Yea, the whole scene was pretty great. I try think of myself as a fairly mature TV viewer, but my anticipation for Don coming back to SC got the fanboy in me going. I was ready for him to come in and lay down the law and bring back the old creative genius who put together the Carousel pitch and told everybody else…

Don has been much more to Peggy than someone who show supremacy over her. He has often been a tough love mentor. Remember after she gave birth and he was the only one there with the, "This didn't happen," speech. He saw something in her and gave her the copywriter job. He was often needlessly condescending, like…

I think a lot of Don's absentee father issues on the show stem from Weiner and co. not having the time to portray him with his sons. Bobby has been played by three actors, I believe, and this new one tonight could barely hold his own as a kid on a field trip.

I think it has to do with fans just being bored/annoyed by the Betty character. She is almost completely severed from the action of Don's life and SC&P. We just drop in to see Mrs. Francis being depressed and discontent from time to time.

Condescending to who? It appears Janelle is a female. This story takes place in a fantasy world, with different mores and maxims than reality. She was devastated that her son died and her father was calling her son a failure right in front of her. Her twin brother was pushing himself on her, while she screamed in…

I haven't read the books, but the scene from the books described above seems even more bizarre than the one that happened on the show. I couldn't see it working on a TV scene that Jaime was forcing himself on his sister, Cersei, on their son's body, in a temple, and then, after protesting, Cersei suddenly couldn't…

It doesn't have to be problematic. This scene happening the way it did, and how she will react to it later, changes her character from the books. That holds true, even if she continues her relationship with Jaime along the same lines as the books. (I have never read the books.)

I have also been quite frustrated with the show for playing the repetition card too many times. It always seems like Don is about to change… then he doesn't. I was pretty pissed after last season's finale bled in to this season's premiere acting like there was no significance to that final shot. This episode and…

Todd pointed it out perfectly above. He's not some seething excitingly bad villain, like King Joffrey or Phil Leotardo. He just sucks. He is this douchey asshat that nobody wants around because he sucks. He seems like a real person.

He was so proud of himself for having the "realistic" scene where Don is doing shirtless pushups in season one. Don gets up and doesn't have ripped abs. His stomach is just flat. Weiner talked like he had broken some great TV societal barrier by showing the common man.

My grandfather was an engineer at Dupont. He did talk about three martini lunches when some of the guys from corporate came down to show their appreciation to the working men. Of course, working men weren't the actual manual laborers, just the engineers who told the laborers what to do.

I'm sure it was quite different from the corporate world they grew up in. But there is obviously a point where an office would be completely out of hand if people were drinking that much. And not all of their clients are wild. I'm sure quite a few would be ready to walk out the door showing up at an eleven AM…

I would be shocked if they ended with any kind of a "Where are they now?" ending. This show has been building characters relatively subtly over the decade. I can't imagine Weiner would submit to summing up the rest of their lives in some quick little blurb at the end or a montage in horrendous old people make up…

But he was drunk the entire episode. He was drinking right out of a bottle in that scene.

I would call it a mixture of both. Don has been catapulting toward death for awhile now. Think about the pool scene last season. He obviously fell off the wagon hard again, he still smokes heavily, and he is consumed by anxiety from lies and unemployment.

I always talk about it with my parents or grandparents when I get the chance. They also do a good job of calling out bullshit. The most obvious issue they took with the first few seasons was that everyone at SC was drinking straight liquor all day. My grandfather noted that drinking was more accepted back then, but…

Weiner said he knew the ending he wanted before the end of the first season. There have been all sorts of falling allusions, like when Don stared down the elevator shaft with a hint of vertigo, Duck saying, "Going down?", as he got on the elevator at last season's finale, the silhouette falling during opening…

The show ends with Don and Megan's ritual sacrifice to the Manson family. Maybe Pete comes in and saves the day with .22 rifle. Also, Roger has joined the cult at the end of his hippie immersion in sexual freedom and psychotropic discovery.

What does everyone think was up with Don in that last shot?

I think she is going to end up running in to him at an orgy or similar inappropriate hippie gathering. Her forgiveness philosophy sounded pretty new-age granola, like something hand-in-hand with free love. They're going to find out they have some awkward mutual acquaintances.