Dwight is supposed to be the general, not an army of one. Moreover, while I liked (and still like) the idea of Dwight as the lead of The Office, I never liked the idea of The Dwight Show ( spin-off notwithstanding). I honestly didn’t expect us to have a Sabre Store after two episodes, and it ended up disappointing me. It might not have played towards the show’s current penchant for silly, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have been funny in a way the show hasn’t been in quite awhile. Impassioned arguments on font, font sizes, mottos, focus groups, layouts, products, shades of blue. Now that our minor leaguers have temporarily moved up to the majors, I thought that we’d see some satire about the corporate environment. We’ve seen bits of Dunder Mifflin corporate, but we’ve never really gotten the insider’s perspective. I wanted a more professional The Office episode. I described Tallahassee as a more professional conference room scene. The Office was never exclusively about the crazy people in the business world it was about the craziness of the business world. Nevertheless, it leads me to the next point… How they thought this was a lucrative business model, I don’t know. After tonight, we learn that everything is triangle shaped, its phone is named the Arrowhead (which isn’t bad), and that the Pyramid will have wireless capability in 2013.
An episode showing how and why the Sabre Store should be created after all, all we know about its products is that its tablet (the Pyramid) stinks, its printers explode, and paper is a dying industry. But after that, I expected at least one genuine Business Episode.
The first episode needed to set up the new universe. I was more willing to give certain things a pass because I saw it, or wanted to see it, as a slow build, a quasi-mini-series within The Office. That it was different and seemingly a long-term arc definitely tempered my opinion on the past couple of episodes. It’s hard to know what I expected from The Florida Trip, even now that we’re halfway into it. Details about my co-authors wagers are forthcoming.
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