Team Pam
Ummm, yeah, I'm about to devote a post to a debate on what should happen on a TV show. So.
Oh! And apparently I'm going to include spoilers for the British Office, so beware!
I'm on Team Pam. While I bear no malice toward Karen or those on her team, she's an interloper. She is a nice woman who wandered unwittingly into a situation that unfortunately requires she get hurt.
Other completely disagrees with me. He thinks that Pam blew it. He actually yells at Pam sometimes. While I'm sympathetic to this, at the same time it makes sense to me that when you're engaged to someone, you don't just drop them for someone else. That's not cool! As someone pointed out in the comments of the original salvos, the fact that Pam didn't just drop Roy actually works in her favor. She's loyal.
To take a step out of the boundaries of the show for a second, I do think that Pam needs a little bit more or better motivation for turning Jim down. In the British version, Dawn seemed to have more motivation for staying with Lee - there was more of a class thing happening there, which might be a British thing or it might just be a Pam/Dawn thing. It's frustrating because it seems like Pam's resisting doing what she actually wants to do for the sake of moving the plot along and keeping the suspense. I can buy the initially turning him down and then calling off the wedding at the last second, but why doesn't she phone up Jim a week later and be like, yo, Jim, I dig you too? If it's because she's pretty sure he'd tell her to go to hell for turning him down before, that's fine, but tell us that. If it's because she needs time to be single but would like him to be around whenever she's done doing that, tell us that. This whole shrugging-and-looking-glum act is not really doing it for me.
It's very hard to pull off the couple finally getting together. That's why romantic comedies end where they do. It's why the British Office ended where it did. It could be interesting seeing how they would negotiate a relationship inside the office, especially given that almost all of the action takes place in the office setting, and if not, is some sort of office function. Could be interesting.
So. Pam. Yay.
Oh! And apparently I'm going to include spoilers for the British Office, so beware!
I'm on Team Pam. While I bear no malice toward Karen or those on her team, she's an interloper. She is a nice woman who wandered unwittingly into a situation that unfortunately requires she get hurt.
Other completely disagrees with me. He thinks that Pam blew it. He actually yells at Pam sometimes. While I'm sympathetic to this, at the same time it makes sense to me that when you're engaged to someone, you don't just drop them for someone else. That's not cool! As someone pointed out in the comments of the original salvos, the fact that Pam didn't just drop Roy actually works in her favor. She's loyal.
To take a step out of the boundaries of the show for a second, I do think that Pam needs a little bit more or better motivation for turning Jim down. In the British version, Dawn seemed to have more motivation for staying with Lee - there was more of a class thing happening there, which might be a British thing or it might just be a Pam/Dawn thing. It's frustrating because it seems like Pam's resisting doing what she actually wants to do for the sake of moving the plot along and keeping the suspense. I can buy the initially turning him down and then calling off the wedding at the last second, but why doesn't she phone up Jim a week later and be like, yo, Jim, I dig you too? If it's because she's pretty sure he'd tell her to go to hell for turning him down before, that's fine, but tell us that. If it's because she needs time to be single but would like him to be around whenever she's done doing that, tell us that. This whole shrugging-and-looking-glum act is not really doing it for me.
It's very hard to pull off the couple finally getting together. That's why romantic comedies end where they do. It's why the British Office ended where it did. It could be interesting seeing how they would negotiate a relationship inside the office, especially given that almost all of the action takes place in the office setting, and if not, is some sort of office function. Could be interesting.
So. Pam. Yay.
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