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Just watched the season 2 finale of The Office. ::flail::

Gah! It's... gah! ::flail::

You guys on my flist gotta link me to your response posts for back when this aired. I want to know what people thought of episode 22.



Jim! Pam! Jim and Pam!

I love love love this storyline so much, but at the same time I'm a little sad. Because after this is resolved, what then?

The Michael/Jan/other stuff was funny in a sad kind of way. I hope this drives home to Jan the fact that she needs to drop this thing she has for Michael and get over it. I hope this was the nail in the coffin.

When both women were standing on either side of him, I was thinking, "Wow, these are two great, successful women who deserve so much more than Michael."

But at the same time, I kind of want Michael to be loved. And maybe being with someone will make him closer to normal?

Comments

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

Woo! My response to the episode is here. It was also, btw, the first episode I ever watched. Thus an obsession was born.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

::admires your icon::

I really loved her hair this episode. Small thing next to the kissage, but it looked really nice on her.

[zebeckras.livejournal.com]

JIM AND PAM = YES.

I didn't post a reaction when it aired but I kept thinking about it all the time afterwards. SUCH good dialogue. And delivery. I also want to know the other side of Pam's conversation with her mother, b/c it seems very important to me to find out what she was answering with the statement "I think I do". I wouldn't be sad about this being resolved - I bet you it's not. I think things are gonna get really complicated after this.

Michael and Jan is one of those things where I can't figure out what to think. Michael is like, so utterly complicated (not complex - noooo, not at all) because underneath the nearly incessant self-absorption there actually lurks a decent guy. He interacts really well with the kids who come trick-or-treating on Halloween, and he actually does want his employees to be happy. None of which is to say that he doesn't constantly make me cringe, and that if I knew him I wouldn't avoid him like the plague. And you're right about Jan, I'm thinking "rebound from divorce" relationship with Michael there. ;P But unlike most of the other employees where you want good things for them, and unlike Dwight who is just simply evil personified, Michael is complicated because after he does incredibly insensitive awful things to people he is so clearly perplexed by how they went so bad that you kind of want to pat him on the shoulder and go "ahh, it's okay. Look, I gotta go, but you hang in there, huh?"

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The delivery really made it work-- I felt more for Jim, but at the same time, I think Pam's actress actually had the more difficult role in that scene. I was impressed by both of them-- it was like reality tv, but better!

I'm tempted to want to believe "I think I do," means she loves him, and I think that's what they intended to leave us with, but they'll probably have it be something else (or leave it unexplained) in the new season.

I think if Michael ever had kids, they'd adore and worship him until they turned about 10, after which they'd be horribly embarrassed by him for the next 10 years, until they grew up and after living away from home for a year or two and suddenly appreciated what they'd had.

you kind of want to pat him on the shoulder and go "ahh, it's okay. Look, I gotta go, but you hang in there, huh?"

Definitely. I found his advice to Jim to "never give up" to be pretty moving, because therein lies the tragedy and triumph of Michael's interpersonal relations. He won't give up-- but unfortunately, he takes it to the extreme.

Actually, Jim ends up doing the "I gotta go, but you hang in there" thing a lot.