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firthgalDo you see the modicum of innocence in my icon? HOW COULD ANYONE WANT TO HURT SOMETHING THAT PRECIOUS? HOW? Also, I have a major beef with Jim. I haven't wanted to kick his face in this hard since the cell phone incident.
WHAT GIVES JIM FUCKING HALPERT THE RIGHT TO BE SUCH A DOUCHE TO ANDY ABOUT THE SITAR? ANDY WAS IN A SEPARATE ROOM, YOU BASTARD! HE WAS ENJOYING HIMSELF IMMENSELY AND YOU GO AND GET HIM EXCITED AND MAKE HIM THINK HE'S FITTING IN AND THEN YOU CRUSH HIM LIKE A FUCKING BUG! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? ASSHOLE! UGH! EXPLAIN TO ME AGAIN WHY FANDOM LOVES HIM? HOW COULD I EVER THINK THAT I WAS STARTING TO WARM UP TO HIM? HOW? HE MAKES ME SO FLIPPIN' ANGRY I COULD BITE A KITTEN'S HEAD OFF AND SPIT THE BLOOD IN THAT SMUG DOUCHEBAG'S UGLY FACE! Okay, that was a little too obscene, but, you know, I'm angry. I would never hurt a kitten, but do you see the wrath that Jim brings out of me when he is such a jerkface to Andy? My god, he's never that mean to anyone. Why does he choose Andy? Andy is such a harmless, fluffy creature that bumbles around desperately trying to find his niche in the world, and anytime he's good at something, he gets ridiculed for it by douches like Jim. Did you notice how Jim cowered when Michael made fun of him? I guarantee you fandom will be all over Michael for that and they will be lamenting about how mistreated pwoor wittle Jimmy-poo is. FUCK THAT FUCKING ASSFACE! HE MADE MY ANDY FEEL LIKE CRAP JUST FOR BEING HIMSELF! Tell me, why is Jim allowed to pull his moronic pranks, which for him is having fun, but Andy can't play a musical instrument to his heart's content at a freaking Christmas party simply because it annoys Jim? WHAT THE FUCK? THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND JIM FUCKING HALPERT, JIM FUCKING HALPERT! DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU FUCKING BASTARD? SCREW YOU! God, he annoys me.
Um... I think that incident hit way too close to home. Why must Jim/Andy interactions ALWAYS remind me of my bullied youth? God. I get these horrid flashbacks and it just makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry myself to sleep. And it's not even just bullies in my youth. My frickin' brother has done crap like that to me, too. I'll be harmlessly amusing myself with something (admittedly usually a piano keyboard or something like that) and he'll go and make me feel like an idiot. Ugh. See, Jim = My Brother, hence why I have this tendency to utterly hate him but still love him. HE FRUSTRATES ME LIKE NO OTHER CHARACTER IN EXISTENCE! HE IS LIKE THIS ANNOYING BIG BROTHER THAT LIVES TO TORMENT ME! You'd think I'd hate his pranks on Dwight, too, but with Dwight, the pranks and the teasing are almost always done out of love and there's a certain respect between them. With Andy, Jim ridicules him. He doesn't tease him, he ridicules him simply for existing. He just has this natural venom towards Andy that I have never and will never understand. You can give me all the excuses in the book for Jim's behavior toward Andy, none of them work for me. Andy looks up to Jim like crazy. He's done nothing but admire Jim and try desperately to form a certain camaraderie with him, and Jim takes advantage of this and crushes him anytime Andy's being a little annoying. The sad part is that Andy is just being himself. He doesn't know how to make friends. He observes others and then copies the behavior, and sadly overcompensates because he wants to be that much better, but he doesn't get that you can't force a relationship on people, and he can't change who he is, no matter how hard he tries to be someone else. And looking at the sitar incident, it's no wonder that Andy feels like he can't be himself around anyone. He gets ridiculed every single time he does something that is genuinely him, and things just don't work for him when he's himself. The only relationship on the show that's been the most genuine for him is his relationship with Angela, and it is going to crush him so hard when he finds out it was all a sham for her. He's put himself out there for her on so many occasions, and he is so beautifully innocent in his love for her, and the ending to this episode hurt me like crazy. Everybody's just standing there watching him make a fool of himself and he doesn't even know. And I hate Phyllis for not taking Andy's feelings into account, and I hate Angela for letting him make a fool of himself, and I hate Dwight for looking so smug, but I also love Dwight for being smug because that's just who he is. Dwight's a jerk and he makes no apologies for it. That's the huge difference between Dwight and Jim. Jim prances around like he's Mr. Perfect Nice Man, but he hasn't really earned that title as far as I'm concerned. He's a bully that's perceived as a nice guy, and those are the worst kinds of bullies. At least Dwight owns up to who he is. That makes me respect him no matter how nasty he gets. And Andy is just so... hopeless. He's flawed in so many ways, and I make no excuses for that, in fact his flaws make me love him all the more. He's this poor, lost guy that just needs someone to genuinely care about him, and I think that's why I've loved him so fiercely from so early on. And he evokes so much emotion out of me that it's a little stressful. I SHOULDN'T CARE THIS MUCH! BUT I DO!
As for the rest of the ep, I wasn't really fond of the whole Meredith/Michael/rehab thing. Maybe Jim harshed my mellow so much that I couldn't enjoy the over-the-topness of it all, but it just... fell flat for me. And I usually love the over-the-top stuff. I did, however, love that during the intervention Dwight was looking at Michael pretty intensely throughout. He admires Michael so much for no reason at all. I love those two. &hearts I also dearly loved Oscar's magenta shirt. And the old Kandy shipper in me noticed that Andy and Kelly were sitting next to each other during the intervention, and Kelly looked so horrified for Andy when he was singing his falalala song, and I couldn't help but think, "Maybe Kandy will happen now! She can make him feel better!" but then the more obnoxious Oscar/Andy shipper in me said, "Say whaaaat? Girl, you crazy. Oscar is the one that will make him feel better!" and the Kandy said, "Whatever," and Oscar/Andy was like, "Mmmhmm, that's what I thought." And then this crazy Michael/Meredith shipper popped out of nowhere and said, "OMG, ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE SEX?" and then my normal watching self was like, "What the freaking hell? Where did you come from?" and Michael/Meredith was like, "Hiding out in one of your synapses ever since Meredith flashed him in season 2. Duh." OH! OOOOOH! MICHAEL THROWING THE PENCIL AT TOBY'S HEAD WAS THE BEST PART! SO HILARIOUS! AND TOBY GETTING THE BLACK DOLL! BWAHAHAHAHA! TOBY I HAVE MISSED YOU WAY TOO MUCH! NEVER EVER LEAVE ME AGAIN!
Okay, I've worn myself out there with my essay on Andy and Jim, so my 30 Rock assessment is going to be pitiful:
30 Rock was really, really funny. I love Alec Baldwin's hair. Colleen Donaghy is the greatest TV mom in existence. Grizz and Dot Com are so married. It looked like Alec Baldwin was wearing too much lipstick through half of the episode. Jack is totally in love with Liz. Jack has a serious Oedipus complex (I actually shuddered at a certain point, I think you all know which one). The ending kind of made me teary-eyed, and then it made me laugh like crazy. I love this show. And I love that it doesn't hurl bricks at my head every five seconds like a certain show that rhymes with The Office.
WHAT GIVES JIM FUCKING HALPERT THE RIGHT TO BE SUCH A DOUCHE TO ANDY ABOUT THE SITAR? ANDY WAS IN A SEPARATE ROOM, YOU BASTARD! HE WAS ENJOYING HIMSELF IMMENSELY AND YOU GO AND GET HIM EXCITED AND MAKE HIM THINK HE'S FITTING IN AND THEN YOU CRUSH HIM LIKE A FUCKING BUG! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? ASSHOLE! UGH! EXPLAIN TO ME AGAIN WHY FANDOM LOVES HIM? HOW COULD I EVER THINK THAT I WAS STARTING TO WARM UP TO HIM? HOW? HE MAKES ME SO FLIPPIN' ANGRY I COULD BITE A KITTEN'S HEAD OFF AND SPIT THE BLOOD IN THAT SMUG DOUCHEBAG'S UGLY FACE! Okay, that was a little too obscene, but, you know, I'm angry. I would never hurt a kitten, but do you see the wrath that Jim brings out of me when he is such a jerkface to Andy? My god, he's never that mean to anyone. Why does he choose Andy? Andy is such a harmless, fluffy creature that bumbles around desperately trying to find his niche in the world, and anytime he's good at something, he gets ridiculed for it by douches like Jim. Did you notice how Jim cowered when Michael made fun of him? I guarantee you fandom will be all over Michael for that and they will be lamenting about how mistreated pwoor wittle Jimmy-poo is. FUCK THAT FUCKING ASSFACE! HE MADE MY ANDY FEEL LIKE CRAP JUST FOR BEING HIMSELF! Tell me, why is Jim allowed to pull his moronic pranks, which for him is having fun, but Andy can't play a musical instrument to his heart's content at a freaking Christmas party simply because it annoys Jim? WHAT THE FUCK? THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND JIM FUCKING HALPERT, JIM FUCKING HALPERT! DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU FUCKING BASTARD? SCREW YOU! God, he annoys me.
Um... I think that incident hit way too close to home. Why must Jim/Andy interactions ALWAYS remind me of my bullied youth? God. I get these horrid flashbacks and it just makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry myself to sleep. And it's not even just bullies in my youth. My frickin' brother has done crap like that to me, too. I'll be harmlessly amusing myself with something (admittedly usually a piano keyboard or something like that) and he'll go and make me feel like an idiot. Ugh. See, Jim = My Brother, hence why I have this tendency to utterly hate him but still love him. HE FRUSTRATES ME LIKE NO OTHER CHARACTER IN EXISTENCE! HE IS LIKE THIS ANNOYING BIG BROTHER THAT LIVES TO TORMENT ME! You'd think I'd hate his pranks on Dwight, too, but with Dwight, the pranks and the teasing are almost always done out of love and there's a certain respect between them. With Andy, Jim ridicules him. He doesn't tease him, he ridicules him simply for existing. He just has this natural venom towards Andy that I have never and will never understand. You can give me all the excuses in the book for Jim's behavior toward Andy, none of them work for me. Andy looks up to Jim like crazy. He's done nothing but admire Jim and try desperately to form a certain camaraderie with him, and Jim takes advantage of this and crushes him anytime Andy's being a little annoying. The sad part is that Andy is just being himself. He doesn't know how to make friends. He observes others and then copies the behavior, and sadly overcompensates because he wants to be that much better, but he doesn't get that you can't force a relationship on people, and he can't change who he is, no matter how hard he tries to be someone else. And looking at the sitar incident, it's no wonder that Andy feels like he can't be himself around anyone. He gets ridiculed every single time he does something that is genuinely him, and things just don't work for him when he's himself. The only relationship on the show that's been the most genuine for him is his relationship with Angela, and it is going to crush him so hard when he finds out it was all a sham for her. He's put himself out there for her on so many occasions, and he is so beautifully innocent in his love for her, and the ending to this episode hurt me like crazy. Everybody's just standing there watching him make a fool of himself and he doesn't even know. And I hate Phyllis for not taking Andy's feelings into account, and I hate Angela for letting him make a fool of himself, and I hate Dwight for looking so smug, but I also love Dwight for being smug because that's just who he is. Dwight's a jerk and he makes no apologies for it. That's the huge difference between Dwight and Jim. Jim prances around like he's Mr. Perfect Nice Man, but he hasn't really earned that title as far as I'm concerned. He's a bully that's perceived as a nice guy, and those are the worst kinds of bullies. At least Dwight owns up to who he is. That makes me respect him no matter how nasty he gets. And Andy is just so... hopeless. He's flawed in so many ways, and I make no excuses for that, in fact his flaws make me love him all the more. He's this poor, lost guy that just needs someone to genuinely care about him, and I think that's why I've loved him so fiercely from so early on. And he evokes so much emotion out of me that it's a little stressful. I SHOULDN'T CARE THIS MUCH! BUT I DO!
As for the rest of the ep, I wasn't really fond of the whole Meredith/Michael/rehab thing. Maybe Jim harshed my mellow so much that I couldn't enjoy the over-the-topness of it all, but it just... fell flat for me. And I usually love the over-the-top stuff. I did, however, love that during the intervention Dwight was looking at Michael pretty intensely throughout. He admires Michael so much for no reason at all. I love those two. &hearts I also dearly loved Oscar's magenta shirt. And the old Kandy shipper in me noticed that Andy and Kelly were sitting next to each other during the intervention, and Kelly looked so horrified for Andy when he was singing his falalala song, and I couldn't help but think, "Maybe Kandy will happen now! She can make him feel better!" but then the more obnoxious Oscar/Andy shipper in me said, "Say whaaaat? Girl, you crazy. Oscar is the one that will make him feel better!" and the Kandy said, "Whatever," and Oscar/Andy was like, "Mmmhmm, that's what I thought." And then this crazy Michael/Meredith shipper popped out of nowhere and said, "OMG, ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE SEX?" and then my normal watching self was like, "What the freaking hell? Where did you come from?" and Michael/Meredith was like, "Hiding out in one of your synapses ever since Meredith flashed him in season 2. Duh." OH! OOOOOH! MICHAEL THROWING THE PENCIL AT TOBY'S HEAD WAS THE BEST PART! SO HILARIOUS! AND TOBY GETTING THE BLACK DOLL! BWAHAHAHAHA! TOBY I HAVE MISSED YOU WAY TOO MUCH! NEVER EVER LEAVE ME AGAIN!
Okay, I've worn myself out there with my essay on Andy and Jim, so my 30 Rock assessment is going to be pitiful:
30 Rock was really, really funny. I love Alec Baldwin's hair. Colleen Donaghy is the greatest TV mom in existence. Grizz and Dot Com are so married. It looked like Alec Baldwin was wearing too much lipstick through half of the episode. Jack is totally in love with Liz. Jack has a serious Oedipus complex (I actually shuddered at a certain point, I think you all know which one). The ending kind of made me teary-eyed, and then it made me laugh like crazy. I love this show. And I love that it doesn't hurl bricks at my head every five seconds like a certain show that rhymes with The Office.
