I was gonna post to see if they resolved the Dwight’s gift situation. Obviously, I missed that part. Sci Fi was showing a good episode of Star Trek: TNG at the same time. Can someone give a play by play of the scene?
I realized, with the Dwight romance, and the Michael romance, in addition to the Kelly-Temp guy thing, they have plenty of things they can focus on after they resolve Pam-Jim. Jim’s advice to Kelly was interesting, basically telling her she needs to move on. Get over it. He said something last week that made me think his character is saying the same thing to himself. I suspect it will resolve itself in the last episode of the season.
I was gonna post to see if they resolved the Dwight’s gift situation. Obviously, I missed that part. Sci Fi was showing a good episode of Star Trek: TNG at the same time. Can someone give a play by play of the scene?
I realized, with the Dwight romance, and the Michael romance, in addition to the Kelly-Temp guy thing, they have plenty of things they can focus on after they resolve Pam-Jim. Jim’s advice to Kelly was interesting, basically telling her she needs to move on. Get over it. He said something last week that made me think his character is saying the same thing to himself. I suspect it will resolve itself in the last episode of the season.
Late in the episode Angela finds a small pink package at her desk. She unwraps it to find a key, presumably to Dwight’s house. At first you think she’s going to be really pissed off at such a clearly last-minute gift, but then she breaks into this big (for Angela) smile and looks beatifically over at Dwight.
I like this except Ryan (temp guy) isn’t into Kelly and Pam really is into Jim if only as friends. They got renewed for next season. I expect a cliff hanger in the last episode.
That is EXACTLY the analogy I gave my husband last night. We have Sbarro down here in Houston, but he avoids malls so he’d never seen one.
I don’t want to like Dwight and Angela, and I don’t like them much individually, but I’m starting to really enjoy them as a couple. Weird, crazy people deserve love too.
I thought it would have been hilarious if they revealed that Dwight in his panicked state actually gave Angela the ONLY key to his place and at the end say him yell at a locksmith to work faster ;).
My guess is next season will be the last. Steve Carrell wants to go off and do movies, and they can’t sustain the interest of the Jim/Pam thing forever, so it’ll be a good reason to end it. They better come up with a closure for Jim/Pam that was as good as the UK version though.
The show will last until NBC is good and ready to end it, and not a moment earlier or later. If it keeps drawing viewers (both for regular broadcasts and for iTunes downloads), it will last a very long time. Its producers and entire cast could leave, and it might just keep chugging along with new cast and crew, like ER. What else does NBC have to put on Thursdays?
That’s the biggest difference between British and American TV. The BBC isn’t just relying on advertising revenue to keep all its shows on the air. 95% of all programming decisions made by American networks are motivated by financial interests, not creative ones.
Fraiser sustained the unrequited love thing between Daphey and Niles for 7 or 8 seasons, mainly by keeping one or the other involved with someone else for most of the run. I imagine The Office will do something similar.
If you think economics aren’t BBC’s primary motivator of creative decisions you’re awfully naive. They certainly have a different economic calculus than free TV does in the U.S. due to the license fee and the different subsidiary markets, but still – money makes the world go 'round.
And I think it’s exceedingly unlikely that the show would go on without Carrell. Mostly because I know NBC isn’t that stupid. This is his show. It’s not at all like ER where the process is the star, not the actors.
I said it wasn’t JUST motivated by money. I’m really not all that naive. But British shows are allowed to get in, do their bit, and get out, and aren’t forced to continue until they’re bizarre parodies of their former selves, like ER.
Do you really think it’s Carrell’s show? I like him, but on this show I’d barely notice if he was gone. His is the least interesting character on the show. In fact, if he wasn’t there you’d lose some wacky hijinks and gain time for the stuff that’s *really * funny, which is the completely realistic interactions between all the other characters.
I don’t know if it’s canonical, but Dwight’s blog makes several relatively discreet references to an ongoing relationship, like this one:
Just sticking to the show, I might buy that Dwight is inept enough to go directly from drunken office-party grope to here’s-the-key-to-my-apartment, but Angela’s reaction (and, erm, thoughtful gift-giving) is a strong implication that they’ve got something going on outside of work. Oh yeah, and the way Dwight is mackin’ on his “Love animal.” They’re definitely going at it like lumpy, socially inept minks.
