Did Don do anything wrong when it came to Dr. Faye?

Did Don do anything wrong when it came to Dr. Faye?

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Had no idea she was the same girl who played Christopher's wife on the Sopranos. She looked so much hotter on the Sopranos with red hair.

He revealed his weakness.

He didn't settle down with her. that's what he did wrong. She was the greatest for him (still doubting whether she was better or equal to Betty), and he couldn't stop chasing bimbos.

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She was an equal to him and someone that wouldn't make him feel like he had to be a father to like Betty
She was the best option for him beyond just going blackpill

settling down with her would not change anything he would probably still cheat.

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Out of all his girls except maybe the jewess she was the most suited to being Don's equal

>equal

Career-wise? Sure. But didn't complement him in the way HE wanted.

That was literally the whole point of s4 with Don being single and the viewer wondering which of the women he's seeing is going to be the next Mrs. Draper. You got to see how Don's criteria for love and what it said about him.

The nurse? Fucked up once she proved he couldn't leave his kids with her when Sally cut her hair. "Can't be a mother."

Bethany van Nuys? Phony. Don doesn't respect acting as real work. Played hard to get when she was really just a struggling actress trying to fake it till she made it. Put on airs of respectability right up to the point when she saw Betty and realized that Don could have anyone and Don's cock was in her mouth by the end of the night.

Allison? Too needy/dependent. Got WAY too attached after hooking up one time and caused a scene in the office.

Faye? Total lack of maternal instinct AND she's competition. She was a pure and successful career woman which complemented Don's professional side, but not his personal life. When Don saw how awkward she was with Sally versus how naturally Sally gravitated towards Megan, it was done. And again, she was his equal professionally. Don was threatened by it.

Then you get Megan. She's a natural with his kids, she can have casual sex without catching feelings, she has a real job and shows interest in his work yet isn't "INDEPENDENT WOMAN WHO DON'T NEED NO MAN" like Faye.

It was the goldilocks syndrome. Megan was "just right," and what we learned was that Don (mistakenly) romanticizes the whole notion of love as something "perfect."

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You. I like you.

he should've kept her on side

>She was the greatest for him
>couldn't deal with kids

yea sure

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Well said. I swear to God, Mad Men always brings out the best in this board.

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Anna Draper was always best

>It was the goldilocks syndrome.
Isn't it more of a Madonna/Whore Complex?

>Don (mistakenly) romanticizes the whole notion of love as something "perfect."
Well, he works in advertisement after all

How so?

good analysis, helps to unpack genius writing

you're both tards, stop responding with fucking memes like its your faggoty discord

Smeone with a M/W cmplex puts women in two categories; the ones he sees as sluts that he pumps and dumps, and the pure angels fit for being mothers and wives. Now, I don't know what Goldilocks Syndrome is (I assume it's "the perfect one") so I might be wrong.

fuck no it was

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what country are you from you dirty dirty foreigner?

You. Faggots.

holy fuck i thought you meant adriana and i was about to get really annoyed at your lies

She’s acting like a thirsty MILF in Stranger Things.

Don dumped her because she was too threatening. No woman would be perfect for Don. Because Don is at fault.

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...What?

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>and what we learned was that Don (mistakenly) romanticizes the whole notion of love as something "perfect."
Elaborate on this please
I don't see Don as a romantic, he's more of an escapist, e.g. wanting to run away whenever he feels stifled with Rachel, the beatnik or the waitress.

>I don't see Don as a romantic, he's more of an escapist

You're not wrong, he's both. We see it a bunch of times throughout the show. Don idealizes how he thinks something is going to be, then runs when reality doesn't match up to his fantasy.

Nah, that’s just projecting 21st century relationships onto a character who was raised in rural America in the 30’s.
Don only liked Megan being a copywriter because it meant he could be with her all the time. He was very uncomfortable with her as an actress.
What really killed their relationship was right before he went to California and she said he should think about resolving his desertion issue. Don is gonna do whatever Don is gonna do and he really doesn't want anyone meddling.

Don doesn’t even really want his coworkers to have successful careers without him, lol. He spent years packing creative with lightweights like Kinsey and Frederick Von Rumsen.
He definitely doesn’t want people spending time and attention on his wife’s career.

Even more than this Faye represented facing his past and his mistakes and fixing his life. Megan represented starting over and running away from his problems once again. People don't usually pick what's actually best for them.

>Megan represented starting over and running away from his problems once again

I think Faye trying to get him to deal with Korea was when he decided it was over.
But I don’t Megan was like that at all. Don quit running away when he decided to deal with Pete’s accusations in Season 1 and affirmed it when he came back from California in Season 2 to put things back together. It’s like the only real progress he ever made with his issues.
Megan was just the halfway point between Bethany (who was just a Betty for a wealthier Don, although maybe not insane) and Faye.

Don made all the wrong moves regarding women.
>Fucked that slutty old chick married to the comedian.
>Fucked so many assistants they started giving him women over 70 as secretary.
>Let Dr. Faye go for...
>Fucking marrying Megan "horseteeth" Calvet.
>Fucking around with a neighbor.
>Trying to fuck Anna's niece.

He could get them easy, but Don only knew fuck up when it came to women.

She had no experience is all.
Its not like she had an aversion or she mistreated them.

>But I don’t Megan was like that at all.
She literally encouraged him to stop thinking about his old identity and just accept that he was Don Draper now, and that's always the approach he's preferred to dealing with his problems. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but that's what it was.

Time for another rewatch. Why don’t we get shows like this anymore?

Half way through ss5 it became unwatchable soap opera.

>That was literally the whole point of s4 with Don being single and the viewer wondering which of the women he's seeing is going to be the next Mrs. Draper.
So basically a soap opera. I'm glad I dropped this shit already in S1.

its a character drama, but yes soap operas are basically a shitty version of this

>Megan represented starting over and running away from his problems once again

How so? She knew all about his past. It was one of the things he actually learned from his first marriage and did differently in his second marriage, not hiding who he really is.

>not like she had an aversion

She literally says she has no problem with kids but that she CHOSE her career over having a family.