This season just keeps delivering the goods. Chuck Versus The Tic Tac may seem an odd title, but the episode was full of minty fresh drama and action. For those of you who watched the episode, the title makes perfect sense, if you haven’t watched yet, why the Chuck not?
Robert Patrick, probably most memorable as the liquid metal T-1000 in Terminator 2, guest starred as Casey’s old commander, James Keller, the guy who turned him from Alex Coburn into John Casey. He plays military types very well, and brought a menacing air to the character, as was needed.
The action sequence at Casey’s former fiancée’s house had me thinking of The Matrix for pretty much the first time since Chuck Versus The Predator. Chuck takes the Laudanol pill to calm his emotions and quell his fear and suddenly he becomes Neo, dodging bullets. All that was missing was bullet-time and the slo-mo 3D rotation.
I liked the parallel drawn between Casey and Chuck, Casey choking Keller to death and, not much later, Chuck being in danger of doing the same thing to another Ring agent. Interestingly, it seems that the antidote to the pill is Sarah Walker; Chuck sees her and his emotions come back, just in time.
I mentioned in a previous post about things being set up for later – this episode was less of a step in that direction and more of a leap. Casey was given his ‘second second chance’ by General Beckman and demoted to civilian, and how that must have hurt him. I think it pained him deeply; bad enough that he was giving Chuck relationship advice. Worse still, he’s now in a similar position to where Chuck started; the Buy More is his life now, but you just know that Casey being the kind of person he is will be the best he can be at that. There, that wasn’t as spoilery as it could have been!
Considering that this episode was written by Chuck first-timers Rafe Judkins and Lauren LeFranc, they managed to produce one of the best episodes of the season. Kudos. They had the spy action kick-assery for Chuck and a return to form for Sarah. There were two heartfelt chats, one between Sarah and Chuck, essentially her getting the ‘please don’t change, I love you for you,’ stuff off her chest, and one between Casey and Chuck regarding sacrifices made for the job.
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