Madmen Season 4 Premiere *SPOILERS*

Wow.   
 
Was anybody else blown away to learn that Don himself was actually the time traveler?  NOT Peggy as we were led to believe by last season's finale. This completely changes the series and turns it on its head!   
All this time we had assumed that Don's role was the protector of the current tangent, only to find out that he himself has been manipulating things for his own gain.  Looking back it should have been obvious, the rose left on Peter's grave, Cooper's insistence that this isn't the real timeline, the terrorist attack that destroyed the old office, the John Deere incident where the guy lost his foot...wow it all makes sense now.    
 
What role will Don's children play now?  Will they too have access to the Omega power?  If as we were told in season 2 that the power is linked to a genetic code and not the physical key.  (that's something that's been bugging me for a long time, WHY do they even need the physical key then?)   
 
What's going on with Don's ex-wife?  In the season finale she found out that her new future husband was actually a replicant who's only there to discover who diverted the timeline earlier in the year, but she STILL MARRIES HIM!  WTF?  Does this mean that he'll still be able to exist in the timeline?  I thought they only lived for only a set amount of time and then reabsorb with the source.  Or has Betty decided just to latch onto the now and stay with him until his time is up?  Profound. 
 
Finally what does this mean for Peggy?  Is she going to be able to escape from the timeslip Don constructed or not?  I remember cheering when she was absorbed into the slip in the finale last season, now it brings tears to my eyes. The whole time she's been actually trying to save this timeline and not destroy it.   What doesn't make sense is why did she take the reconfigurer then?  I'm sure the show will explain it, but it's still a doozy of a plot hole.   
 
 
 
 
But for serious, i thought it was pretty good.  i was totally sucked into that floor wax commercial.  

Wow.   
 
Was anybody else blown away to learn that Don himself was actually the time traveler?  NOT Peggy as we were led to believe by last season's finale. This completely changes the series and turns it on its head!   
All this time we had assumed that Don's role was the protector of the current tangent, only to find out that he himself has been manipulating things for his own gain.  Looking back it should have been obvious, the rose left on Peter's grave, Cooper's insistence that this isn't the real timeline, the terrorist attack that destroyed the old office, the John Deere incident where the guy lost his foot...wow it all makes sense now.    
 
What role will Don's children play now?  Will they too have access to the Omega power?  If as we were told in season 2 that the power is linked to a genetic code and not the physical key.  (that's something that's been bugging me for a long time, WHY do they even need the physical key then?)   
 
What's going on with Don's ex-wife?  In the season finale she found out that her new future husband was actually a replicant who's only there to discover who diverted the timeline earlier in the year, but she STILL MARRIES HIM!  WTF?  Does this mean that he'll still be able to exist in the timeline?  I thought they only lived for only a set amount of time and then reabsorb with the source.  Or has Betty decided just to latch onto the now and stay with him until his time is up?  Profound. 
 
Finally what does this mean for Peggy?  Is she going to be able to escape from the timeslip Don constructed or not?  I remember cheering when she was absorbed into the slip in the finale last season, now it brings tears to my eyes. The whole time she's been actually trying to save this timeline and not destroy it.   What doesn't make sense is why did she take the reconfigurer then?  I'm sure the show will explain it, but it's still a doozy of a plot hole.   
 
 
 
 
But for serious, i thought it was pretty good.  i was totally sucked into that floor wax commercial.