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What about Pete finding out that he has a son???, i'll been waiting for that all the season!!! :)

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Don *has* to come back to NYC, though maybe they'll save that for the S3 opener. I think Betty's bleeding means something (pregnancy? miscarriage?) because they can't drop that into our laps, so to speak, and not do anything with it. I think both Sterling and Cooper will leave, making room for Don and Duck to run the NY-based office. While I don't think Joan will cancel the wedding (though she should leave him!), I am not sure how she'll continue working when Dr. Greg clearly wants her to stay at home.

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I think Don should take his half million in profits from the merger and start his own ad agency taking Peggy along with him. No way he will work for Duck.

No idea what the bleeding means, but I want Don and Betty back together.

Joan has to marry her rapist jerkwad of a doctor because she is already old (remember the posting of her drivers license?) and there is option of trolling SC for a replacement. Hopefully, she makes his life miserable though.

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Your line about Don "playing house with Anna Draper" is misleading and inaccurate. I always interpret that euphormism to mean that they are sleeping together, which they are not. Anna is more an older sister/confidant to Don. That said, I think Anna will encourage Don/Dick to return to his family now that he has had a chance to understand himself and his motivations better.

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"Don is in for a hell of shock when he gets back to Sterling Cooper, since the place has merged with the British company"

That hasn't happened yet.

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They havn't completed the merger yet. Bertram said they were gonna make a counter-offer to the Brits. The deal could still fall apart or they could drag it out until next season. I would love to see it fall apart and see Duck and Roger suffer, esp Duck. I really don't want to see Duck as president. I don't think Don will resolve his issues with Betty until next season if at all. She needs to go back to a shrink because she's messed up in the head. But he's gotta go back to NY to work sooner or later, he's a Mad Man.

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Since its only going to be the third season things I see possibly (underline that word) happening. Betty gets pregnant. Maybe she considers getting an abortion (is that keeping with the times? When we come back it'll be 64), and Don will try to convine her to keep it. Don will at least try to put his past behind him once and for all, (probobly won't last). I can see Joan in an unhappy marrige, and probobly wanting to desperately to be a mother, and her husband continues being controllling. And Roger will be married, Jane will be pregnant, and Roger will have a new mistress. Of course I fully expect to be about 80% wrong.

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The office ensemble is the essence of the show and it's way to soon to "jump the shark" and have people switching jobs, getting married, moving away (like they do in real life). There's just too much effort put into writing the relationships between the SC staff for them to upset all that.

Don and Betty have renegotiated the terms of their marriage, let them give it another shot at least for the sake of the kids (it's 1962 not 1972). The bleeding could be anything; either we'll find out in the season finale or it is nothing -- that kind of thing won't wait for 1964.

Peggy is doing great but will, eventually, have to face up to the fact that her nephew is actually her son. Is she sending money to her sister at least? It can never be all haircuts and popsicles for Peggy, she has a hard road ahead of her.

Unless Pete and Trudy adopt the Olsen baby -- which won't happen. They have much less between them than the Drapers and Pete's sacrifice of Clearasil indicates that he has a bottom line. I kind of like Trudy and hope to see her grow more, but there are too many other balls in the air right now with this series.

Joan has to keep working -- not only for her sake but for ours. She is the heart of the show and they'd be nuts to take her out of the office. I suspect they will leave that one hanging and we will all have to wait until the British Invasion to find out whether Joan actually went through with her marriage to Dr. Rapist.

I can easily see the British takeover going through with both Cooper and Sterling out by the next season. The show is called Mad Men, not Sterling Cooper. The tension between Don and Duck has more plot potential. But it would not be credible for Don to stay working for Duck -- he has other options. And, unless he takes Peggy, Sal, Pete, and Joan with him the writers will have wasted a lot of our good will developing these characters. Therefore, I predict everyone is staying put... except Duck will be out. The cocktails *were* a test -- he failed and the British will pull out.

Perhaps the Cuban Missile Crisis will be the event that gets everyone's back in line.

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Do we know for certain that Peggy's nephew is really her son? I don't think he's the right age for that.

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I'm hoping for more shots of Betty in tight pants!

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I can't believe we're already to the season finale!!

I wonder if the bleeding thing was just to contradict Betty saying her daughter was growing up and telling her the marriage problem, but Betty "getting her period" was something she would not explain to her daughter.

I had some trouble keeping up with what timeframe they were in. Like when Don knocked on the door and then he was racing in with this woman. I had to rewind my DVR to make sure I had not skipped something.

Wasn't it funny that Joan would be so accepting of Peggy getting the office - even willing to have her name changed on the door for her. Remember it was Joan who set Peggy up with the copier. And telling her all about her fiance like they were great friends.

To me, this is the best show on TV.

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