Seriously? You called the show an "edit hack job" because you didn't understand the concept of the flashback.
Actually, I was a little confused also. I wasn't sure if I was watching a flashback or flashforward(you know, like the show Lost). I guess I wasn't watching very closely. Anyway, I'm sure the next time I watch that episode it will all make perfect sense.
The only part that threw me off was the end when it ended on the boat. I didn't catch that part was part of a flashback. I thought it would have ended in real-time. That is all. It still qualifies as an edit hack job in my book.
And yet this is all supposed to be footage taken from a documentary video crew? And none of this footage has been aired on television (they are not celebrities), or the film crew is up to a perfectly edited 40-50 hour film? This is not Dogme 95-approved.
If you watched the original, they only aired their "documentary" on television AFTER the main run was over and before the Christmas/Finale episode.
Probably more like poorly scripted than an actual edit hack job, assuming that was the way it was scripted. It probably would've been better had they shown the boat scenes as a flashback ONLY after the dancing ceremony and not cutting back and forth. But either way I don't think it was a big deal.
I missed the Christmas episode (I know, I know, their Jim/Pam version was ultimately resolved in that reunion), but watched most of the rest (I think Adult Swim has picked them up, starting tonight, if memory serves). Didn't know that. Of course, the British version only lasted two (compared to the US, truncated) seasons. No American reality show would ever order 5+ years' worth of episodes of a show they might want to cancel after the very first. (Also, the impending fame and television stardom has never come up within the context of the show. E.g. you'd think it would have mattered to corporate when considering whether to downsize the Scranton or Stamford branch. They would not want to suffer the pr backlash of laying off everyone's favorite television stars...) Again, von Trier would not approve.
Unrelated to the season, but Rainn Wilson (Dwight) is doing promo's for the NBA on TNT this year. Should be some good stuff. <object width="388" height="394" classid="clsid:<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/.element/swf/1.1/cvp/nba_embed_container.swf?context=nba&videoId=channels/tnt_overtime/2009/10/07/20091007_dwight_tntspot.nba" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/.element/swf/1.1/cvp/nba_embed_container.swf?context=nba&videoId=channels/tnt_overtime/2009/10/07/20091007_dwight_tntspot.nba" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="388" wmode="transparent" height="394"></embed></object> Jack Sikma! haha
That's a complete and total ripoff of Donal Logue's MTV ads from the 1990s, even down to the hairstyle & greasy mustache. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yQ2PMJic0fI&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yQ2PMJic0fI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> For shame, Rainn Wilson: the NBA doesn't "care." For shame.
What a GREAT episode. Some of you guys may still hate... But I notice the great writing and most importantly the great acting (in this episode). And ofcourse Andy and Dwight are hilarious. Girl at the bar, "You have Horses?" Dwight, "Yeah 9 and half inches!"
Yeah I loved the episode...my favorite of the season and it could very well be a favorite of mine all time. The opening was laugh out loud funny and it had some hilarious parts sprinkled throughout. The wedding was just about perfect and the only real cheesy, awkward moment was the car "snapshot" scene. But I think it was important to have because it definitely was reflective of their characters and relationship. And the ending is exactly what I'd expect of The Office. I do wonder how they can keep the show funny though, with Jim and Pam essentially having "grown up" now.
It's, to me, actually one of the most "documentary" things they've done in a while. They did it that way so they could have the song playing during the scenes of the boat wedding. The Office is rarely "scored" and not doing it this way would have forced them to show both the church wedding (vows and all) and then show the boat wedding (vows and all). That's the one aspect that they've gotten away from, in my opinion. A lot of the stuff they do now just doesn't seem as documentary-like as when it first started. Another mayzar freudian slip? (The real line is nine and three-quarters.)
