Fuck.

[anoel]

“We don’t murder people on our show, but for there to be any stakes, there have to be consequences,” says creator Matthew Weiner, a former Sopranos scribe who has killed at will. Losing Bryan, he says, “was a tough moment for the show, but that’s where we are. I know how people felt about Bryan. I obviously love working with him, and he has been an indelible character since the pilot. But I felt it was an expression of the times that he couldn’t work there anymore. It’s the ultimate case of sexual harassment.”

NO MORE SAL ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????

Stupid fucking show. This pisses me more than words can say. He's my favorite character and the way he went out is so bullshit. I mean, if anyone other than Don knew, I'd understand more but it's DON whose backstory is soooooooooo much worse. If you ask me, Sal needs to find out and blackmail the shit out of him. And just Matthew Weiner taking him out now when we haven't even gotten to Stonewall yet (and if he's not back for that I will kill Weiner) makes me so angry. We've barely scratched the surface of Sal.

Why do we always have to lose the gay characters? Why??? I would totally lose the kissing and such from 301 if I got to have Sal back, no question. I am so angry and sad right now, I can't even. Fucking TV writers. If the show wasn't so good I'd quit it but I don't think I can do that. But I doubt I'll ever be able to enjoy it again. If they're going to get rid of anyone why not Pete, why not the slimy asshole?

Expression of the times huh? I think what Weiner is doing is an expression of the times. Stupid fucking world.

Comments

[thingswithwings]

ugh, that's fucking AWFUL. I love Sal SO MUCH TOO, and I was angry when he left, but I didn't realise it was meant to be a permanent departure! And god, it's so grating to hear the writer pretend like getting rid of the gay character is a progressive move for the show, like, they're really patting themselves on the back over there for having made such a profound statement about gay men in the 60s. Give me a break. That's such a bullshit, hypocritical, cowardly, and appropriative screen for them to hide behind.

[windupbasilisk]

It's so grating to hear the writer pretend like getting rid of the gay character is a progressive move for the show.

THIS. I had absolutely no quibbles with Sal's storyline last season until I heard this spoiler. Until now I was assuming that somehow, Joan-like, he was going to pop back up. But this casts an entirely different light on things--it's not ugly from necessity/truth any more; it's just ugly.

[anoel]

Me too! It definitely makes me frustrated with how things went down not to mention what's to come.

[anoel]

YES that! I was struggling on how to explain it but that is exactly why it bothers me so much. I was only okay with it because I expected him to be back, I thought he was way too important to lose so now I'm pretty devastated. There is just so much more to say with Sal and to have it cut short this way is so painful for me.

[unovis]

It's infuriating, too, because now it seems that the gay rights revolution will be skimmed past, or at least not seen through the person of our wonderful Sal. Weiner's excuse for not featuring significant black characters has been that they were portrayed as they would have existed, marginally, in the professional and social world of Sterling Cooper. He can't claim that about gay men or lesbians, particularly gay men in the arts, in fashion and advertising.

Bad move. Creatively, historically, rationally, a bad move.
Yeah, I answered you on this before, but it makes me mad.