TNE fan in the Mad Men writing room?

[LeperColony]

TNE: Smash and Grab, page 89. Roger Sterling, Captain of the Mackenzie. Motivations are sociability and greed (lustful). Considers women to be "God's gift to him."

Mad Men: Roger Sterling, partner of various ad agencies and former officer in the USN. Sociable skirt chaser.

Coincidence, or TNE fan in the Mad Men writing room?

As an aside, the adventure Sterling appears in, Power Play (SAG, 73) is odd in another way. Many of the principle NPCs are named for Byzantine Emperors, and in fact Emperors that directly succeeded each other (except for Constantine Porphyrogenetous. I would really they rather not have named them such, but them's the breaks.

 

[Kilgs]

That's quite a coincidence...

 

[laning]

wouldn't be surprised

I wouldn't be surprised.

Have you ever googled "Strephon"? A king of the faery in a somewhat-obscure Gilbert & Sullivan, it turns out. Reading about the plot on the Internet, I didn't find any obvious parallels between Gilbert & Sullivan's Strephon and our own Strephon. They might still have things in common, if only we read the actual script, who knows.

--Laning, a man of many parts. Anyone have any glue?

 

[Spinward Scout]

Maybe the Mad Men writers were in the same 'sci-fi roleplaying game' Joss Whedon was in during college. They obviously have the same taste in women.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChristinaHendricks

 

[epicenter00]

Have you ever googled "Strephon"?

Given he's a character from the play "Iolanthe" I think in this case the naming was intentional - some writer who just happened to like the play or had it on their mind at the time. Though the play does lampoon aristocracy.

 

[Dreadnought]

TNE: Smash and Grab, page 89. Roger Sterling, Captain of the Mackenzie. Motivations are sociability and greed (lustful). Considers women to be "God's gift to him."

Mad Men: Roger Sterling, partner of various ad agencies and former officer in the USN. Sociable skirt chaser.

Coincidence, or TNE fan in the Mad Men writing room?

That's fun, thanks for pointing that out.

Logically, SOMEONE had to have played TNE. Whedon's edition was clearly CT, however.

But it is impossible for me to watch the first few episodes of the BSG reboot without thinking, "there's TNE again" every few minutes.

Dave