The revelation! The kiss! Where do they go from here? I’m scared and excited.
If they get together - will it be boring lack of URST?
If they stay apart or break up soon - will ongoing URST get old and frustrating?
If they sneak around, it might be amusing, but will we lose respect for them?
I’m tending towards excited though, because I never thought an American version would be worth crap (*Coupling * anyone?), but they have done such a fabulous job. That, and I love every single damn character on the show - that will help even if there are Jim/Pam missteps.
Break out your fitness orbs and Big Gulp cups of booze - The Office is back tonight! Weeeeee!
Jenna Fischer said something to the effect of the premiere picking up three months later and that she is “satisfied” with the way things have been written to progress. I didn’t read the spoilers above but this seems to conflict with the ep being in the wake of casino night (or soon after).
I thought they handled that pretty well. At least Pam is free of Roy, now, so there isn’t a messy infidelity element. I actually felt a little sorry for Roy.
My two favorite lines:
“I miss that.”
'There’s Oscar’s roommate, Gil. I wonder if he knows."
I was happy. It’s a documentary. Real-life doesn’t always have a neat little package, and sometimes the people you love just move away and sometimes you never talk to them again. Obviously, that won’t be the case here, but it’s totally believable. Even the two minutes we got of Jim and Pam was enough for me because it was feasible.
I definitely felt sorry for Roy. And damn, if David Denman isn’t freakin’ HOT now. The man is smokin’. I’ll take me some of that.
How about Creed’s little momologue about possibly having had a homosexual experience of his own. “We were all having sex in the rain and the mud. A man could have slipped in there easily. There would have been no way to tell.”
Yeppers. Last season Michael referred to Phyllis as a “grandmotherly type” or some such. I think it was in the sexual harrassment episode. She reminded him that they were in the same high-school class, and he tried to make it sound like he was a lot younger because he was right after the cutoff for admission.
Tonight’s episode? Left me satisfied and smiling. I can’t wait for next week!
Was I the only one who felt really uncomfortable during the conference room scene? Michael is usually clueless, but he took it to a new and crueler level tonight.
Carrell was on Leno last night, and he described Michael as someone “without a filter”. Is he innocent or ignorant? Great character, whatever the diagnosis.
What a great episode. I am so happy that this show kept it’s charm and humor. I was so scared that I would be disappointed and I couldn’t be more pleased. This will be a great season.
Great episode. I was happy that I predicted correctly where Jim would be when the series resumed.
Incidentally, I’ve only seen one or two episodes of the British Office, and I barely remember them, but a couple situations in the Stamford office gave me flashbacks. First, the stapler in the Jell-o. Second, the Ed Helms character encouraging Jim to date the woman who’s (paraphrasing) “hot but crazy.” Or am I dreaming?
If not, is this the first time they’ve gone back to the well since episode one?
