tclark_56

Surprised how many people get so easily offended by a piece of work that is inherently fictional and designed to get you to think. I've now read several reviews that are aghast over the idea of an "Irish-like" group being represented by a wonderfully strong woman and her equally wonderfully life-loving father. Take away the accent, and what's the issue?? Should white folk be appalled by the Clone-based society being an uptight group of DNA thieves?? How dare they represent White people that way.......

For goodness sake, just as with the first season episode Code of Honor, (which I personally didn't hate, it dealt with the inherent differences in others cultures, albeit with a heavy hand) this episode is an allegory for our very species, the psychotic hairless apes we call humans.

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.