"MAD MEN" Season Two Quibbles
1. Duck Phillips - I had once complained on the "Basket of Kisses" site that द्वारा the end of Season 2, बत्तख, बतख Phillips (portrayed द्वारा the superb Mark Moses) seemed to resemble a minor villain that Don Draper had to defeat. Someone responded that Matt Weiner never intended to portray बत्तख, बतख Phillips as some kind of villain. After पढ़ना two interviews that Weiner had given, I now see that I had been right to accuse him of such a thing in the first place. How disappointing.
2. Don's Approval For Pete - Why did Pete Campbell need Don Draper's approval? What on earth for? Pete is a grown man in his late 20s. His existence at Sterling Cooper should have meant और to him than acquiring the approval of someone as flawed as Don. He did not need Don's approval. He did not need anyone's approval to exist. And the fact that he gave up a promotion to snitch on बत्तख, बतख - all for Don's approval - makes me realize that Pete has not matured one bit.
3. Bobbie Barrett - Matt Weiner's टिप्पणियाँ about Bobbie Barrett made me realize a few things about the show's fans. Judging from the टिप्पणियाँ I have read about Bobbie over the past few months, I get this feeling that most प्रशंसकों viewed Bobbie's sexual desires and aggressive personality in the same manner that Joan's fiancé, Greg, had viewed Joan's sexual history. And since these प्रशंसकों certainly could not drag Bobbie to the floor and rape her, they resorted to calling her every bad name in the book and then some.
After 49 years, our society has barely changed. It seems as if even in the early 21st century, we have maintained a whore/Madonna complex about women. Even Weiner labeled Bobbie as ”that woman” in his interviews about Season Two. He also claimed that it had been wrong for Don to sleep with Bobbie. I do not understand this comment. What was Weiner trying to say? That it was it wrong for Don to have sex with Bobbie and not wrong for him to cuckold Betty with women like Rachel Menken, Midge Daniels and Joy?
4. Paul Kinsey and Sheila White - What on earth happened to the storyline featuring Paul Kinsey’s romance with Sheila White? The season’s सेकंड episode - (2.02) “Flight 1” - reveals that Paul is involved in a romance with an African-American woman named Sheila White. This revelation causes a rupture in Paul’s friendship with Joan Holloway, when the latter makes racist टिप्पणियाँ about the romance. Two episodes later, the romance is hinted again when a visiting Sally Draper finds a चित्र of Sheila on Paul’s desk. In the episode (2.10) “The Inheritance”, Sheila makes another appearance on the show. She and Paul have a fight over his reluctance to शामिल होइए her in Mississippi for a voter’s registration campaign. He eventually joined her after being pushed out of a trip to California द्वारा Don Draper. When Paul returned to New York in (2.13) “Mediations in an Emergency”, Paul informed his co-workers that Sheila had dumped him after three days.
All I can say is this - WHAT IN THE HELL HAPPENED? What led Sheila to finally dump Paul? Unfortunately, Weiner never revealed her reason. He simply ended the romance on a vague note. What makes this हटाइए even और annoying to me is the fact that many प्रशंसकों did not सवाल the vague manner in which the romance ended. Instead, they crowed that Sheila had dumped Paul because of his pretentiousness.
One aspect of good cinematic storytelling is that one should ”show” what happened and not tell. Weiner ”told” the viewers what happened to Paul and Sheila . . . and he failed to tell the entire story. This makes me wonder if Weiner had decided not to continue exploring Paul’s relationship with Sheila in order to please the fans. If most of them had defended या made excuses over Joan’s racist टिप्पणियाँ about the pair’s romance, it really is not that hard for me to come up with this possibility.
5. Peggy Olson’s Meteoric Rise - Could someone please explain how a young woman between the ages of 20-22 या 23, managed to rise from a secretarial school graduate/secretary to the senior copywriter for Sterling Cooper in less than two years? I realize that Peggy was a natural talent in the advertising business. Both Freddie Rumsen and Don Draper recognized this. And I had no problem with Don promoting her to junior copywriter in the Season One finale - (1.13) ”TheWheel”. But what on earth made him promote her to senior copywriter around the end of Season Two’s (2.09) “Six Months Leave”?
One, Don was rather peeved that Peggy had failed to inform him about Freddie Rumsen’s drunken “accident”. And two, there were other copywriters at Sterling Cooper who were capable of assuming Freddie’s position as the senior copywriter. Who? Well, there was Paul Kinsey. I realize that Paul’s pretentiousness and romance with Sheila White made him unpopular with many fans. But Season Two also proved in the episode, (2.06) “Maidenform” that he was just as talented as Peggy. He also has और experience than her, which would have made him the perfect candidate to replace Freddie. Personally, I believe that Don had allowed his mentoring of Peggy to get the best of her and promoted her at a time when she did not really deserve it.
