Date: February 04, 2008 12:14 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oooh, so cute! I love that movie, despite my constant irritation with Andie MacDowell. What a fun way for them to re-hash the past. I love it- and I am a sucker for JamBabies, so that makes me happy too. And of course, the idea of Dwight's disappointment makes me laugh. Great job!
Author's Response:
It's a fun movie, isn't it? I meant to find it and re-watch it before writing this, but I didn't get a chance to. It's probably just as well, because I might have ended up with Jim and Pam talking way too much about silly things, like having to rescue that kid from falling out of the tree every day.
I'm sure there are other days which they could have done -- the Merger, maybe, the phone call at the end of The Initiation... lots of chances if they had some do-overs. At least they finally got it right. :)
Wouldn't Jim and Pam be nice parents? That would be a household full of laughter, I think. And Dwight's disappointment is always fun. ;)
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing, lis! I'm glad you liked it.
Date: February 03, 2008 02:51 pm Title: Chapter 1
D'oh! I meant 'give me back my S4!' -- thanks for understanding what I meant ;o)
Author's Response: Never fear! I understood. I think we used to be able to edit replies and responses, but now we can only delete them. I have at least one out there using 'to' for 'too,' or something like that! How embarrassing! I know the difference! :)
8 [Report This]Date: February 03, 2008 02:33 pm Title: Chapter 1
"Jim held her tightly, breathing her in and thinking of all the days and years, no matter how difficult, which had finally brought them together for good." Such a sweet, sweet story. Loved the Jam baby ending!
Author's Response:
Thanks, kaystar! I wasn't sure whether 'breathing her in' was going to work or people would think it sounded funny. ;) I'm glad you liked this bit of cotton candy. I set it 3 years down the road, so I think a little Jam baby would be likely at that point if it were real life. (You mean it isn't?)
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing! :)
Date: February 03, 2008 11:59 am Title: Chapter 1
Awwww, this was just too sweet and I loved the surprise ending with baby Halpert. You wrote them great too..spot on. This story made me smile!
Author's Response:
Awww! This is the sweetest thing I've written, actually. As to the ending, I was really happy when I came up with Jim wanting to redo something more recent having to do with a baby. It's fun when stuff like that comes to you, plus it gave me an ending, which I otherwise didn't have. ;)
I find Jim and Pam a bit difficult to write when they're having an actual discussion. Little quips to Michael are fairly easy, but a discussion is much tougher for me. I did my best, though, and I'm glad you think it worked.
Hopefully we'll get some more S4 episodes to really put a smile on your face! Thanks for reading and reviewing, Abigail!
And just an aside, since no one has asked, I named the baby Laura after the elusive Larissa Halpert... ;)
Date: February 03, 2008 09:54 am Title: Chapter 1
Jam!Baby FTW!
And it is a sad fact, that S3 while mostly painful, was also mostly necessary. Now give me back my S3, dammit! We've all earned it!
Author's Response:
S3 wouldn't have been necessary if they'd only had a little Groundhog Day magic, lisahoo. Too bad they only got one chance at each day, and they kept over-protecting themselves and unintentionally hurting each other. But at least they eventually got to where they should be -- that's the important thing, right? I find, too, that watching S3 is no longer so painful, because I know how it ends -- with eventual Jam!Baby ;) -- Ha! with "Then...it's a date," I mean.
Hopefully we'll have just a bit more of S4, lisahoo! New episode. Discuss. :)
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: February 03, 2008 07:48 am Title: Chapter 1
Kev, there's just something about the premise of this story that really, really intrigues me. I don't know why. ;)
I love your take of the concept of "do-overs" when it comes to these two. Hearing them talking about events like the booze cruise or casino night from the safety of married life is quite cathartic.
Also, I love that they refer to the time apart as "the year of estrangement." Things like time and space seem to feel different to Jim and Pam--especially when they're apart: ("How far away did you think I was?" "I don't know. It felt far." "Yeah.")
Excellent work.
Author's Response:
It's an interesting premise, really, not so much applying it to Jim/Pam or to ourselves, but just the original concept of redoing a day. In my 'research' for this, I found out that the original screenplay (I think) indicated that Bill Murray's character redid that day something like 10,000 times. Can you imagine?!!!! I can't. I think the actual movie showed parts of 40-some days (I'm hoping it was 42, but that's the geek in me.)
I wonder what days I'd redo, actually. I can tell you that there aren't any days I'd like to do 10,000 times. :) Even the fun ones. "Move along, please" is what I'd say.
It's a little tricky figuring out how they'd refer to things. It can't be Episode Titles, all capitalized, like we'd do it. Pam in Cocktails said "Remember that casino night about a month before we were supposed to get married?" So I was having them say 'the casino night,' but I found that all tricky. I do wonder how they'd refer to that year. (You know, if they were real or anything.) Maybe 'the year from hell' or 'that year.'
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing, Cousin Mose! :)
Date: February 03, 2008 04:57 am Title: Chapter 1
I'm a sucker for these quiet, sleepy, everyday moments (I think that's where these two live) and this is a really lovely one. Love The Year of Estrangement - reminds me -ironically - of this terrific movie, The Year of Living Dangerously; Pam waking up next to a big lump (hee!); Dwight wanting to go into the delivery room (perfect);...this is such a fun, sweet idea.
Author's Response:
I remember seeing The Year of Living Dangerously in the theater -- I was so surprised that Linda Hunt was a woman playing a male character! Nothing like that here! Except Baby Laura is really played by a little boy named Bruno. He truly was the best actor for the part. ;)
I think Pam would have liked to relive the telephone call of The Initiation, also. She would probably have thought to get some more meaningful things in there, like "you know I'm single now, are you doing anything for Saturday brunch, how about I head up to Stamford?" But it didn't really fit in here to do every moment which would have helped to relive. I'm sure though, if she had that day to redo, that call would go differently. Plus, she wouldn't have had to monitor Michael's hours after a while, she could have written them from memory. ;)
Can't you just imagine Dwight thinking he has to 'follow through,' since he brought Pam to the hospital? I could see that. He could say he'd be helpful, since he's helped many cows to whelp. (Ew.)
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing, Colette! I love your writing, so any praise from you is lovely. :)
Date: February 03, 2008 01:14 am Title: Chapter 1
Aww how sweet! I love how they were holding and kissing each other all through the painful past parts. Very cute!
Author's Response:
I have to say this is the sweetest thing I've ever written. I'm glad you liked the cuddling bits; the physical descriptions are way harder for me to write than the dialog. I can understand why people like to write scripts. ;)
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing, FinerThings! I really appreciate it. :)
10 [Report This]Date: February 02, 2008 09:39 pm Title: Chapter 1
This is the first time I've seen the finished version. Thumbs up. Even if it is cuddle porn.
Author's Response:
Disclaimer: There is no porn in this story. Swedge is making up genres. ;)
It's above and beyond the call of duty for you to have subjected yourself to this again. Sweet and icky and cuddly. Brrr! Horrid stuff. ;) Thanks so much for looking again, though. Your comments and Azlin's helped a lot.
Thanks for the beta and the review! :)
Date: February 02, 2008 09:30 pm Title: Chapter 1
This was very cute, TLK! I'm enjoying this series a lot! It makes fun holidays even "funner," and it's great to see tie-ins to the holidays/celebrations we don't get to see on the show because of the strike. I'm already looking forward to Valentine's Day, and congrats again on a job well done! --CH
Author's Response:
I'm glad you liked it! It's not my usual style, probably. ;) A lot of the stories in this series will be much JAMmier than anything else I've done. I think Valentine's Day will surprise you, though -- it won't be a 'typical' Valentine's Day story. It will be super-fluffy though.
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing, Becky215!