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Chuck
Oct 15, 2008 13:58:55 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 15, 2008 13:58:55 GMT -5
Posted from LJ: Great show. I loved the hot dance between Sarah and Bryce. I loved Casey asking for a background check on Anna Wu. I loved Bryce updating Casey's brain with the sunglasses. I loved the guest star - the guy from Crossing Jordan - who played the rich guy. He is always excellent. And though I'm not a shipper of Chuck and Sarah at all, I thought the ending was very well acted by both of them and very moving. The stuff at the store with the big guys was a little predictable and boring but it did give us Anna kicking the head big guy's ass. Very entertaining. I'm so glad NBC has faith in this show by picking up the back 9 since it's getting clobbered by the competition. Move this gem NBC. Oh, I missed that part. Hee!
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Chuck
Oct 15, 2008 14:28:01 GMT -5
Post by Sue on Oct 15, 2008 14:28:01 GMT -5
OK, this is probably thinking too much about this again, but they access the information in the Intersect by having Chuck inspect things and see if he "flashes" on them. Since the real Intersect is a super computer in some bunker somewhere do they normally just take notes when they're on a mission and then go back and cross reference? Or do they have some kind of remote device that scans and beeps when it finds something that's on file in the Intersect? Excellent question. If I had to guess, I'd guess that field agents with micro-cameras constantly send millions of images back to the computer and it runs scans on all of that info. So, really, more useful than Chuck, who can only react to the limited amount of data that is right where he is.
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Chuck
Oct 15, 2008 14:30:49 GMT -5
Post by Sue on Oct 15, 2008 14:30:49 GMT -5
Posted from LJ: Great show. I loved the hot dance between Sarah and Bryce. I loved Casey asking for a background check on Anna Wu. I loved Bryce updating Casey's brain with the sunglasses. I loved the guest star - the guy from Crossing Jordan - who played the rich guy. He is always excellent. And though I'm not a shipper of Chuck and Sarah at all, I thought the ending was very well acted by both of them and very moving. The stuff at the store with the big guys was a little predictable and boring but it did give us Anna kicking the head big guy's ass. Very entertaining. I'm so glad NBC has faith in this show by picking up the back 9 since it's getting clobbered by the competition. Move this gem NBC. Loved Casey's reaction to Anna's performance; I could almost hear the Canna 'shippers being born. Chuck/Sarah angst always hits me where it hurts, and as you said the final scene with the two of them was particularly well-performed. One thing that really struck me for some reason was the contrast between Chuck and Heroes, particularly in the way Heroes has struggled to find any sort of thematic or tonal consistency while Chuck continues to very deftly manage a rather tricky balance between humor, action, and heart. ETA: Oh, and Captain Awesome was so far beyond awesome I decided he needs to be promoted to Admiral Awesome. Heroes has way (way) too many people and storylines. Chuck (ala Buffy): one MAIN character with a couple of semi-main, and then supporting folks. (Although, it is a tad dual-personality when it simply seems to run 2 parallel storylines that have very little overlap. And since I didn't find Morgan's story very compelling this week it was just "filler")
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Chuck
Oct 15, 2008 14:31:49 GMT -5
Post by Sue on Oct 15, 2008 14:31:49 GMT -5
Oh, and Bryce deserves to be sent to a hell dimension. OK, but can we make a cardboard cut out of him before we send him there? That much pretty shouldn't go entirely to waste. Very true. I think he's jealous because Chuck is taller than he is.
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Chuck
Oct 15, 2008 14:32:55 GMT -5
Post by Sue on Oct 15, 2008 14:32:55 GMT -5
I do not know where the writers will go from here, but I'm impressed that they haven't taken the usual pathway of denying his feelings, denying her feelings, spinning out the UST forever. Instead, she knows he's in love with her. He knows she has feelings for him. And they've had an honest adult conversation about why, in spite of reciprocal feelings a long-term relationship isn't going to work. So it looks like they've decided against any "fling". I"m really curious to see how this continues. But I really was quite surprised at their rational laying out of the future. And, Oh, my gosh, if you have the ep saved go back and rewatch their faces as they stand in front of the door. It was like some kind of acting exercise: go from sad and resigned to all's happy and hunky-dory in 1.5 seconds flat. I mean, I knew they were going to put on "happy faces" but I was stunned at how quickly and how realistically they did it. Great stuff. I continue to be impressed by the show's macro writing as well. I'm real glad that the will they/won't they question isn't going to become the center of everything the way it would be on some lesser shows. They also addressed the question about the Intersect going out of date that a lot of us were wondering about in the first season. Chuck appears to be taking the next step towards realizing a more mature self, which is neat (keeping in with the theme of show). I'm not sure what their flirtation with dating did for Sarah. Maybe to help put the mistakes she made with Bryce behind her. It humanized her. Which, in her current job might be considered an evoluntionary step down, rather than up.
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Chuck
Oct 16, 2008 15:30:51 GMT -5
Post by Squeemonster on Oct 16, 2008 15:30:51 GMT -5
Posted from LJ: Great show. I loved the hot dance between Sarah and Bryce. I loved Casey asking for a background check on Anna Wu. I loved Bryce updating Casey's brain with the sunglasses. I loved the guest star - the guy from Crossing Jordan - who played the rich guy. He is always excellent. And though I'm not a shipper of Chuck and Sarah at all, I thought the ending was very well acted by both of them and very moving. The stuff at the store with the big guys was a little predictable and boring but it did give us Anna kicking the head big guy's ass. Very entertaining. I'm so glad NBC has faith in this show by picking up the back 9 since it's getting clobbered by the competition. Move this gem NBC. Loved Casey's reaction to Anna's performance; I could almost hear the Canna 'shippers being born. OMG, my brain did not go there, but now it has. ;D That would be hi-larious. Indeed. Very emotional, yet understated, and well-played scene. You could so see all the turmoil going on inside of each of them. Wordy McWord. I am so totally an Admiral Awesome groupie. ;D
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 20:23:04 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 20:23:04 GMT -5
OMG, is this Sara backstory? Whoa! Heee! She's so worried about Chuck and he's busy ogling the computer. ;D "We went to high school together!" And Sara was a total geeky outcast! This? Too perfect!
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 20:33:15 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 20:33:15 GMT -5
Heeee! So, are both of these women in the same kind of biz? And do they each have a cover guy they are pretending to be with? Only Sara actually likes hers?
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 20:49:56 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 20:49:56 GMT -5
Heeee! Casey loooooves the bomber. And that really disturbs Chuck. And Lester is setting loose armageddon on the Buy More, isn't he? Big Mike is gonna kill him. "That's gonna end badly." "I know Chuck. That's part of the fun." ;D Oooooooh. Sara!Jenny is pissed off[/u]. And I'd watch out, mean-ex-high-school girl; Jenny might have been a geek but Sara can kill you with her little finger. "He's no one." "That's a little hurtful." So, mean girl isn't in the same spy biz, she's just a bored wife? "Bullies are like bears, they're more afraid of you than you are of them. Or is that bees? Actually it is bees. When you're dealing with the Russian mob . . . " Ha! Chuck gets to be the super spy guy and "Jenny knows nothing".
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:00:16 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:00:16 GMT -5
Chuck and Casey playing "good spy, bad spy"? Mad Dog?! The fearful/tearful "this scar reminds me . . . every day!" Oh! The reunion! It's gonna be like "Gross Pointe Blank"!! (Love that movie. And I often get a GPB vibe from Burn Notice too.) And Lester? $3700 is, well, way less than I would have thought considering how enthusiastically the sales guys took to the "new" sales idea. OMG, they're gonna throw a kegger to raise money? Oy! Oh my. Sara punching the bag? Damn!! Hot!! **fans self** If I went to a reunion and they had giant pics of us haning up? Well, I may not be a deadly spy, but someone would die. Slowly and painfully.
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:05:39 GMT -5
Post by Squeemonster on Oct 21, 2008 21:05:39 GMT -5
Chuck and Casey playing "good spy, bad spy"? Mad Dog?! The fearful/tearful "this scar reminds me . . . every day!" Oh! The reunion! It's gonna be like "Gross Pointe Blank"!! (Love that movie. And I often get a GPB vibe from Burn Notice too.) And Lester? $3700 is, well, way less than I would have thought considering how enthusiastically the sales guys took to the "new" sales idea. OMG, they're gonna throw a kegger to raise money? Oy! Oh my. Sara punching the bag? Damn!! Hot!! **fans self** If I went to a reunion and they had giant pics of us haning up? Well, I may not be a deadly spy, but someone would die. Slowly and painfully. Right there with you. Good episode. I love Casey. ;D Mad Dog?
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:06:09 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:06:09 GMT -5
All the secrets are spilling out now. And finding out this guy is mob connected just gives a perfect opportunity to kill this jerk. Casey!!! The DJ!!!!!!! Oh, I can die happy now. ;D
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:14:43 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:14:43 GMT -5
Sorry. Just working out some childhood issues. Aha!! And wifey is in on things! **does dorky arm pump** Oh, Lester. Not the marlin. Anything but the marlin. **facepalm** Yay! Chuck with his quick tongue and Casey and Sara with their mad fighting skillz? Save the day! Woo hooo! Also? Nice way to crush your high school enemy. Go cougers. And a crown is never a bad thing.
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:21:35 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:21:35 GMT -5
OMG, how cute was the little animated dino with the pizza slice in his mouth?!
Love seeing the Buy More gang pull together at the end. And Morgan! Morgan saved the marlin!
And Lester steps down. "Norman?" ;D ;D
Oh wow. Even more backstory. Oh, wow wow. She was never "just another high school girl". This is so excellent! And "Jenny" wasn't really her name either.
Awwwww, Chuck. Past doesn't matter, he knows who she is now.
Great ep!
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:23:39 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:23:39 GMT -5
OK, this is probably thinking too much about this again, but they access the information in the Intersect by having Chuck inspect things and see if he "flashes" on them. Since the real Intersect is a super computer in some bunker somewhere do they normally just take notes when they're on a mission and then go back and cross reference? Or do they have some kind of remote device that scans and beeps when it finds something that's on file in the Intersect? That's a very good question. How is the "real" intersect supposed to be used?
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