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Watching their first real fight when the mic dude talks to pam and I've never analyzed it all before really. Like obviously it's bad surface level but there are lots of problems writing wise

Basically the argument between Jim and Pam boils down to both of them being unhappy, but for the whole show only really ever shows Pam being unhappy. She's the one who goes out of state for college, she's the one who breaks down crying in an earlier season when they discuss their perfect futures and she says that she can't have it in Scranton, she leaves to be a salesman because she hates her receptionist job

Jim only ever wanted more money before season 9. Before that he only wanted oam. The closest we get to seeing his discontent is when he makes a second life where he's a sportswriter in Philly, but the narrative undercuts it because he also learns guitar which he never shows interest in again

Basically the conceit of the last season is that there's a whole lot of stuff the documentary misses in the first 8 seasons and that explains how we get the conflict in the 9th season but it doesn't work. E.g., Jim is really stressed the previous season just worrying about having kids and then the next season he tries to say he's adding stress to their lives for all of them because... Working within arms distance of your wife at a job you don't even have to try at is awful?

Again I get they're trying to show how even seemingly ideal situations can mask deep pain but Pam should have been the one to go strike out on her own and Jim should have had a more serious affair type scenario than Katy trying to bang him in Florida for no reason

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