The only Karen scenes that really bothered me were both in the finale. First, they had Karen talking-head that Pam is "kind of a bitch," which is kind of understandable from her perspective but seemed like they were trying too hard to turn audience sympathy away from Karen, to me. And then in New York, Karen was interviewing with the CFO when Jan came in and had her breakdown, and Karen was openly grinning/amused. Then, afterwards, Jim said, "Oh, I feel kind of bad for her," and Karen laughed and said, "Don't, she's nuts!" So, there was this kind of previously-unshown meanness there that kind of bothered me when it was already obvious which way Jim was leaning.

And, true, the show is generally really good at avoiding these kind of overkill moments, and I do respect that they made Karen such a generally positive character. I guess that made those two things especially jarring, because I didn't expect it of them.

Hee! Now if they don't do a Kelly-is-unable-to-take-Andy's-clinginess thing, I will be very sad.

Ooh, Jan/Karen, I could see that. They would totally take over the world if both of them were on their A-game.