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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I think Don kills himself, or at least attempts to kill himself, in the series finale. Watching Don fall from the top of a building in the opening credits for the past six years, IMO, isn't a coincidence.
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I've never read the credits that way. The credits end with the 'falling man' sitting comfortably in a posture of privilege. It seems to suggest that, in America of that time, no matter how much a person like Don [whether you read that as white, ambitious, dashing, or winningly creative] ****s up or steps into chaos, he'll land right side up with a tumbler of brown liquor in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
And I think Weiner puts those scenes with Pete and his gun in there for no other reason than he hates the maxim about 'if you show a gun it must go off.'