they're only doing certain episodes as hour longs

Like...the first four? I'm not sure how wise that is. People might forget it's normally a half-hour show.

Like...the first four? I'm not sure how wise that is.

Such a weird decision. I don't get it. If you're going to do them at all why not spread them out through the season and make them more like Events, you know?

Oh, I wanted to note that, in comparison, the hour-long MNIE felt filled out properly and more like an hourlong tale, though it looks like officially, it was a two-part episode smushed together in a block.

Oh, I didn't realise it was the first four. I presumed (the thing which effects 95% of the fuck ups in my life) that they would play them as events. Natch.

Narratively, having Pam and Jim together and happy makes no sense. Plus they may make me die of cute.

Narratively, having Pam and Jim together and happy makes no sense.

Sure it does. Happy is okay! It is possible to still have a happy yet interesting/entertaining couple! I submit to you Coach and Mrs. Coach from FNL and Dwight and Angela from this very show.

and Dwight and Angela from this very show.

Not after Sprinkles!

I think Angela may locked Dwight in a giant freezer. That's what I would do. If I was a character in The Office.

I fall firmly on the need and want debate when it comes to couples in TV. Although if Joss directs an episode where they kill anybody off I will... be annoyed. He's doing an episode this series again, isn't he?

As some have noted, they're the new Jim and Pam! Jim and Pam are now Dwight and Angela! The world is all topsy-turvy!

The secret dating thing should be terribly amusing. It's weird because unlike with Dwight and Angela, the entire office suspects something is up, at least.

It's weird because unlike with Dwight and Angela, the entire office suspects something is up, at least

Kevin and Oscar must have actual money (or equivalent) on it, right?

A friend of mine back home has it. It kinda drags one side of her face down. Sometimes it's better than others.

Yeah, I remember Whedon commenting on this during the filming of, iirc, A Hole In The World? That they had to keep arranging the shots so that they only saw one side of Wesley's face? (It may not have been AHITW, but I think it was - if not, it was certainly some hardcore acty rip-your-heart-out stuff.)

God. Poor bloke. What a bitch of a condition for an actor - the fact that he still doesn't seem to be in a regular gig makes me worry for him. In a vague, don't-know-you-at-all-but-really-love-your-work kinda way.

Meanwhile I'm spoiling myself for Ugly Betty with gleeful abandon, and beginning to suspect that I need to pick up The Office on DVD.

At present I'm working my way through Hex, and am astonished to find that it's really surprisingly good. I mean, okay, it's no Whedon show - but it's certainly as good as most of the genre offerings around at the moment. Plus - my people! And the lickable Colin Salmon - although they do seem determined to try to hide his smouldery goodness under bow ties, for some crazy reason.

But I do like the fact that it's a genre show with highschoolers who are going out and getting pissed and shagging around. And it's certainly my favourite take on the Dead Lesbian cliche. And I like the teachers' relationships with the students. So all in all - much more fun than I was expecting. Shame it only ran for two seasons.