Reviews For Never Give Up
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Reviewer: darjeelingandcoke Signed [Report This]
Date: October 07, 2020 08:59 pm Title: Suit Warehouse

There's just a lot of very entertaining material in this chapter, and very well described to mine the humor out of it.

It's an interesting picture you've painted with Pam's inner monologue here (and I'm cheating here, because I've actually read the next two chapters). It's always struck me that Pam's part in the Season 9 fiasco pre-Brian gets a little minimized... which makes sense, because in canon Season 9 Jim is just being a world-class level bad husband, and that overshadows this. But it does strike me here that a lot of this, while true to what I think Pam was thinking, doesn't make me all that sympathetic towards Pam. She used to want more for Jim just like he did for her - and as Jim notes in the next chapter he's done his fair share of choking down his own fears to be supportive of her when she took risks like this. I'll be interested to see how much of that you end up exploring.

Author's Response:

Thanks for the praise!

But yeah, the whole thought process was to expose both of their flaws, and Pam's is coming more to light.  She's so damn scared of her own shadow.  She loves Jim, she believes in him, but she's so scared of doing anything outside of her comfort zone now that she has Jim and the kids.  And this realization will come sooner rather than later.

Thanks for the review!

Reviewer: warrior4 Signed [Report This]
Date: October 07, 2020 10:12 am Title: Suit Warehouse

Agian nice job at getting into everyone's head space. This did feel a lot like the chaos that sometimes grips the show. Getting kind of annoyed at Jim. He's getting way to hard on himself and is ignoring the warning signs of everything going on. Yes that's true to canon, but it's still rough to read.

Author's Response:

Thanks!  It's DM Scranton, after all, chaos is its MO.

But yeah, it's like canon Jim but the opposite side of the coin.  He's so unfulfilled that he can't look inside himself or be honest with Pam, which will lead to disastrous results.  And one getting to hard on themselves is going to make others notice, especially family and coworkers.

Thanks for the review as always! 

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