- Oct 10, 2006
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Just watched the most recent episode via Hulu. My main issue is that marriage and a pregnant wife has apparently made Jim lose his balls. Which may be the point come to think of it.. but they're completely messing up his character. Jim and Pam were always the straight-arrow people. The most normal, the most creative, the most stable, and overall the most ballsy. Suffice to say they were the normalizing presence, as all of the other characters are either relatively minor or WAY out there. Seeing the interplay (especially between Jim, Pam and Dwight) was what made it genuinely funny for me.
For a good while now though, seems that Jim has been spiraling into another character. His creativity in planning pranks for/manipulating Dwight doesn't match up to his recent relatively obvious mistakes from social to professional. While his redeeming moments balance these out the Jim from season one probably wouldn't have needed redemption in the first place. You'd think a change like this would have a minor effect at most on a show with such an extensive cast, but IMO it's like taking Starcraft and halving the Protoss Zealot's attack. Small change, large implications.
Hopefully this is intentional, as Pam appears to be noticing it too (with frustration).
Now don't get me wrong I'm not quitting on the show by any means. Practically every episode to date has at least made me crack up once, but it's seems like it's slipping from "Great" to "Good" and in a couple of cases "decent".
Digression: Stop making so many Steve Karel episodes. I know he's the "star" and everything but he's about as annoying as a character can get; and he's not funny. Don't get me wrong the episodes based on him are funny, but focusing on his character too much just makes me want to punch him more, and when there's no play off that's the feeling I get from the show. I don't even get the facepalm/fail laugh out of him, as he's so annoying that when the "punch line" of the scene comes I'm just glad the scene's over. Maybe I'm bias (I actually know a guy kinda like that who thinks Michael Scott's jokes, vanilla, are funny).
For a good while now though, seems that Jim has been spiraling into another character. His creativity in planning pranks for/manipulating Dwight doesn't match up to his recent relatively obvious mistakes from social to professional. While his redeeming moments balance these out the Jim from season one probably wouldn't have needed redemption in the first place. You'd think a change like this would have a minor effect at most on a show with such an extensive cast, but IMO it's like taking Starcraft and halving the Protoss Zealot's attack. Small change, large implications.
Hopefully this is intentional, as Pam appears to be noticing it too (with frustration).
Now don't get me wrong I'm not quitting on the show by any means. Practically every episode to date has at least made me crack up once, but it's seems like it's slipping from "Great" to "Good" and in a couple of cases "decent".
Digression: Stop making so many Steve Karel episodes. I know he's the "star" and everything but he's about as annoying as a character can get; and he's not funny. Don't get me wrong the episodes based on him are funny, but focusing on his character too much just makes me want to punch him more, and when there's no play off that's the feeling I get from the show. I don't even get the facepalm/fail laugh out of him, as he's so annoying that when the "punch line" of the scene comes I'm just glad the scene's over. Maybe I'm bias (I actually know a guy kinda like that who thinks Michael Scott's jokes, vanilla, are funny).
(and I like stupid most of the time 
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