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Originally Posted by Jeritron
The comedy and character situations are endless and can continue to be so. I think it's rash to say the show has run it's course because you've been uninterested for a few weeks. It's as popular as ever, and it's still got legs.
Also, it makes fun of the miniscule things of daily life, and stuff in pop culture. In other words, it has a constantly regenerating subject matter.
So maybe the Jim/Pam is letting you down, but it had to eventually if that's what you miss about it. As for the rest of the show and the comedy, I wouldn't worry about it changing anytime soon unless there are cast and writer changes, which I doubt.
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No. The thing is that there has to be an end to things. Jim and Pam's courting was exciting and nerve wracking. Now they are together. It's not funny anymore. That's not the only thing. Dwight's character hasn't grown in the past two seasons. Neither has Michael.
Also, the last two weeks for me was the culmination of the show being in an obvious decline since the end of season three. Despite the ratings, do you honestly think the show is as good now as it was in season 2?
Again, the problem is that there is no adversity in the show anymore. Jim and Pam are no longer painfully apart, the company is no longer in trouble, Michael isn't nearly as embarrassing or annoying (or if he is, it's the same he has been forever, so it's lost it's edge), Pam no longer hates her job and now feels purpose, etc. etc.
The closest you have here is the Dwight-Andy-Angela love triangle, which was funny early on but dragged on. Then you kind of have Jim-Pam drama, but not really.
There just needs to be fresh blood again, whether it's somebody leaving or some new people coming in. I would have much rather had that small paper company from last night merge with Dunder Mifflin as opposed to basically the nothing that happened last week. Or have Dwight actually join them as a rival and start taking Dunder Mifflin clients. Just nothing is happening.
For most TV shows, the key is that you create a really ideal setting in the first couple seasons and then every season after that something breaks it up and you yearn for the old days. Season three did it with Jim leaving and then the other office merging with Scranton.
So when I say the Jim/Pam thing, it's not that I wanted them to stay apart forever, but when they finally did get together it would have been better to have Pam leave the show or do something more interesting then come back and be in love with Jim.