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Reviewer: darjeelingandcoke Signed [Report This]
Date: October 15, 2020 02:34 pm Title: Junior Salesman

"Dwight decides to help his friend in the worst way imaginable" is just the essence of a good friendly Jim-Dwight story. (Also, it's fascinating to see Dwight's friends from across the course of the series come in and recognize a) how weird they are and b) how many of them there are. Dwight's kind of a social butterfly.)

There are just some killer lines in this. (Hide would've been a good choice, by the way.)

Giving the Erin storyline the attention it deserves was a solid choice here. Phyllis is probably my favorite of the side characters, and I always thought their possible parental subplot had a lot of potential that went unrealized - I like that you took the opportunity to explore more of what makes her tick.

Author's Response:

Appreciated!  That's the thing about Dwight: he's a well-rounded, friendly guy, so of course he'd have a lot of friends.  It's just those friends will match or surpass him in social awkwardness.  I literally just ripped lines from the episode for some of their profiles because those who haven't seen the episode need to read them for themselves.

The series needed more Hide.  (I'm glad his actor is doing better after surgery.)

Phyllis often gets a bad rap by some, so I wanted to explore why she acts the way she acts.  Knowing her history, the thought of her lost youth just came to me on a whim, so I figured "why not?"  Erin's parental thing with Phyllis was really pure and there wasn't enough of it, along with her relationship with Michael.  Erin just brings out the best of everyone in the office, which is why she's one of my favorites.

Thanks for the review, as always! 

Reviewer: warrior4 Signed [Report This]
Date: October 13, 2020 09:30 pm Title: Junior Salesman

Nice to see Jim starting to get on the mend. Good changes with everything else. It still very much felt like the kind of crazy one can only experience at DM Scranton.

Erin's storyline is also developing nicely as well.

Author's Response:

Indeed it is.  Everything involving Dwight's friends just killed me.  And Jim is on the mend, but he'll be back in a few chapters.  I actually have something planned for Jim's first week of recovery, actually.

As I've said, some of Erin's story ended up on the cutting room floor, which is a shame, because this one really added a lot to her development.

Thanks for the review, as always! 

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