I just read the list and when I saw Roy as #10, I was mad I wasted time clicking three times to read the entire list. For the most part, the ideas aren't bad, but I doubt many if any would happen. I do agree they need to bring the show back to the office. Offices get old, boring and repetitive. Maybe that's what they were trying to do by recycling the Michael owns a paper company plot line...
By the way I thought the article was pretty good up until that suggestion. But that suggestion was so outrageous it kind of soured me of the whole idea. I always get surprised though when I see people criticizing something and doing a good job of it but then when their suggestions for improving come in and they are a the worst.
I don't think that's what he is trying to do. I think Andy is trying to get David Wallace and some of his rich friends to take over D-M and put Andy in charge. Andy stole that client to show Wallace how badly Robert California is running the company.
It took me until just now to realize the salesman from Syracuse is Frank Sobotka from The Wire Season 2: I knew he looked familiar, but I didn't think to think outside of comedy. I believe he's now the third Wire regular to appear on The Office.
#4 was interesting. Except they already have a "single working mom with a drinking problem" Then again, that might be a way to get Merideth more invoved. #10 is truly bad.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but last season didn't Dwight and Jim run into Jan and it seemed she had her stuff together again. She wasn't as nuts as she was in the season when she had the baby.
Michael and Dwight also saw her in the episode where Michael thought he had herpes. I don't remember how the encounter went, but she was back on her feet.
All that said, we thought Jan had it "together" the whole time she was at Dunder Mifflin, and it turned out to be a big acting job that led to a big meltdown, right? That one night (one NI-IGHT!) ...
She's not a real person. She had her act together initially probably because that's how the characters working at the main HQ's behaved in the British version of The Office. It was only later that the producers of the American version thought it would be funny if she totally lost it. Which it was.
No one with thoughts on the season (and perhaps, in some ways, series) finale last night? I thought the Andy storyline was really overplayed. The only funny bit of his whole "janitor" act was when he and Erin kept saying "calibrate" to each other across the table. The cold opens have been very good recently, and Oscar's "It Gets Better" take, interrupted by Robert California's rant on sexuality, was no exception. And California's departure was awesome. A foundation to help college-age former gymnasts in Eastern Europe? Wow, this guy's slick. But the highlight, surely, was Dwight and Angela's car chase with the diaper. (Of course, I was wondering if he might've accidentally stolen one from Jim and Pam's kids.) Overall, though, it was surely overshadowed by the absolutely brilliant Parks and Rec finale.
I don't think her downward spiral was as abrupt and out of character as you make it sound. Yes, it was based on the character on the original, but the seeds of the meltdown is planted pretty early on, in Season 2 - she has it "together" for all of Season 2 while having feelings for Michael. I don't think her character changes as much as, say, Kelly's does from Season 1.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/parks-and-recreation-season-5-nbc_n_1508931.html it's not the series finale. I'm not sure what to think, the episode it was ok. Nothing real spectacular happened...
But it may be the end of The Office as we know it, depending on who signs on to come back next season. That said, I didn't see anything about Dwight's spinoff announced, so I guess he's still around, at least.
We know Mindy Kaling and Paul Liberstein are out for sure (?) and B.J. Novak hasn't been reupped. If all three are gone, then it's going to be different in front of and behind the camera.