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The Halloween episode of Chuck was pretty much all you could have hoped for, unless you were hoping to see more of Sarah in that Princess Leia costume!
It was creepy in places, funny in parts, and had a cracking twist upon twist with Mama B double and triple crossing; lies within truth within lies.
Of course, a large part of the Bartowski family relationship seems to be about secrets and lies. The interesting thing is that both parents disappeared in order to protect Chuck and Ellie. Steven was Orion, and so left to protect them from his enemies, but in the case of Mary, did she disappear to protect them from her allies, or even protect them from herself?
Chuck’s desire to believe his mother’s story blinded him to the possibility that she may not have been all she claimed to be. He was aware of this just enough to acknowledge this and tell Sarah, but not enough to stop him from, possibly naively, believing her despite all that she’s done. I would probably have a hard time trusting anyone who shot me!
In the end, Casey lies to Morgan in order to protect Chuck from the truth. Then he teams up with Sarah to seize Mama B in order to both interrogate her and to protect Chuck from both her and himself.
This also lead to Chuck having to reveal to Ellie the reason that their mother left all those years ago, and in doing so, he may have revealed to her that he is still a spy.
Coupled with this story of maternal ambiguity was the often amusing Halloween plot featuring Dr. Stanley Wheelwright, played with zeal by the original Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund. Although this story was downright silly in places, such as the payoff with memories from Jeff’s demented brain saving the day, it was enjoyable fun.
I did wonder about the scene with the toxin device in Castle though. I assume that Chuck and Sarah thought it may explode if not de-activated; why else release Wheelwright? However, it doesn’t explain why, after the countdown restarted and accelerated on the double booby-trapped device, did Chuck just stand there as the gas was released? Also, wouldn’t Sarah have been exposed to some of the gas as well, since she was standing about 6ft away in an open area for about 20 seconds before Chuck initiated the lockdown?
After a couple of incidents in Castle involviing chemical agents being released, surely they’d have some sort of airtight blast-proof containers for just this sort of situation. Whoever deals with Inventory needs to get on that!
It was good to see Morgan still providing comic relief in both the Buy More and spy worlds. Only he would take a paintball gun to an informant meeting, although how he managed to hide it in that jacket without ruining the line of the suit baffles me! I think I also detected a Casey-style grunt from him. Is he taking on things from his mentors? With Big Mike he adopted a (small) fish plaque, with Casey is he adopting a grunt?
As always, I recommend checking out the latest ChuckYouTuesday podcast – just click the link to the Chuckgasmic blog in the side bar, but please remember it contains strong language.
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