*** The Office: Season 7 ***

[WWF80sKid]

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I guess I'm one of the few who actually really liked season 6. All the seasons have been entertaining to me up to this point.

I've enjoyed them all too. Don't get me wrong. But I thought that season 6 was lacking compared to others. Watching the episodes over again however, I actually see how much I do like them.

[JayBee74]

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Now they're married, and there isn't as much tension to them. Yeah, they're working on Dwight and Angela, and Andy and Erin. And that's fine. But this show pretty much was all about Jim and Pam.

In the romance department it was pretty much all about Pam and Jim, but The Office is more balanced then that. Jim and Pam never had close to the weight of Sam and Diane on Cheers, for an example.

[Bellsprout]

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I'm sure many of you have already thought or said this, but I think I enjoyed the show more, when Jim and Pam weren't dating, but had that chemistry.

I go back and forth on this. On one hand, yeah, that whole will they/won't they dynamic was fascinating. And the show was absolutely at the top of it's game when Jim and Pam were seperate. Seasons 2 and 3 are, collectively, a masterpiece. So, part of me wishes they'd never gotten together and lost the sort of magic that they had.

The other part of me thinks I'd have given up on the show if they'd strung it out over 6 seasons. As nice as it would be to have them apart, the truth of the matter is that the end of season 3 was the right time for that to happen storywise. Unfortunately, the show's never recovered. Season 4 was really good, but not as good as the 2 before it, season 5 was good (especially the Michael Scott Paper Company story) but it did start to feel played out at times, and season 6 was really just flat out bad, imo.

[steelcurtain311]

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In the romance department it was pretty much all about Pam and Jim, but The Office is more balanced then that. Jim and Pam never had close to the weight of Sam and Diane on Cheers, for an example.

I very much so disagree. In terms of TV couples, Jim and Pam have been the biggest since Ross and Rachel. I don't think the show gets off the ground if their romance (or lack of romance) wasn't a main focal point (but not a focal point). It was a well done story arc. You were rooting for them the whole way. But yeah, whenever you build and build to something like that, when it finally happens you get that "What now..." feeling. It's always so much more interesting when they're not together.

[WWF80sKid]

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It's more interesting when they aren't together, but you can't do what Friends did with Ross and Rachel, and have them get together and break up a bunch. That just ruins it.

I feared they'd break up Jim and Pam sometime, and glad they didn't, but maybe her friend from college could have been more of a threat to Jim. Something to have had some tension there for a little while. But I wouldn't want it to get so bad that it was annoying. Just something there.

I think they're trying this with Andy and Erin, breaking them up the way they did, and having them kind of going back toward dating at the end of the season.

[Speedy]

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I agree, Matt. The more tension and pranks the better...I was watching an episode from a while back where Dwight was the manager and called corporate (Jan) to fire Jim because he got locked in the conference room. Michael brings everyone Ice-cream sandwiches but since Dwight is in the conference room he can't get it so Jim throws it at him (hitting the window and falling to the floor)...I laughed histerically.

I love the hate between Toby and Michael and I believe David Wallace needs to be brought in (good idea for him being a MGR to whomever suggested that)

[JayBee74]

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I very much so disagree. In terms of TV couples, Jim and Pam have been the biggest since Ross and Rachel.

Sam and Diane and Ross and Rachel had a lot more people watching them then do Jim and Pam, so the "biggest"? Don't know about that.

[steelcurtain311]

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And they were both on during a time where the sitcom was huge. It's dead now. As is NBC in general. Nobody watches NBC, especially compared to the 80's-90's. It was THE network in the 90's. Now it's a joke. The Office is widely regarded as a great comedy, and I think the DVD's/internet hype are where it's popular at. That isn't going to reflect in TV ratings. It can't draw in the casual fans when it has no shows around it, to begin with. The Office never premiered with a legit lead-in or anything. It was just there. With the internet, DVD's, on demand, we're living in a different age of TV. A show like the Office isn't "must-see" to most people. It's "I'll get the DVD's" and that's that. Very few shows actually are "must-see" to viewers nowadays, since they now have the option to watch them whenever they feel like.

[Bellsprout]

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And they were both on during a time where the sitcom was huge. It's dead now. As is NBC in general. Nobody watches NBC, especially compared to the 80's-90's. It was THE network in the 90's. Now it's a joke. The Office is widely regarded as a great comedy, and I think the DVD's/internet hype are where it's popular at. That isn't going to reflect in TV ratings. It can't draw in the casual fans when it has no shows around it, to begin with. The Office never premiered with a legit lead-in or anything. It was just there. With the internet, DVD's, on demand, we're living in a different age of TV. A show like the Office isn't "must-see" to most people. It's "I'll get the DVD's" and that's that. Very few shows actually are "must-see" to viewers nowadays, since they now have the option to watch them whenever they feel like.

It gets somewhere around 8 million viewers, I think. Which isn't bad. Not a smash hit, but it's one of NBC's only solid performers.

I'm a little worried 30 Rock will die this year without it's Office lead-in.

[steelcurtain311]

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8 million is a good number. With the internet/DVD's success, it's a pretty big show. You can bring up Cheers or Friends all you want, neither of those shows would be a hit this day and age. Like I said, it's hard to draw viewers with the half hour comedy nowadays. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is brilliantly hilarious, yet so many people don't even know it exists. Yet when they do find out, they love it and go "HOW DID I MISS THIS SHOW?" The Office is kind of the same way, only bigger on the exposure scale than Sunny.

[WWF80sKid]

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It's funny, the way I started watching the Office is, I saw a commercial for it one day on TBS, and decided to DVR it and watch it on my lunch break (back when I had a job). The place I worked, I took an hour lunch, and could pretty much take a lunch however long I wanted, within reason.

So I started to DVR the Office...this was back before it was on every single day on TV. It was on once a week on TBS, and there were only two episodes.

So every week I'd look forward to the day when I'd go home for lunch, heat up some ravioli, and watch an hour of the Office.

I got my wife to watch an episode with me, and she thought it was horrible.

Now, she won't miss an episode.

[WWF80sKid]

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It's getting close guys! I can't wait! I hope this season is great.

[DTX3]

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Yup, tonight should be a good night of television.

[ExtremeGamer]

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WTF was that?!

[Brandwin]

Yeah that was a horrible intro.

What does the N avatar mean, EG?