What will become of Toby Flenderson?
IMHO, this was a big step down from last week’s episode. So that was Dwight’s baby the whole time?
Beesley is so pissing me off. She needs to tell Jim to take the three months and do the Athlead thing then come back to her.
So it looks like the finale is 6 months after this penultimate episode. I wonder if Jim and Pam will sit together being divorced and all.
Who wanted Andy to hook up with the chick in line? <raises hand> And what was that thing by Mark McGrath about a mole? That never went anywhere.
I was surprised that Jim seemed to decide against joining the startup. Pam seemed to recognize that he was going nowhere at Dunder Mifflin and really there’s more potential at the startup, both for a job that he would enjoy and be challenged by and also for financial gain.
Sorry, edited to add that the scene between Jim and Dwight was nice.
At what point was this ever in doubt to the audience?
You mean other than when they said the DNA test proved it wasn’t Dwight’s?
If they did choose to go ahead with The Farm series, would Dwight have been married to Angela? Or would his wife have been the milkmaid? Anyone know?
Disapointed that Jim decided that second best was good enough.
Although, I like the way they handled the note. The audience will do a better job than the writers ever could. One thing, though. I don’t think they needed the entire video montage. All he needed to do was find the ‘teapot’ scene and give her the note. They’ve already gone down the ‘look at old footage of Jim and Pam’ road.
I thought the ‘American Idol’ bit was fairly terrible.
I didn’t care for the dance scene either, but I suspect that’s more because I cringe at dance scenes rather than it being actually bad.
The AARM stuff was pretty good, though. The Dwight/Jim prank stuff has always been some of my favorite bits in the show.
That one-off on the season premiere? Unconvincing, at least to me. YMMV.
this episode was absolutely terrible.
the amount of commercial breaks was ridiculous, they should’ve made it a half hour, one commercial break was only 1.5 mins. At one point there were 4 mins. of show and then more commercials. Just greed by NBC. Maybe it’s my fault for watching it live and not just recording it, but I’ll be recording the final for sure next week.
and the storylines were pretty bad IMO. When they made the announcement about the mole I thought the blond woman was going to be a mole and exploit Andy but that went nowhere.
the whole Jim and Pam thing has become more than tiresome after all these episodes.
and yes, the Dwight/Angela baby thing was supposedly covered already by a DNA test. what’s more resolute than a DNA test?
and I didn’t care for the dance scene either.
A cover-up by an elected official already living in the closet, for one. The fact that its reveal was used as a set-up line for a barf gag didn’t help much, either.
The dancing got to me too, phreesh. My all-time favorite Office episode was ‘Cafe Disco’ which has dancing, but this just felt embarrassing.
I thought this was one of the better episodes in a while, actually, with the Jim/Dwight stuff being the highlight. The dancing didn’t really go anywhere, but it was fun. I loved Meredith’s talking head about how she would have been skanky if the camera’s hadn’t been on her for 9 years. The Andy stuff wasn’t great but it had some fun moments, and his chemistry with the lady in line was fun. I’m definitely cautiously optimistic about next week.
What I took from the Jim/Pam story line is that neither of them think their marriage can survive a three month separation. Grow the fuck up.
Is that all he needed to do to ensure their financial future? Three months on the road?
The irony is Pam was 100% right. In the real world Jim would resent her. Maybe not today; maybe not even 6 months from then, but someday he will wonder “what if” and hate her for it (and probably start banging Erin on the side).
This is exactly right; the extended montage felt like padding, but keeping the note secret was smart–like always wondering what Bill Murray whispered in ScarJo’s ear at the end of “Lost in Translation”.
Like all of Andy this year. This season’s version is like a clone of Michael Scott where the writers stripped away any shred of his sincerity and humanity, leaving just the annoying, unaware stupidity. If I were Ed Helms, I’d be ecstatic the show is ending and scour any remnants of it from my resume. Then again, he ain’t that interesting in the Hangover movies either, so maybe it’s just him.
That’s what FFWD is for on the DVR. But I’ll give them a pass–it seemed like something the cast (rather than the characters) really wanted to do, so I just chalked it up to extended mugging for the camera as the curtain comes down.
That storyline was good…except…it would have been far funnier not to have Jim reveal in advance that he was angling for Dwight to be the AARM. If anything, when Jim said that in one of the side interviews, I was half-expecting his plan to backfire; when it didn’t, I thought knowing how it would turn out made it less effective.
This was a big letdown after last week’s fantastic episode. I kind of wish last week’s was the series finale.
He won’t even need to imagine “what if” as he’ll be able to follow the progress of his college buddies and Daryl.
Hasn’t Jim always revealed the endpoint of his pranks on Dwight?
Also, I want to see the Mobius strip that Dwight had to turn the hierarchy mobile into, to reflect his new role.
Usually but at this point in the show it was depressing that Jim is content on perpetually pranking Dwight and not making any forays into his personal goals.
I think they really fumbled the athlead storyline. There’s no saving it. Either it’ll be depressing that Jim passed, or it’ll be unsatisfyingly revealed in expositional dialogue that Pam came around after all. Lose-lose-lose.
The portraits of Dwight in the background were funny, esp the one of him and Mose.