Date: February 01, 2009 09:09 am Title: Chapter 7
::impatiently waits for update::
Author's Response:
Geez, you're so impatient. Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch...
To be honest, I was having a tough time getting this chapter to where I wanted it to go. It's difficult to make a whole other plot fit into what actually happened on the show. And just so you know, I posted the chapter without having seen your impatient complaining first, so you have nothing to brag about.
Date: January 27, 2009 11:18 am Title: Chapter 7
In the attempt to suck just a little less...
So I'm going to share with you a little tale. (Compliments are coming shortly thereafter and are related, but feel free to skip ahead.) I really hated that speech of Alex's in this episode. Not because I hate Alex, at all, but more Jim and Pam's stunned/horrified reactions - like, what? You two haven't discussed the possibility of Pam staying in New York, in all your hours of talking? Something is pretty flawed here, kids.
You, however, have taken an element of the show that I hated and made it really work here. That's a feat and I give you all praise due. Plus, those last two lines of the chapter...if they were meant to be funny I apologize, because I cringed in that "oh, Jim...you just don't get it" kind of way. I hope that comes across as complimentary as I intended.
Okay, enough of Ms. Beets' endless prattling. This is pretty great, my friend.
And Strong Bad is fantastic. Come on, fhqwhgads. I know I'm not reinventing the wheel with anything I write, but I do appreciate the funny.
Author's Response:
I'd never thought of that before. I was just trying to make that scene fit within the context of my fic, but now thanks to you I realize that it didn't originally fit within the context of the show! Hmm... Maybe I'm right and the writers are wrong. But I will say one thing about your rationale for hating the stunnedness: since when have Pam and Jim ever been good at talking about anything important? Wasn't that pretty much the crux of three seasons of show?
That is what the last two lines were meant to elicit. A cringe and maybe an awkward laugh (possibly a bit like the actual show).
Date: January 26, 2009 06:23 pm Title: Chapter 7
"One of my clients is a jewelry store," Jim explains. "Don't worry, we can afford it."
She's not the flamboyant kind. "Is this the same place you got my ring?" she asks, dreaming of costume balls, gala openings, and nights on the town that will never happen.
"No. I got that at a good jewelry store."
---Funny
9 [Report This]Date: January 26, 2009 08:30 am Title: Chapter 7
Perspective is a funny thing. Thinking back on the whole Alex/bluetooth convo as a JAM fan, I saw Pam chewing on all this info but knowing in her heart that she wanted to be with Jim, seemingly happy with that decision. Your perspective, in this fic at least, is quite different. Also, on the show, to me at least, Alex never seemed a serious threat. Viewing this interaction with the added perspective of Pam having been intimate with Alex really changes things. As I'm reading this fic, I have such a sense of Jim as Roy, Alex as Jim and Pam as confused and frustrated, still stuck in her Scranton life. We're so used to reading about Jim as knight in shining armor. Here, he seems like a normal guy, slightly misguided but well intentioned. His gift to her of the earrings emphasizes this, to me at least. He wants to help her and make her feel better, but they just seem to be at different places. I hope I'm making sense. I really appreciate your effort of splicing in the phone conversation, even including Dwight's interjection. Still digging this. Anxiously awaiting the next update. Still afraid...
Author's Response:
Roy didn't think Jim was a threat either.
I think Pam wants to be with Jim too, but it's not all roses on one side, stink bugs on the other. Being with Jim is going to force her to make some compromises and sacrifice some of her dreams and forgo many experiences that she's wanted to have but that a monogamous relationship and fixed address and job make impossible.
Date: January 25, 2009 08:49 pm Title: Chapter 7
Finally someone is writing angst! This is the kind of fic that I'm always looking for, but is rarely written. I tried writing something involving Pam's relationship with Alex..but I have not finished it.You're doing a much better job anyways.
Keep up the great work! I can't wait for the rest!
Author's Response: I'm afraid that our tastes are a repressed minority, as the hoards of fangirls must have their Jam fluff at all costs, and react with the sort of revulsion and sickness usually reserved for the torture of fluffy animals at the sight of this unholiest of unholies. Not to overstate my importance, but this fandom needs me the way that beauty needs ugliness and benevolence needs tragedy. This IS an ugly tragedy - one that must be told to provide the balance and perspective that Jam sorely needs.