Michael Scott: It's time to say goodbye, a pathetic man, insensitive, but adorable at the end: Michael Scott's boss Steve Carell emblematic of the Bureau, the departure of Dunder Mifflin and the rest of the world played on tonight NBC. Michael can not be a TV character, but after seeing him in trouble, threatened its employees, and to do "what she said" jokes for six difficult years, it feels more like our friend, as a stranger why it is very difficult to see him go.
If you already have the loss of an imaginary friend (RIP Dumbledore) or resignation cried suffered after your favorite show left ('m back!) So looks like a "para-social relationship" were. This is the kind of relationship that ordinary people have celebrities in the media, "Elizabeth Hendrickson, Ph.D., professor of communications, told the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The depth of a parasocial relationship is proportional to the time of popularity, "said Henderson. "Leave it in the case of office Carell, dropped many loyal members of the population feel that they have mainly invested much time and attention at the show and its particular character. For those who are in deep relationship with parasocial Michael Scott, aspects of their lives for him and his personality, the loss will hurt probably guilty. "
A new study published in the mass communication and the company confirms that we are disappointed by the fact, when our favorite TV shows goes off the air. Researchers at Ohio State University students surveyed during the writers strike in Hollywood "of 2007-2008, when many shows were temporarily stopped and found that those who seek to relax the TV, with characters or less escape reality without fear New episodes seen that those who were looking to kill time.
You can laugh at those who care for fictional characters, but relationships parasocial fractions followed similar trends in actual social relations, "said Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D., professor of communications at the University of Haifa, Israel. " The longest and strongest relationships, the break, "says Cohen. So how do you get your separation from Michael Scott? "Move on with your life and new friends and social parasocial" says Cohen. " Then after a while, you can repeat that, as viewing photos and home movies of someone who is more in your life is observed. "
Although you have to defend yourself in the friend department "real", we can help you find new friends parasocial. Contrary to what your parents might say that television has never been better than now, especially when it comes to laughter. Here are three great comedies (with characters of equal size) to fill the enormous void in your life Michael Scott. And remember, the Board is not dead: it is only on the market for a new boss.
