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✒ Mad Men is set in 1960s New York within the advertising world. It focuses on the time period as well as the people's reactions to events and how it correlates to their lives. Basically, everyone's life sucks and everyone loves Joan's loves big tits.
✒ Born February 24, 1931.
✒ Attends college (presumably for secretarial sciences) and moves to the city.
✒ 1953: she starts working for Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency as an office manager.
✒ During that time, she has an affair with copy righter Paul Kinsey and breaks it off. Then, for nine years, she's the mistress of Roger Steerling. He buys her a fur coat (and that's how Don Draper is brought into the organization)
✒ 1961: Hires Peggy Olson and the S1 begins!
✒ Her affair with Roger continues until he has a coronary attack and she breaks up with him.
✒ Roger catches her crying in his office after Marylin Monroe dies, thinking that she'll die alone like her. Roger cheers her up, telling her that she won't die alone and in despair.
✒ Between Season 1 and Season 2, she gets engaged to a doctor.
On the outside, Joan looks like a woman who has it all and who gets what she wants. She's successful (for a woman of her time) as an office manager that runs the day to day workings of a successful ad agency's office. She has authority that she uses, and most importantly, people listen to. She can get men to do whatever she wants and get whomever she wants. She isn't friendly, but she's suave enough to become the head bitch in charge at Sterling Cooper (and later on, she's the only one that knows where everything is when they branch away). Women at the office love her or fear her, knowing that she's the queen bee. Joan will help her fellow secretaries if they're ever in a bind, but she is petty while doing so. She keeps spares for everything whether it be for office parties or office politics. She's more practical as the other girls. When one secretary runs over the new owner of the ad agency's foot with a John Deere lawn mower, she's the first to administer first aid. Confidence, poise, elegance and practical smarts, it seems that she has it all. However, with all of that comes insecurity, vanity and loneliness. Joan's greatest fear is to die alone like Marylin Monroe.
Except she doesn't. Joan's been living her life like Marylin Monroe. She's the "sex symbol" (second to Donald Draper) of the office and she has many one night stands - two of which have caused her to terminate a pregnancy. Joan has lived in the city long enough to learn how it works or how to get what you want. Looking good and having poise can take you only so far, you have to know exactly how people think. Thus, she goes to find people that can support her lifestyle through parties or socializing. As carefree as it seems, she has a lot of inner conflicts. Does she want to be a suburban wife with a trophy husband and a trophy life - but boring? Or does she want to live a carefree, partying life -but be alone? Roger Sterling, whom she was having an affair with, let her feel love but at the time she didn't know what to do with. It's clear that she loves him and cares for him deeply, which is a lot to say about the emotionally challenged Joan, but he just doesn't fit into her plan. She doesn't show her struggle with emotion. If she's put in an awkward position, such as when her roommate Carol told her that she loved her, she passive aggressively pushes it aside and brushes it off as "you've had a horrible day". She hides when she cries, not allowing anyone to see that she's an average woman. The one thing she doesn't hide, however, is her disdain or anger. She's hit her fiancee upside the head with a vase for striking one too many nerves, thrown a box of roses at one of the new partners at the new ad company, she's made many a secretary cry and she's made backhanded remarks about an ex-flame dating someone of a different race. Whilst she's not as prejudiced as her coworkers, it still says something that she would say: "I didn't know that he was so open-minded." to the concept of interracial couples. When an out and proud gay member of the copyright team proclaims his orientation she doesn't say anything, but instead says "I didn't think they existed". However, it is not shown that she gives him a hard time about it, either. She's forward thinking, but slow to progress.
Her fiancee is also a source of this conflict within her. When her fiancee sexually assaults her in Don's office, she blames herself - saying that she asked for it and that she has to convince herself that he's a good man. Then, she goes off and marries the man, planning for a future with him. Joan hides her frustration with her husband, trying to be helpful for not only his, but hers as well. It seems to intensify her feelings of uselessness even more when he doesn't take her advice or when he puts her on the spot as a trophy wife. She wants so much out of life, but she feels trapped that she can't get it. It seems that Roger is the only one that she can ever be herself with, but she can never have him.
↠ Born in Lawrence, Kansas on May 2nd, 1983, to John and Mary Winchester.
↠ At the age of six months (November, 1983), Azazel (who had made a deal with his mother several years prior) appears in his nursery and feeds him demon blood.
↠ Azazel's visit is interrupted by Mary Winchester, who is promptly killed. The fire upon the ceiling that was a part of her death burned down the family's house.
↠ John Winchester leaves Lawrence with his two sons – Dean, Sam's older brother, and the still-infant Sam. His life as a hunter begins as he seeks revenge for Mary's death and his children are brought along for the ride.
↠ Sam spends his childhood in motels and homes of family friends while his father hunts.
↠ He grows up resentful of the lifestyle, wanting nothing but normalcy.
↠ At the age of 18, after a cataclysmic blowup between he and his father, Sam leaves John and Dean behind to pursue a college education at Stanford in California.
↠ At the age of 20, he meets a young woman named Jessica Moore. They begin dating, the relationship becomes serious, and they begin living together. Sam has every intention of proposing to her.
↠ At the age of 22, it's learned that his LSAT scores are phenomenal and he has an interview to be fully paid for by the school at Stanford Law. He's pretty much about to be set for life. And then…
↠ Dean shows up. Their father's gone missing, and Dean recruits his brother to go hunting like back in the day to help find John. He's never told Jessica what their family does, so Dean mentions that John's just been on a hunting trip and hasn't been home in a few days. It's all very cryptic. Sam is reluctant, but family is family, and eventually concedes to go.
↠ They don't find John in their first effort. When Sam returns to Stanford, he comes home to Jessica dead on the ceiling in the same way his mother died. The house catches fire. Sam's attempt at a normal life is cut short as he vows for vengeance on the thing that killed her. He joins Dean, and their lives as hunters begin.
↠ The mission to find their father becomes full-blown hunting as a duo. While they haven't yet found John, he leaves them clues and messages. He also tells friends (and/or previous contacts, people who are looking for his help, etc.) to "call his son" if they need anything. Dean has become John's stand-in. The boys essentially take his place.
↠ One of the boys' hunts takes them back home to Lawrence, where their old house is being haunted by not one but two spirits. One of them is Mary, their mother, who expels the poltergeist to save Sam. This is the first time he has a solid memory of her to hold onto.
↠ Sam begins to experience precognition. He has visions of things in dreams and sometimes while conscious, and their hunts begin to follow the track of his "gut feelings". He doesn't tell Dean right away, because it's something they'd normally see as supernatural and hunt down. He's worried about being judged or a freak and keeps it to himself the best he can.
↠ Sam and Dean separate due to differences, and Sam returns to California to try to find their dad. He meets a blonde woman named Meg, who seems to be friendly enough (but who is actually a demon working to manipulate Sam and keep him far, far from Dean and John.) When it comes down to it, though, no matter how independent from their families the two discuss themselves wanting to be, Sam would put his life on the line to help his brother and winds up returning to Dean just in time to save his gung-ho, guns-blazing, too-dumb-on-his-own ass from a horrible, bloody fate.
↠ Sam, Dean, and John finally reunite in Chicago. Guess who else shows up? That's right: None other than Meg – a favorite of the yellow-eyed demon (Azazel) who killed their mother (the big bad himself.) Right in the middle of Sam and Dean trying to fight off some really nasty shadow people. Meg's after John, and she uses the boys to try getting to him. Eventually, both adversaries are fought off, but things are cut way, way, way too close. It's determined that John fights better alone when he's not worried about the well-being of his boys. They separate again, for the time being.
↠ The boys visit one a pretty formidable haunted house with a series of deaths beginning to attach to it – only to find out that a dorky pair of paranormal hunting nerds spreading a rumor, starting a story, and letting it are the cause of all of the happenings.
↠ Sam is dragged along as Dean faces an ugly ghost from his past – a creature that's sucking the lives out of children and making them sick. Sam was nearly killed by one because of Dean's disobedience when he was six; he learns that this is the reason that John sent them on the hunt. He realizes that maybe Dean and John's relationship isn't so harmonious after all.
↠ Sam meets a woman named Sarah Blake on a hunt after a haunted painting. It's clear that feelings are there, but at the end of everything, Sam's life is too dangerous and he's got a path to follow. Despite the fact that he really does have a connection with, and like, the girl, they leave again.
↠ A pretty well-known hunter is killed by a group of vampires. John was friends with the man. The Winchester family reunites in an effort to stop them – and John's true agenda for having separated from the boys is revealed. He's after a gun; a colt that can supposedly kill any beast, any demon, in the world. He wants it to seek revenge on ole' Yellow-Eyes (Azazel). He joins the boys to kill the crap out of the vampires and get the gun back. Success!
↠ That success is short-lived in that Meg is back, and after the gun. She starts picking off John's friends one by one, trying to draw him out and get to him so she can get what she wants. Sam and Dean are left alone to face the demon that killed their mother.
↠ When Dean calls John to find out where he is, Meg answers. She's got John hostage. Eventually the boys are able to capture her. They exorcise her, but due to the damage her vessel's body sustained in Chicago, the girl dies. The boys feel bad but… what's done is done and it was necessary.
↠ The boys join back up with John only to find out that he's been possessed by the yellow-eyed bastard himself. John begs Sam to kill him so that the demon is also killed but Sam refuses to kill his father just to get revenge, even though he's done an extreme amount of damage to Dean. Sam shoots his father in the leg, not killing but expelling the demon and sending it back to Hell. Dean's in pretty critical condition and John's injured, so Sam gets them both into the Impala and veers off to get to the nearest hospital.
↠ They're hit by a truck driver possessed by a demon – one of the agents of yellow eyes.
↠ Dean is comatose and near death, and John is severely injured. Sam's the only one who's able to function half-normally after the accident, and starts looking for ways to save his brother.
↠ John Winchester does the dumb thing and makes a deal with Azazel. He hands over the colt, and his life, to save Dean's. Sam discovers that his father is dead. The boys, along with old family friend and fellow hunter Bobby Singer, burn John's body to ensure that he can't come back as an evil spirit, and mourn.
↠ The mourning doesn't last as long as it would with some people, because the boys are both hellbent on killing that damn demon now. In their hunt for him, they discover that there are way more children with weird powers – psychic or different in some way or another.
In 1727, Liam was born in Galway, Ireland. He didn’t amount to much at all, preferring to partake in ale and sex with women in the village much to his father’s chagrin. In 1753, he was kicked out of the local tavern. Inside, he caught a woman’s eye, Darla. It turned out that she was a vampire. She sired him that that night. Immediately after rising from his grave, his set about terrorizing the village – beginning with his family. He saved his father for last and told him specifically that he had made something of himself. Liam then changed his name to Angelus. She brought him to the Master, a much older vampire who sired her. Angelus balked at being on anyone’s court and Darla left with Angelus.
In 1764, Angelus and Darla killed and turned a vampire hunter’s daughter. Holtz, the vampire hunter, was forced to kill her and swore revenge. He followed them until 1771 when he captured Angelus. Holtz tried to get Angelus to help him capture Darla but she instead rescued him. She even spared Holtz’ life, calling him family.
In 1786, Angelus sired a commoner, Penn who adopted his signature. Thirteen years later, Angelus encountered The Beast who sought help in dispatching the group who was after him. Angelus declined and was attacked but the Svear priestesses swooped in and essentially saved him.
In 1860, Darla pointed out a woman, Drusilla, who had the sight. He posed as her priest to torment her before killing her family. Drusilla fled to a convent and on the night she was supposed to take her holy orders, he massacred the convent. Pushing her over the edge into insanity, he then turned her, citing Drusilla as his greatest masterpiece as she’d be tormented immortally.
Not long after, Drusilla turned William, a dreadful poet. William, who looked up to Angelus, considered him his sire. To spite him, after finding out just how much Drusilla meant to him, Angelus had sex with Drusilla.
In 1894, the Immortal captured Spike and Angel. While they were being held captive, he had a threesome with Darla and Drusilla, something they had never done with Angel nor Drusilla.
In 1898, Angelus raped and murdered a gypsy daughter. The gypsies then cursed him with a soul. The condition with this soul was when Angel achieved a moment of perfect happiness, he would lose it. He tried fighting his newfound humanity, even bringing an infant to Darla, but he couldn’t bring himself to feed on it.
History:❝ 1989 ❞
The Grid was nothing short of a miracle created by the User Kevin Flynn in the early 1980s. Already it opened up a world of possibilities that before could only be dreamed of. Possibilities Flynn had hoped to achieve with the aid of Clu and Tron. Tron being a program created by Flynn’s good friend in the outside world, Alan, to help monitor the Grid and brought to the new Grid with the same task. And Clu, Codified Likeness Utility 2.0, was basically… Flynn. A program designed to help Flynn achieve his goal of a perfect system and maintain it while Flynn was away.
But never did he dream of the isomorphic algorithms that were born from the Sea of Simulation. The ISOs.
They were unlike the Basics that Flynn had created to inhabit the Grid, just in that they had evolved on their own rather than needing him to create them. They didn’t function like Basics. They had no set purposes but instead had endless options ahead of them. It was even in their basic coding that they were a miracle. There were things within their coding that even Flynn could not fully comprehend. In them he had seen perfection. Beings that could not only change the Grid, but the entire world.
Clu had been created by Flynn to help design the perfect system. But with the introduction of ISOs Flynn had begun to travel down a new path of perfection, a path Clu didn’t understand but was forced to accept. It was this belief of Flynn’s that drove him to ask two ISOs act as co-systems administrators to the system alongside Clu, Jalen and Radia. But before the ceremony Jalen had gone missing and was presumed dead, leaving Radia to take on the role with Clu alone.
A ceremony was still held to commemorate the occasion of ISOs and Basics coming together to create the perfect system, though. Quorra was meant to be at the ceremony as well, as requested by Radia, but due to the recent attack within Tron City that had left Jalen missing Clu had raised security at the ceremony, which had denied her access to it. This made her miss not only the ceremony, but also the attack on the people by Abraxas, a virus that had been born of a corrupted ISO. Clu used this attack to try to convince Flynn that the ISOs were imperfect corruptions that needed to be destroyed, but Flynn had denied this and stated that Clu’s inability to see their perfection was Flynn’s own shortcomings. A comment Flynn had tried to promise was an attack on his own self, but instead was taken as an insult to Clu by the Program.
Later that night Quorra witnessed Clu’s betrayal of Tron and Flynn. A System Monitor named Anon had also been present for this betrayal, having been created by Flynn to watch out for these murders on the Grid.
Shocked by what she’d seen Quorra ran to Anon to team up with him in search of how to handle the situation. Together they reached the End of the Line club and asked a trusted friend of Quorra’s and ISO-sympathizer, Zuse, for help. He gave the pair access to a solar sailer and sent them to Arjia City, home of the ISOs, to tell Radia of what had occurred and get her help in spreading the news. It was in that moment that End of the Line was bombed and Anon and Quorra barely escaped.
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