Comments | tgabrielle: Mad Men/Illya

tgabrielle

Mad Men/Illya

Aug 22, 2010 23:05

Months ago I said this was the only place I could connect the dots between "Mad Men" and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." Ah, but tonight's episode! Young Sally, Betty and Don Draper's daughter, is caught red-handed (so to speak) overcome by Illya in "The Hong Kong Shilling Affair." This would have been March of 1965 and I don't recall (also) at the ( Read more... )

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st_crispins August 23 2010, 04:46:14 UTC

I thought they did pretty well. The episode date was right and Sally was just the right age.

But I think she was a lot more precocious than we were at the time. I don't think any of us thought beyond kissing. We didn't even have our periods yet.

On the other hand, Sally is surrounded by sex and she needs more from Don, although he's a model parent compared to Betty.

Some folks on the Med Men boards are wondering if something happened between Sally and the dead grandpa.

I also posted a couple of their other comments on my LJ.

tgabrielle August 23 2010, 05:20:07 UTC

I don't think, at the time, I even knew what I was thinking about Illya. It's clear to me now but not then and Sally's dead grandpa had nothing at all to do with it (as we know.) At the time I think we wanted to BE the characters, not do them.

As to Betty, could she be anymore ridiculous? Why shouldn't we have a sliver of sympathy for her? But she's awful. It makes the show bad not to understand her.

elmey August 23 2010, 16:18:44 UTC

I watched the segment now, I assume it's more effective if you're a regular viewer. It was super nice to see Illya though.
Oddly enough, I worked for the US office of a Japanese company in the early 80's, and at one time we did have two salesmen come in and the older one sounded like Roger while the younger one tried to drag him away.

bluemeanybeany August 23 2010, 07:52:17 UTC

weirdly, when I was about ten I had a small crush on Ryan Cartwright who now plays John Hooker in Mad Men.

elmey August 23 2010, 14:07:05 UTC

I'm actually going to be forced to watch an episode of Mad Men I see :)

bluemeanybeany August 23 2010, 14:19:09 UTC

*cough*

it's on youtube in this part about 1:30 in
http://www.youtube.com/user/trihinasta#p/a/u/0/ldyuMMQuRdk

Modern technology makes things so much easier.

elmey August 23 2010, 16:11:50 UTC

I think that was pretty much all I needed to see. I'm sure it scarred her for life missing the end of the show :)

tgabrielle August 23 2010, 16:33:10 UTC

I didn't think of that, the cruelty of not letting her finish ... watching the show.