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>I haven't watched the episode yet but that's exactly what I like about it, things unsaid. There is a faith in the viewer's intelligence which I always appreciate. At the center is the true character of Don Draper. Good guy or bad guy? The writers leave it up to us.
And of course that's the cool thing - Draper - like Tony Soprano, Vic Mackey, Nucky Thomson, Tommy Gavin or any really interesting character isn't a good guy or a bad guy.
>The character I can never resist is Roger Sterling. He is a cretin -- albeit a cretin who flew jets in the war and who heads a leading advertising agency -- and doesn't try to fool anyone otherwise. He still has that flyboy swagger and thinks he can get away with anything. I also like his sometime paramour, Joan Holloway, for the obvious reasons. It's a large cast but there really isn't a bad character in the show.
Roger is also every preppy rich kid I ever went to school with.
Also fun to see Robert Morse in a very complex role. Remember him from "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" (still one of my favorite musicals)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
