As you no doubt know by now, I am a great student of amore on screens both big and small. Specifically my passions lie in the category that some refer to colloquially as a "rom-com". I find myself taken by the dalliance of motives; the dance that leads to Happily Ever After.

So it's with a bittersweet farewell we say bon voyage to the courtship of Jim and Pam this morning. They are, to put it bluntly, "hitched". This feels much like the death of a Pope who has lived a long rewarding life of service and has passed peacefully into the Heavens. Still I thought it would have happened more like this ...