Paper Airplane

What an episode. Toby's eye and Erin's triggering anger were insanely funny. Kevin's continued failure with paper airplanes was hilarious. Anyways, this episode has one of the best endings as we witnessed the tension between Jim and Pam resolved and that was touching. I wasn't able to control myself laughing in the scene when Jim and Pam were talking in an intentionally formal way as guides by their therapist and Clark asks whether they were high. The paper airplane race was also super fun to watch tho.

This episode is just a strange transformation for a show that has clearly run out of ideas. Manufacturing a terrible storyline between Jim and Pam by creating friction in a way that is not a part of either of their characters is simply lazy writing. It's as if they decided that once Steve Carell left, and when the Andy is a giant butthole storyline didnt work, they went with whatever else they could find to make people interested in the show. Jim and Pam were always a great love story, but turning Pam into an insufferable nag who finds everything that Jim does to be terrible and selfish, while ignoring any possibility for his and the family's growth and development, is pretty uncharacteristic of the amazing person we've come to know Pam to be. This episode, ending included, was unnessecary and quite frankly, poorly planned.

Sad to see such a wonderful show nearing the end. It is in the death throes here. Characters are written like fan fiction, just becoming goofy shells of their former selves. Where it used to have excellent writing, it is now just barely hanging on. I would have loved this show to have many more seasons, but episodes like this make me thankful they ended it before it totally ruined the great memories of its golden years.

Just sad to see a great show spiral down the drain. Writing is horrible. This paper airplane plot is dumb, the acting is good enough but struggling for laughs. Erin's character is not funny as she's too dramatic, Nellie's character is just not necessary, in fact she is annoying. It's just not the same without Michael. The subplot with Jim and Pam is overdone, but the ending makes the whole show worth staying with it. The Office at this point, is like a star athlete that is at the end of their career but refuses to retire. Although there are glimpses of past humor, The Office should bow out gracefully.

The conversations between Jim and Pam make me so angry. I absolutely love the show, but for some reason this episode gets under my skin. Fast forward any dialogue between Jim and Pam and you'll be fine.