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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:27:26 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:27:26 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. **nods to both of you** Admiral Awesome! Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with this promotion. ;D
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:28:14 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:28:14 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. He is exceedingly pretty, isn't he? Those eyelashes, oh my!
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:31:12 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:31:12 GMT -5
Oh, not a cage match . . . Woo hoo, Anna!! "I don't fight girls." "Neither do I!" Yeah! **makes fist pumpy motion** I love that Casey looks impressed and starts thinking of her as a candidate right away. ;D Also? Just goes to show that Morgan is right to fear her. Bryce is sort of looking out for Chuck, and has been even back in college. Except of course he always protects him in a way that hurts him. So . . . And damn. His speech to Sara? I mean, he really is right about all those points. If this relationship was gonna be real then it would need to be real. Yes, he might be saying this partly to respond to what Bryce said about feelings interferring with the work, but it's also true. That was a seriously touching moment when they both plastered on the fake happy smiles and went back inside. Ha! I knew the glasses were more than just glasses. Bryce did it again. Anna rocks. And I liked how Bryce updated the Intersect. But couldn't he have warned Chuck first? Unless maybe Chuck couldn't know about it for it to work. Anna rocks like a rockin' thing. **nods** I'm thinking that a) Chuck doesn't want to be the intersect, and doesn't know Casey is supposed to kill him if he isn't, so Bryce was thinking if he warned him he wouldn't go for it and b) Bryce likes fucking with Chuck just a little bit.
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:33:12 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:33:12 GMT -5
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. **nods** Good, if slightly disheartening, point.
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Chuck
Oct 21, 2008 21:34:44 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 21, 2008 21:34:44 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? Chuck and Casey really can work rather nicely together if they want. And they have fun. ;D
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Chuck
Oct 23, 2008 13:20:11 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 23, 2008 13:20:11 GMT -5
Flashback time! Groove to the music, everybody! Ah, sweet nostalgia. Sarah's dad was a spy? Kinda like Jack and Syd? I love the hidden gun Casey has in his scanner. Hee! Chuck geeking out over the servers. Hee! But honestly, Chuck, what did Sarah say about not touching anything? Jenny Burton. Is Sarah's real name. Mark Ratner. That name sounds real familiar. Chuck decides to crash the party, just to be annoying. Asian-influence yogurt shops. I love the shade of green of Sarah's headboard. It's vibrant. Mark Ratner is such a dweeb. The "Big Mike's Office" sign. Hee! Jenny got into her class reunion without registering? And they had a name tag all printed out for her already even though she probably declined the RSVP? I'm thinking about this too much, aren't I? Wait, is everybody in Sarah's class involved in the crime world in some way? I'm surprised that the reunion seems to be going as well as it has been. I'm sorry, but this Buy More plotline is really dumb. Chuck is still into Sarah despite what he said in the last episode. Why didn't Chuck flash on girlfriend if she's involved? Chick fight! A classic from 1998 on a record? Gratuitous wet chick fight! I'm surprised that neither of them are wearing a white t-shirt. Sarah/Jenny was recruited, just like Syd. Ah, Jenny's not her real name either. Oh, Sarah's dad was a con artist, not a spy. Same difference. Ooh, I gotta get me an ankle holster.
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Chuck
Oct 23, 2008 13:23:40 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 23, 2008 13:23:40 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". [/quote] Oh, yeah. Hee!
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Chuck
Oct 23, 2008 13:24:21 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 23, 2008 13:24:21 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. Seriously, dude.
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Chuck
Oct 23, 2008 13:26:36 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 23, 2008 13:26:36 GMT -5
Anna rocks. And I liked how Bryce updated the Intersect. But couldn't he have warned Chuck first? Unless maybe Chuck couldn't know about it for it to work. Anna rocks like a rockin' thing. **nods** I'm thinking that a) Chuck doesn't want to be the intersect, and doesn't know Casey is supposed to kill him if he isn't, so Bryce was thinking if he warned him he wouldn't go for it and b) Bryce likes fucking with Chuck just a little bit. That does make sense.
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Chuck
Oct 23, 2008 13:30:18 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 23, 2008 13:30:18 GMT -5
Right there with you. Good episode. I love Casey. ;D Mad Dog? Chuck and Casey really can work rather nicely together if they want. And they have fun. ;D I did like how Casey was simultaneously exasperated with Chuck's unprofessional attempts to be spy like, but ran with Chuck's story and then embellished it nicely without skipping a beat.
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Chuck
Oct 23, 2008 19:00:57 GMT -5
Post by Matthew on Oct 23, 2008 19:00:57 GMT -5
Flashback time! Groove to the music, everybody! Ah, sweet nostalgia. <Snip> A classic from 1998 on a record? <Snip> Ooh, I gotta get me an ankle holster. I went to a couple of raves in the fall of '97, just before I graduated. "SMBU" is one song that I can actually personally vouch for as being on vinyl. Tons of others were released on vinyl; there was a particularly large market for them amongst the djs of those years. Studio tools and iPod-customized "turntable" interfaces are making them less and less prevalent, now, though.
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Chuck
Oct 23, 2008 19:29:51 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 23, 2008 19:29:51 GMT -5
Flashback time! Groove to the music, everybody! Ah, sweet nostalgia. <Snip> A classic from 1998 on a record? <Snip> Ooh, I gotta get me an ankle holster. I went to a couple of raves in the fall of '97, just before I graduated. "SMBU" is one song that I can actually personally vouch for as being on vinyl. Tons of others were released on vinyl; there was a particularly large market for them amongst the djs of those years. Studio tools and iPod-customized "turntable" interfaces are making them less and less prevalent, now, though. Ah, OK. My lack of knowledge can probably be attributed to having no social life in high school.
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Chuck
Oct 23, 2008 21:36:53 GMT -5
Post by Spaced Out Looney on Oct 23, 2008 21:36:53 GMT -5
Reading the twop recap...
Heather is played by Nicole Richie, in a bit of stunt casting that is every bit as successful as Paris Hilton in Veronica Mars. That's not a compliment.
Mark Ratner is played by Ben Savage, who I totally didn't recognize.
And Mark Ratner is from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which must be where I recognized it from.
Oh, and Heather is a reference to the movie Heathers.
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Chuck
Oct 27, 2008 19:11:58 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 27, 2008 19:11:58 GMT -5
Oooooh! Jeff backstory? And relevent Jeff backstory?! WTF!?
"You want me to hang out with Jeff?" ;D
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Chuck
Oct 27, 2008 19:15:55 GMT -5
Post by Lola m on Oct 27, 2008 19:15:55 GMT -5
Jeff made an Anna stalker music vid. OK, that's creepy. Almost as creepy as the drinking pants. 12 credits short of a real life. Oh, Ellie.
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