UGHHHHHHHHHHH STUPID BLOGGER ON PHONE EATING MY POST.
Was in the midst of taking a friend's MM cherry by showing him the pilot...this post is going to be even more impassioned due to anger caused by post-eating.
And also the passion of OH MY GOD ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME DID THEY REALLY JUST FORESHADOW AND HINT AT THIS ENTIRE FUCKING GODDAMN ENDING IN THE MOTHERFUCKING PILOT.
DID A FEMALE DOCTOR JUST APPEAR - one specifically who has a degree and specialty in psychiatry/psychology - show up to tell Pete and Don pre-the Lucky Pitch - that while SMOKING WILL KILL YOU, due to the writings of MOTHERFUCKING FREUD, we know that the psyche/id has a death wish.
Huh.
Betty begins pursuing a degree/doctorate in psychology.
We see her reading Freud, specifically.
She gets FUCKING LUNG CANCER FROM SMOKING but the death wish is so strong that she FUCKING LIGHTS UP in the motherfucking car right after she gets her diagnosis.
She actually GETS HER DEATH *WISH* - emphasis on *WISH* - BY *CHOOSING* HOW TO DIE?!?
Didn't the black waiter in the show's very first scene of the show respond to Don's "Readers' Digest says [smoking] will kill you!" with a dismissive "[You know] *women* love their magazines," thus telling us slyly RIGHT FROM THE BAT that the character who would perish from lung cancer in the show would be female?
Is one of the FIRST bits of wisdom dispensed to Peggy, Don Draper's new secretary, from Joan, "they say they want a secretary but what they *really* want is something/somewhere between *a mother and a waitress*."
Secretary. Mother. Waitress.
Did that seriously just foreshadow Don's endless cycle of running toward/away from and mixing up himself with and mixing up the roles of secretaries, mothers (ummm...oh right, *what* was the moment when Don knew he wanted to marry Megan?) and WAITRESSES.
DID WEINER SERIOUSLY MOTHERFUCKING SLIP FORESHADOWING TO DON'S DUMB VISION QUEST WITH DEBBIE DIANA DOWNER THE DINER WAITRESS IN A SINGLE FRICKING LINE IN THE PILOT?
SHOULDN'T THAT LINE *ALONE* HAVE TIPPED US INTO KNOWING THAT PEGGY WAS GOING TO END UP A MOTHER?
Isn't this episode set on the eve/day of the Campbell's wedding night and day...
Isn't the brochure Peggy is reading while at the ladyparts doctor to sort out contraception an informational pamphlet about sex entitled, "On Your Wedding Night?"
I mean, right there we're tipped off to Peggy and Pete banging and the conception that is about to take place on his Wedding Night.
Pete tells Trudy, "Of course I love you, I'm giving up my life for you."
Isn't this stripper/burlesque dancer at Pete's bachelor party performing in front of a curtain in front of a group of leering men seemingly *remarkably* similar to the gal at the vets' party?
An affair.
A conception of a bastard/illegitimate child.
A wedding night. A wedding day. A marriage.
The birth of the bastard child.
The abandonment.
A honeymoon. A Campbell child. A divorce.
A job. A promotion. A partnership.
The end of the affair.
After everything, seven seasons later and where are we?
Walking away from the other woman. Women.
Away from the office.
Taking care and custody of the Campbell child.
Heading towards Wichita.
But heading towards Trudy.
All so he can say to her, after everything...
Only to have the meaning be reversed, to be true, to be new but the words are the same.
"Of course I love you. I'm giving up my life for you."
Soon there will be another Pete and Trudy Campbell wedding day.
All the DB Cooper speculation, all the theories, all these seasons and years later, why did we ignore the only way it could end?
They told us right from the end how it would start.
They told us right from the start how it would end.
Spinning back to the beginning. Traveling along Don's Carousel into the past.
What's the last scene in the pilot, again?
Oh, right, the reveal of Don's family.
Or, in other words: "Surprise, it's Betty."
Where are we right now?
SURPRISE.
It's BETTY.
It was going to be Lucky and cancer and Don and dying and Betty all along.
She was there right from the start.
Every new beginning is some other beginning's end.
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