Tuesday, April 25, 2017

127th post! The Office Review (There be spoilers)

The Office made me do a gamut of emotions. What I mean by a bunch is it made me feel for almost all the characters in the series.

I cried in select episodes. But the finale really capped the human emotion and oddness and the plain human feel that the Office is. I get the same feeling from Seinfeld and other shows but it is so brilliantly written. The raw emotion just gets at ya.

Anime does the same thing if it is really good. But I mean this is different. I felt very odd watching the show but the characters are so good and the references are excellent. And the consistency is even so great.

But yes to contain a show for 9 seasons is very difficult. The Office in season 8 the first three episodes were very paltry. Then it picked up and then paltry. I think this was either due to a writers strike or a goddamn changing of the torches, or the passing of the torches. But I thought I would despise season 9. But in all honesty again it started poor but this time it tried to capture the laughs and slogging through select episodes was hard , but I managed.

Season 9 really got better. It gained some steam. After Spader left Dwight getting his due was incredible. Andy was a dick but I forgave him eventually when he went and chased stardom. Pam and Jim you rooted for very hard, it looked like a dark turn with couples counseling, but in fact, they worked through their differences and Jim ultimately sacrificed an incredible job ...only for Pam. Then it ended up insanely incredible with bravado writing to get Pam and Jim to finally leave Scranton. Creed was finally arrested for his theft. He steals throughout the whole show, and finally he gets caught . But before any of that Creed sings an incredibly heart felt song about the people that worked in the Office.

The fact that the Office characters new they were being filmed in an actual documentary was a breath of fresh air. I love characters that are aware of what is going on. But it was super powerful to see Michael return for the wedding. This was the farewell episode. It was brilliant. I loved Meredith how she was very smart but extremely wild. Toby , was he the Scranton Strangler? Dunno. But he was intriguing. Kevin getting fired. I love Kevin. A buffoon in his own right but he talks about the follies that plague us all. He is extremely interesting because of his mistakes. Oh god! Seeing Angela and Dwight get married was like the second coming--when Pam and Jim got married. It was an incredible call back or tip of the hat to that moment. I cried. I cried. I cried. You see the character's growth after 9 seasons and you think of the full humanity. How good these people were and how good the actors were.  The Office teaches you about oddities, love, connecting, friendship, death, comedy . It is all there and it to me is sad to see it go. I watched it in 3-4 months full.
To me it goes down as an all time great show. Laughing and crying and outright feeling uneasy and quirky. It captures amazing emotion and if you have never watched the show, you need to do it asap.
Ordinary people doing mundane things. But why is that weird?


`` So many shows to watch!  I ' d say finishing Mad Men or some other shows is the next journey. Goodbye the Office. I will miss you.

Monday, April 17, 2017

Cloneth Wars

Star Wars Clone Wars is absolutely captivating for many reasons.
Now more so than ever...for myself it is interesting to look at this show's characters.

Characters are always a large talking point. But goddamnit! There are some good characters in the show. I love Obi-Wan for his mindfulness and teachings to Anakin. The young Anakin trips up and makes mistakes but learns but the series may get darker. Because in essence he has to turn into Vader at somepoint. But this show is adult without having to be kiddie. It is a kid show but there is some thematic tastefulness, and some hard topics sometimes. There are people which I forget that lived ons some crazy-ass planet and they have to deal with strife or annihilation of their kind. It is interesting because of humanity and are ideals with nukes. This commentary is fucking warranted. Nobody,.wants to fuck the other person up with an explodey nuke.

I digress.--But I like Commander Cody and others. Commander Cody has legendary status written all over him , the way he commands his troops. The bad guys are worth while too. But it'd be great if they were tasked with moral ambiguity and threw the moral compass in the fucking river!

But here is the thing. Star Wars Rebels is an interesting show in its own right. I have been playing some damn tug-o-war with both of these shows. The Clone Wars having taking place I believe in between two and three is not a new show. But damnit! It is interesting because I have been watching it for a long while with my other shows, but it beckoned for me to come right the hell back .

The animation has bothered me a lot but making it through the first season. I give it a good non-jeer and say bravo! I say bravo damnit because it is a cell-shaded show and hated that idea for a long time but it works. I 'd say caps are better off to Rebels. Though, only 4 or 5 episodes into Rebels I still love the Clone Wars more, and that is having only watched one season..

Will the tug-o-war keep me occupied. With so many shows to watch and life happening at full fucking throttle, who knows--

-Andres
_Maybe more to discuss on the matter.