Mon, 3 November 2008
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My favourite part was when they were singing along with the Tom Cochrane song, the actual chorus lyrics are: Life is a highway I wanna ride it all night long If you\'re going my way I wanna drive it all night long But when they were singing along with it in the car for the last line they said \"I wanna drive YOU all night long\". I remember that when the song came out I thought that saying YOU in the last line rather than IT makes a lot more sense, but of course it is a lot more sexually suggestive. I guess we weren\'t ready for that back in 1991.
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I totally get why they\'re dropping this Holly-Michael storyline. I just didn\'t \"get\" them as a couple. The chemistry wasn\'t there. Period. And for the comments that they were infantile, well isn\'t every couple on this show? This show is about office workers who are like children in that they\'re stunted emotionally for having their heads stuck in their butts for so long. I expect nothing else from the writers, and would be disappointed if they stuck with this storyline to stay politically correct.
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Ok, Matt you needs to get off of Pam and Jim. At least they look like they have a good time. Plus, they are trying to add a youthful touch. Might help the prank if it wasn\'t old school. And Dwight, poor Dwight, while I give props for trying, he is the stiffest thing I\'ve seen since Frankenstein. Lord love him, (yes, I\'m from the south), he just can\'t get loose. I think if Meridith can give him a few shots of vodka he might unwind a little. If nothing else, it would be funny as heck.
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Matt, I finally listened to this week\'s podcast and felt like you and Kevin are kindred spirits in this. Bad continuity is a death knell for most sitcoms, especially The Office, whose entire premise is a true to life humorous documentary. The writing has been sloppy, the organization of storylines are not delegated with elegant pacing. And me - a very big Holly and Michael fan grew tired of their arc. They didn\'t allow it much time to evolve, it was crammed into five episodes, taking over the Jim and Pam stuff, to fit in a love story arc before Amy Ryan\'s schedule ran out. Also, I had hoped that with Pam out of the office, Jim would be exploring his own improvements as a manager, dealing with the personalities of the group without Pam. So many wasted opportunities taken over by Andy and Dwight silliness and Michael and Holly being all schmoopy. The Andy and Dwight prank not only replicated a storyline from \"30 Rock\", but was infuriatingly pushed into a \"b\" story, while Jim and Pam\'s restaurant ordeal with the brothers was made into a \"c\" storyline. I can appreciate the brothers showing us how Pam is standing up for herself, but ok, we get it already. And the fact three months at Pratt has turned into five or six months without explanation is ridiculous. A Pam-less Dunder Mifflin is a Dunder Mifflin missing an important piece. Ugh. Thanks for listening.
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Matt, Kevin. I am in the minority. I loved this episode. Amid plot holes (and B.J. Novak), this episode had many things to love. Michael and Holly\'s bittersweet ending was heartbreaking. Jim\'s costume was hilarious! I was cracking up. Although, I have to say Dwight should have dressed up as a Cornell student. He still would have pissed off Andy, and we could\'ve kept going with Hallow\'s Eve (Mwa-a-a-a-a-a)! Overall tho, this was still a knock out for Steve. He was fighting the power and dating whoever he felt like. C\'mon give him props he gave some of the best damn blues ever.
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I would think whoever gets the lead writing credit would be the proverbial head that rolls for something like this. And I would say something like this, as opposed to the Hammermill slip-up, would be something that producers would be unhappy about. It\'s not just a nit-picky thing, it deals with character backgrounds, it would be like saying Holly\'s mom lived in Detroit and then saying six episodes later that Holly was visiting her mom in Miami. Now that Daniels and Schur have their heads up Amy Poehler\'s behind, the kids are running the asylum, and the vets (Novak, Kaling) are asleep at the switch. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Point taken about the internet geekdom, but come on, this one was really bad.
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Hey Matt, you missed one point about your reference to the Simpsons. They not only mock and ridicule the internet fans who complain about things, but also make fun of themselves when they use a quick fix, or a solution to a storyline that is unbelievable. (Like when they moved the town or the whole Armin Tanzarian story line.) In regards to The Office, while I agree that they really should do a better job with these errors. But when the main premise of the show is that a documentary crew is filming these people, you already require a large amount of \"suspension of disbelief\". For example, how were they being filmed while Daryl was driving the truck? Why would the film crew follow these people outside of the office? Again, I agree with you 100%. But sometimes you have to just not think about these mistakes so you can enjoy the show. It\'s the same with the Road Runner cartoons. If you think about it too much, you won\'t enjoy it. But that still doesn\'t excuse sloppy writing.
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Matt I\'m surprised that you didn\'t bring up how lame Jim\'s costume was this year. It was the equivalent of someone writing \"Costume\" on a white shirt with a sharpie. At least three-hole punch Jim required some creative thinking as they do in a paper company. He didn\'t have to go Cats on us like Andy but come on. It just came off as smug that he was better than everyone else in the office and too good to participate.
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The podcast succeeded in pissing me off this week. I didn\'t realize the continuity error the first time around, but I was thinking that the Andy/Dwight plotline was exactly the same as the Jim/Dwight plotline from a few years back. I was thinking when I was watching it, \'Okay, this is a total rip-off, but it\'s funny, plus, it\'s totally valid for Dwight to learn how to piss others off from something Jim pulled on him.\' So, it made sense for me, and I thought it was probably the funniest stuff on the show this season. But after listening to the podcast and realizing that these writers messed up something so obvious from just six episodes ago, I got to thinking, okay, maybe these writers are just incompetent and lazy to use the Jim/Dwight, Dwight/Andy dress-up-like-the-other-guy plotline again. I totally disagree with Matt for giving them a pass with the whole \'Fans are more obsessed with details than the writers\' schtick. That\'s b.s., Matt. You teach english and you probably write quite a bit. Most writers would be able to a remember a tiny detail like a character\'s background history. This all goes back to B.J. Novak stealing paychecks. Matt, you played the \'He has other responsibilities\' card when Kevin made the point that he isn\'t really working this season. Wouldn\'t one of his \'other responsibilities\' be to sit in on writing meetings and school up the nubies on obvious continuity errors? Where\'s Mindy in this? Anyway, that error was no small thing, it was sloppy as hell, and I know fans are obsessive about that stuff, but it really gives off the impression that NBC doesn\'t care what they throw out there as long as the yocals are eating it up. Anyway, great podcast as usual, keep up the good work, fellas.
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I don\'t think this episode worked either, but it had potential. The character of Holly Flax should have been developed to where we see this hard driving HR rep, woman of steel, becoming soft and vulnerable in the presence of Michael--a real relationship would have been believable--one where the relationship is a soft place to fall, but that picture never came close. What we saw was strange and not very convincing. I think the network was too chicken to take this relationship into believable territory.
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My husband has accepted my uber-crush on Steve Carell, however he cannot understand why I like Creed Bratton. Creed reminds me of the old uncle who comes to your dinner table in his boxer shorts and beefy t-shirt even though your boss and his wife are also at the table. You know that old uncle will do something strange and yet you still call him downstairs to eat with company.
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