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Lookin’ Shiny ‘Round “The Office”

January 10th, 2007

Whoa! NBC Universal has confirmed that Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams will direct separate episodes of “The Office,” probably airing in February.

I can’t comment on Abrams, as I’ve never seen “Lost” or “Alias” or Mission Impossible III. But contemplating a Whedon-directed episode of “The Office” has me both excited and trembling in my socks. What I’m most concerned about is that the creative styles won’t mesh. From listening to “Firefly” commentary, you get the impression that Whedon is a very hands-on–okay, I really mean micromanaging–writer/director. Even when he’s not writing an episode, he’s checking the writer’s scripts and making him or her re-write them over and over again. And it produces good results. But it seems very at-odds with “The Office”’s process, which involves a lot of input from the actors (since most of them are writers, as well). It’ll be really interesting to see who writes the episodes that Whedon and Abrams direct.

For the meantime, can I posit that the true origin of Reavers has to do with years of working at Dunder-Mifflin?

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