Day 4.

[caer]

 I just finished watching season one of Mad Men, and I had this whole post planned out about things I wanted to saw about the show, but they've all been overshadowed by OMG, PEGGY WAS PREGNANT?! She was far enough along to deliver a healthy baby, and didn't even know? WHAT. How does that even happen? You would have to be in extreme denial; there's

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[citron_presse]

D'you think I'd like this show? Your enthusiasm for it is starting to get me curious.

ETA: I haven't watched Grey's yet. I could claim life and work and trying to write Mark in a different context and all of those would be true. But, honestly - I think I'm putting it off in case I hate it . . .

[caer]

I honestly have no idea. I'm still not sure what it's about exactly, lol. It's set in the early 1960's, so there's a lot of socio-political stuff, and just the culture of the time that's got me interested (AND IT HAS JOHN SLATTERY, OMG). I *think* you would like it well enough, but not be crazy over it or anything. You could give the first ep a try :) I think it's one of those 'either you like it or you don't' shows. It's very...different...than any show on TV right now, I think.

You should watch it. MARK MENTIONED THE CURRENT STATE OF HIS PARENTS! I thought it was...I don't know, I have a lot of mixed feelings over it =/ I feel like this baby-craze is just a stage he's going through (at least, that's how it seems to me the show is doing it). I have to admit, I wasn't the biggest fan of Mark in this ep (didn't hate him or anything, just sort of ambivalent to him), but there were some moments in which I thought he absolutely shined. I think you would like it =)

[citron_presse]

MARK MENTIONED THE CURRENT STATE OF HIS PARENTS!

Okay - gonna watch now! I'm glad you didn't hate him, at least - and I'll look forward the parts where he shines :)

If I have thoughts, I'll share later.

Mad Men sounds intriguing. I've pondered watching it before (just from promos), which is partly why your liking it piqued my curiosity.

ETA: this was supposed to be a reply to your reply, of course. I forget how to use LJ if I'm not online constantly ;)

[caer]

I thought that tidbit would get you moving :D

Hey, at least you've seen the promos; when I started watched I hadn't known/seen anything. I was expecting it to be a comedy, lol.

[citron_presse]

So I watched it . . .

The parents thing confused me, honestly. Although I'd had a sense in S3 that something like that (actually, both of them) might be the case, I'd sort of given up on that theory as Mark's character developed. That line (I'm being vague in order not to make spoilers for those that might be browsing this!) seemed . . . unsatisfactory given what he said in Season 5 about them ignoring him and Mrs. Shepherd practically raising him. My instinct is that the writers were just trying to wrap up his family background story in a neat package, because they don't want to do anything else with it.

It's funny, usually this kind of thing throws me into a flat spin re: ATTL. I can agonize for hours days over trivial facts such that I wrote Callie and Lexie having a conversation about sex when they just did it on the show; or that Richard had to sign some job related papers when I was just about to post the chapter with Mark doing that. But, honestly, in this case, strangely, I don't care. I thought it was out of character

[caer]

Confused you? Why? All I remember him saying was "My mother is dead, and my dad will never get off the couch again." (or something to that effect) and I don't see the connection (that you seem to) to what he said about Mrs. Shepherd raising him...I actually didn't get the sense at ALL they're trying to wrap it up in a neat little package. If anything, I think they're just making it up as they go along, LOL.

I had a feeling you would :) I dunno; I just wasn't feeling it with Mark this ep. I think I just need some time to..adjust?...to this Mark =/ I don't think it was done badly or anything, but...I dunno...

I don't know who Dan and Roseanne Conner are, but I agree, I LOVED the last scene with those two :D It definitely makes me more resolved they're heading in a Alex/Lexie direction. Mer and Jackson are now BFFs in my mind! :D

[waltzmatildah]

I don't watch Mad Men and have no idea who you're talking about when you say Peggy, but FYI, my cousin didn't know she was preggers 'til she was seven and a half months (and it's possible to give birth to a relatively healthy baby at that stage, though she did go to full term). She was still getting her periods, she was still wearing her normal size 8 clothing... she only knew because she started to feel the baby kicking... can you even IMAGINE how freaky that must be!!!

[caer]

Whhhaaaaattt? Seriously?! Omg, that's like insta-baby! :O

[juno_chan]

Dude, there's an entire SERIES on TLC called 'I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant'. I'm sure you can guess the subject matter! Some of the women I believe really were in extreme denial and others I believe were just ignorant, but there were some who I genuinely believe didn't know (among them a 50-year-old woman who got artificially inseminated, thought she had conceived twins, and miscarried both--only to find out when she thought she had a ovarian tumor/ovarian cancer that she had actually conceived triplets and was still about 7 months pregnant with one baby). 'Baby-is-born-in-toilet-because-woman-thinks-she's-having-a-crazy-big-BM' is a common theme.

[caer]

Wow. I clearly live under a rock, lol.