“It’s Penn Station! This city has no memory. Out with the old, in with the new? Who says that’s a good idea?” – Paul Kinsey
Oh, Mr. Weiner. Here I thought the episode was pointless. I thought the episode, at first viewing, was just a really good episode of a show about the business world. But seeing everyone struggling with fondness of the past, contempt for the present, and uneasiness on the future, I changed my mind. I might be wrong, but I’m going to suggest this episode might be a message to fans that Mad Men is about to change. Everyone wondered and worried about Season 3 and what it would be like? Will it be like Season 1, which was the chauvinistic, old-time Manhattan boys club business world, or would it be more like the trippy, Odyssey like adventure of Season 2 with more Don Draper following white rabbits through looking glasses? I think the answer is “none of the above.”
Until now, Don has controlled everything and everyone. Even when things seem to be reeling in his world, for the most part, he can control that which he wants, and he gives himself freely to the mayhem he cannot. Now, there’s mayhem and it isn’t of his design.
