I hate bumping an old thread, but I really don't want to start another one.
This is old news, but I just found it out.
Yeah...that Dwight Spinoff? Not gonna happen!
Considering how incredibly unwatchable and unfunny the backdoor pilot was when they finally aired it as a regular episode, that's a
good thing. Dwight became massively Flanderized since Michael Scott left. The Starscream moments took more and more of a back seat to Dwight's socially backward weirdo customs that got more and more lame and predictable, essentially turning him into a German-American version of Balki from Perfect Strangers. We'd have...a whole show... of just...that. Not to mention his even weirder relatives, who were best used once in a while as a throwaway gag. Jokes about them being socially backward would wear thin before the halfway point of the first season. To say the least of the new characters... Dwight's hereto never mentioned before city slicker cousin or sister or whatever that reluctantly joins the farm for nostalgic reasons, apparently... and her oh so precocious kid.
That said, this last season has been
dreadful. They wrote Ed Helms out of a huge chunk of episodes (presumably, he was working on something, I guess) only to have Erin break up with him. Now, I'm not the kind of guy to hate a show because a ship broke up (I usually call those people out), but they forced her on one of the lame, unfunny, replacement scrappy interns. The even lamer of the two. Not to mention Poochie...err... Nellie is a terrible character that the writers love a bit too much. I wanted to watch every episode until the end, but it's incredibly hard to endure.