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Even outside of the spoiler topics, people keep saying that there's obviously going to be a merger down the road. It makes a lot of sense, and that would be great, but... it won't be a surprise. Shouldn't it have been a surprise? Are there any other possible things that can happen?
Have......have you heard of the British version of the show?
Let me spoil it....A merger happens there too.
I don't think they're bent on keeping the same plot developments as the British version, especially as the US version progresses and finds its own voice. They've really come to their own in this show and are doing things their own way, which I applaud (Dawn and Tim being just one example). I wouldn't count anything as a definite just because it happened that way in the British show.
The show clearly has its own voice, and it's not that they mimick the UK version. That said, it is based on the UK version: the bumbling boss, the sycophant second in command and a love interest between a salesman and the receptionist. There's parallels on finer points too: Michael's dance scene in the booze cruise, for example, as well as his foray into Internet dating. None of this is to say that I think they copy so much as they take bits and pieces and use them as jumping off points to go in their own direction. So there'll be a merger, and that's straight from the UK storyline. But they'll make it their own. The term voice is great, because it's the real difference and it doesn't pertain to the main story constructs but rather the nuances that make it what it is.
We'll see. I was of the impression that since the pilot they've been doing original material.
people keep saying that there's obviously going to be a merger down the road.
I highly doubt this is going to happen, Froggy 101.
people keep saying that there's obviously going to be a merger down the road.
I highly doubt this is going to happen, Froggy 101.
You were wrong, NANN. So wrong!
Why am I taunting someone who hasn't been here almost 2 years? That seems mean.
Is... sorry, WAS their name supposed to be an insult to us?
Well, I'm insulted. So eff them.
It was started in '06, active for 5 days, forgotten, bumped with 1 post 22 months later, ignored, then bumped again 17 months later.
I guess it's just because it's spent so much of its life ignored and nobody even cared enough to put it out of its misery. Poor little thread.
No! Maybe.
It was that NANA or whatever person that bumped it in '06.
No, it was NANA who bumped it in '08 . . . which makes me suspect that NANA is YOU!
'08
Oh, yeah. I put the wrong date. I meant '08.
It's not me. My fake account is Boobs, which is left over from the NAsquerade. Was NANA in the NAsquerade?
I guess it's just because it's spent so much of its life ignored and nobody even cared enough to put it out of its misery. Poor little thread.
It deserved its ignominy. How could anyone, in October of 2006, doubt there was going to be a merger?