Since the Office is such a character based show, I decided to write this review on a character by character basis. Enjoy!
Great Scott!
This episode made me feel sorry for Michael in several, fourth-wall-breaking ways. I feel like he’s just trying to stay afloat (he mention being loaded with work) and he keeps grabbing onto inappropriate life rafts, like Pam’s baby (see Best Writing) and Jim’s secret meetings and The Most Awkward Cold Open in History. I also feel like he’s being written kind of oddly- I can’t decide if the cheese cart invention was in character or not. I realize that as he gets more and more desperate to be in on Jim’s meeting, his ideas get more and more bizarre…but the cheese cart just made me feel funny. Although Andy’s Iron Chef-eqsue monologue about the various condiments that make up the cart was genius. By the time Jim confronts Michael about the lost promotion, (going back to my lovely afloat metaphor) Michael is merely clutching to a scrap of table leg being sucked down by the Titanic.
Big Tuna
I really hated Jim in this episode, and I probably shouldn’t have. I thought he was too mean to Michael- he should have known that the closed board meeting would have driven him completely batshit insane- and the only thing I liked about him this episode was his hair and the way he looked in his suit. One of the comments I jotted down (when he and Wallace came out of the meeting) was “WTF JIMMMMM” and I’m still thinking that about him. I do feel sorry for Halpert about the way Michael used Toby’s Pam-lust/Jim-hatred against him. Two thumbs down.
Dwigt
I couldn’t believe Michael’s worst enemy and best known stalker would make a good detective team, but they sure as Hell did. This obvious B storyline was probably my favorite part of the episode. I honestly did not notice that Daryl’s sister (?) was a girl until way later. 
Pama-lama-ding-dong
Not much on Pam this episode. She looks way more professional now (as noted by my fellow Office fan Agar) and the Niagra Falls plan deserves about 15 Fancy New Beesly points.
Drew
I really wanted more development of the creepy cousin idea. It sounded funny, but also like an abandoned plotline. His cheese monologue redeemed him, however.
Favorite quotes:
“Please don’t talk about my breast milk” – Pam
“If we were in Communist Sweden…”- Dwight
“mind-effer”- something Andy said
“He is the new co-manager of your butt.”- Michael
Things I observed/ enjoyed/ felt like mentioning:
-So, how many Dunder-Mifflin branches are left now that Buffalo is gone? The company is dwindling…
-Did anyone else think Toby and Dwight in their car was a throwback to Branch Wars?
-What happened to blond Ryan?
-Michael is right about one thing. He is the best child to ever run the branch.
-If there is anyone I would never ever want to be, its David Wallace.
-Dwight’s anger at the end. That’s all I need to say.
I think Jim’s being mean to Michael was perfectly in-character and necessary. Increasingly throughout the series, particularly in the very last episode, Michael has consistently screwed Jim over – often just by being stupid, sometimes by being too over-involved. Jim has even had to mother Michael at times – see last episode’s scene in which he tries to keep him from taking Terri’s call. All this Michael-being-stupid culminated in him trying to avoid any involvement in the he and Wallace’s doings and his anger finally coming to a head when Michael finds a way to again ruin everything. I think it’s a natural and much-needed breaking point, not unlike Stanley had in the brilliant episode “Did I Stutter?”
That was much more verbose than I intended.
Well, yeah, Michael screws him over, but Jim has been characterized as the one who deals with Michael because he sees his good intentions beyond all of the stupidity. And wasn’t Jim essentially trying to take Michael’s job? What other promotion could there have been? What right does Jim have to be upset? I did think that Michael’s showing the bad review to Toby was mean, but it is justified. Michael wants a job too. I think that the writers are trying to make Jim more serious- he’s getting married, having a baby, and wanting a better career- but when was the last funny prank? Jim isn’t Jim anymore.
And…I was pretty verbose too.