So after he returns and ignores her for 6 months, that's when she decides she loves him? It seemed obvious she knew her feelings by the premiere of S3 and yet nothing happened for eight months. I found the whole thing a drawn out TV sitcom trope.

I didn't like much of S6 because I found most of the "Jim as co-manager" story as poorly plotted as the second half and again for the same reason. Instead of doing stories that were grounded in real office politics, they went for a bunch of slapstick. Michael falling into a koi pond is just one egregious example.

There were friends at the wedding, but I don't see how you integrate them into the show. Pam's friend Isabel (a bridesmaid) was there. You can't just introduce a bunch of folks we'd never met randomly.

How would she not know that Jim was the reason she called off her nine year engagement? He declares his love for her, heads off to Stamford after the rejection and a few weeks later she calls off her wedding and then can't figure out why? And then she talks to him the phone one night, but then never calls again? Or…

Well, I think everyone can agree that the payoff for the documentary crew this year was a complete bust, but it didn't have to be. I'm not sure they could have pulled it off, but a finale where they revealed that the doc crew had been skewing their editing to keep each character in the mold they had predetermined…

Without some human interest, the show would have become far too repetitive and glum for it to last. Watching Michael force his employees to pretend to like him becomes fairly tiresome in only these six episodes. If season 2-3 hadn't added some brightness, I'm pretty sure it never would have made it past 12 episodes…

Yeah, the U.K. version had a very similar scene or maybe two, one where Lee was just kidding. The first was I think after Tim asked Dawn out in the training episode.

I especially hated how Michael functioned outside of the office. His behavior at Phyllis' wedding and with Scott's tots just didn't work for me because no one would have tolerated it in the absence of his power to fire them.

By focusing on the characters and not typical office/work dysfunction, they took away the true "villain" of the show. Sure you might hate your obnoxious co-worker, but when corporate increases your workload by 25% without any compensation, well you know who your true enemy is. So, instead of plots about how the merger…

Pam not calling Jim after calling off her wedding is near the top of my list of complaints for S3. It just doesn't make any sense.

The Jim/Pam stuff through Season 2 was painfully brilliant in that you could relate to both of their situations without blaming one. Even though I loved the conclusion, Season 3 failed a bit in this when they decided to string it out for the entire season. Once Pam left Roy it sure felt like a five second conversation…

Just as watching 200 episodes of David Brent would have made me homicidal, watching Tim flush his life down the toilet for that long would have made me suicidal. He was really a sad character. His redemption in the Christmas special saved the series for me.

Bingo.

Yep. When the show shifted from "This is a soul deadening existence that you search for moments of grace to relieve." to "Hey, let's have a party and find a spouse from this group of 15." is when it failed.

Ryan's descent into douchebaggery was almost as painful as Kevin's slow mental decay. And both weren't very funny.

The top 21 episodes should just be all of Season 2.

I agree. Diversity Day is one of the best episodes the show ever did. Michael may be too caustic to have managed 7 seasons, but his enthusiastic Chris Rock routine and mangled diversity training are funny stuff. The Jim/Pam stuff is brief and subtle, but works without much effort.

That is the worst. I can barely follow the plot because I spend all my time marveling at the terrible american accents those chose to use.

Whatever the motivation, it just didn't make any sense. There was absolutely no need to try and take over (a badly rendered) Dulles with 20 guys to execute their plan. All the airports being closed except Dulles just added to the stupidity. This was a terrible movie.

Season 8 was easily the worst of the entire series and not just because of Robert California. The Andy as manager and Andy/Erin crap was also terrible. Only the Florida episodes had any redeeming features and those only in comparison to shite like Gettysburg.