Of The Office and Being Overwhelmed
Jesus Christ. The season finale of The Office was one of the best things ever. I can’t wait for this season’s DVD release. It’s near flawless from beginning to end. Everything about the last five minutes of episode was perfect, from the set up, to the convention-defying climax, to the bait-and-switch, to the abrupt end. I can’t praise it enough.
Since tonight’s episode of The Office was so goddamn good, I’m feeling very inconsequential. I’m both inspired and discouraged, because there is no way I could ever write anything that awesome. At least not right now. Maybe when I’m older and I drink more. I’ve been saying that for years, though, and year after year I get older, and I drink more. Still nothing.
I’ve been thinking of the things I want, now that school’s out of the way, and I’m unable to define a lot of them. I’d like a home but I don’t want to settle down. I’d like money but the idea of a steady job scares me. I’d like to be with someone but the idea of being with someone? Still pretty scary. The little goals are gone now. The straightforward life is finished. Now it’s all up to me.
And what do I know, really? I’m really not at all qualified for this kind of life. I’m a university graduate who still gets nervous when meeting people for the first time. I have Spider-Man underwear and spent the last three days reading about the new video games that are coming out over the next year. I like burgers and Entertainment Weekly. If I were casting a movie, looking for someone to play a mature, assured, confident young adult, I would never cast myself.
But I have no choice now, do I? I’m a man with a car and a job and a vaguely defined future. I’m going whether I like it or not. And so I make it as easy as I can, thinking of things not in terms of five-year-plans or ten-year-goals or houses or kids or mortgages, but of writing and drinking, and doing both sensibly, and well.
That’s my future for the time being.
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I think I’m the only person on the internet that didn’t like the Office finale.
Can I write and drink in Montreal? Do they have cobblestone streets? I’d like to live on cobblestone streets!
I’ve heard a few negative reactions to last night’s episode amidst all the positives. I think some of it is people worrying that the conclusion will have a negative long-term effect on the series, as that’s always been the case with past shows once the will-they-or-won’t-they dynamic is removed, and some of it is just from people who like depressing endings way better than slightly-positive ones. Which category do YOU fit into?
A little bit of both, probably. Like, I wouldn’t have wanted a finale as depressing as season 2 of the UK Office was. That was just an unbelievable total downer. But I don’t like the fact that they sorta climaxed the Jim/Pam thing already. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I would’ve preferred something in between kill-yourself depressing and unrealistically optimistic (and that final sequence seemed pretty unbelievable to me). Like if Jim had hooked up with Jan while Pam was calling her mom and realising that she had some reciprocal feelings. That way there’s the potential for something to happen down the road but it’s definitely just going to end in disaster on this particular night.
A lot of it will depend on where they go from here, really. I mean I suppose they could easily just start the next season 15 seconds later, and have Pam be like, “Whoa, that was a huge mistake! My bad!” Or they could go an entirely opposite direction. That was the one thing I liked about the ending: while it seemed pretty positive, it didn’t TOTALLY back them into a corner.
Anyway, drama aside, I just didn’t think the finale was very funny! Only one or two laugh-out-loud moments for me. Last week’s ep killed it as far as LOLs go.
I effing LOVED that ending. I already have a new desktop wallpaper and several LJ icons that captivate those important moments. *sigh* I was watching it with three other males, who didn’t share in my joy at all. I’m worried about how they will keep the magic of the show alive, but Jenna (aka Pam) says that the writers have given her hints and it will know our (aka the viewers’) socks off. I can’t wait!
I can’t believe I haven’t formally commented on this yet!
I clearly loved the ending, and I am clearly leaving Seth to be with John Krasinski. I was screaming with excitement! Mostly internally, but because I live alone, ONLY MOSTLY.
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