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Well folks, that’s it. Last night saw the two-hour series
finale of Chuck and it was everything we’d been promised. It was full of
callbacks and emotion. Even a cold-hearted b*****d like me got a bit teary at
times.
Even although it was the final two episodes, they functioned
as one, to the point where they, again, dropped the opening credits for the
second hour.
The great thing about the finale is that it wasn’t just
trying to remind Sarah why she fell in love with Chuck, it also served to
remind us why we fell in love with the show.
It was funny, dramatic and touching in all the right
quantities. What other spy drama wears its heart on its sleeve so openly?
Of course, she didn’t kill Quinn, but came pretty close to
it, now he’s calling the shots pretending to be her handler. It’s quite amusing
that Bizarro Sarah mistakes Chuck’s goofy good nature for a trap – one of the
lighter moments of the episode.
Maybe it was just me, but Sarah seemed to soften slightly in
deciding not to blow up the D.A.R.P.A. Intersect room. Could it have been that
she didn’t see a need to kill Chuck, or perhaps it was just a disinclination to
blow up a government facility.
Some of Sarah’s memory starts to come back once Chuck takes
her to their dream home, although it’s not the house, or Chuck’s recounting of
the dreams they had for the house, but the names she and he carved into a door
frame.
Of course, once Quinn gets the Intersect glasses, Sarah is
of no use to him, so he verifies Chuck’s story, that he’s been deceiving her
and shoots at her. I think it was another step along the road that she was
concerned about Chuck after he took the bullet for her.
Casey showed his gentler side by turning up at Sarah’s old
room, telling her a bit about how they’d changed over the years and leaving the
DVD of her mission logs. It was nice to see Sarah falling in love with Chuck
via a series of small video diary entries.
Even although this all verified Chuck’s version of events,
Sarah still didn’t feel that connection as she couldn’t remember going through
all the things that made her fall in love with him.
The second episode saw Sarah back on the side of the good
guys and gunning for Quinn. This allowed for more nostalgia and allowed this to
be lighter as Chuck, and fate apparently, tried to take Sarah on a trip down
memory lane.
The episode gave some of the usually mute Buy Morons a line
or two of dialogue as Jeff and Lester were employed to help track down Sarah,
using their network of contacts, or as Lester put it; “Unleash the perverts!”
We had references to Fulcrum, The Ring and Ted Roarke within
the first few minutes of the episode, and the hits just kept on coming as
Sarah, Chuck and Morgan went on a mission to find Renny Deutch in Berlin. First
port of call was a restaurant that looked exactly like “El Compadre” in LA
where Chuck and Sarah had their first cover date.
Next was a Russian consulate where we got a chance to see
the pair dancing in eveningwear. This was followed by a trip to a Wienerlicious
where it seemed that Sarah remembered a little more of her missing 5 years.
In an act that mirrored parts of “Chuck Versus the Ring” and
his first mission in the pilot, Chuck once again put his personal desires aside
in order to do what was right and took on the responsibility of the Intersect.
Thanks to Sarah, Chuck used the ‘Irene Demova’ virus from
the pilot to defuse the bomb and save General Beckman, and likely a large part
of the audience from being blown up.
However, the day could not have been saved by Chuck were it
not for the intervention of a certain duo. One word: Jeffster!
Whereas in the season 2 finale, Jeffster played an unwitting
part in helping, in this episode they were very much in on the plan. Despite
turning up on their own initiative, they managed to save the day with a
performance of A-ha’s ‘Take On Me’, earning them a standing ovation and the
interest of a record producer from Germany.
In uploading the Intersect one last time, he was denied the
opportunity to use the glasses to restore Sarah’s memory. As the team
disbanded, with Casey leaving to go after Gertrude Verbanski, Sarah needed to
take some time to find herself.
More pieces of her memory must have been resurfacing as she
went to the beach where she had first told Chuck that he could trust her.
Taking advice from Morgan and following his heart, Chuck
found her there and they started to reconnect. We got a montage of the couples
important moments as Sarah asked Chuck to tell her their story and we fade to
black as they share another first kiss.
Whilst Chuck and Sarah may have had a slightly ambiguous
ending, others got their own happy endings. Alex and Morgan moved in together,
Casey off to find Verbanski, Ellie and Awesome moving out to Chicago, Jeff and
Lester getting a record contract. Even Big Mike got a happy ending, with Subway
moving in to the Buy More!
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“If you ever want to save the world again…. You know where I
am.” – Gen. Beckman.
It’s been a fun ride.
Josh Schwartz, Chris Fedak, Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski,
Adam Baldwin, Joshua Gomez, Sarah Lancaster, Ryan McPartlin, Scott Krinsky, Vik
Sahay, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Bonita Friedericy, Julia Ling, a whole host
of guest stars, all the writers, directors, producers and the rest of the crew.
All of you are responsible for a show that captured the hearts and minds of
people the world over, and for that we thank you from the bottom of our nerdy
little hearts.
*fade to black*
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