[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-12 Thread djconner
On Apr 11, 3:19 pm, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:17 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I thought for a bit that with the recent development we might see a little of Michael trying to make a living as some kind of G-List Scranton celebrity, but

[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-11 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:17 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I thought for a bit that with the recent development we might see a little of Michael trying to make a living as some kind of G-List Scranton celebrity, but apparently in the universe of the show no part of the documentary has

[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-11 Thread Michael
On Apr 11, 12:19 pm, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:17 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I thought for a bit that with the recent development we might see a little of Michael trying to make a living as some kind of G-List Scranton celebrity, but

[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-10 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Mark J. wrote: So I'm on the El last night... I'm pretty sure you were on the 'L', unless you moved to New York and didn't tell us. As I suspected, there was one camera shot on Parks and Recreation that almost got my apartment building into the frame, but not quite. It's a building that

[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-10 Thread PGage
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Michael mikethekn...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 10, 7:35 am, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote: or is the one-camera mockumentary workplace sitcom becoming as cliched as the family multi-cam laugh track one? The technique, as used on The Office, is wearing

[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael
On Apr 10, 4:17 pm, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really understand the focus on the technique. When it is done well, which it still is on The Office, it works. When it is not done well (as it appears on PR) it is not. It has always been a mistake to reduce the appeal of The Office to

[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-10 Thread PGage
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Michael mikethekn...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 10, 4:17 pm, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really understand the focus on the technique. When it is done well, which it still is on The Office, it works. When it is not done well (as it appears on PR) it is

[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-10 Thread Tom Wolper
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Michael mikethekn...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 10, 4:17 pm, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really understand the focus on the technique. When it is done well, which it still is on The

[TV orNotTV] Re: Did He Actually Say This?

2009-04-10 Thread PGage
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote: The way the mockumentary format matters is that The Office could drop it after this season and start next season with no other changes and people wouldn't notice it was missing. I agree - except that this seems to be the way