This is what Daniels told THR about the upcoming season and ending it all off and tying up the loose ends with the characters and their wee story arcs and not wanting to drag the show on to the grave (quotes in blue, taken from THR),
“As we head into the homestretch, we have a lot of exciting things I’ve been wanting to do since season two,”
“The end should be pretty cool.”
“At some point you have a choice: to always tell the beginnings of stories and the middles or to allow a story to end, and I think endings can be very powerful and meaningful pieces of the story,” he said. “If we didn’t let it end this year, I don’t know if we would have been able to tell the endings for so many characters that I really want to know the endings for.”
“The real heart of the show are these arcs that allow these characters to have ongoing stories. It’s all going to be set up in the premiere,” Daniels said. “There’s so much to pay off from nine seasons, so many great characters, that my biggest concern is just tacking in these great ideas that the writing staff has on the walls and making sure we hit all of them or at least squeeze as many into the ending.”
He was finally asked about the return of Steve Carell's character Michael Scott ever coming back for an appearance in the final episode,
“We’ll see,” Daniels said of the idea to bring the actor back to the series that helped launch his career. “We have ideas for the ending, and obviously if he would participate, we would have a lot of good times. The idea will fly without him if he can’t make it. He is pretty busy.”
Well I can't sit back and say that I never saw this coming. I personally thought the creators would keep going with at least a 10th season, then end it, i mean round it off with 10 seasons. But it looks like it's happening right after this season instead. It's going to be quite sad to see it all end, because I loved this US version of "The Office" and I really truly don't want it to ever end..........SAD TIMES!!!
