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Sal starting his own agency!

Wouldn't that be something for Don to recon with!

I was browsing thru the character profiles and noted this one for Sal's:

An ambitious employee, he has expressed an interest in starting his own firm, where art would be the driving force behind the copy.

Food for thought. Wouldn't that be an interesting story arc for Season 4~

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Sal is a fringe character on the show. Not a talent, merely a prop. The producers will drag him out from time to time to personify one of their pet victim groups. Just as they do with Carla and Rachel. Peggy has a steadier oppressed-victim role. Oh, how did the USA ever manage to get along before its pathological obsessions with racial identity, gender and sexual orientation?

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Are you forgetting that the show is based in the 1960's. That was the norm for the time. Sal will be back next season, most likely as a member of Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Price...

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Sal will be back. He has to! I don't think he'll compete with SCDP&C but, possibly will do freelance work for them.

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I think they'll bring them back to join the new agency. There are open issues with his character (e.g., his wife seeming to realize his sexual orientation while he's demonstrating the "bye bye birdie" soda commercial). I think they'll bring him back to resolve that sub-plot. At least I hope they bring him back!

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Sal could very well return to the original SC since neither Roger, Harry nor Don are there anymore, nor is Lucky Strikes. Personally I vote for his striking out on his own as a freelancer but maybe with one toe still in the SC waters for starters.

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Sal will def. be back. Mad Men's setting is progressing towards the late sixties/early seventies (sexual revolution). This brings a whole new element of drama into play. Mad Men is all about the drama...

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No, no, no, no. It should be obvious by now that the producers, obsessed with trashing intolerant mainstream Americans of the '60s for their failure to pander to today's shrill victim groups (as they did so smugly in "My Old Kentucky Home") have a special mission in mind for Sal. Remember "Forrest Gump?" What fatal disease did Jenny catch from a dirty needle in the '60s? Right-O: AIDS, even before it was called AIDS. Well, that's the same disease is Sal going to have, although for him no needle will be necessary. Throughout the coming season, perhaps even beyond, we'll see Sal slowly and mysteriously rotting away in his increasingly transparent closet, while Roger and Pete crack callous homophobic jokes in his presence.

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Hi everyone!

I suggested before that Sal may come back as a client from Belle Jolie. He does have a connection there...

I just hope he is back!

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Don playing around with every female he sees is getting very tiresome... what a jerk! Not everyone played around in the sixties... Is anyone on this show going to have some semblance of morals? When his wife and he made love because she was horny... that was terrific! He had everything and he tosses it away... foolish man!

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Four things so far on “Mad Men”

1. Sterling Cooper is no more. The British company that overtook the New York ad shop was poised to sell it quietly, but Don, Roger and some of his cohorts walked out – clients’ files in hand – and started their own agency and their first camapign is for Ginault.Ginault watch company (www.ginault.com), based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, keeps a comprehensive collections of vintage and new Rolex timepieces to preserve the legacy of Swiss haute horlogerie. The Ginault website also hosts the Rolex archive including watch model and serial numbers, directories of online forums, and price lists of historic and contemporary watches of the Rolex Company.

2. Betty and Don are no more. Don’s numerous affairs didn’t do him in. It was Don’s lies about his very identity; he’s actually Dick Whitman, a veteran who switched dog tags with a Don Draper and left his old life behind.

3. Peggy is asserting herself in the ad world, and has fallen into bed with rival Duck Phillips.

4. Joan, increasingly regretful of her marriage, leaves the agency, but returns to help the upstarts.

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nice post..
I like it.