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Last night saw the season finale of Chuck and just like the seasons before, it shook things up, or to use the traditional Chuck finale phrase, it was a game changer. Although the season has had patchy moments, it’s fair to say that these last couple of episodes have been strong.
Despite the fact that I knew they would never kill off Sarah, it had me gripped. What made it such an involving episode were the reactions of everyone else to the threat of her death and the drama that resulted from that.
It was such a compelling episode that I forgot to check in my viewership via the GetGlue app for the first half hour!
With Sarah at death’s door, Chuck was willing to risk everything to save her, with or without the Intersect. This was Chuck’s ‘Phase Three’, going all out, no matter what the cost, to save the woman he loves.
Although he’s been without the Intersect before, he was driven to embrace being a normal spy. Charles Carmichael might be a super-spy with all the powers of the Intersect, but we all know that Chuck Bartowski is more than that. It was a real moment for him when he realised that he could save the day using the skill set that he developed before he opened that email and all he has learned during his time as a spy.
The whole deal with Vivian Volkoff never really struck a chord with me. I’ve said in previous posts that she never seemed like a competent villain, especially following on from Timothy Dalton’s turn as Alexei. In truth, she never seemed like a fully enough realised character for anyone to love or hate. Even in this episode I felt rather indifferent about her, but I was happy that Hartley was reunited with her and that they were both given a second chance.
During the standoff in front of the hospital where all of the Russians parachute in, I was half expecting a Red Dawn reference. Wolverines!
I had discussed on Twitter, knowing the shows love of twists at the end, and the fact that they’d want to keep something back for a possible fifth season, that the wedding may not actually take place and that it was all in Sarah’s fevered mind. Guess I was wrong about that!
For the past couple of seasons, as Chuck has immersed himself further into the spy world, the torch was passed to Morgan. He became the kind of character that Chuck was when the show started, an extension of the viewer, thrown into this crazy world of espionage.
Now, with Morgan being Intersected, the metaphor is complete. Morgan IS the new Chuck.
*Although I thought you had to have a certain kind of ‘special’ brain to handle the Intersect. Obviously they’re more common than we were led to believe!
Of course, there is the possibility that Chuck could regain the Intersect at some point during the next season. Decker stated that the retrofitted sunglasses were a “suppression device”, so it’s not been removed, more locked away. It would certainly make for a great scene having both Chuck and Morgan using Intersect skills to take out an army of bad guys.
This episode could have made a splendid series finale with a lot of things coming pretty much full circle. It was a fairy tale ending; the bad guy was defeated, Flynn Rider Chuck marries his princess and the kingdom Buy More was saved.
But of course, there’s the classic Chuck twist, which leaves the whole thing open to more adventures.
Everything that has happened to Chuck and his family and friends since that fateful day Bryce Larkin sent him the email has been part of a big plan. Someone has been controlling the fates of Team Bartowski and those around them.
*Could the big bad for season 5 be a shady duo collectively known as Schwedak? Well, they have been controlling the lives of Team B from the start!
Now the stage is set for the fifth and final season of Chuck. Knowing it’s the last will allow some form of closure for a TV show that’s been a significant part of our lives for the past few years.
The campaigning will not let up; we have been issued a challenge to get 10 million viewers for Chuck to secure more than the 13 ordered episodes. If there’s anything Chuck fans know how to do, it’s to put everything behind our favourite show and push to get it noticed.
Hopefully the move to Fridays will help and not hinder that movement, despite it being the traditional day to put shows out to pasture.
What would you like to see happen in Season 5? How would you wrap up the characters stories?
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