#dwangela

my favourite canon couple is either michael and holly or dwight and angela

They're birds of a feather in a good way but they also have the same flaws- they're disdainful and proud and self-centred.

In S3:3 they scheme for Dwight to become manager but once he thinks he's manager, he doesn't share power with her at all. He's totally dictatorial and I've seen people comment critically of the disdainful way Angela looks at him when he grovels to Michael, but her anger is understandable. She thought they were gonna be a power couple and she feels totally let down.

Dwight loses Angela in series 4 because he violates her trust through his arrogance. Like Angela told him what she needed from him and he did the exact OPPOSITE because He Knows Best. His actions were totally out of line. Yes, Sprinkles was kept alive expensively and miserably, but euthanising Sprinkles wasn't Dwight's choice to make but he still presumed to make it. He didn't put her first.

In S5, Angela is totally selfish. But Dwight comes so close to getting her back, but he ruins it with selfishness. Like at Schrute Farms Angela says she might have made the wrong choice picking Andy. If Dwight had talked about plans for the future, he might have persuaded her to chuck Andy. But no, he had to talk about how he 'took care of everything' by TRICKING ANGELA INTO MARRIAGE. Again, he presumed to act on her behalf in order to get what HE wanted. And so he loses her again.

Angela in S5 thinks about herself and what she wants and she tries to have both Andy and Dwight and so she ends up with neither.

After her marriage to the senator crashes and burns, Angela has to learn from her mistakes.

Like when Dwight makes his businesslike proposal to Angela, the Angela of early seasons would probably say yes to it- it's an improvement to her living situation, it's security and stability and respectability. But she's learned from her disastrous mistakes with Andy and the senator. She loves Dwight- she always has, she's just been unhealthy and immature about it- but she knows that for the relationship to work, both parties have to be equally enthusiastic. Dwight has to marry her for love and only love. Otherwise neither of them will be happy.

DWIGHT SCHRUTE & ANGELA MARTIN — The Office (2005-2013)

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