I think there is ZERO chance Don returns to ‘Teach the World to Sing’.
Weiner has not invested that much effort into advertising pitches in the most recent seasons. The show is more about larger themes than specific products.
I doubt that advertising really play that much of a role in the last episode at all. Instead, I expect to focus on relationships and maturity.
Betty, Henry and the kids will focus on her illness and passing.
Peggy becomes an assertive modern woman. This is the one place where I can see a scene specific to advertising where she nails some iconic product (Hey, maybe Coke!)
Joan walks away with her cash and her man.
Roger… I don’t know. He won’t be happy, but he’ll be funny.
I also think we’ll see one or two characters that we haven’t seen in years.
At any rate, I’m looking forward to seeing what happens!
Aha! Now I know why the kid in the last episode took a fan with him when he left. The same type of fan is in the office when it falls apart. Props department being meta. (Or not.)
Good catch (on the kid taking the fan). I believe that fan in the opening credits is the only thing that doesn’t tumble down, by the way.
Heh. Yeah. The D.B. Cooper thing would be too gimmicky (and impossible to explain as an action Don would take). The Coke thing: also gimmicky. I don’t think Weiner has been making a seven-year promo for a sugary drink. Possibly he might have Peggy or Don come up with the slogan/song/image, but if so, it would be a moment in passing. It won’t be the Big Reveal at the heart of the final scene of the final episode.
As for the third ending discussed on the USA Today page: it’s certainly true that Wichita has been mentioned prominently in recent episodes. But why would the Wichita State plane crash be considered to be any sort of resonant or iconic moment? (I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but I’d never heard of it before the Mad Men-connected mentions, and I’m probably not the only one for whom that’s true.) Weiner might kill off Pete in that crash, I suppose. But I can’t see how that ending would make any sort of sense for Don’s story.
We all know how it ends. Here’s a hint: In the opening scene, our merry band of MadMen and MadWomen are seen boarding an Oceanic Flight from LA to Sydney.
I’m tempted to agree, but after last season’s The Americans, when one board member kept stubbornly predicting that the KGB agent couple murdered at the beginning of the season would turn out to be murderer by their 15 year old son who would prove to be a complete sociopath, while myself and IIRC, everyone else kept poo-pooing this as a ridiculous theory, I’ll reserve judgement.
I will say though that that reveal made me give up on The Americans and if any of those theories turns out to be correct I will puke.
Personally, I hope the end is him abandoning everything, choosing to start a new life and either buying a ticket on an airplane, checking into a hotel, or applying to a job, and his last lines being “Hi, I’m Dick Whitman”.
No, it’s worse than that—I was one of those who pooh-poohed the likelihood of any of the three punchable-offense endings actually being The Ending. I wasn’t one of the defenders of any of those dreadful options.
Now if you want to talk about punching Weiner, I’d listen. :eek:
