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The continuing adventures of: Chuck vs [Adjective] [Noun]
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The basic spy plot wasn't really lame, just felt more of a setup for things to come (maybe because that's exactly what it was...). I kind of cringed at first over Sarah playing with the collectibles, I mean Morgan may need to grow up etc, but that seemed stretching it a bit, but then it turned amusing and then of course semi-serious. Show does that well.
So they built an entire new hallway and...something at the end of said hallway, and Chuck and Sarah aren't supposed to know about it? Ooook. I do like how they acknowledged Casey is being kind of side lined and then show (one reason) why he's still around. Someone has to rack up the bodies when needed.
I kind of hope Vivian isn't heading towards the obvious, but not sure where else she could go, so.
Oh yes: "GB" and Beckman didn't call Morgan out on it, ha.
And the more I think about it, the more Vivian would be a great villain for Chuck, in the style of the good non-Joker Batman villains.
I liked Jeffster being the key to the baby being quiet. It's overused but here it works.
Totally ruined my immersions. Disbelief is unsuspended again. A+ would watch again.
Maybe Awesome and Ellie, which has more right to be called "Elliesome" than Sarah and Chuck should be called "Charah", are so frazzled that it actually seems like it's been 3 months to them.
Please, call me ebo. I generally play TF2, Dungeon Defenders, Blood Bowl, and someday DotA 2.
I'd like to nominate Vivian's just riding on back to the stable to be confronted by Boris when she knows all her CIA protection is out in the woods and she was heading out there in the first place to ... do... something....
Its fascinating to me that we usually get more character development for the occasional one-shot villains in the filler episodes than we do for the full-blown story arc villains.
Sure we did. They wanted to make their own intersect-powered superagents. That was all.
Steam: DigitalArcanist | XBoxLive: DigitalArcanist | PSN: DigitalArcanist | Backloggery: Houn
Okay, except for that one cameo he made in the Psych Twin Peaks parody episode.
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I was actually pleasantly surprised they didn't turn Vivian right off. I hope the ending is just another red herring, the lawyer can take things over when she decides at the last minute she doesn't want to be anything like her father. Or there are the various ways they can use her to screw Chuck up. She gets killed Chuck blames himself, she falls for Chuck and goes evil since he is taken, she's been evil this whole time and it's a Master Plan etc etc. But her staying on the up and up would be the biggest surprise.
Sarah's "I never thought I would say this, but: I felt like a princess." was funny and nice to hear. Happy Sarah doesn't show up often enough.
Casey is getting the short end of the stick, but they did cram everyone in except Awesome. I have faith they'll have him blow something up to redeem his lack of...blowing stuff up.
Total speculation spoiler:
On a similar note, there were some rumors that Yvonne was in the running for Miss Marvel in the Avengers.
? Really? What's Yvonne done since Chuck started, other than Mass Effect? Zachary Levi's doing Alvin and the Chipmunks and he did Tangled.
Also... I'm not really sure Sarah Lancaster can... you know... act. I remember her from Everwood and What About Brian, and even in Chuck, I'm not particularly impressed with her chops.
Of the people who even see Sarah regularly, who doesn't know she's a spy? Jeffster, Big Mike, and Clara?
Before you'd often have the elements from the mundane activities from the Buy More intrude into Chuck's missions, or he'd figure out a solution that Casey and Sarah would be blind to because of something that happened in the Buy More prior - like the first ep of season two where he convinced a group of terrorists that Morgan and his Call of Duty buddies were actually a black ops team surrounding the building. That doesn't happen anymore. What happens now is he comes across a relationship problem with Sarah, and they bicker about it while doing spy stuff. It feels really lazy and its not nearly as entertaining nor does it bring me to the edge of my seat the way that the constant blurring of spy world and personal life used to.
I understand that its evolved from that point, and that because of the pressure throughout season 3 to make Chuck a "real spy" they threw obstacles in his way that only actual spy work could overcome, until that became the status quo of the episodes. The 50% of the show that used to involve Chuck's inventiveness has now been replaced by flashing kung-fu (which I'm really tired of, by the way)
The show is still enjoyable, but I don't think its changed for the better. It should end soon, on a graceful note.
How the hell did Lawyer McOldGuy even get into the bank? Was he just waiting up there ahead of time on the random off-chance that Vivian would one day return to the bank? Or does he have mad stealth skills and he managed to sneak past both Sarah and Chuck plus all of the bank security AND the Dharma guy from Lost?