As well as they've done, taking a few scant but brilliant episodes from the original and expanding it into more seasons than I bet most of my favorite shows lasted, I'm still not moved by Pam and Jim's relationship as I was by their British counterparts' (though her blushing at the end was genuine).

The people you work with, are people you were just thrown together with. You don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them than you do your friends or your family, but probably all you've got in common, is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day. And so, obviously, when someone comes in, who you, you have a connection with-yeah. And Dawn was a ray of sunshine in my life. It meant a lot. But if I'm really being honest, I never really thought it would have a happy ending. I don't know what a happy ending is. Life isn't about endings is it? It's a series of moments, and erm...it's like if you turn the camera off, it's not an ending is it? I'm still here, my life's not over. Come back here in ten years, see how I'm doing then. Because I could be married with kids, you don't know. Life just goes on.

And Michael lasting as long as he has only reminds me of good ol' American corporate 白目. No, it's the background characters like Toby and Creed that keep me coming back for more.