defend.
OMG, yes. Joe is going to bring H&CF down. I couldn't agree more. They oversold Joe from day one. They made him (his background) TOO dramatic. They gave him TOO MANY flaws. The scars on his chest…. the bad relationship with his dad…. his reason for no longer working at IBM, his sexuality (not that this is a flaw, but…
I wasn't talking about the technical likelihood of something like that in 1985, it just seemed to me that it was a little too "convenient" that Cameron invented it in 1985. I've loved almost everything about the show except for a few small details. That being one of them.
I just love the fact that all of the tech references real stuff. There was a commodore only national network back then called Quantum Link, that I was a regular user on. Cameron's V2 drawing on the new login screen was clearly copied from the actual Q Link screen from the 80s. And Gordon starting a custom PC company…
I never had a problem with Don's pitch to Hershey. Sure, it was unconventional by industry standards, but it was the most honest thing I have ever seen on the show. If I worked for Hershey, I would have said, "Don needs to start Therapy, but he's on the business."
I have been a big fan of Joan's from the beginning. No one was madder than me, many years ago, when she wasn't offered the media job, which she had been doing, anyway. And then when they gave it to a completely unprepared man, she was asked to train him. But she lost me when she tried getting rid of Don last year,…