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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Great show. Lost its fastball in the last couple seasons but always had enough quality episodes to keep watching.
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yeah this is my second attempt at making it all the way through the series. I really like season 7. Season 8 started out okay. I didn't like Robert California last time but I've gotten to love his strange narcissistic cadence. However the addition of Nellie makes no sense and took so much away from the show. I liked that they finally found a good spot for Andy. At first he just seemed obnoxious and a troll to Jim., Then he was good as a competitor for Dwight over Angela. BUt all the while he was always like being "another Michael". And then the competition with Gabe over Erin was pretty funny. BUt I hate ERin. Her stupidity just isn't funny. And episodes in 8 featuring the two are embarassingly bad. Andy by then had become an oaf of a character and the writers seemed to try to do as many bad things to him as possible. Much in the same way certain frasier episodes would have frasier fail as badly as he could. And the Nellie addition and what it did to Andy really continued that. That as well, Nellie was the third time we see the old gag of someone coming in, deciding they wanted to be a job and suddenly they were. At least when Pam did it for Office Manager it was funny seeing her get so frustrated with sales that she manipulated everyone and Gabe to declare her new position. THe Deus Ex Machina of Robert "talking Jo out of her job as CEO" was as ridiculous as how it happened (Jim just telling us). So by the time Nellie does it to Andy...it's just mean. And what's more Mellie takes away from the actual funniness of the rest of the ensemble which actually could have gotten more feature stories instead.
Season 9...we'll see if it gets better. But with Tate still there and the introduction of yet 2 MORE employees...I dunno. So glad to see David Wallace back tho. Love him.