Entertainment Weekly wrote an article on Jim and Pam Wedding. Its a nice cover, but man...they went overboard with photoshop on Jenna Fischer. Now, I think Jenna is an attractive woman, but I hate when magazine go overboard with the editing and airbrush here & there to the max. She looks completely different, no wonder I'm less than thrilled when I've seen actresses up close...
Anyways, the article goes on to place JAM on that pedestal...seriously, they've become the most 'boringest' part of The Office. I was a fan of the courtship from s1 - s3. I cheered for Jim as he was the underdog and things weren't going for him 'love wise' as I've gone through the same thing(he was also less of a prick in the earlier seasons) and I felt that warm fuzzy feeling when he confessed his love for Pam at the end of Casino Night(what, maybe its because I'm a helpless romantic at heart). But now, its gone way too far. Their characters add nothing to the show. Once they were together, I knew their story arc would end up shit...the writers could 'play with fire' but they're too pussy to change things up as they know the massive JAM following would riot in front of their doorsteps. What's even worse is when the writers try to make us gush by showing how perfect they are as couple ...for fucksake, they've written these characters as if they're on Grays Anatomy.
I know a majority of the JAM supporters are women, and maybe that's why many of them love Jim...because he's a fucken pussy, and clearly has let Pam where the pants in their relationship. Now, I don't wanna come off as sexist, or misogynistic in anyway. Because I'm not. I was brought up by two strong women in my life (my Grandmother and Mother)...but I clearly feel the women who watch this show because of JAM have caused its decline in quality. If JAM fans didn't have that much influence, we would have seen some issues in Jim & Pam's relationship. If you don't believe me, check out this article.
This is how much clout JAM fans have...they were able to change a potential storyline. Here are some highlights from that article.
Originally, my character -- and I know this part to be true -- my character was supposed to be enamored of Pam. He was supposed to be a potential roadblock for Pam and Jim. What I understand happened, or at least it seems chronologically to make sense, was we shot the first two episodes. Before I shot my third episode where I had this big monologue where I was to profess my love to Pam, the first one aired.
The audience response to seeing Pam being even mildly flirtatious or being flirted with by some art-school guy ... the Internet exploded. People were like, "No, no no. We don't want more roadblocks for Pam and Jim. We just want to see them get together." And it was so big a response that when I showed up to do that final professing-of-love monologue, every bit of it had been changed. It was still the monologue, but it was about being in New York. Instead of "I love you," it was more, "Listen, you have all of these opportunities here. You're an artist. You need to follow your dream. You need to stay here."
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Anyways, back to the Entertainment Weekly Article...here's the link and a few highlights from the article on Jim & Pam
It’s about keeping this relationship as real as we can instead of making it a television romance,” explains Krasinski. “When you have two characters who are so perfect for each other, it’s a little weird for them to not get married. So you have to put that step in, whether it’s been done on television successfully before or not.” Adds exec producer Greg Daniels: “We didn’t want to do the soap opera-y thing and cheapen it. Besides, our ratings keep going up, so I don’t think anyone minds them being together.”
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