It's a very powerful scene, and a realistic one. Tim walks away without looking back and Dawn looks after him still with the sadness in her eyes. They hug for a long time, and Dawn looks away longingly. Sure, we've seen Brent behind his Venetian blinds, so it's not something completely new for the show, but it does give a nice documentary feel that they can just choose to take off the microphones and have a life outside of the documentary too. And then they talk, and the camera follows them from behind the Venetian blinds. He asks Dawn into the meeting room and takes off his microphone. Suddenly Tim just gets up and says, "Excuse me." The camera wobbles as it follows him down the hallway. I can sort of see why it leads to the desperate leap he makes now. It seems like season two Tim is this completely resigned guy who stayed at Wernham Hogg because he's too coward to go to university, and he's too coward to be honest about his feelings in front of everyone, so he'll date Rachel who attracts him on a superficial level, and then just as he dumps Rachel, Dawn's leaving and it's too late. He makes one of those "I'm disappointed but I'll try to look like I never wanted this anyway because I'm a good grateful boy"-poses, not facing the camera to mask his true feelings. Right, because he did say "Now that you broke up with Lee," which totally means, "Since Lee's giving you a hard time, can I make it up to you?" He continues, "Under different circumstances, sure, something might have happened but." Then he fumbles his way thru the sentence "You can't change circumstances", stuttering and not seeming to know what he wants to say. He claims he was trying to make her feel better because of the fight with Lee. He says he didn't ask Dawn out as a date, which we've all heard before. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but either way, it's a little touching even for me that their obvious mutual love has turned into awkward little worldess gestures, since neither of them can do anything about it.
It's an interesting scene because it seems to suggest Dawn has the upper hand, choosing to touch Tim a bit and just walking by. Tim chuckles a bit, but then just looks at her, confused. Dawn walks by and touches his neck just a bit.
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