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So Chuck was on tonight! Yes, yes, my lovely, wonderful, always awesome Chuck Bartowski graced the screen once again with his kung-fu fighting, awe inspiring, fan-girl squeal inducing presence. And let me tell you, it was not at all a let down. I mean, we got to see him with his shirt off (always great fun...do you remember Chuck vs. the Final Exam? Cuz I know I sure do!)
K, quick recap before I get into the nitty-gritty: At the end of last season Chuck promised Ellie he'd be done with the spy life after shutting down the Ring, but he then discovers his dad's secret lair under the house and vows to complete his father's wish to find his mom, after his father's death. So he's all spy-less life and he's officially dating super spy Sarah. He gets stir crazy and he and Morgan go from place to place to place trying to find his mom. They don't find her, they use up all their money (plus a ton), and they get their car repossessed, so Chuck looks for a job. When that doesn't work out he goes to the newly rebuilt Buy More (after it kind of got destroyed last season) which happens to be run by Beckman and is now fully government operated and more or less a secret lair of sorts. His intersect skills are then used (by force) to help the CIA/NSA with their problems but also help Chuck with his own resulting in both the Chuck/Morgan team and the Sarah/Casey team ending up in Moscow and Chuck saving Sarah and Casey's lives, rejoining the ranks of spies, and getting promised help with the finding of his mom from Sarah and Casey. In the end, when he is about to tell Ellie that he has decided to become a spy again she tells him she's pregnant and goes on about how perfect life is so he rethinks telling her. (Yeah, that's not gonna come back to bite him.) And now for the part of this little entry that really matters (ie my opinions!)
It is unfortunate that this wasn't the best episode ever. I don't think it was as good as the season finale of last season...or even the last few episodes (over which I did get pretty darn excited). And why, you might ask, was tonight's not as good? Well, it may have something to do with the fact that I'm feeling a little under the weather, but I'm not thinking so. I think it might have more to do with Chuck's new haircut (not sold yet...still adore him and pretty much want to marry him all the time, but not yet sold on the hair), the fact that we didn't see him do any awesome fighting, the fact that he didn't flash at all till nearly the middle of the episode, or perhaps the rather ho-hum feeling that seemed to unfortunately permeate most of the episode.
Ok, with that all said and out of the way, I did love it! First of all Chuck and Sarah are officially, officially together (yay). We also got a few great Casey moments like when Sarah was talking to him on the roof and then later with him forcing Chuck to flash on the EMP when he didn't want to. And speaking of which, the use of an EMP kind of totally brought out my inner nerd which got way excited with that one (I may or may not have written a short story in which the bad guys used something like EMP when I was 13 and had no idea what one was...so yeah, that was fun.) I also loved the interview montage with Chuck. How terrible would it be to go through a series of interviews and witness seizures, never ending coffee breaks, vomiting, and escorted out by beefy security all in the same day? But it was all worth it when Beckman turned around in Big Mike's chair and you realized the whole Buy More was a kind of secret headquarters (before it was even said) and that Chuck would most definitely return to spy life (before it even happened). Personally, it all brought a sense of security to the episode. It made the Chuck 'verse settle back into it's safe, good, happy place...the place where Chuck is one awesome, adorable, kind of geeky spy.
I thought it was pretty fantastic that Chuck, Morgan, Sarah, and Casey all ended up in the same building in Moscow (not that it was surprising. In fact, come to think of it, this episode was actually fairly transparent.) I love, love, loved how Casey told the Russians to run when he realized that Chuck was still alive. And poor Sarah, thinking Chuck was dead. I just wanted to hug her and say, "It's alright, don't worry. He's the main character. They won't kill him in the season premiere. It's gonna be ok. Trust me." But that probably would've been a little odd...
And the Ellie/Chuck moment at the end...it was touching. I have always had a soft spot for those moments since I am the oldest and have a little brother just younger than me. I just smiled when Chuck just grabbed Ellie and hugged her and then quickly pulled back for fear that he was going to hurt the baby.
Over all, this was a good episode and a season premiere that was worth the wait. There's lots more to say about it (like dude, Chuck didn't wear his Chucks most of the time--sad, and some of the mom stuff, Sarah stuff, the hilarious Morgan/Sarah sexting), but there just always seems to be more things that I love about Chuck than I have time to write about. (I'm pretty sure that if I wrote about all of them each entry would be so long that by the time you finished reading them the next episode would have already aired.) So with that, I'm pretty sure I'll get used to Chuck's hair, and I can't wait for the twists and turns that Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak are going to give us in season four! (And hey, that wasn't too bad...maybe I'll just pretty much use this for my article...might as well try!)
Adios readers! If you read this, then I pretty much already adore you!
~Manda
