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Reviewer: darjeelingandcoke Signed [Report This]
Date: May 29, 2021 02:42 pm Title: Phone

I like the table-setting for Jim's Stamford transfer here, and how it builds off Pam's "I'm fine with my choices" line... it is striking how much Jim's advice to her in that episode applies to *him*, too, and it's nice to see him wrestling with that. I was also struck with the note of Jim trying to balance his obligations to her as a friend and what's good for him here - I feel like in canon it's so blatantly obvious that Jim Is What's Best For Pam that we don't get much exploration of that tension.

"But that’s not true at all. He’s a better person because he’s met her, and maybe even because he’s in love with her. She’s taught him about looking for the best in people and how to trust and how to listen and be still when someone needs you to be. She’s made him laugh harder than he’s ever laughed before in his life, she’s expanded his horizons as far as music and books and art, she’s made him want to be a better person, the kind that she’d be proud to be friends with. Or proud to just be with, period." - Just wanted you to know this paragraph, and really this whole section of Jim questioning whether or not he regrets falling for Pam, has really stuck with me, and definitely is something I was thinking about in writing my 05-05-05 chapter. You did really well in general capturing the back-and-forth in his head and how it keeps him from making decisions or moving on, how torn he is at this juncture.

I also like this version of his complaint to Toby - I think you squared the circle of how he came to make this complaint and take it right back realistically, with him not having made a *decision* to complain to Toby so much as Toby just having gotten to him at a bad moment.

It all just slots really well into canon. Well done.

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