I love reading your Office thoughts. Mostly coming out of that string of episodes I was just overwhelmed with how much I hate Ryan, but you've articulated a lot of things I liked, too. Especially with the Charles Minor-Jim dynamic, which was fascinating to watch.
But it's impossible for me to be emotionally invested in the struggles of the characters to get there, only to give up and lie down in the veldt and die.
Yes. Exactly. Why go through all of that sturm und drang again only to know it ends the way it did? I'm very put off by the show right now. I hope that passes.
I can't say that I'm thrilled to see Ryan return, but at least the show seems to textually support the fact that he's an asshole and only Michael can stand him. But I've been loving the way Pam's been trying to step up, and the way Jim's been trying to help her. And Dwight: "My apiarist owes me a favor."
Exactly. Why go through all of that sturm und drang again only to know it ends the way it did? I'm very put off by the show right now. I hope that passes.
We were watching a BSG vid the other night at laurashapiro's and we were all wondering if we would ever be able to bring ourselves to rewatch the show. Maybe with some time and distance. For me, I didn't dislike the finale as a unit so much that I have come to retroactively hate it for the pall it cast on my involvement with everything that got them there. Why exactly was it sad that Dualla died a little earlier than everyone else now? Why did Kat's sacrifice mean anything? Etc. etc.
Excellent Office thoughts, as always! I'm glad the MSPCI storyline was resolved with a minimum of embarrassment squick; this has been a hard season from that perspective, so it was nice to see something that didn't make me want to crawl behind a chair and die on Michael's behalf. Hee. And I really do like what it revealed about the characters--I LOVE that Pam is a salesperson now, and I loved the Michael/Pam (not like that) interaction throughout, and it was fascinating to watch the rest of the office (try to) operate in a "normal" environment
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And I really do like what it revealed about the characters
I especially like that Jim never tried to talk Pam out of it, and kissed her goodbye at 5am when she went out to deliver paper in a church van, and didn't even think about pointing out that the whole thing had been doomed to fail when it did.
I didn't get that frustrated with the BSG finale until I realized how much it had retroactively made the rest of the show unwatchable. That's pretty bad. Nice job, RDM.
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But it's impossible for me to be emotionally invested in the struggles of the characters to get there, only to give up and lie down in the veldt and die.
Yes. Exactly. Why go through all of that sturm und drang again only to know it ends the way it did? I'm very put off by the show right now. I hope that passes.
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Exactly. Why go through all of that sturm und drang again only to know it ends the way it did? I'm very put off by the show right now. I hope that passes.
We were watching a BSG vid the other night at laurashapiro's and we were all wondering if we would ever be able to bring ourselves to rewatch the show. Maybe with some time and distance. For me, I didn't dislike the finale as a unit so much that I have come to retroactively hate it for the pall it cast on my involvement with everything that got them there. Why exactly was it sad that Dualla died a little earlier than everyone else now? Why did Kat's sacrifice mean anything? Etc. etc.
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I especially like that Jim never tried to talk Pam out of it, and kissed her goodbye at 5am when she went out to deliver paper in a church van, and didn't even think about pointing out that the whole thing had been doomed to fail when it did.
I didn't get that frustrated with the BSG finale until I realized how much it had retroactively made the rest of the show unwatchable. That's pretty bad. Nice job, RDM.
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