Mon, 16 March 2009
As mentioned in Episode #65, here's the link to the LA Times article which suggested the only way to "save" the show is to give Michael Scott his walking papers. Check it out HERE and let us know what you think. ----- Also, the trailer for AWAY WE GO has hit the web. For those who've forgotten, AWG is a comedy from director Sam Mendes starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as a set of newlyweds looking for the perfect place in America to raise their child. Be sure to check out Johnny K's funky-fresh beard and spectacles look!
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-- posted at: 11:42pm EDT
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Hate to have to agree with the article, but it articulates a lot of what I have been feeling for some time now. The primary characters have moved so far from what originally made The Office funny that it\'s a completely different show these days. I wish they\'d go back to days when the scripts didn\'t have \"You must like these people\" stamped across every scene. And personally, I could do without Jim. Andy fills the lonely sap role much better than Jim now -- plus, he\'s a heck of a lot funnier than Jim and a lot less \"perfect\". Pam should go too. I know Matt in particular has praised her acting occasionally, but, to me, her efforts have been amateur at best. I still find Dwight funny, but he\'s gone way over the top into utterly ridiculous territory. I would gladly jump ship to a spin-off featuring Andy, Toby, Oscar, Meredith, Creed (who they don\'t seem to be using to his full bizarreness potential anymore), Kelly, and Daryl. I want to watch a scathing, unflinching, deadpan indictment on office life, not a remake of Ugly Betty.
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Obviously the writer hasn\'t been to this site. The ideas everyone comes up with week after week would make a not so good episode great. Seriously, y\'all, pack it up and move to Hollywood! The Office writing staff needs you. LOL There is no way I would watch a season of the show without Steve Carrell.
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Interesting movie. I am looking forward to it. Looks like a plum role for Johnny K. As for the article, the author loses all credibility when he writes: \"The sexual radiance of Angela (Angela Kinsey) upon acquiring a new cat was brilliantly discomfiting... as she cleaned her new prize pet with her tongue was one of the most inventive and shocking scenes on any sitcom in recent memory.\" Most inventive? Really?
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First of all, I\'m really psyched about \"Away We Go\". The trailer looks great. I\'m a sucker for Alexi Murdoch\'s music - especially that song - and hope they use his work in their actual soundtrack because it added to the moment by moment edits here. I like John in this type of movie. He has an indie movie vibe to him, and I never love his film work more than when I see him in a \"Smiley Face\" or even in a \"A New Wave\" over a \"License to Wed\" or \"Leatherheads\" (even though I liked the Clooney film). Second of all, I don\'t want to say I wholeheartedly disagree with the LAT article, although I did shutter at a few things. I read the reference to Angela licking that cat as being inventive, much like Kevin, I realized who we are dealing with here. That must have been THE most unfunniest, disgusting and over the top moments of idiocy I\'ve ever seen on this show. However, I\'m getting tired of Michael pulling stunts and getting away with it by the very wussy David Wallace. Trying to blame Dwight for the failed Golden Ticket discount was a low blow. It\'s time for someone to call him out on his crap, and I\'m hoping that Charles Miner, the new corporate boss, will do that. Yes, Michael should be fired. They are losing touch of simple storytelling. For instance, in The Injury - that was all the show was about - Michael\'s injury, Dwight\'s subsequent injury, and the results caused by Michael being a baby. No \"B\" or \"C\" story to interrupt the flow and give us more than we can chew. No broad humor. The writing was fresh and concise and the natural humanity came out through subtext. “The Dundies” was about an office awards show and the staff’s reaction to having endure another year of Michael’s bad jokes – and hidden in this was reference to Pam’s humiliation in viewing last year’s video when she won “Longest Engagement”, and how Jim persuaded him to change this, resulting in her winning “Whitest Sneakers”. How amazing was that? I guess these types of stories cannot be replicated. I\'m hoping that things will change in the coming weeks. They are building up for a Michael meltdown, and personally, I cannot wait to see this.
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I disagree with almost all of the article\'s reasoning, but not its conclusion. I don\'t think the problem is that the characters have developed incorrectly, it\'s that they\'ve developed, period. At this point, I know where they\'re going with a joke before it starts. I know every character too well, and they just can\'t surprise me anymore. Dwight is the standout example, but it\'s true of everyone. Which is fine, really. There\'s nothing wrong with a nice familiar show. It\'s not as good as it used to be, sure. But it\'s still one of the funniest shows on tv, sometimes one of the most touching, too. A show at this age faces a tough choice: change and risk messing everything up, or settle into a comfortable rut. At the beginning of this season, when it seemed like they were gonna break up Pam and Jim, I thought they were going the aggressive change route, and I was really unhappy. So I guess I have to admit that if I have to pick, I\'d rather it settle than risk. Which is kind of the whole point of the show, isn\'t it?
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As per the article, this guy clearly does not know what he\'s talking about. The so called criticism he has for the show is in fact it\'s strongest suit. The slow evolution of Michael from a complete moron into an actual three dimensional character is as epic and emotional as the relationship between Jim and Pam. ALL the character\'s slow developments take this show to a higher realm than the likes of 30 ROCK or TWO AND A HALF MEN. Whatever the writers are doing, keep doing it and don\'t dignify this hack\'s blathering with even an ounce of consideration. As for the trailer, I am now looking forward to this. I was already pumped with the news of Sam Mendes at the helm (AMERICAN BEAUTY is one of my all time favorite films), and this looks to be a really great film.
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yeah I\'ll go see this in the theatre. I gotta say - from the trailer it looks like it might be a bit sappy and predictable. But Maya Rudolph and Krasinski are great to watch, plus Mendes making a film from Dave Eggers work - well I\'ll stay optimistic and give it a shot.
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