Chuck Vs The American Hero was another episode that contributes to the over-use of the word ‘Awesome’.
The American Hero of the title seems to be Shaw, Gen. Beckman refers to him as “..a true American Hero” as he was willing to sacrifice himself for the good of his country. We know that his agenda was more based on revenge and that the patriotism was pretty much a bonus.
Talking of hidden agendas, Casey, Morgan and Awesome all helped on Chuck’s ‘mission’ to win back Sarah for their own reasons. Casey wanted out of the Buy More and back into the spy life, Morgan wanted to be more included in the spy life, and Awesome wanted Chuck to go so that he no longer had to lie to Ellie.
Jeff and Lester proved that they are indeed world-class stalkers, managing to tail Shaw and The Ring agents without being spotted. Kudos. If they weren’t quite so creepy/stalker types they’d probably be impressive spies. An honourable mention must go to Jeff’s van ‘Loretta’, who managed to keep up with Shaw’s sports car – well, the van is honourable, the activities it’s used for are probably less so.
We had this season’s reference to ‘Spies Like Us’ with the soda machine elevator. If you haven’t seen the film, go and rent it during the two-week hiatus. It stars Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase and is a great film.
Season 1 had GLG-20, Season 2 gave us ‘Doctor, doctor, doctor … and doctor’, Chevy Chase, and, maybe by sheer coincidence, the character Emmett Milbarge – a combination of the title characters from Spies Like Us, Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge.
By the end of the episode Shaw knows that Sarah killed his wife as her Red Test, that would have been a bit of a roadblock in the relationship, were it not that she’d already chosen Chuck over Shaw. Considering she said that she was no longer in love with Chuck, she made a very quick turnaround when Casey revealed that he was the one who killed Hunter Perry on Chuck’s Red Test. This also reveals how much of a shipper Casey is; he’s willing to compromise himself in order to get Chuck and Sarah together. He sees that the two of them need each other to function properly.
Sarah has very much had the role of damaged goods for a lot of this season, having had her heart broken and seen changes in Chuck that she despised in herself. She’s had a crisis of confidence and of personality all because of Chuck. The most prominent occasions have been when she’s away from Chuck, she felt that she couldn’t talk to him because of the heartbreak and so confided in Shaw, who it has been stated is “as stiff as a board”.
Sure, we’ve had occasions where she’s gone back to being the kick-ass chick we love. Versus The Tic Tac is, for me, the best example of this, and of course, she crumbled and went crying back to Shaw when she saw Chuck about to kill a Ring agent in cold blood. Hopefully now that Chuck and Sarah are getting together, so long as manic Shaw doesn’t go completely mental, we should see a strengthening of the relationship that we left in First Class.
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