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pizza harold wrote:

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Matt310 wrote:

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kitty white wrote:

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Actually, I'm pleased to see some people are turning a more critical eye to the show. The slavish praise even when the show was clearly off the mark, in a way I think does more harm than good. I don't think anybody watches the show because they hate it and just comes here to bash it.

Right. But if someone likes an episode, they should be able to post it. There shouldn't be judgemental posts mentioning how wrong it is to praise the episode or scenes of the specific episode. Same if an episode isn't up to quality. Everyone has a different opinion and sense of humor.

Contrary to what you seem to believe, I don't hate The Office. If I did, I wouldn't watch it. I like the show. I used to love the show. My criticisms are about the things that have turned a great show into an inconsistent and sometimes even bad show. I started posting on this thread during early S2, I think, and my posts were all raves until midway through that season. I still give the show props for the good things. But unfortunately, they've added a lot of BS randomness and cheesy soap opera-ness which has really messed things up.

That said, I respect the Kool-Aid drinking fans' right to act like this show is always "perfect" "brilliant" and "best show on televisions!!!" The people I make fun of are the Kool-Aid drinking fans that do things like this:

1. Say they're "ok"with some particular plot development as if the writers and producers really care.
2. Talk about the characters using the name of the actor who plays the character. Usually people do this because they have dreams of being a Hollywood insider (or want us to think they are), when in actuality that just pulled up IMDB like everyone else.
3. Talk about how well-acted some particular scene is. This is a television comedy, not an Oscar nominee.
4. Act like you don't read my posts because they're sooooo boring, when obviously you do because you're still bitching about why I watch the show when I hate it.
5. Think it's hilarious that Dwight though the Ben Franklin reinactor might be the real Ben Franklins!!!! Or think the ferris wheel was a hilarious touch. Or loved the episode when Michael tried to fake a suicide by jumping off the building onto a bounce house. Or thought the "Prison Mike" episode was "brilliant" because Steve did a great acting job!!!!

Hope this helps.

Also, to Kitty: wish I'd seen Gervais on SNL. Have to agree that the UK version is much superior, but I wonder if Gervais might have sabotaged the US version. Didn't he and Merchant write the Prison Mike episode?

I don't mind people being critical about the show, that is what this message board is all about. One of the reasons I like sucks so much is because this site is very critical and isn't like other sites that tend to candy coat things and put a blind eye when things aren't going very good. Plus people can have a lot of different opinions on the same episode, which is, I think the most interesting part. Seeing how someone loved something, and someone else thought it was shit. I'm actually more interested in the people who do criticize the show it brings a lot more substance to this thread then "I loved it. Rainn Wilson was on it tonight! Great episode."

That being said I also appreciate it when people actually do use the actors name, even if they do just go to look it up on IMDB. I generally don't see that as people trying to impress but trying to not sound like an idiot. To be like "I hate that Michael did that with his eyes" or "Jim acted really well with Pam. I wish I could meet them." would drive me crazy because those are the characters names. I also know this isn't oscar worthy stuff, but some of these people are talented at what they do and some of the scenes are well acted (not a lot of them but their is from time to time a really good scene worth mentioning).