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Don is rewarded for his work; Joan butts heads with a co-worker over an account; Roger avoids making a big decision.
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Sterling, Cooper, & Partners is dead, long live McCann-Erickson. Only 2 episodes left after tonight.
Go Joan!
That was fucking awesome. 
Peggy roller skating while Roger played the organ was my favorite thing ever.
Peggy and Roger are my new favorite duo…
“Will you drink Vermouth”
“I’m afraid so”
and the rollerskates with the organ, awesome! I’m glad that Peggy brought the picture as well.
And Don is going… where?
At the moment, St. Paul.
Until some other drifter asks him to go somewhere else ;).
And that was not so awesome. 
I really wanted her fuck Jim over in the courts, but maybe at least she’ll send “a guy” to visit him. I loved drunk Peggy skating around the ruins of SCP then sailing into work the next morning hung-over with Cooper’s paining in arm. That’ll scare the crap out of the men there. 
Tonight on Mad Men: … Don runs out of fucks to give? Pretty sure you don’t go from Racine to New York by way of St. Paul.
All of the “Next time…” clips were either Sally or Pete (except one with Betty). Presumably it won’t be the Sally & Pete show.
McCann being a real company, that might have been a bridge too far.
I liked the episode. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the Peggy bits but thought the Joan plot felt a bit forced and rushed and Don wandering off to “find himself” be it in California or St. Paul always plods for me. Joan’s shares were worth a million so if she still had $500,000 coming to her and is taking 50¢ on the dollar, she still made $750,000 off her partnership and doesn’t have to spend the next four years dealing with McCann. Or working at all, if she doesn’t want to.
It seems even more evident now the series ends with Don taking on yet a third name (or maybe regaining Dick Whitman) and heading to California.
I liked their teasing viewers about the opening credits. Don is standing at the windows of his new office… and hears the wind whistling through as though it’d be easy to open them. Later, Roger comments that he couldn’t jump off the Navy ship… without a push.
We might yet see someone plummeting as the final scene!
Bad-Ass Peggy strutting into McCann with the shades and the smoke was my favorite Mad Men moment ever.
Peggy roller-skating around the old office came close.
Where did the roller skates come from? 
Well, they fit Peggy and all of Peggy’s stuff was still in the office so I guess Peggy owned them for some reason.
Despite Peggy’s ownin’ it walk into McCann, what’s his name (the boss) responded to Joan saying that Peggy was the head copywriter (and thus she had men under her) by saying something like “That’s not going to last here”. I suppose out of the two of them, we need one woman “success in business” story to wrap up the story line but I wonder what the next two episodes will hold for Ms. Olson.
I’ve forgotten - who had the idea/made the decision to sell to McCann in the first place? And why?
Roger. He did it to keep Cutler from forcing out Don.
Honestly, Roger is a shitty businessman. And Don’s years of avoiding McCann (and contracts) has been validated.
I think it’s a callback to that episode in an early season (2?) where they rented studio space to fool a competitor into thinking they were shooting a commercial… and then Peggy just skated around the place as part of the ruse there was something going on.
They were in the kitchen along with some other junk when Peggy was making coffee.
I loved it, so much so that I stayed up until midnight watching the encore.
Again, it felt different from any of the eps before it. Don’t know if it’s because I know we’re almost at the end so I’m projecting my own swirly feelings, but there’s a kind of surreal quality. For instance, the scene with Peggy and Roger that a few have mentioned already. We see her in the deserted office, like some kind of horror movie set up and then we actually hear creepy ass horror movie style music. Did anyone else not realize she was actually hearing it, as opposed to it being soundtrack? I didn’t, and thought “don’t tell me the show is going in that direction”, only to realize she *was *actually hearing it when Roger is shown (sorry to be stupid; perhaps that’s exactly what they were going for). Then the roller skating - so awesome, and yet a bit off kilter (in a great way).
I do not understand Don’s quest for “Di: The Storyline That Would Not Die”. It’s pretty clear that it was just a set up for his next step, but I couldn’t contain my" WTF?" It just seemed too sitcomy with the whole contest winner ruse. And what did the ex-husband mean by “I lost my little girl to god and my wife to satan”? Was there a second child? I thought Diana only said that she’d abandoned her child, not that one had died.
I really did want to see Joan come out victorious so to see her settle is kind of disappointing. She did have some good scenes though. I love the way Christina Hendricks portrays that feeling of humiliation /indignation/ necessary restraint. You can just see Joan wanting to rip someone a new one - as she sometimes does, but knows her boundaries - and then holding back. Also, I still hate her new man, though I might get some satisfaction out of seeing him send “a man” to McCann (though as has been pointed out, that might not go over to well what with them being a real company).