The Dick Whitman Chronicles v1.1
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Keywords: Dick Whitman, Don Draper, Mad Men, flashback
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Length: 39min 39sec (2379 seconds)
Published: Sun Jul 06 2014
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Runtime of 39:40? There's enough flashback material to make up a whole episode.
Also, it occurs to me that since Brandon Killham, the once-child actor who plays young Dick Whitman, is now 18, he is as old as Jon Hamm was playing in the Korean War flashbacks.
Great job! i never much cared for the flashbacks, but seeing them in this context really worked. I love how he learned that art of selling lies from the Hobo. So great! Seeing the early season scenes with the main actors really makes me sad. They all were so ambitious, filled with youth and excited for the future. Now they have it all, but their happiness is burdened by the choices they made to get there. It is really bumming me out. I could care less who/if someone jumps. A satisfying conclusion, for me, is to see these characters find their happiness, realize it, and enjoy their futures, whatever they may be. (hopefully away from advertising) Great Show! Great Post! Thank You.
I started watching Mad Men in November 2008. I was 18. I had just smoked weed for the first time that same day.
I immediately identified with Don's character, he seemed to be the very man I wanted to be at that age. As I learned more about him and about myself, I began to understand how deep my own shame about growing up in poverty and grief about loneliness was. I wanted to be someone other than who I was and live far away from Georgia. I worked my ass off at deadend sales jobs and for a few startups and I tried to numb my feelings with sex, drugs, and rock n roll but none of that worked. I began to want more than money, status, fame, etc. I wanted my work to matter, for it outlive me.
Fast forward 7 years, I quit smoking, drinking, and just parted ways with a girl that is a hybrid of Betty and Megan, appearance and personality wise (dead serious, I want to share her IG but it would be wrong). Thanks to this show, I realized I didn't want to marry her and also thanks to watching all the madness of the characters, I realized what was important and what wasn't, alcohol clearly isn't going to make my problems any easier or make me any younger. I'm 25 now and am living the life unlived with the rest of my life still ahead of me. :)
I hope "Don" finds a way to be happy away from Madison Avenue, I really do. It would be a nice ending to my connection to this show. I love the depth of this show and how raw it is. I understand why Dick became Don and why Don is still unhappy even though it seems he has everything. In many ways Don Draper is the modern day Jay Gatsby, a larger than life character who is consumed by his own lies. I really hope the shows ends on a good note with Don starting a new life by the sea, writing a novel or something.
I never noticed the model in the fur coat ad is Betty and that's how Don and her must of met.
I'm so confused, why was he younger when Adam was born but older the episode prior? Ughhh help me understand.
Does Don ever see Joan wearing the mink, and recognize it?
This is great! For some reason between the parents/stepparents/non-parents he has had, I got confused as to the actual timeline of things
annnnd I'm gonna rewatch the whole series (again)
Oh my god, i love roger! "It's 10AM!" <cut to Roger drinking>