I wish Michael Scott was my boss

Nique · 11-11-2012, 05:39 AM

Oh my gosh guys whats going to happen with Jim and Pam guys?!

Magus · 11-11-2012, 07:31 PM

Are they preggers again?

Professor Smarmiarty · 11-11-2012, 08:02 PM

say what you want about ricky gervais, i certainly have, but at least he knew when to end a series

Nique · 11-12-2012, 01:27 AM

I'm on like

Season 3? The show seems to run on the same joke and significant glances.

Professor Smarmiarty · 11-12-2012, 01:47 AM

The first two seasons of US office were awful because they just repeated British office episodes done badly. From season 3 onwards it is better because they started doing their own shit that they could do better.

rpgdemon · 11-12-2012, 01:53 AM

See, I think I ruined British The Office for myself, because I watched the US version first, and I don't wanna rewatch it with British accents.

Professor Smarmiarty · 11-12-2012, 01:56 AM

With british accents and far better acting and writing you mean.

rpgdemon · 11-12-2012, 01:59 AM

From what I saw, it was the exact same writing. Same cuts, and everything.

Though, I like one of the actors. Dude who plays Bilbo?

Betty Elms · 11-12-2012, 02:11 AM

I found Michael terrifically unlikeable and almost never sympathized with him. What will forever fascinate me though is that there's this tossed off joke at one point in the show where Michael mentions how he couldn't talk at the age of five, which is just like, hold the fucking phone that isn't wacky that's a developmental disorder. So then I'm forced to have the realization that this entire time I have been amusing myself with the antics of a disabled man, and The Office has thus pulled some dark fucking Lars Von Trier trick on me, daring me to laugh while showrunner Greg Lieberstein is presumably glowering in the distance all "yes, autism entertains you does it not, you hateful wretched bitch."

Professor Smarmiarty · 11-12-2012, 04:05 AM

Isn't the point of Michael that he is terrifically unlikeable and yet desperately wants to be liked? The British one anyway, the American one softened out a bit in the latter series.

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Originally Posted by rpgdemon

From what I saw, it was the exact same writing. Same cuts, and everything.

Though, I like one of the actors. Dude who plays Bilbo?

There are slight differences but they add up. And that script suited the british actors but not the american actors- hence better writing.

It's a sad day when Martin Freeman is "the dude who plays bilbo". Next thing Orson Welles will be "the guy who voiced Unicron".

11-12-2012, 01:53 AM	#6
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	See, I think I ruined British The Office for myself, because I watched the US version first, and I don't wanna rewatch it with British accents. __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

11-12-2012, 01:59 AM	#8
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	From what I saw, it was the exact same writing. Same cuts, and everything. Though, I like one of the actors. Dude who plays Bilbo? __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

11-11-2012, 07:31 PM	#2
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	Are they preggers again?

11-11-2012, 08:02 PM	#3
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	say what you want about ricky gervais, i certainly have, but at least he knew when to end a series

11-12-2012, 01:47 AM	#5
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	The first two seasons of US office were awful because they just repeated British office episodes done badly. From season 3 onwards it is better because they started doing their own shit that they could do better.

11-12-2012, 01:56 AM	#7
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	With british accents and far better acting and writing you mean.

11-12-2012, 02:11 AM	#9
Betty Elms a little adventure goes a lawn way Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 207	I found Michael terrifically unlikeable and almost never sympathized with him. What will forever fascinate me though is that there's this tossed off joke at one point in the show where Michael mentions how he couldn't talk at the age of five, which is just like, hold the fucking phone that isn't wacky that's a developmental disorder. So then I'm forced to have the realization that this entire time I have been amusing myself with the antics of a disabled man, and The Office has thus pulled some dark fucking Lars Von Trier trick on me, daring me to laugh while showrunner Greg Lieberstein is presumably glowering in the distance all "yes, autism entertains you does it not, you hateful wretched bitch."