Thoughts About Love
Hey, you know what I’m tired of? Love.
Not out-in-the-street love but in-entertainment love. Do relationships really have to be the main conflict in the story? In The Office, it was all about Jim and Pam. Then the writers figured that they couldn’t drag it out for 6 seasons like How I Met Your Mother. So when Jim and Pam finally got together, it moved to Michael Scott’s quest for love. Then it was Andy and Erin. And when they finally went on a date, the writers, I guess, found out that there were no other love lines to pursue so they pressed CTRL+Z on the whole thing and started over for this season and his re-quest to get Erin back.
Are there no more original ideas left? Or are we just thirsting to see people find true love?
And how many songs are there on the radio that deal with having a crush on a person, or being with a person or no longer being with a person? Is all of this really necessary?
No. None of this is necessary.
I just re-read what I wrote and I sound bitter. But I’m not. I wonder if the other countries’ The Office all deal with romantic tension as the main story line, too. I hope so. Because if there’s one idea that we need to get across to the world, it’s that office romance makes for good TV. That and shows based on Twitter accounts.
