This Week on Chuck

[revena]

Meh. Didn't much care for this episode. I'm getting reeeally tired of Chuck being such a baby about things. A certain level of optimism and idealism is integral to the character, but seeing Sarah kill a guy - a guy who was threatening to kill his sister not long before - shouldn't be such an earth-shattering moment for him. He knows what she does for a living, and people have already died because of the secrets in his head. Nothing new there.

I was also super-disappointed in Awesome. Repeatedly plotting to take on an armed and apparently unstable individual, even as people you trust are warning you off? Is not awesome.

I liked the quirky bits of humor. Casey's wrapping-paper injuries, the people everyone chose to call, Big Mike's cousin, even the toe-shooting incident had some funny bits to it (and also now Casey only has nine toes. It'll be interesting to see how many fics that strange factoid works its way into). But with all the SRS BUSINESS stuff that was just not interesting, it wasn't enough.

Comments

[fiareynne.livejournal.com]

I think that it's important to note that Chuck missed the part where the guy was telling Sarah all about how the other Fulcrum agents would look for him, and nobody would be able to stop them once they knew about Chuck, and just heard the part where the guy was turning himself over to her to be arrested. To Chuck, it seemed like she shot a man who was surrendering, in cold blood.

[revena.livejournal.com]

Very true. And being freaked out about stuff is very Chuck.

[fiareynne.livejournal.com]

Plus, she lied about it, to his face.

[revena.livejournal.com]

That part I thought was very interesting! It seems like Casey is pretty focused on just physically protecting Chuck, but Sarah has a big thing invested in keeping him "innocent" (not the right word, but I think you'll know what I mean), as well. I'm thinking it's related to Sarah herself having been raised on the grift, and never really having that kind of trust even as a kid.

[fiareynne.livejournal.com]

I think you're probably right about that... unfortunately, keeping Chuck in the dark about the grittier side of their dealings could ultimately be the thing that gets him killed in spite of Casey's efforts.

[revena.livejournal.com]

*nods* I'd really like to see Chuck getting some basic training and education from his handlers (he can't pick everything up from skimming a manual). Some more team dynamics stuff would be fun, I think, and could take some of the pressure off the UST.

[fiareynne.livejournal.com]

From your mouth to Schwartz and Fedak's ears.

[aphrodeia.livejournal.com]

AHA. Good point. I was feeling a little "Buh?" about it, too.

I wasn't a huge fan of the episode, but there were some great moments in terms of the scenes themselves. Great framing, pacing, scoring... some of the scenes really got me.

But I'm sentimental like that. :)

[revena.livejournal.com]

I'm often very impressed by the music and framing and etc. in Chuck.

[quatrelenium.livejournal.com]

I was also puzzled by the fact that Chuck was surprised that Sarah killed that dude. He knows what she does for a living!

[revena.livejournal.com]

Though, as Fia reminded me, Chuck's shock probably had more to do with thinking that Sarah was gunning down a guy who had just peacefully surrendered. Still, I wish the writers had gone in a different direction with that.

[eziekialjones.livejournal.com]

you've finally done it, as I type the first season is downloading so that I might know this glory of Chuck

[revena.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, and the black hole of Robyn's hobbies functions once again!

[starline.livejournal.com]

I was also disappointed in Awesome for the same reasons.

[revena.livejournal.com]

In. Deed.

I might be extra-twitchy about stuff like that because I'm a martial arts instructor, but srsly!