Newpeat discussion
Friday, March 16th, 2007 | 144 commentsSPOILER WARNING! Comments will contain spoilers.
I thought I would create this post so that we can discuss new scenes from tonight’s Traveling Salesmen/The Return newpeats. Discuss away!
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I’m not sure about that… Pam is back with Roy at her art show and Jim was really pissed. Even if Karen tore down the poster. I can see him hearing about it and deliberately not going.
Yeah, this development with Jim knowing that Pam is back into art and that she is even entering competitions makes me think that he would maybe have gone to her show. But since Karen did attempt to tear down the poster, and it wasn’t up in the show that aired, I don’t think that Jim knew. I feel like he would have gone if he knew about it, even if Pam couldn’t get the nerve to invite him.
Keeping the fans occupied is a priority for NBC. I love it!
I missed a Wall Street Journal article from a couple of weeks ago about the newpeat until I was going through old papers today before throwing them out. The link under my name takes you to a copy of that article. Enjoy!
Although Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey are good friends, Pam and Angela are anything but. So if someone you wern’t to crazy about offered you a cat you might think they are slightly crazy. Also Pam doesn’t seem like a big cat person.
I think she should have given it to Dwight as a gift, That would have been so cute!! I love Dwangela
Yeah, this development with Jim knowing that Pam is back into art and that she is even entering competitions makes me think that he would maybe have gone to her show. But since Karen did attempt to tear down the poster, and it wasn’t up in the show that aired, I don’t think that Jim knew. I feel like he would have gone if he knew about it, even if Pam couldn’t get the nerve to invite him.
I don’t get the Jim/Karen relationship. I think that the only reason Karen had a crush on Jim is because of his nice nature. There are people who click, and then there are people who don’t have anyone else. Like Karen just likes Jim because he’s her option. Jim and Pam just click and that’s what makes there relationship so attractive. Jim and karen are 2 pieces you slam together just so they’ll fit, Jim and Pam fit together perfectly I mean they are PB&J.
I think they’ve cut a lot of the scenes with Karen that make her seem a bit shrewish or paranoid, like the coffee scene or her tearing down the poster, because they want fans to continue to look at her as a viable option for Jim. If she starts to look like a nutcase, then it doesn’t seem real that Jim would be with her, because while he doesn’t quite know what to do about Pam, he seems too sensible to latch on to anyone who might be overly jealous or needy, which is how I think these scenes portray Karen.
i love jim’s high-fives. they have a not-so-personal, yet, very personal feel to them. i feel like if he were to give me one, it would make me feel really special (and not just because he’s john krasinski). i really wish they had kept that scene in. it is so cute! and i agree that it was nice to see some “old office” with good old supportive jim of pam’s dreams. very cute.
i love his “no way!” anyday.
I have to say I enjoyed the newpeats. I remember a while ago either Jenna or Angela wrote about a scene that they had to shoot together which involved cats that took over 30 takes, I wonder if that was it. Also, while I’m not crazy about Jim’s strange habit of high-fiving women, it was nice to see a moment between them that felt more like Season 1-2. I don’t need them to declare their undying love and start making little PB&J babies, just a return to the fun of say “The Alliance” or “Michael’s Birthday” would be fine by me.
I can’t figure Karen out. All of the Karen fans (the ones who want her with jim) say that it’s great that she is such a strong character and she’s not a pushover. But as much as I don’t hate her character in general (I don’t have a Karen voodoo doll I stick pins into or anything), she lacks the warmth of Pam. Also, for all talk about her being strong, she comes across to me as someone who is desperate. She has been given plenty of clues that jim has feelings for another woman and would rather interrupt conversations and rip down posters than actually “be” a strong woman, break up, and retain some dignity. They had very little emotionally invested when she got her first inkling that all was not right in the relationship.
From her reaction to Pam as a rival (totally opposite to what Pam did at Christmas when she befriended Karen in spite of her feelings for jim)we see that she can be a force to be reckoned with when she is unhappy. I think it would be funny to have her and jim breakup because of his feelings for pam and show her mean side.
Can someone YouTube the Karen scene where she rips the psoter down?
Are they ever going to show this “newpeat” again because I really wanted to see it But my Tevo decided to freakout and I only saw some of the second half, and now I’m really sad. :(
Best two episodes of the season hands down. The two parter makes more sense with the newly included subplot about Pam’s art. As others pointed out on another forum, this shows Jim and Pam having mirror image experiences of looking for someone who understands them. As a pair of episodes, in addition to being great fun, it makes a poignant point about everyone’s favorite would-be couple. If this had aired in this form before the sweeps I doubt the show would have gotten as much grief as it did from the backsliding during that sweeps arc.
These two episodes also confirm my belief that Lee and Gene are among the biggest “Jammers” on the writing staff, though that was not the main reason this was so good, it was overall well written and funny.
This is why I love Office Tally. When I miss something on the show - and I have a season pass, so it doesn’t happen much - Office Tally has my back. Aww. :)
Angela’s transition from being happy to being angry is priceless. Her blinking cracks me up.
Here’s a longer clip with all the new footage from the new storyline :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRhWQxODuw
Theres another Alison with one L? AWESOME!
VERY good point, NJBranch. I had not even really noticed that he called her Beesley first, then Pam.
He hasn’t called her Pam to her face all season has he?
NJ Branch, nice observation! i didn’t realize that!
I’m liking all the new footage we get to see after the episode has already been out, keeping it fresh for us. it makes the office so much more than just a normal television show. It’s amazing.
Thank you, NBC.
(PS - thnx, Jessie!)
“Beesly, coffee?” (guarded Jim)
“No way, alright PAM, congratulations.” (Jim with his guard down)
Jim has been using “Beesly” most of this season so it is good to see a glimpse of the old days for a change.
Thought it was worth mentioning.
here’s the entire new storyline here on youtube. There’s also a post about it on the LiveJournal Office Community.