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durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Ugh now Pam sucks too. WTF are they doing to these characters?
What made you post this?
Her being insane about moving out of Scranton and giving Jim shit for working
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Ugh now Pam sucks too. WTF are they doing to these characters?
What made you post this?
Her being insane about moving out of Scranton and giving Jim shit for working
I thought some of that was a bit off the mark. But most of it worked for me given her reluctance to change throughout the series and the fact that Jim lied to her.

It's not my favorite part of the season by any means but it felt consistent with the Pam we've watched all along so I couldn't be mad at the choices, even as I disliked watching some of it unfold.
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I have never, ever understood it when characters give their partners grief over work, and it always make me instantly hate the character.
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I agree with where you're coming from. Especially in real life. I wasn't on Pam's side through that necessarily but I can still empathize with her point of view. And it was consistent with the character we followed the entire time.
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I totally empathize with Pam in that whole situation. I've always been extremely turned off by the idea of just packing up and moving wherever the wind blows just because of a damn job. If my wife took a job at some startup with her college friends and didn't tell me about it until it was too late, and then hastily invested $10,000 of our family money in it, and then expected me to pull double duty at home before eventually uprooting my life just to be closer to this job that she lied to me about, I don't think I'd be especially gracious about it either. He handled that whole thing like an asshole -- moving back to Scranton for a year was a small purgatory to endure.

That said, I agree that the last season is the weakest. The show unravels without a Michael Scott or a Robert California.
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Well put KD.
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To echo an earlier sentiment...Carrell should have gotten an Emmy during his run. And his last non-cameo episode was one of the better send offs for a cast regular in any sitcom.
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Oh god they’re rrrrrrreally pouring the syrup on thick now
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Oh god they’re rrrrrrreally laying the syrup on thick now
the later seasons are why i can't put the office in my top 5
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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The real issue is that both Pam and Jim are completely insufferable when they are happy.
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bart wrote:The real issue is that both Pam and Jim are completely insufferable when they are happy.
yes
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Loved the finale. Really great.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:Loved the finale. Really great.
Is this your first time seeing it?
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yep
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Oh wow. That's awesome. Glad you liked it.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Thank you
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