Date: January 28, 2019 07:30 am Title: Flight
You know you're having a rough time of it when you start comparing your life to Ryan and Kelly, and you're the Kelly of the situation. Oh Jim.
I haven't told you in a few chapters but I'm still really, really loving this story! It's so good.
Author's Response: Thank you Coley! I really appreciate your reviews (especially the bunches!). And yeah...Jim is losing it a bit here.
Date: January 23, 2019 07:41 pm Title: Flight
"In some strange way he realizes this is him still trying to protect her." COMFECT!! That whole paragraph has this beautiful tone of why this is so painful. He CAN'T help himself when it comes to her. He just can't.
The angst is so necessary and realistic for this episode.
The only thing I hate about these latest chapters is that I am out of jellybeans for them...
Author's Response: Aww, thanks! One thing I'm trying in this series to do is to explore (in addition to the Pam/Roy dynamic) the whole Jim-angst thing from an angle that makes me feel less like he's being an ass by not confessing earlier. I think this is an important part of it--he's decided she wants what she says she wants, and so he's trying to exit the situation rather than being honest because it matters to her. Which makes me feel better about him. Not that I usually hate Jim! I just find this particular situation frustrating.
Date: January 16, 2019 03:06 pm Title: Flight
Very fitting. I look back to the heart to heart talk Jim had with Dwight in the stairwell during Season 4. How Jim said he couldn't bear Pam being with Roy, "food having no taste," and the like. I see the beginnings of that shift in this. Inside Jim's mind this growing turmoil. The fact he know's he's leaving and won't be there to watch this wedding he's been dreading seems to allow him to still try to be the fun guy who even on the day of and during Casino night can still smile and laugh with Pam. Before it all falls apart that is.
Author's Response: Yeah, I think Jim's doing a lot of segmentation here: this emotion goes here, this one goes here, all can be hunky-dory. And I think by S4 he's sort of looking back and realizing it didn't work as well as he thought it did. And we are so close to it all falling apart...Thanks for reading.