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remember, 1 hour special Christmas episode this week, 12/7/06 at 8pm! on 12/14/06 at 8pm (damn my excitement!)
the Christmas episodes are very important for the BBC series — they were the last two episodes, set as the finale of the series.
in the NBC series was comparatively tame, since it was in the middle of the season 2, but showed Jim starting to buck up and wanting to tell Pam how he felt.
Jim: “So this year, for the first time ever, I got Pam in Secret Santa, and I got here this: a teapot, which I know she really wants so she can bring tea to her desk, but I’m also going to stuff it with some inside jokes… like… this is my high school yearbook photo. She saw it at the party, and it really makes her laugh. Not sure why. Um… what else… ooh, this is a hot sauce packet. She put this on a hot dog a couple years ago because she thought it was ketchup, and, uh, it was really funny so I kept the other two. This would take a little too long to explain, so I won’t, and this is a card… because Christmas is the time to tell people how you feel.”
one stretch of a similarity i really liked is that Jim had written a card to Pam, presumably to express how he felt. In the last “regular” episode of the BBC version, Tim confesses his feelings to Dawn, without his mike on in an office behind closed doors (we get a peek of Dawn hugging him, and later he says, “she said no”) -
Jenna Fisher (Pam) has never revealed what was inside the card, and supposedly only a few people know the actual contents of the card. Lucy Davis (Dawn) mentions in a behind-the-scenes interview that only she and Martin Freeman (Tim) know what was said behind the closed doors, and that it’s important to her to keep it between the two of them.
I really like that on both ends, the actors have had a chance to personalize the characters and even the situations. They really believe in the people they’re playing.
So — do you think Pam would have said “no” to Jim, if she had really read the the card?
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