character arc? I cannot stand her episodes but don’t skip them because I don’t want to miss Steve Carell.
She is so bossy and manipulative.
I can’t take her with Jim. I always am so relieved when Jim asks “ are you free for dinner?” Whew!!
The only time I didn't like her was when she tried to hire Stanley away from Scranton. She was obviously doing it out of spite, not just to Jim, but to Michael whom she also blamed for most of her problems in Scranton.
Then when her and Jim were alone in her office, with Jim obviously having been roped into coming along, she did everything she could to make sure the situation reached its maximum awkwardness.
For sure , but I just wished Jim would have said to her “ kiss my a$$!”.
Hate her, and love when she is disturbed when Jim tells her everything with him and Pam is great! Haha she gets owned !
I actually liked Karen quite a bit. Beautiful actress and decently written/relatable character in general imo. She wasn't a bad person, but just someone that found herself caught in the middle of two people who were clearly in love with each other.
Maybe things would have been different if the Stamford office never shutdown but who knows? Could she have handled things better after learning about Jim and Pams history of having feelings for one another? Maybe, but I like that none of the characters on that show handle things perfectly. It's what makes the office realistic. Karen had finally met someone that she felt she could have a real future with so it's understandable that she'd try to hold on to that for as long as she could.
In the end her and Pam at least talked things out and they both ended up with the right guy for them.
I suppose , but even after Pam sees her and tells the pregnant Karen that she and Jim are engaged, Karen is still visibly disturbed . Just cannot stand her.
shareAll the women of this show are pretty much annoying, and some are only there for the audience to think that the characters think they're eye candy (although the truth about it is obvious to the viewer).
Karen is basically 'superficial annoyance personified'. She has no real personality, she doesn't really do or say anything interesting, and most of the time, it almost seems as if she's there only to react to things, or have people react to her, and that's all.
She is a gameplayer at one point, but suddenly, she's Jim's love interest, and then she's some corporate manager that competes with Michael.. it's like the writers didn't know what to make of her, so she's everything and thus, nothing. She just glides from one thing to the next without adding anything of value.
Pam is there just because of the whole 'JimPam romance' crap, which I always skip, but at least she is given a little bit of personality, she's supposedly some kind of artist (and yet can't use a computer beyond the basics that her work requires of her, and learning simple computer things is beyond her, although she's super passionate about doing the things that she can't do without learning that easy stuff), she plays volleyball (or doesn't), etc.
I think Pam's greatest moments are when she's "handling Michael", because it kind of gives us a deep glimpse into the mysterious world of this magical character that is Michael Scott.
The other women are either 'supposed eye candy', 'ugly', 'old', 'fat', 'wich', 'angry snake', 'valley girl' etc.
So, not very deep personalities or character arcs - they fulfill their 'assigned functionality' in the show, and that's the end of it.
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