Chuck series finale
Jan. 29th, 2012 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ria_oaksJust watched the Chuck series finale (bit late, yeah... ^^)
Aww, I'm going to miss this show. :( It's been one of my constants for the past 5 seasons. I never got super passionate about it but I also always enjoyed it pretty much consistently, always looked forward to it every Monday (and then Friday...), and always waited nervously for it to get renewed or cancelled. In fact, the only two posts I have tagged 'Chuck' are just posts from May 2009 and May 2010 saying 'yay Chuck's renewed!'.
But yeah, for all that it was never as for me emotional as, say, Supernatural, I've always loved the characters and they got under my skin after 5 seasons. Enough so that, although I've only cried a couple of times over this show, I pretty much lost it mid-way through the part 1 of the finale and didn't stop until after it was over.
Oh Chuck and Sarah. <3 I love you two, I really do. I loved the adorable flirting and UST and will-they-won't-they in the first couple of seasons, I loved the slow and gradual development of their relationship, and I actually loved the fact that they got together and stayed together and it wasn't massively dramatic for the most part - it was just... real. They loved each other and they had their problems but they worked it out and stayed together. I'm actually glad they didn't drag the will-they-won't-they out for 5 seasons, because that gets dull after awhile. I mean yeah, once they got together a lot of the central tension of the show dissipated I guess, but I still enjoyed watching their relationship evolve. And I had hearts in my eyes when Chuck proposed and when they got married and oh. So cute. :)
So yeah, I always figured it would be the kind of show to have a happy ending, and it basically did. No one died (and I gotta say, I have worried and half expected Casey to die constantly over the course of the show, but ultimately it's not the kind of show to kill main characters, which I am happy for...), and everyone ended up mostly happy or on the way to happiness. Even if Chuck and Sarah's ending is a bit bittersweet. :( I can't help but feel kind of sad over their ending just because it breaks my heart to think that Sarah doesn't remember the past 5 years with Chuck (and OH when he was telling her all the stories of how they got together and fell in love, and the little flashbacks to when he was so young and floppy haired and dorky and adorable). But it felt like they were on a path to rebuild, and hey, Chuck's just the kind of show where I could buy it if she really did miraculously remember everything when they kissed at the end. :) Which is what I am going to believe, because I need them to have their perfectly happy ending.
But yeah, seeing those flashbacks - I've never gone back and rewatched episodes of Chuck, so it always surprises me to see him in the early days again. It's funny, because at first it took awhile to get used to him being bad ass and having the shorter, non-floppy hair, but seeing the floppy hair again? It's so weird now! I'm used to the short hair. Makes him look a lot older and more mature, which is of course fitting with where he's come as a character. And oh god, I'm crying again lol. I didn't realize how invested I was in these characters - I've never been as intensely, passionately attached to them as I was to, say, Sam and Dean Winchester, but just thinking about how Chuck grew over the course of the five seasons, from the adorable nerd who didn't think he could ever be a spy to the mature and capable man he became - oh Chuck. <3 I really did love you a lot.
(just, the scene where he's trying to convince Sarah of their relationship, in the first part, when he starts crying and talking about how she fell in love with a nerd like him? BROKE MY HEART. Am still crying over here, guys.)
(And really just everything about part 1 of the finale - so painful and hard to watch. Part 2 was good too, but more along the lines of the comedy-action-with-some-drama that the show normally does. Part 1 was one of the serious-dramatic-painful episodes that they do less frequently but are always enjoyable as well. I always enjoyed the mix of genres on this show... I did find the Buy More storylines a bit tiresome in the later seasons, but they were always a part of the show and I generally liked that they kept them. And it helped to lighten things up when they became darker. And LOL at Jeffster saving the day. XD XD That was awesome. Another thing that was awesome? A couple of episodes ago when they saved the day and Lester came out decked out in all that weaponry and they were playing O Canada in the background. WTF. Amazing. Though I wasn't too crazy about parts of their storyline this year - smart!Jeff was funny, but the whole 'Lester almost accidentally killed Jeff because he's a fucking moron but somehow basically got away scot free and was forgiven' was a bit... annoying. Anyway though, I'm glad/amused that they found out the truth about Chuck et al in the end, and that they got to leave the Buy More to be awesome and ridiculous rock stars.)
What else... nice to see Linda Hamilton one more time. :) LOL'd at her pulling a gun on Sarah and Devon and Ellie being all "what did we say about firearms around the baby??" and Devon covering the baby's eyes. XD
It's strange to think I've never really posted about this show before. But if my tags are correct, I really haven't... yet I've watched it and looked forward to it consistently every week since it started. I'm going to miss it, quite a lot. There's not much left on TV that I'm all that invested in right now, other than Fringe and White Collar. Supernatural I am getting emotionally burnt out on and am a couple of eps behind now because I just... can't deal anymore. I will try to catch up, though. Need some distance I think. Am also behind on Glee, but that's always just been a fun show anyway, not one I'm that emotionally invested in. I miss Community, too. Sigh. Hope it comes back.
Anyway, thanks for a fun five years, Chuck Bartowski - I will miss thee... it's been good times. :) Ultimately I think I'm just happy that they decided to end it on their own terms in season 5, so there was no more renewal drama and no worries about cliffhangers or the show suddenly being pulled.
And now of course the real question is - what's next for Adam Baldwin? :) It's funny to think that, even though in a lot of ways he is still Jayne first to me, I know him way better as John Casey now. 14 eps + a movie versus 5 seasons. Go figure. Yet when I hear his name, I still think of Firefly first... anyway I'm looking forward to meeting him at Emerald City Comic Con. Haven't met him yet, so will probably splurge on a photo and an autograph. What the hell, eh?
(oh, and I totally want to go back now and watch the first episode of Chuck again. I haven't seen it since it first aired and barely remember it. Ickle!baby!adorable!nerdy!Chuck! Matt Bomer before he was Neal Caffrey! Good times.)
And huh, thinking about the first episode and Chuck getting the Intersect for the first time just made me realize something about the finale - umm, what happened to the Intersect that he downloaded into his brain at the end...? I assume he had it removed once the bomb was disarmed? Did they mention that and I just missed it??)
Aww, I'm going to miss this show. :( It's been one of my constants for the past 5 seasons. I never got super passionate about it but I also always enjoyed it pretty much consistently, always looked forward to it every Monday (and then Friday...), and always waited nervously for it to get renewed or cancelled. In fact, the only two posts I have tagged 'Chuck' are just posts from May 2009 and May 2010 saying 'yay Chuck's renewed!'.
But yeah, for all that it was never as for me emotional as, say, Supernatural, I've always loved the characters and they got under my skin after 5 seasons. Enough so that, although I've only cried a couple of times over this show, I pretty much lost it mid-way through the part 1 of the finale and didn't stop until after it was over.
Oh Chuck and Sarah. <3 I love you two, I really do. I loved the adorable flirting and UST and will-they-won't-they in the first couple of seasons, I loved the slow and gradual development of their relationship, and I actually loved the fact that they got together and stayed together and it wasn't massively dramatic for the most part - it was just... real. They loved each other and they had their problems but they worked it out and stayed together. I'm actually glad they didn't drag the will-they-won't-they out for 5 seasons, because that gets dull after awhile. I mean yeah, once they got together a lot of the central tension of the show dissipated I guess, but I still enjoyed watching their relationship evolve. And I had hearts in my eyes when Chuck proposed and when they got married and oh. So cute. :)
So yeah, I always figured it would be the kind of show to have a happy ending, and it basically did. No one died (and I gotta say, I have worried and half expected Casey to die constantly over the course of the show, but ultimately it's not the kind of show to kill main characters, which I am happy for...), and everyone ended up mostly happy or on the way to happiness. Even if Chuck and Sarah's ending is a bit bittersweet. :( I can't help but feel kind of sad over their ending just because it breaks my heart to think that Sarah doesn't remember the past 5 years with Chuck (and OH when he was telling her all the stories of how they got together and fell in love, and the little flashbacks to when he was so young and floppy haired and dorky and adorable). But it felt like they were on a path to rebuild, and hey, Chuck's just the kind of show where I could buy it if she really did miraculously remember everything when they kissed at the end. :) Which is what I am going to believe, because I need them to have their perfectly happy ending.
But yeah, seeing those flashbacks - I've never gone back and rewatched episodes of Chuck, so it always surprises me to see him in the early days again. It's funny, because at first it took awhile to get used to him being bad ass and having the shorter, non-floppy hair, but seeing the floppy hair again? It's so weird now! I'm used to the short hair. Makes him look a lot older and more mature, which is of course fitting with where he's come as a character. And oh god, I'm crying again lol. I didn't realize how invested I was in these characters - I've never been as intensely, passionately attached to them as I was to, say, Sam and Dean Winchester, but just thinking about how Chuck grew over the course of the five seasons, from the adorable nerd who didn't think he could ever be a spy to the mature and capable man he became - oh Chuck. <3 I really did love you a lot.
(just, the scene where he's trying to convince Sarah of their relationship, in the first part, when he starts crying and talking about how she fell in love with a nerd like him? BROKE MY HEART. Am still crying over here, guys.)
(And really just everything about part 1 of the finale - so painful and hard to watch. Part 2 was good too, but more along the lines of the comedy-action-with-some-drama that the show normally does. Part 1 was one of the serious-dramatic-painful episodes that they do less frequently but are always enjoyable as well. I always enjoyed the mix of genres on this show... I did find the Buy More storylines a bit tiresome in the later seasons, but they were always a part of the show and I generally liked that they kept them. And it helped to lighten things up when they became darker. And LOL at Jeffster saving the day. XD XD That was awesome. Another thing that was awesome? A couple of episodes ago when they saved the day and Lester came out decked out in all that weaponry and they were playing O Canada in the background. WTF. Amazing. Though I wasn't too crazy about parts of their storyline this year - smart!Jeff was funny, but the whole 'Lester almost accidentally killed Jeff because he's a fucking moron but somehow basically got away scot free and was forgiven' was a bit... annoying. Anyway though, I'm glad/amused that they found out the truth about Chuck et al in the end, and that they got to leave the Buy More to be awesome and ridiculous rock stars.)
What else... nice to see Linda Hamilton one more time. :) LOL'd at her pulling a gun on Sarah and Devon and Ellie being all "what did we say about firearms around the baby??" and Devon covering the baby's eyes. XD
It's strange to think I've never really posted about this show before. But if my tags are correct, I really haven't... yet I've watched it and looked forward to it consistently every week since it started. I'm going to miss it, quite a lot. There's not much left on TV that I'm all that invested in right now, other than Fringe and White Collar. Supernatural I am getting emotionally burnt out on and am a couple of eps behind now because I just... can't deal anymore. I will try to catch up, though. Need some distance I think. Am also behind on Glee, but that's always just been a fun show anyway, not one I'm that emotionally invested in. I miss Community, too. Sigh. Hope it comes back.
Anyway, thanks for a fun five years, Chuck Bartowski - I will miss thee... it's been good times. :) Ultimately I think I'm just happy that they decided to end it on their own terms in season 5, so there was no more renewal drama and no worries about cliffhangers or the show suddenly being pulled.
And now of course the real question is - what's next for Adam Baldwin? :) It's funny to think that, even though in a lot of ways he is still Jayne first to me, I know him way better as John Casey now. 14 eps + a movie versus 5 seasons. Go figure. Yet when I hear his name, I still think of Firefly first... anyway I'm looking forward to meeting him at Emerald City Comic Con. Haven't met him yet, so will probably splurge on a photo and an autograph. What the hell, eh?
(oh, and I totally want to go back now and watch the first episode of Chuck again. I haven't seen it since it first aired and barely remember it. Ickle!baby!adorable!nerdy!Chuck! Matt Bomer before he was Neal Caffrey! Good times.)
And huh, thinking about the first episode and Chuck getting the Intersect for the first time just made me realize something about the finale - umm, what happened to the Intersect that he downloaded into his brain at the end...? I assume he had it removed once the bomb was disarmed? Did they mention that and I just missed it??)
