Dementeleus Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Embrace it, you know it's coming. This is a series which has thrived on ambiguity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The47th Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I am worried that Matthew Weiner will probably pull a Soprano-like ambiguous ending since he worked with David Chase in that show. I can totally see that coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 I can totally see that coming. Well, not as bad as Sopranos, but I feel immensely robbed that there wasn't a 5 second bit at the very end of Don saying "So, what do you think?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Just finished the finale and I thought it was beautifully done! Great end to a a great series! Was in tears throughout it because of sadness & happiness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Really the Finale should've been 90 minutes instead of 75 Minutes... It went by pretty quick and maybe I felt this way because of all the loose ends to tie up in such a short time... Yeah, it would have been even better if it had 15 more minutes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Lackluster?! I thought it was pretty good. I'm choosing to take the optimistic view about Don's final moments (as opposed to the more cynical view that Alan Sepinwall at HitFix was suggesting). I thought most of the characters had a great send off. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 BKB, as the guy who thought the DB Cooper thing was a great idea there was no way you weren't gonna be disappointed. Anyway, my initial reaction is honestly that it's one of the best finales ever, at least the best of this current generation of television (though the stan/peggy part did feel a little easy). I feel like the meaning of the 'fade to coke' ending will probably be debated on a Sopranos level for some time. My initial reaction was to take the more cynical view that Don created the ad, and right now I prefer that interpretation but there's some great writing out there that's making me consider the more positive side. this is really the kind of discussion great art should create. so I'm pretty pleased. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmandeep Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 End to one of the most iconic shows of today. Even though viewership was never high this was a hugely influential show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatebox Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 The stuff with Peggy and Stan felt tone-deaf, but wow... that final scene. I knew it'd be low-key and ambiguous, but I could never have thought of a better way to end it than that. My interpretation is that he went back and made the ad but finally found some modicum of real contentment. Whether it's Dick or Don, he's accepted who he is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel M Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 (edited) Everyone was guessing it would end on an ambiguous note but that was hilarious, I expected nothing less from the show to leave behind overdeterminded fans to write 20.000-word essays about what DEFINATELY happened. It was a perfect finale for one of the best shows of all time, no matter which side(s) you choose about what happened and what it means. Edited May 18, 2015 by Joel M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 I was thrown off by the ending at first, mostly because I was completely unfamiliar with the history of that Coke ad, but after reading up on it and reflecting on the whole thing a bit, I think it's perfectly fitting as the ultimate Rorschach test Mad Men has given us. Now, without any hyperbole, I'll say this show is one of the best pieces of art I've ever encountered in any medium, and I will never get tired of revisiting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The47th Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 I think it was a good episode, but for a show with such a strong sense of "community" among the cast, I expected/wanted a lot more of interaction among the characters. But I guess that was the reason why the move to McCann meant the end of the show: because it was leading to the group disbanding. I do feel disapointed that that crucial moment in Don's life had to happen away from everyone else. Even his last conversations with Peggy did not live up to the journey they had shared from the early days. I don't know. I think the story works on paper and it makes sense, but the episode, as an audiovisual media, lacked in emotiveness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPink Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 So like WTF??? Just Empire and myself watched this show's Finale or what??? MR.Pink??? Where are you??? What did you think of this lackluster Finale??? I've been out of town and wasn't able to watch. The ending was fine, if not a bit unremarkable but that's what I expected. I think it checked off the right boxes but I would have preferred if Don wasn't completely isolated from the cast for the entire episode. Steggy makes sense and was a long time coming but it was a little too much too fast. I would have just preferred they went on a date rather declarations of love. Roger and Joan exits were nice. Pete too, though it was more of a coda. All in all it didn't shit the bed, kinda like Breaking Bad though I love the stuff to ponder with Mad Men more. The ending is interesting. I interpreted it as Don accepting himself fully and shedding Dick. People experience the same kind of sorrows he does, so it's time to make something of it and he lays down his legacy with the Coke commercial. He's not fixed, but he's accepted being broken. Because we all are 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx93 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) Interesting way to end the show, though I do not undestand that Coke ad at all. At least it did not end in the middle of a fricking scene like The Sopranos, kudos for that. EDIT: Nevermind, I read stuff on the internet. Makes me think, If Draper came up with this Coke ad, maybe he also came up with "The Pepsi Generation" in the 80's. Edited May 19, 2015 by Boxx93 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Steggy makes sense and was a long time coming but it was a little too much too fast. They've been laying the groundwork for literally seasons. Sometimes stuff like that just -- BOOM -- hits all at once. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPink Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 They've been laying the groundwork for literally seasons. Sometimes stuff like that just -- BOOM -- hits all at once. I've been a huge shipper for them too, but it just felt off to me. Un-Mad Men like. Then again, I absolutely loved Pete's declaration of love to Trudy last week and it wasn't all that different. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jake Gittes Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Hamm nails it: There’s people saying, oh, it’s so pat, and it’s rom-com-y, or whatever it is. But it’s not the end of anything. The world doesn’t blow up right after the Coke commercial ends. No one is suggesting that Stan and Peggy live happily ever after, or that Joan’s business is a rousing success, or that Roger and Marie come back from Paris together. None of it is done. Matt had said at one point, “I just want my characters to be a little more happy than they were in the beginning,” and I think that’s pretty much true. But these aren’t the last moments of any of these characters’ lives, including Betty. She doesn’t have much time left, but damn if she’s not going to spend it the way she wants to spend it. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/mad-men-finale-jon-hamm-interview/?_r=2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Gary Scott Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Finally saw it wasn't the best finale wasn't the worst 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbio Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Finally saw it wasn't the best finale wasn't the worst Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
