Dwight is superior.
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Dwight is out of place in this sitcom, far too broad, far too over-the-top
Quote: Chopz @ November 7 2009, 12:15 AM GMTDwight is out of place in this sitcom, far too broad, far too over-the-top
I do agree with that to a certain extent, but I think the show is richer for his presence.
I need to check what seasons I've seen up to now, I haven't noticed any new episodes on British TV.
Quote: Chopz @ November 7 2009, 12:15 AM GMTDwight is out of place in this sitcom, far too broad, far too over-the-top
WHAT?! Are you a mental?!?! 
Every other bit of it is amazing, love it. Dwight is occasionally funny but normally distracting and breaks the illusion.
Every other bit of it is amazing, love it. Dwight is occasionally funny but normally distracting and breaks the illusion.
Quote: Chopz @ November 7 2009, 12:20 AM GMTEvery other bit of it is amazing, love it. Dwight is occasionally funny but normally distracting and breaks the illusion.
Man, I love that character, he's my favourite thing in the American version.
To be fair, his fire evacuation is one of the funniest things I've seen.
There are a few moments, such as when he believed he was getting faxes from his future self that become a bit unbelievable.
Exactly! It's lazy, the whole show works in one believable world but then they allow themselves Dwight where anything is possible. But occasionally very funny.
And it's worth it for Jim's reactions to him.
Nope, Dwight does things that seem strange or highly unusual, but Rain Wilson brings quality and makes Dwight entirely believeable. Dwight is the best character on the show - by quite some distance.
The only real problem I had with this show in terms of realism (yes, Dwight is a little too "heightened", IMO, but not disastrously so) is that they pretty much abandoned the idea of the original mockumentary style very early on. They have scenes with two to three camera angles and some scenes to which a documentary crew simply wouldn't be privy to (again with more than one camera angle).
You can get away with framing it as documentary-style in The Thick Of It, where there is a "fly on the wall" approach, but not where you have direct interviews and vox pops to camera.
It probably doesn't work as a true mockumentary, no, but I don't care, it's a great show.
Tim, I see what you are saying, but I think this has been done beautifully. The 'vox-pop' (old fashioned, how old are you? 200?)bits are being done to 'us', the viewer, rather than to a film crew.
It is quite beautiful when you consider it.
No doubt it's just an irrational bug-bear of mine. Is "vox pop" old-fashioned now? Damn. Griff was using the term "in media res" somewhere else earlier, now surely that's even more old-fashioned? 
Quote: Matthew Stott @ November 8 2009, 12:18 AM GMTIt probably doesn't work as a true mockumentary, no, but I don't care, it's a great show.
It definitely doesn't work as a true mockumentary. Great show, mind.