 | | 04-18-2008, 09:34 AM |
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| Quote: | I think the ring and the fake proposal was a little hint of what is coming, but I don't think they'll go for the marriage so soon. Even if they are counting on a time jump, it is soon for us, since we've been seeing them together for 10 episodes. I just hope this storyline leads up to a new angsty season for Jim and Pam. | Well, and the timeline just doesn't make sense either. If they got together in May, were found out in October (since the show is supposed to occur in "real time"), then the dinner party was in November. Even if it's been "a few weeks" that only makes it the middle of December (which it obviously isn't by Pam's coat at the end), but still. They haven't been together for a full year. We haven't seen them fight, we haven't seen them do anything else be all giggly/smiley/honeymoonish, which is great to watch, but that's not when you are ready to get married. You have to go through some hard stuff first. Jim still looks like he's in awe that he gets to touch her and Pam still looks like she's in awe that someone is actually paying attention to her. I think that needs to wear off some before they can talk about marriage.
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I was reading some comments here and there and some people thinks Pam's face falls when Jim goes back to his desk, so she would be having second thoughts. To me she was just surprised and processing what she's just heard. What do you guys think?
| You know I didn't notice her face falling after that scene, but I wasn't really looking for it. I think there were a lot of emotions on her face at the time. I mean, it's one thing for her to think that Jim wants to marry her and quite another for him to joke about it so casually, as if it's the most normal thing in the world.
And like I said on the Jim/Pam thread at the Office board, I think just hearing it out loud would bring up a lot of emotions for Pam. She needs this engagement to go right this time. She probably doesn't want to ruin what they have right now. She probably wanted to be doing more with her professional life than still answering the phone at DM the next time she got married. Maybe she's disappointed in herself that she hasn't accomplished everything she wanted to. Or maybe she's just not ready to get married yet - maybe she likes being on her own and having her own space and her own place.
AND she probably knows that her only option is to say 'yes,' so she needs to prepare herself mentally for that. Because though I hope it's happened and we just haven't seen it, there's been no fight, no test of their relationship (except perhaps Jim seeing Karen in Utica, but that's not really a "test"). She may realize that perhaps Jim is just waiting for the other shoe to drop and if she turned down his proposal with even a "not yet," it would break his heart. |
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