Michael Reuben
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Edited by Michael Reuben - 7/14/2009 at 03:23 pm GMT
Originally Posted by Southpaw ">[/url]
I have to amend my earlier spoiler comment about one particular episode. I totally get it now. It took me listening to Matthew Weiner's commentary to fully grasp it but I get what he was trying to do with the character. :)[/QUOTE]Yeah, I ended up checking out the commentary track for some help in fleshing out that episode too. I'm not sure too many people would fully grasp it w/out the extra bit of help. That episode's commentary track also provided some nice technical tidbits about how things were shot too -- I've only checked out one other commentary track on there so far.
RE: Mike's comment about Sal's "decision" (in the review), it didn't seem clear to me that Sal made an actual decision -- at least a fully conscious one anyway. Otherwise, I thought the various comments in the review were pretty spot on and made for a nice read w/out giving away too much.
Can't wait to see season 3. Almost makes me wish I have paid TV service again (for the upcoming new season).
I hesitated a long time over that choice of wording. Part of the problem was that I wanted to be evasive enough to avoid anything in the nature of a spoiler. Let's just say that I view Sal as having aimed himself in a certain direction from Season One onward, at least from the point of that very intense dinner with a client more willing than Sal to explore their attraction. Whether you want to characterize Sal's later actions as a "decision" or a "surrender" is, I suppose, open to debate. There are many circumstances in which doing nothing is a form of deciding, and that kind of decisionmaking suits Sal perfectly.Originally Posted by Man-Fai Wong
RE: Mike's comment about Sal's "decision" (in the review), it didn't seem clear to me that Sal made an actual decision -- at least a fully conscious one anyway. Otherwise, I thought the various comments in the review were pretty spot on and made for a nice read w/out giving away too much.
Originally Posted by Man-Fai Wong ">[/url]
BTW, RE: the Clorox bleach ad on disc 1, did y'all also see the enclosed insert for the ad w/ a 50-cent coupon?
The whole thing is certainly an interesting way to advertise to the target audience. The collector's side in me wants to just keep the coupon insert ad rather than let the wife use it at the store.