It’s nice to still have people talking about this show at this late date. This show which was, at its core, a fun, joyous romp of a comedy action series, with maybe a smidge more heart/shmaltz/sappiness than the cynic in you would normally tolerate – but somehow they made it work – no one will convince me that it ended on a bummer. Even if it didn’t, I’m inclined to believe it worked at least partially. Did the kiss work like magic? It wouldn’t be outside the ethos of the show to believe it did. The main theme of the series – underlying the humor and action – is that loyalty/fidelity and love for friends and family can come with some costs if you are a spy – but in the end that triumphs, time and again. The show featured multiple episodes where characters lose their memories but in the end retain their inherent personalities or have those memories restored (Chuck in Chuck vs Phase 3, Morgan lost some pop-culture references but he didn’t lose his memory of his friendship with Chuck, or his feelings for Alex, and Alexi Volkoff – the Intersect wiped out all his memories and his entire personality, but it all got restored to the point where his identity reverted to that of Hartley Winterbottom). The old Sarah Walker wouldn’t have asked for that kiss. I think Sarah’s growth from the series is still starting to show through there by the end. Would love to see them get the team back together for a made for streaming movie or something. The finale was far from the worst episode even if it maybe didn’t reach the heights of the very best the show was capable of. Even the worst episode of Chuck was pretty good and the best were just fantastic. Was the ending perfect? I won’t say it was perfect, but it was good, I was satisfied, I’m not going to pick it apart. Other networks have tried the superteam (Scorpion, Whisky Cavalier more recently, and there have been other examples in the intervening years) and they never last, or produce as much fun, action and romance as Chuck did. Not sure why it took so long to finally get to the last season but…I finally finished it via Amazon Prime (which is more convenient than popping DVD/Blu Ray disks in the player) and I liked the final episodes and am really sad to see the show go.Ĭhuck was indeed a great show. So I bought the DVDs (all 5 seasons) over the course of time since the show ended its run (for a while we were sans Netflix – if I’d have known it was on there for a while I might have re-subscribed rather than buying the DVDs), but of course by then I hadn’t watched the 1st season in like 8 years so started watching from the first season all over again. I read your comment! I watched the first four seasons faithfully when they were on the air, and really loved the show, but when they switched to Friday nights for the last season we were often out when it aired and missed most of it. “Kiss me,” she responded, smiling, leaving us with a liplock that either restored the pair’s “happily ever after”… or didn’t. Chuck then shared BFF Morgan’s idea that with “one magical kiss,” he might be able to give Sarah’s memory the reboot it needs. To that end, Sarah asked Chuck to tell her their story - and he launched into a flashback-filled, “Rivers and Roads”-scored revisiting of the unlikely romance between Buy More nerd and bombshell spy. The action-comedy’s very final scene (literally) mirrored one from its pilot, as Chuck, on a beach, implored Sarah to let him help her. And her husband’s initial efforts to reconstitute her memories and rekindle their romance came up empty. To recap, on this Throwback Thursday: Sarah entered the two-hour series ender (titled “Chuck Versus Sarah” and “Chuck Versus the Goodbye”) with amnesia, having briefly hosted the Intersect. 27, 2012, NBC’s Chuck left viewers with a goodbye kiss - but was it “magical,” or a miss?
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