Alright I've given it a chance. Now what?

Everyone said, "Just watch a couple more!" or "Get through the first season, then you'll be hooked!"

Well I did. I watched a couple more, and even lowered myself so much as to rent the rest of the season from Blockbuster - $15! Blech. And here I am, having just finished the last episode of the first season of Mad Men, wondering aloud... "What is the point? Why am I supposed to be hooked on this show?"

I like the 60s just fine, although there is a bit of a disconnect for me being a minority female and all. The costume wardrobe is amazing, the characters are immensely well developed, the plot seems to be complex enough... I just don't know. I don't seem to care. I like when a show comes on and you're almost sucked into their lives, but with this one I haven't. I keep seeing actors and their characters.

There does seem to be on character line that I'm mentally involved in, Peggy, Don Draper's secretary. I seem to be at least somewhat disturbed by her and concerned for her unfortunate situation as of the last episode of the season. I hate to be a spoiler, but I am three seasons behind here... How exactly do you expect me to believe first of all that she was pregnant enough to deliver a healthy baby and had no clue she was pregnant? Everyone in the office noticed her weight gain and yet pregnancy didn't come up 'til she was delivering? Please. Plus in the previous episode we saw her in her nightie, no bump!

I was somewhat intrigued by Don Draper/Dick Whitman's storyline. That was until we find out that he's not some spy, or hiding from some terrible war secret, or riddled with some psychological identity confusion. He's just some guy who wanted to be rid of his awful "inherited" family, joined the army for a way out, and lives in a morally inept mindset with not a thought of sexually transmitted disease.

So again I say, what's the point? Its not one of those shows where there's a lesson at the end, or feel like we've achieved some goal by figuring something out. I did talk to the TV a bit when I saw bad things coming, of course, but I feel like an observer for observation sake. Maybe its just me, and I'm not used to such formats. This is my first cable network drama, I was not a Sopranos watcher; heck I didn't even watch LOST, but both of those had something to it. Trying to get off an island, or the life of the mob...

This one... I'm not sure I care. (yet.)

Last night's dream?

I'm driving down a narrow, winding road at night, so I throw on my high beams. I spot antlers ahead, and can make out a buck's silhouette. A little startled I slow down and honk a couple of times hoping it will startle the buck enough to make him run away.

Instead he charges toward me. Surprised, I swerve, narrowly avoiding getting sideswiped. Its then I notice a man on a motorcycle behind me. He's following pretty close so I'm worried the buck will hit him. As the buck passes me it notices the biker and starts toward him. Now quite alarmed I turn around to divert the buck's attention from the rider, almost driving into it. The biker speeds away, but the animal dodges me and races on to follow the biker. Turning again, I pause only long enough to pray that the man gets away from this crazed animal.

I'm a bit behind now, but as I turn a corner on the road I see the buck standing over the disheveled overturned motorcycle eating the man! I jump from my car trying to stop the beast, but realize my mistake when he lunges toward me. I climb a tree (which was also a building?) and barely escape the buck and he leaps for me with his teeth.

#1 - What the heck? Meaning?

#2 - Aren't deer herbivores?