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Reviewer: darjeelingandcoke Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: September 18, 2020 11:08 pm Title: Here Comes Treble

This is reminding me both how much canonical Season 9 bugged me *and* how little of it I retained... the JAM story is familiar, but yee cats is there a lot of other material that I feel like I'm reading for the first time. I'm glad you're doing it.

Author's Response:

Thank you!

And that's the thing: there's a lot about season 9 I DO like.  Asian Jim and the Dunder Code are two of my favorite cold opens.  Dwight's storyline felt like an amazing conclusion to his character (so a lot of it will show up here).  And the finale is near flawless.  But amidst the JAM conflict, the extra characters that had no real depth, and Andy's character degradation, it was a trying watch, especially for a farewell season.

My only thing is trying to make sure the AU and the canon moments are interwoven better.  I'm not confident in prose so trying to accomplish that has been difficult.  But after working with "Lice" (which is very canon divergent), I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Thanks for the review! 

Reviewer: warrior4 Signed [Report This]
Date: September 12, 2020 12:10 pm Title: Here Comes Treble

Yeah, all sorts of stuff going on at DM. Interesting to see Erin's thought processes. She is starting to realize that maybe her relationship isn't the best. Though she's also loyal and trying to work on it.

Nice to see some more moves to a resolution with Jim and Pam. I like that they're communicating better. Not quite the best yet, but still better than what we might have seen in canon. Nice job.

Author's Response:

Many thanks!

Erin's disillusionment is what I wanted to focus on primarily with her character because she's one who cares and will always care about Andy (despite absolutely everything they've done/will do to each other), as she cares about everyone else in the office.  That's why she's sticking her neck out, because she wants to see everyone, especially him, happy.  They're like her family, after all.

I wanted JAM to communicate better, certainly; even though he's not saying what he wants and even needs to say, he's listening, and she is as well.  I'd like to think Pam made it clear that it was "under $10,000", not "$10,000 or less".  And at the very least he's thankful that she's even gung-ho about helping out the company to begin with.  And that's what stopped him from going all in.

Thanks for the review, as always!

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