If you strike, I will attack you with the North: The Interwebs weigh in on Jim & Pam, labor strife and surviving a winter of Office discontent (part 3)
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- January
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There’s nothing but good news lately in Office-land.
First there were rumblings that NBC content, digital download pioneer The Office included, could be heading back to iTunes. Then the cast took home the SAG Award for best ensemble in a comedy series. Certainly no cause there for feeling smashed in the griefbone with a frozen sledgehammer.
Speaking of griefbone, the poster who goes by that moniker at the Watercooler forums at NorthernAttack.com (real name John, age 29, hometown Atlanta) is the next up to weigh in on all things Dunder Mifflin. Here’s what he had to say.
Part 3 of many. Part 1. Part 2.
10 words or less: Which side do you support in the writers strike and why?
That question is eleven words. The writers’ demands seem just, and they provide the product.
Presumably you’re watching less TV than usual lately. What are you doing instead?
Enjoying NetFlix, my own DVDs (like previous seasons of The Office), reading, frequenting the Interwebs, and waiting for baseball to start. I even signed up for HBO so I could watch The Wire and the Extras finale.
Office fans waited two and a half years to see Jim and Pam get together. Two months later, the writers strike threatens to wash the season away. What do you think about that?
I don’t feel slighted or offended. It’s just bad timing, but I’m glad they finally got the two crazy kids together. Season 4 has already given us some great moments between the two of them as a couple, and that’s enough for right now.
How’d you like the way things were going overall on the show when the strike hit?
Overall, it seemed to be a bit hit and miss: some great moments, like most of Money, but also some oddly shallow episodes, and plot lines, in a show I love for its depth. This may be simply because I haven’t seen these episodes as often as I have previous seasons, but this season has just seemed slightly off. That’s hard to admit, but I still love the show.
Maybe you don’t care about Jim and Pam anymore. If that’s true, what are you missing the most with the show on unscheduled hiatus?
The Dwight, Angela, and Andy (Dwangelnarddog?) situation, but mostly seeing how Dwight deals with it. (But I do still care about Jim and Pam.)
Would you rather see the strike end now and have the writers get back to work and put The Office back on for however many episodes they can squeeze in, or would you rather they scrap the season and turn their attention to returning strong in the fall, using the extra time to restore their creative juices?
This is a tough one. I’m not sure their juices, creative or otherwise, were spent, so I don’t know if taking extra time will mean an improvement-and an improvement, to me, would be going back to the tone of Season 2. However, I’d rather they take their time with the scripts and episode preparation so we’re not getting watered down juices and episodes. If that means waiting until next season, so be it.
Bonus round: Fill in the blanks
- This strike sucks. Ben Silverman should be sentenced to a year of According to Jim/My Two Dads/Blossom reruns for making this happen. (He’s more of an instigator, but I like the idea of forcing Joey Lawrence and Jim Belushi on him. That’s what she said. And don’t mess with My Two Dads: one of the dads was in Tekwar, based on actual novels supposedly written by William Shatner).
- Michael and Dwight make such a great couple. They’re like the Brangelina of the northeast Pennsylvania paper distribution industry.
- I still can’t believe Michael followed his GPS into a lake. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve seen on TV since Gold Case: That show just doesn’t work.
- Pam looked so much better this season, especially with her new hair and seeing her smile. (This does not impugn PamfromthePast, by the way).
- The strike has been particularly rough on my Office obsession. In fact, the strangest thing I’ve done since the hiatus began was voluntarily watch License to Wed.
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I am hoping Andy disappears soon. He has never fit in, nor did Karen.
No more newbies for our Office and put Dwangela back together, or I wont watch it again