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PLOT:
Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a twenty-something in Greater Los Angeles who works as a computer expert in the Nerd Herd at his local Buy More (parodies of Best Buy's Geek Squad),[12] a large retail consumer-electronics chain, with his best friend, Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez). Chuck's sister Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) and her now-husband Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb (Ryan McPartlin) are doctors who are constantly encouraging Chuck to make progress in his professional and romantic life.
At the beginning of the series, Chuck receives an e-mail from Bryce Larkin (Matthew Bomer), his former Stanford University roommate, who is now an apparently "rogue" CIA agent. When he opens it, the entire database of all the US government's secret information—a neural supercomputer called The Intersect—is subliminally embedded into his brain. Both the NSA and the CIA want the intelligence returned to them and dispatch agents of their own—Colonel John Casey (Adam Baldwin) and Agent Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski)—to retrieve the data.
Since the information was stolen by Bryce and the government's copy is destroyed in his attempted escape, and since Chuck experiences "flashes" of information from the database activated by certain triggers around him (such as faces, voices, in-context keywords, and various objects), he must use the knowledge he now possesses to help the government thwart assassins and international terrorists—upending his previously uneventful life. In order to preserve their safety, Chuck must keep his newfound occupation a secret from his family and friends, forcing Casey and Walker to establish an uneasy alliance and secret identities; Walker poses as Chuck's girlfriend and takes a cover job at a local restaurant near the Buy More while Casey reluctantly goes undercover as part of the Buy More team.
As the series progresses, it is revealed that rogue spies are engaged in a secret war with the legitimate intelligence community, and that Bryce stole the Intersect to keep the real rogue spies from capturing it. The rogue spies believe they can aid their cause by capturing the human Intersect or by building their own Intersect.
The government, meanwhile, wishes to rebuild the Intersect. This would make the Intersect in Chuck’s head redundant, making him a national security risk, so Casey is secretly under orders to kill Chuck if and when he becomes redundant.
Chuck, Sarah and Casey all face professional conflicts as they grow to respect each other and a genuine romantic interest develops between Chuck and Sarah. Chuck’s desire to maintain his close relationships and eventually return to a normal life is challenged by the dangers and growing responsibilities of his new secret life, and he gradually becomes a more competent, confident and willing spy.
As of Season 3, Chuck has willingly decided to become a real spy, to Sarah's chagrin. Although he failed "spy school," his effectiveness in the field has led General Beckman to give him a second chance and reinstate him as a member of the team, where Daniel Shaw is introduced to encourage his development as an agent. Chuck must now learn to balance his emotions to control the Intersect, which is complicated by his lingering feelings for Sarah.
CAST:
Zachary Levi (AKA: Chuck Bartowski, AKA: Agent Charles Carmichael)
Yvonne Strahovski (AKA: Agent Sarah Walker, AKA: Sam Lisa **classified**)
Adam Baldwin (AKA: Colonel John Casey, AKA: Alexander Coburn, AKA: Angel de la Muerta)
Scott Krinsky & Vik Sahay (AKA: Jeffrey "Jeff" Barnes & Lester Patel, AKA: Jeffster, AKA: The Buymore 'Crew')
Joshua Gomez (AKA: Morgan Grimes, AKA: The Morgan, AKA: The Beard, AKA: The Best Friend)
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Stolen from wikipedia
PLOT:
Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a twenty-something in Greater Los Angeles who works as a computer expert in the Nerd Herd at his local Buy More (parodies of Best Buy's Geek Squad),[12] a large retail consumer-electronics chain, with his best friend, Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez). Chuck's sister Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) and her now-husband Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb (Ryan McPartlin) are doctors who are constantly encouraging Chuck to make progress in his professional and romantic life.
At the beginning of the series, Chuck receives an e-mail from Bryce Larkin (Matthew Bomer), his former Stanford University roommate, who is now an apparently "rogue" CIA agent. When he opens it, the entire database of all the US government's secret information—a neural supercomputer called The Intersect—is subliminally embedded into his brain. Both the NSA and the CIA want the intelligence returned to them and dispatch agents of their own—Colonel John Casey (Adam Baldwin) and Agent Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski)—to retrieve the data.
Since the information was stolen by Bryce and the government's copy is destroyed in his attempted escape, and since Chuck experiences "flashes" of information from the database activated by certain triggers around him (such as faces, voices, in-context keywords, and various objects), he must use the knowledge he now possesses to help the government thwart assassins and international terrorists—upending his previously uneventful life. In order to preserve their safety, Chuck must keep his newfound occupation a secret from his family and friends, forcing Casey and Walker to establish an uneasy alliance and secret identities; Walker poses as Chuck's girlfriend and takes a cover job at a local restaurant near the Buy More while Casey reluctantly goes undercover as part of the Buy More team.
As the series progresses, it is revealed that rogue spies are engaged in a secret war with the legitimate intelligence community, and that Bryce stole the Intersect to keep the real rogue spies from capturing it. The rogue spies believe they can aid their cause by capturing the human Intersect or by building their own Intersect.
The government, meanwhile, wishes to rebuild the Intersect. This would make the Intersect in Chuck’s head redundant, making him a national security risk, so Casey is secretly under orders to kill Chuck if and when he becomes redundant.
Chuck, Sarah and Casey all face professional conflicts as they grow to respect each other and a genuine romantic interest develops between Chuck and Sarah. Chuck’s desire to maintain his close relationships and eventually return to a normal life is challenged by the dangers and growing responsibilities of his new secret life, and he gradually becomes a more competent, confident and willing spy.
As of Season 3, Chuck has willingly decided to become a real spy, to Sarah's chagrin. Although he failed "spy school," his effectiveness in the field has led General Beckman to give him a second chance and reinstate him as a member of the team, where Daniel Shaw is introduced to encourage his development as an agent. Chuck must now learn to balance his emotions to control the Intersect, which is complicated by his lingering feelings for Sarah.
CAST:
Zachary Levi (AKA: Chuck Bartowski, AKA: Agent Charles Carmichael)
Yvonne Strahovski (AKA: Agent Sarah Walker, AKA: Sam Lisa **classified**)
Adam Baldwin (AKA: Colonel John Casey, AKA: Alexander Coburn, AKA: Angel de la Muerta)
Scott Krinsky & Vik Sahay (AKA: Jeffrey "Jeff" Barnes & Lester Patel, AKA: Jeffster, AKA: The Buymore 'Crew')
Joshua Gomez (AKA: Morgan Grimes, AKA: The Morgan, AKA: The Beard, AKA: The Best Friend)
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V was killed by terrible writing and acting, not its hiatus.
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I left the Plot out of date so that it wouldnt spoil much if at all.
I'm going to add Morgan though, since upon introspection, he really does require an entry.
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Just a comment about the Intersect and the building thereof;
If the answer is just that this is how things work in the Chuck-verse, I'd be ok with it. I just think that the writers have the ability to go beyond the basic "baddie gets foiled once again and has to start from square one on the same plan".
Also, I'm curious what the other branches of The Ring are like, if Fulcrum was just part of the greater group. Or, since we know the name of the group as a whole, do we just assume that we've been seeing lots of other groups but don't differentiate themselves into the smaller groups anymore. For TV viewer's sake it makes sense to just refer to everyone as Ring operatives from now on but it would be cool for the smaller groups to get more fleshed out as time goes on. My idea from Chuck vs. the Ring was that the five silhouettes might represent the leaders of the five groups that make up the whole.
EDIT: Bryce's invisible ghost should come back for a while, just get Matt Bomer to do some voiceovers. Maybe Morgan can carry around a cardboard cutout of him (because I just realized that not seeing Matt Bomer on screen kind of defeats the purpose of having him on the show).
I suspect:
Oh that's just a cop out. And probably right. This is what I get for reading too much into things (and not checking guest star appearance dates).
Riiiiiiiiight I forgot that he was on the run from the NSA for all those years. That's why it's been so hard to build another. Okay nevermind, things make more sense now.
The ratings appear a bit low, but it seems like NBC doesn't really have any other options to throw up to replace Chuck. I would assume the main demographic that likes Chuck probably isn't watching the show when it's on TV, but are using DVR or watching it online.
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I even let the last one sit to pg 103 (mostly because I wasnt reading it to try and avoid spoilers), but no one else wanted to do it. So now you get slacker version!
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Hopefully the ratings tick up to a 2.3 or so on the magic bullshit box. You're probably right deVcharles, a lot of people probably watch it not-live. It's too bad that doesn't help the show at all. Hell, even though they keep telling everyone to watch it live THAT doesn't even help 99% of the time. Such a stupid system...
I even watch it on the (re)broadcasters website, so they get advertisment revenue etc.
Edit: Also, going to their website means only 4 or 5 commercials an episode, instead of 15+ from TV.
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:whistle: Morgan's mom has got it going on
Morgan's mom has got it going on :whistle:
You're not the target demographic for a Neilson box. Was it in this thread that someone posted evidence that Neilson viewers are too goddamn dumb to even tell the time? Ratings drop by a two-digit figure whenever we move the clocks ahead/back.
Why networks continue to use that as a relevant measure I'll never understand.
It's not like watching it online doesn't get them revenue.
They get WAY more revenue from the live ads.
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Yeah. Chuck S2 really has to go down as one of the best seasons of TV that's come around in a long time.
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Pretty sure it ain't secret. Unless Beckman is being unusually dense.
West Wing's second, Veronica Mars' first, and Friday Night Lights' first are the only ones that I would put in the same category (never seen The Wire, which I imagine would also be up there).
I would like to see one of these shows with a serious "will they won't they" factor try keeping it secret from the audience. So like there's a peak in the unresolved sexual tension between the two characters at the end of one episode, then it's just completely gone the next one. Everyone thinks it's bad writing until like the season finale when everyone figures out they've been banging for months.
Not that I think they'll go 'It's a secret' route, but Chuck and Sarah have been 'involved' for a long time and Beckman has been more or less ignoring it for (plot) whatever reasons. So it's not like they can't have them try and downplay it in front of the cameras just to avoid the fraternization issue.
But then they'd have Bryce come back or something, so I'm not really liking this idea in the end either. :P
Actually, I just read an article that said that networks are now starting to watch DVD sales more in regards to a show's health and whether or not to renew.
Unfortunately, now I can't find the article again.
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Wouldn't matter in this case, WB makes Chuck so they get most of the DVD sales.
I actually completed the line, hoping against hope that would be it. I was quite pleased when it was.
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