The Office (Season 9) [R]

I'm still 2 episodes behind with my watching, but I find it interesting that Andy is missing a good chunk of the final season. I'm not sure if its because of some issue in his real life or if the producers felt (like I did) that he stunk up the show when he became Branch Manager, but either way I think for the first time in a while we can say the show isn't worse than the season before.

 

Personally, Im glad Andy has been gone this season.

There's something about Ed Helms that makes me want to punch him.

 

I believe he is off filming Hangover 3....

 

I've said all along, he died out at sea.

 

I think it would actually be a pretty awesome ballsy move by the writers to have Jim and Pam get a divorce or seperate to end the series. Doubt it'll happen but still it'd be pretty cool.

 

There aren't that many episodes left...

although that could make for an interesting Christmas special.

 

Hilarity will no doubt ensue.

FWIW, I went to a show saturday night at a bar featured a few episodes back. The interior was a set, but they had an exterior shot

 

Thinking some more about the previous episode I can't shake the idea that Toby is gonna be the Scranton Strangler. I've always seen Toby as an ackward guy but his interaction with Nellie was more creepy than ackward and it seemed the scenes where he interacted with Nellie involved his hands being near her neck.

 

When he was on jury duty the case he was on it for was the Scranton Strangler case, so that would be pretty odd if the actual Strangler was a juror for the trial of the person thought to be said Strangler.

 

Still refusing to watch while Jim is acting in ways to which I cannot relate. Am I missing anything?

 

It/Jim got much worse last episode. But the other stories have been good.

 

Okay... still watching the night's second episode. Don't like it.

 

Hate it.

 

Skimmed through tonight's episodes. Liked the stuff with Angela's skeezy husband, Angela, Oscar and Brian. Loved seeing Dwight and Pam team up.

My issue with the Jim/Pam story is that, in order to contrive all this drama, they made Jim act totally out of character. And now they're hinting that the boom operator may sweep Pam off her feet? Oh, please.

 

yeah, it's not good. they're laying it on too thick and from out of nowhere.

 

I nearly posted comments from some @duresport guy on twitter saying the same thing last night. There were so many good elements to the episodes and funny portions, but the boom mic guy drama is pissing me off now.

 

This Pam/Brian thing is whack. It only undermines practically the entire run of the series that came before it.

 

Naw, if anything it is the writers dropping hints that Toby is the Strangler.

While I am pulling for them to go end the series with either Jim and Pam divorced or seperated and an uncertainity if they will get back together, what I sadly expect though is that the whole thing is a quick build up for a special Valentines day episode. You know to take the Jim/Pam romance story line out for one more drive.

Badger talking about the Cow Shower had me cracking up

 

Compare the Jim/Pam melodrama to the way Desperate Housewives handled the disintegration and then reintegration of the Scavo marriage. DH was far more believable.

This is bad bad bad bad. What's the term for a plot device out of left field? Not deus ex machina, but the other one. Is it MacGuffin?

 

Desperate Housewives?

Who are you, superdave? Who are you?

But yeah... it's bad.

 

I'm a husband.

 

They're going to have to pull a rabbit out of a hat. Return of Michael or something.

 

I put my objections in long form:

https://mostlymodernmedia.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/why-the-critics-are-wrong-about-the-office/