Is it just me, or did Ted Chaough and Joan Holloway's storylines feel kind of tacked on to Mad Men Season 7 (Part 1)?

When Mad Men comes back for the final episodes, will Joan be a bigger part of the picture?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDIh8W5zFDc&w=620&h=315] Part 1 of the final season of Mad Men aired Sunday night, meaning we've got just about 7-8 episodes left next spring/summer. (They're being filmed now-ish.) The first half of the final season was very much about character snapshots and heavy symbolism about the end of the 1960s, and if you…