Glad I'm not the only one to think that – in fact I know it was a fakeout but her initial encounter with the college kid made me think she was about to start having affairs.

You guys are just…… wow.

Doesn't everybody?

Well the McCann deal represented a good part of his future financial security, and he did abandon that.

I genuinely, 100% thought something was going to happen between Pete and Duck.

Well, Don is not the kind of guy who should have even tried to settle down, let alone have kids.

I've never liked Hobart (well it's not like we're supposed to), but the way he said that specific name made me cringe all the cringes.

Haha I entirely identify what you did there.

Oh, my God.

I would assume Sally will tell him.

I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be the fakeout.

Cute, but it would have been perfectly reasonable to expect something to happen with Pete's gun immediately following the episode.

The Diana stuff, especially why Don would feel so connected to her, feels very hard for me to believe. We didn't even have time to get invested in her character at all – compare that to Megan, who kinda walked around the office for an entire season to prep us for what was to come.

I thought the same thing as soon as he stared at the plane, and Cooper's appearance seemed to suggest that's where he gets the name.

Well worst case scenario she'd have to throw a chair through the doors. They're still glass after all.

Like many others, I was very irritated with Joan back when she was being a total bitch to Don. But I suspect a lot of it is because we like Don and his actions don't affect us.

Me neither. Mad Men is not a show to throw away lines, and that conversation with her boyfriend about a "guy" has yet to pay off.

In fact, that's exactly where you keep missing the connection: what would have happened in reality has NO RELEVANCE here, because Scandal does not play by the rules of reality and has demonstrated this in much worse occasions.

Nope. The difference is that we understand by evidence how illogical the show has consistently been in the past, while you for some inexplicable reason expected this one particular incident as necessarily having a logical outcome, and arrogantly insisted it had to.

No, I want an episodic thriller about a DC fixer and the ways political figures get in trouble.