I also think the Ghost Nation Tribe is Ford's fail-safe and part of why I'm kind of leaning towards Ford staged his own death with a host of himself, and has gone into hiding while the awakened hosts wage war on Delos.

I don't think Wililam's arc is fully realized yet.

I actually like the line being blurred on Dolores and that the show can make you both empathize and fear her, because that's how you should feel about full realized humanoids. Everything that these humanized robots were built for and endure is horrible. They're essentially tortured for the amusement of people. So what…

It becomes obvious towards the end of the season where Dolores is bouncing through time by the second.

Might not mean he's dead, might just mean he'll either no longer be a regular, or he'll largely disappear for a while.

Nepotism.

It ultimately informs a lot about him.

Also, I like how they can build empathy for long periods of time like the show does for Dolores and then immediately undo it with some crazed robot god rant, then transition right back into building it again.

I think this season was a large preamble for what's to come (Robot Insurrection) and in that respect, there wasn't a lot that actually happened, but it laid a lot of good ground work for (what should be) a heavily plot driven second season.

So let me take a shot at this:

My problem with the MIB is William thing is if everything happening with William/Dolores is a 30 year ago past, then what the hell has Dolores been doing in the present for the past half season and how did she end up at the church in the present?

I'm going to assume we pick up after Betty's dead which given her prognosis and the fact that we were in October 1970, that puts us in Summer/Fall 1971. And I'm going to assume the song Weiner picks is relative to the point in time, although that's not always been his MO (i.e. 'Everyday' by Buddy Holly this past week).

Anyone want to try and guess the closing song for the finale?

That Pete Campbell booster money is going to buy, errrr, recruit a hell of a starting five in a few decades.

I'm not sure if she's at peace or just resigned to her fate.

I think that's actually something that has to be hashed out in this finale.

Almost certainly, it's just a question of whether it's a couple months, or several years.

In their lungs? Damn, what's he packing??

Mad Men gets an A+ as a series if the show ends with Don Draper becoming Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne, Durnsville's 'Worst Wedding DJ'

He's Dartmouth '56!