tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post3620649402834294598..comments2024-03-29T02:32:15.437-04:00Comments on Remarkable: Scott on the Office Season Four FinaleGeoff Klockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-54860237091001049122008-05-19T16:22:00.000-04:002008-05-19T16:22:00.000-04:00Paul,Yes! The stuff with Kevin was great!I just lo...Paul,<BR/><BR/>Yes! The stuff with Kevin was great!<BR/><BR/>I just love that Kevin interprets it all as her hitting on him.<BR/><BR/>Yet another reason why we don't need to mine Pam & Jim for conflict... the show doesn't need that to be funny... which is what the show is supposed to be at the end of the day.... Yeah, I neglected to mention that... the finale was also probably one of the funniest episodes of the season... definitely the funniest since they came back from the strike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-89001793211065917132008-05-19T10:04:00.000-04:002008-05-19T10:04:00.000-04:00On the subject of Michael's obsession with living ...On the subject of Michael's obsession with living a "big movie moment," I thought I detected in this episode a little bit of intertextual signifyin on Steve Carrell's role in the (execrable) <I>Dan in Real Life</I> -- in which he plays a man who falls in love with his brother's girlfriend over the course of one incredibly cloying, precious weekend: When Jim is counseling Michael to go slow with HR Lady, and Michael says "I love her," I immediately flashed back to Carrell's character having the exact same epiphany in <I>Dan</I> -- except in <I>Dan</I> it's played as the big emotional moment of the movie, not as immature raving. I like to think of this moment in the finale as Carrell's apologizing for all of us who sat through that movie.Prof Furyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13730885955983198465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-75239222562848910732008-05-19T09:10:00.000-04:002008-05-19T09:10:00.000-04:00Great points all around. I'll just add that the s...Great points all around. I'll just add that the scenes between the HR Lady and Kevin were great.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369556451855248495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-21806991453987570942008-05-18T17:04:00.000-04:002008-05-18T17:04:00.000-04:00I think this episode also shows how beautifully Ji...I think this episode also shows how beautifully Jim has grown over the course of this series, In the first episode he claims that if he thought of that job as his career he would have to kill himself and, now, he is prepared to fight to keep his job when it is threatened by Ryan... even saying "I like it here." In this episode, Jim not only realizes that he fell in love with Pam in the Office but that, despite himself, he has also sort of fallen in love with the office itself.<BR/><BR/>This transformation was not dones suddenly, it was done with beautiful subtlelty over the course of the 4 seasons. In a way, this episode serves as a sort of bookend to last year's season finale where Jim decides to go back to the office after spending his evening in New York with Karen. Jim has a wonderful time in New York but, in the end, realizes that, even though Scranton isn't that exciting, he likes it there. It's not the job that he loves, though he's decent enough at that, It's the Office itself that he misses and doesn't want to leave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com