In previous seasons, these entanglements followed logically from the characters and their lives. The romance aspect of The Office has existed since its start, but tonight, the problems with its current romantic storylines shined ever brightly. Not hysterical, but competent.Īnd now, as Valentine’s Day approaches, let’s take a look at love. Dwight’s attempt to wash out his team by setting up a conference room with extreme heat, putting up pictures of bugs and Casey Anthony on the wall, and boot camp sergeant-ing them worked well enough as the mid-episode comedy break. Like I said above, it seems like a questionable decision from the company, but we’ll probably learn more about its feasibility as the storyline continues. But he is not an equal, he is their commander.Īs for The Sabre Store, this was that story’s prologue so it’s too early to fully judge it. And this works most of the time because he doesn’t cause conflict and his ground crew treats him like an equal. His rule is law because he received the position of boss, not because he earned the right to dictate. Tonight’s episode further showed that Andy doesn’t have authority, he has the title of authority.
Whatever flaws previous bosses such as Charles Miner, Michael Scott, and Davis Wallace had, their subordinates followed them (for the most part) with Dwight ever-ready to play second-in-command. From his constant look of befuddlement and fear to his inability to stand up for himself about anything to his lack of control over his staff, Andy always appears over his head. It’s falls under the same “let’s humanize Dwight” category as the end of Doomsday from earlier this season.Įvery episode, I grow more and more disillusioned with Andy as a boss and as a character. HOWEVER, he realizes that, believe it or not, he might have a damned good team anyway. So at the end, Project Leader Dwight gets none of what he wants. After allowing the gang to individually present their case on why they deserve to go, Andy assigns Dwight a crew of Cathy, Stanley, Ryan, Erin, and Jim Dwight audibly curses about the last two. Meanwhile, Robert asks Jim personally to come to Florida, and Jim and Pam spend most of the episode trying to compose the exact perfect text message to send back to him since they are boring people who lead boring lives. When facing his angry mob, Andy looks flustered and blusters, because that’s all he can do since he has no backbone. To “out play” his boss, Dwight leaks the Florida picks to the crew to make the ones not chosen pissed off about their fate. Realizing that that will eliminate most of the office’s best workers, Andy counters with Darryl, Phyllis, Cathy, Kelly, and Kevin. Anyway, I’ll let it slide because it seems to be a plot with long-term consequences.ĭwight wants his team to be Darryl, Phyllis, Toby, Angela, and Oscar. Could that be done in three weeks? I mean, they’re going against Apple, and all we know about Sabre’s products is that its tablet computer was terrible and one of its printers blows up. Robert California selects Dwight to lead a special project that involves him picking a team from the Scranton branch and spending three weeks in Florida setting up a chain of Sabre stores that will compete with The Apple Store. I’ll go through the business side first, since it was the better of the two subjects. Tonight’s special Valentine’s Day episode of The Office took on both topics. It’s Valentine’s Day-ish At Dunder Mifflin
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