The Office Season 6 Premier - Gossip

BACK IN SCRANTON! The Office season 6 premier was great, which is a relief because I've been having doubts on continuing to watch this series. I thoroughly enjoyed the episode, I'm not sure if its because the writing has improved or is it because I've lowered my expectation greatly. Ah well, thats just my opinion and hopefully some of my fellow Dundermiflinites will share their thoughts and opinion on last nights episode.

I loved the cold opening.

Parkour! It was great to see Michael, Dwight and Andy perform(at least try to attempt to) those hardcore stunts. I love how out of shape these middle aged men with hearts of children are. One area where I think they should have edited was the last portion when Andy fell into the empty box, it was too predictable. One can guess right away whats going to happen, they should have edited out the portion of him explaining the next move on the roof, if they had let the parkour stunts scenes roll one after another...the roof scene would have been less predictable.

The rest of the episode dealt with gossip being spread around The Office by Michael which he hears from an intern. I am getting sick of the characters on this show having affairs, as that storyline has been milked in other TV series as well as this one(Angela Affair). But the results of Michaels gossip spreading was delightful, I loved the rumors he made about Dwight.

Dwight - You told people that I use store bought manure...when I showed you where my manure comes from, hmm?

Steve Carell was great in this episode. I love how well he can portray Michael as the insecure buffoon. Michael is so juvenile in this episode that it brings up great lines like "If no one tells me I'm gonna scream!" Whats great about this episode is that it features the entire cast, pretty much every character had a line except Ryan. It would have been great if the episode could have been longer, as I thought the interactions between everyone would have generated more hilarious bits. Creed gives us another few seconds of classic creed moments

"Whose the OBGYN?"

"If I can't scuba, then what is this all about? What have I been working toward?"


I thought the intern feature was fresh for this show(but will most likely be dropped which is a shame I love new characters(usually normal) being thrown into the crazy Office environment. Although it would have been great to have some scenes with Ryan and the Interns. He could have been like one of those experienced combat vets who discusses the horrors of war(but in The Office). A temp that could have had some bond with the interns...he was once them. But I guess the reason why there was a lack of Ryan scenes was due to the filming of Inglorious Basterds (BJ NOVAK was apart of).

Lastly, Jim and Pam have a couple of new boring scenes...since they got together in season 4, their characters have become very bland. When are they going to stir up some controversy between these two, we get it Jim and Pam are in love, but thats not reality. No one is happy in America, in love, marriage, work, etc. The writers of this show don't have the balls to do anything that will upset the legion of JAM fans. Which is a shame, as this show used to push the boundaries like the original UK Version.

I would like to hear your opinion on the matter.