Hahahaha.. @ 10:44I freakin love Kevin!!!

Possible spoilers below, I suppose.There was pretty much nothing appealing to me. Dwight's new brand of evilness isn't funny, just creepy. Before, the idea was that Dwight is half-nuts and comes up with ridiculous schemes. Jim thwarts him because he's a clever guy. Now, Dwight actively does everything possible to ruin Jim. The phone call impressions didn't cut it for me. They showed a kind of no-holds barred plot to end Jim (and contempt for everyone in the office). Jim does nothing except blather like an idiot, but he miraculously comes away clean anyway. The ending with Ryan implies a kind of high drama office conspiracy, opposite to what the point of the show has been. I don't even remember Pam's original character anymore. The rest of the characters have also lost most resemblance to what they were and now just complain to Jim. Stanley's still a little amusing. That's about it. About Scott's Tots, that was pretty dark. I can't imagine seeing that happen in real life. The show's had moments like these, but it's uncalled for if you don't really have a reason for it. There was no conclusion to it, just a long period of awfulness followed by a limp ending of "it's okay, not everything went to complete crap." Also I don't get the point of this new secretary. I haven't watched when she gets hired, but it seems like she has a complete lack of personality. I keep waiting for her to do something that says she isn't just a bland, mindlessly pleasant moron, but nothing happens. This is a really long wind-up for her character, considering the only peeks we've gotten are her with Andy. This episode's great revelation for her character was that when she's put to the test, deep down, she is still a mindlessly pleasant moron. I was in love with this show for Jim and Pam. The rest was quality comedy. Now Jim and Pam have nothing to do, nowhere to go from here. And I haven't really laughed at The Office in a long time. Though I actually liked the last episode about company bankruptcy, especially the ending. I don't know myself what the show can do from here to remain interesting.

wow, this episode is unexpectedly dark. what a shame. in this episode, dwight goes from buffoonish fun foil for jim and co. to an actively evil person. dwight purposefully constructs a web of lies to get jim fired. that's attempting to do material harm to another person for no more than the most petty of reasons. for me it makes dwight a completely unsympathetic character and a real life villain that i don't want any part of. certainly any misfortune that befalls dwight from now on cannot be met with sympathy on the viewers part because dwight is a bad person, actively working to make the world a worse place. and ryan gets the same judgement too for allying himself with dwight by the end of the episode. not a plot i would expect from a documentary-style comedy. this is really dark stuff.