This week's Office...
I think I laughed maybe once:
Pam: "I doubled my sales last month!"
Andy: "What, from two to four?"
TalkingHead!Pam: "Yup!"
But overall the whole episode seemed to just keep piling on the super-painful awkwardness with very little true humor as a reprieve, and I'm really tired of the "Jim stumbling as manager and everyone hating him for it" storyline. I can't believe he'd do such a piss-poor job defending himself after all this time, and so utterly fail to suspect Dwight (his main character flaw is lack of motivation, not being stupid - he's always been quick on his feet). And would the entire crew - and David Wallace, for that matter - really be dumb enough to believe Jim would try to pull the crap going on in that plotline? I was also a little disappointed that it was Wallace's undying Jim-love that saved Jim, rather than Jim doing what his character normally should have done, which is unravel Dwight's plan and find a way for it to neatly backfire right onto him.
Dwight used to be entertainingly evil, but in this episode he just annoyed me - I think the difference is when Jim's fighting him back as opposed to just floundering around like he was here.
Hopefully this week's Clone Wars is/will be better, especially as it's a month before the next one. (!!!)
Pam: "I doubled my sales last month!"
Andy: "What, from two to four?"
TalkingHead!Pam: "Yup!"
But overall the whole episode seemed to just keep piling on the super-painful awkwardness with very little true humor as a reprieve, and I'm really tired of the "Jim stumbling as manager and everyone hating him for it" storyline. I can't believe he'd do such a piss-poor job defending himself after all this time, and so utterly fail to suspect Dwight (his main character flaw is lack of motivation, not being stupid - he's always been quick on his feet). And would the entire crew - and David Wallace, for that matter - really be dumb enough to believe Jim would try to pull the crap going on in that plotline? I was also a little disappointed that it was Wallace's undying Jim-love that saved Jim, rather than Jim doing what his character normally should have done, which is unravel Dwight's plan and find a way for it to neatly backfire right onto him.
Dwight used to be entertainingly evil, but in this episode he just annoyed me - I think the difference is when Jim's fighting him back as opposed to just floundering around like he was here.
Hopefully this week's Clone Wars is/will be better, especially as it's a month before the next one. (!!!)