Mindless Mad Men #8 – Dark Shadows
May 18th, 2012
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May 19th, 2012 at 4:38 am
Elevators are really a tangible space this season, aren’t they? They have been all along–think back to Pete discovering that Black people own TVs–but this season, the elevator’s seething. Madchen Amick materializes into the space between Megan and Don in one, rising from the depths of memory/hell as they head up to SCDP.
Rising–Betty spitting up the whipped cream. The monster rising. There’s a Kraken in them waters.
May 19th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
I did think back to both those examples. They’re good ones
May 20th, 2012 at 11:02 am
Maybe that’s the real distance between Megan and Betty, that Megan and Don are capable of change, of moving with the times, and Betty isn’t. Maybe that’s what the scene and their outfits are really about. And if that’s the case then it’s sad, because the ability to change is a luxury. One has to consider all the privileges Don and Megan enjoy that Betty doesn’t. It’s not entirely her fault, is what I’m saying.
May 20th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Maybe.
May 21st, 2012 at 12:05 pm
I think it’s really easy to be magnanimous when you’re in Don and Megan’s position. Not so easy for Betty.
May 21st, 2012 at 12:07 pm
For sure. Mind you, Betty’s never been particularly magnanimous even when she’s had room to be.
May 21st, 2012 at 12:26 pm
I think she’s always felt suffocated, tbh. It began with shaking hands and now its whipped cream.
May 22nd, 2012 at 5:35 pm
“Maybe that’s the real distance between Megan and Betty, that Megan and Don are capable of change, of moving with the times”
Or at least, in Don’s case, acting like he’s capable of it. He does try to bridge the divide semi-regularly, especially now he’s growing more conscious of it. Where’s the cut-off point for hipness, anyway? Don’s always been hipper than quite a few younger characters … and old man Roger’s the one going to acid parties.
Theme of death and wasteland aside, Dark Shadows is ultimately a story about resurrection and adaptation to a new world. So who gets to be Barnabas?
May 22nd, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Yeah, I think there was alittle hyperbole there wrt Don. I think he’s a bit of a fuddyduddy too.
May 22nd, 2012 at 9:13 pm
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