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Torgo posted...

I argued with someone about this, and maybe the reason is because I stopped watching early on after a season or two... but it's clear from the start Dwight is so far out of his league in terms of competence and Jim realizes this early on and makes picking on and humiliating Dwight his hobby bordering on obsession.

After a time, I started feeling sorry for Dwight despite being written to be unlikable and started hating Jim... and partly because Jim is not really likable outside of the bullying. Jim and Pam are just dull main characters for the most part.

its not very long into..season 2, i think, maybe even late season 1, that it makes it clear dwight is antagonistic to everybody in the office, since as soon as he even sniffs power, he goes out of his way to basically make things miserable for everybody else in order to make himself look good. you basically find out this is what drives jims motivations against him. but then as the series continues, it also starts to paint it as its almost a bit of a cat and mouse game between the two, and they almost even kinda respect each other for it.

there are several instances where when dwight is at his most..dwight, jim actually tries to help him out. this is especially evident later when jim basically saves his job.