I mainlined S3 this weekend. I just have one more ep to watch - the one that aired last week. They've done quite a good job with stringing along the Pam/Jim/Karen/Roy stuff. Not quite so pleased with the Jan/Michael stuff, which is a shame, because I really enjoyed it during S2.

Also, Michael coming to Pam(casso)'s art show - that scene was just d'awwww... and then the funny, with the Chunky bar. "You want half?" Love.

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Finally, Jenna Fisher (however she spells her name) looks gorgeous in that cranberry color they had her in a couple of times.

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Oh! And Dwight with the watering of the plants and arranging Michael's toys just so. Sweet little creepy dude.

Oh, I'm just going to stop now. There is too much.

Not quite so pleased with the Jan/Michael stuff, which is a shame, because I really enjoyed it during S2.

Oh, I'm loving it even more in S3. I love that we're getting Jan's side of it. She will collapse like a dying star! It's all rather delicious.

(That's what she said.)

(Oh God.)

Hee, OK, that line was hilarious. I think, actually, what got me was that Michael was so ridiculous at the party... but then, maybe it wasn't out of proportion for him? I don't know. Anyway, I just have a hard time really buying Jan potentially jeopardizing her career (mainly due to what people will think as opposed to any real HR issues) by dating, you know, Michael, openly. I mean, dating someone that you want to smack yourself upside the head for dating, I get - but if he worked for me? And I were Jan-who-seems-otherwise-smart-and-competent? I don't know. So, I should say that that's the part that kind of makes me go, "Hmmmm..." But, their interactions? Love. (Well, except for the party, which, gnargh)

But, you know, it's not interfering with my enjoyment of the show. Because, love.

I think they're kind of selling Jan as a desperate divorcee of sorts (she's divorced, right?). It's clearly a bad idea but she's got that whole television trope about Women of a Certain Age choosing between settling and Crazy Cat Lady.

Oh, my god. "Lord, beer me strength." I fear this may become my very own "That's what she said."

I think they're kind of selling Jan as a desperate divorcee of sorts (she's divorced, right?).

Yeah, she is. That's a good possibility, though it isn't how I'd been thinking about it. I have to listen again to her "this is what my therapist said" scene.

The thing is, I work in Coporate for a mid-sized company. I used to work with a man called Andy, who thought he was my manager, except he actually was a team leader. Which meant nothing, really, in the structure of the company. He was constantly brown nosing, but was just a complete idiot. He said things which just made the people in the office look at each other and make odd faces. At this minute I'm sat in the office playing a prank on a co-worker by redirecting all their web access to The Muppets homepage. We have our own Jan, who everybody knows is dating somebody completely stupid for her in the office, but nobody says anything to her.

The show, aside from being something which is - you know - funny, and cleverly put together, is something I can completely relate to.

I think they're kind of selling Jan as a desperate divorcee of sorts (she's divorced, right?). It's clearly a bad idea but she's got that whole television trope about Women of a Certain Age choosing between settling and Crazy Cat Lady.

Yes. And Gould didn't want to have kids, while Jan did, so there's a bit of the biological clock cliche going on, plus...

Yeah, she is. That's a good possibility, though it isn't how I'd been thinking about it. I have to listen again to her "this is what my therapist said" scene.

Jan seems to say her therapist is encouraging her self-destructive tendencies.

Whenever the show fails to hit a note for me though, it's most often when Michael's behavior is just too over the top, even for Michael. His antics in Phyllis's Wedding made me cringe -- but not for the characters -- for the writers, directors, editors and actors.

Jan seems to say her therapist is encouraging her self-destructive tendencies.

And what better way...

Oh, huh, that kind of explains why she said yes to the trip in the ep before. Sometimes I catch up late. Or not at all.

His antics in Phyllis's Wedding made me cringe -- but not for the characters -- for the writers, directors, editors and actors.

Heh, I think that's the only ep I caught while it was airing this season, and it made me wonder whether I'd be able to deal with the show if his character was that absurd. I'm glad I tried anyway.

I think that's the most absurd Michael's been, at least in a setting where I couldn't buy into the behavior, even coming from Michael. I found that part of the episode very disappointing. It's usually not that bad, or when it's close, it doesn't seem to go on as long or be as big a part of the episode.

I could buy it. Michael likes to be the center of attention, which he usually is in the office. When he's not, he tends to freak out.