Thoughts, fears & angst of CHUCK final Ep.

Bloggers Note: The following is an edited extract from a comment I made on the CHUCK THIS Blog and it sort of sums up my thoughts, feelings and even trepidation going in the CHUCK finale so I thought I might re-post here on Cheerful Symmetry...

Coming into the final two episodes of CHUCK you maybe worried about how things may turn out for our favourite spy couple and the rest of the gang, I know I am. But you must remember it really is a natural response to cast your mind back to halcyon days of old and remember the good times especially when it comes to the things we love like CHUCK.

The danger of this is we often miss the great stuff happening right in front of us, we often say we want to live in the moment but how many of us actually do that? I don’t … I wish I could but I just don’t seemed to be wired that way.

I am very much experiencing the gut churning feeling with this Chuck finale lead-up. I liken it very much to riding a roller-coaster… you go up, you down and you even feel like your guts will shoot out your mouth (sorry for the visual). However it is not until I step safely out of the coaster and back on solid ground that I will appreciate what a thrill and experience the ride was because on the journey I was absolutely packing it!

So guess what I am saying is I don’t know how I will feel about the final plot until after the finale. Right now I feel as deflated as I was after “Fear of Death” but that was followed up by “Phase Three” which was so freaking amazing.

I have been told numerous times on twitter by some really great people I respect (Kev, Faith/Jem and Dren to name a few) that the angst, pain and fear are just as important emotional experiences as the love, hope and excitement. This is true, in-fact they make you appreciate the good times so much more. Often it is not all until after the story has gone its full arc that we appreciate what we initially felt worst about is actually the best told part of the narrative.

I however have never been the most patient of souls… to give an example I am pretty big Star Wars fan and If I had to wait those 3 years between Empire Strikes Back and the initial release of Return of the Jedi I would have been a shot duck! Thank god I was born in the 80’s and didn’t have to wait…but I digress. 

Hindsight is always a good thing to have, these 91 episodes of Chuck are not going anywhere and we can go back to them whenever we feel the need. My feelings about certain Chuck episodes have changed over time and no doubt will continue to do so.

I can guarantee that Chuck still has me feeling some intense and visceral emotions; I am just as invested in the characters…in Chuck and Sarah as I ever have been. So the CHUCK finale is just hours away and I am ready to throw myself into the unknown in the hope, no in the knowledge that Chuck and Sarah will come through for me like they always have for each other and the ones they love!!

 Thank You Chuck and farewell…




Pic edit credit to the remarkable @jenaybelle


PS: What better way to say farewell and Thank You Chuck  then to watch this vid by @dren_lla, he is far too modest to say so but he really captured the vibe of the CHUCK fan and our joy in CHUCK enriching our lives and the sorrow that it is leaving us now.

Five Chunks of CHUCK

Versus The Bullet Train




1. Sarah's "flashes" of brilliance

Seeing how Sarah has put boots to asses in previous 88 episodes it is hard to imagine her being any more amazing when handing out a beatdown even with the intersect. But boy oh boy did they do a great job with it; I also love the fact Sarah put on a show for Chuck when she gave Quinn's goons a kicking on the train. I welcome back the intersect-flirting that was one of the brighter points in early season 3 like Chuck's wink & parkour/gymnastics combo in Three Words or his dancing with Sarah in Angel de la Muerte.

But to me the best part of Sarah downloading the intersect was that now she truly knows what it was like for Chuck. The scene where Chuck and Sarah "geek out" over the intersect abilities was touching indeed was so great. What a journey for these two, they really have know shared everything together and these shared experiences only strengthen the ties binding our favourite spy couple. Could anybody argue that these two together don't form the whole much greater than the sum of their parts.

Strip-Kick is in the intersect...yes!

2. Nicholas Quinn: Part Doctor Doom, part Wile E. Coyote

Nicholas Quinn, what a piece of work he is! The jaded ex-CIA super-spy is hugely driven and quite resilient; and whilst he may not look a great threat not many can come up against an intersected Sarah, brilliant Chuck and BAMF-tastic Casey and survive... let alone triumph!

Chuck's individual enemies have seemed to resemble classic comic book villains in their relationship to our hero Chuck. Where Volkoff was like a Lex Luthor to Chuck's Superman and Daniel Shaw was perhaps the Sinestro to Chuck's Hal Jordan (Green Lantern); Nicholas Quinn seems to me the Doctor Doom to Chuck's Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards).

Quinn is crazed, vengeful and full of anger towards Chuck for taking what he considered to be his god-given right to the Intersect. Much like Victor von Doom this jealousy has festered and infected his psyche to the point where he is legitimately crazy but still maintaining the ability to be a great strategist who can keep Chuck on his toes.

May I add his resilience, tenacity and unwillingness to die (or go away) has a certain Wile E. Coyote feel too. Maybe not the best villain we have seen on CHUCK but my intense wish for Casey to eviscerate him with a soup spoon means he has me feeling the hate...a good sign for any baddie.


3. Jeffster: A new kind of spy duo

You never know when your calling will come... but CHUCK has always been about the ordinary guy who has greatness thrust upon them and is required to rise to the challenge and be awesome.

But what happens when those called are not ordinary... but weirdos with a taste for 80's power ballads?  The answer is they can be just as awesome, which is reason one of the many reason CHUCK is such a great show. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do; you will get a chance to shine! Which is what makes the show so great for the actors playing the roles too.  The show's leads are more than happy to defer the spotlight to their support cast to let them shine; CHUCK is a close family off and on screen.

Alex in danger from Quinn's forces and Morgan and Devon thwarted in their attempt to free her; it seemed Team Bartowski was out of options.  But often the most surprising heroes arise in times of crisis; cometh the hour of need...Jeffster answered the call!

It was was great to see Chuck tell Casey he believed Jeffster to be up for the task; but after all that is what Chuck does; he sees the best in everyone. That is why Chuck is such an inspirational leader and it is the belief of others (in particular those we respect) which often spurs a person on to greater heights. Much as how the belief of Ellie, Sarah and Casey has boosted Chuck in the past.

Ok so maybe Jeffster is not the best American-Canadian military/spy duo ever (that honour falls to Captain America and Wolverine) but fueled on by the flames of destiny they did the job and saved Alex, Morgan and Devon. Will this earn them a spot on the Carmichael Industries regular roster...who knows?




Carmichael Industries would like to welcome... JEFFSTER!



4. Chuck & Sarah: Drawing on their love

Chuck and Sarah steaming it up on a train...WOW!! We should have known sexytime...I mean practice would be part of the deal; I mean I will NEVER forget Honeymooners. A little sweetness was added to the steamy train journey with the couple sitting in bed and talking about the future whilst Chuck drew that picture of him and Sarah together in front of their dream house. I have no doubt this little item will have further relevance as we head into the home stretch.

On a side note how awesome has Sarah's choice of sleepwear been? Chuck has mentioned before that red (and in particular salmon) is not his favourite colour but her recent forays into red clothing must have changed Chuck's mind. All I can say is... HOLY SMOKES I abso-Freaking-lutely love red; from what she picked up the newspaper in from The Bo to what she wore under her mission gear on the train in this episode.




Mrs. Bartowski...domo arigato indeed!!


My Chuck-senses were tingling a little when I saw the quality time Sarah and Chuck (sexytime) were sharing early in the episode; as it usually means the angst and pain is soon to follow. The episode starts with Chuck in the clutches of Quinn and ends with Sarah seemingly under the control of the same rogue spy.

In true CHUCK fashion we have the frequent swapping and interchanging of gender-roles between Chuck and Sarah. From the beginning of the series we have seen Sarah as the protector of Chuck's physical well-being; in contrast Chuck established early on he would be her "personal baggage handler" and supreme protector of her emotional well-being (The end of DeLorean with his Buy More Jacket is such a great example).

Over time Sarah has become THE emotional rock which anchors Chuck from losing himself in the world of spies, lies, intersects (malfunctioning & removed), tragedy and loss. From her wedding vows to the support she provided to her husband through the Morgansect debacle; Chuck knows that he can count on Sarah to be his partner and protector in mind, body and spirit.

Sarah could always count on Chuck being there for her emotionally and always trying to protect her from physical harm, even though it wasn't his job and he wasn't very good at it. Sarah did respect his fearless and heroic heart but it often caused her just as many problems by having to save herself AND the intersect from danger. As the depth of Chuck's love and affection and love for Sarah grew so did the lengths he would go to protect the girl of his dreams. He downloaded Intersect 2.0 and added physical talents to his impressive strategic ingenuity and planning. Even without the intersect Sarah knows that if required Chuck would not only fight to his dying breath to save Sarah but thanks to his training he would be a pretty formidable force for any foe and she can count on him in a fight just as much as she can Casey. Heck Chuck has proven NOTHING matters more than Sarah, he was willing to kill to save her and we know just how principled Chuck is... and how much he hates guns.

I have said it before and I will say it again Chuck and Sarah are awesome individuals but together they are so much more. CHUCK is such a great show layered with many great relationships but it is the evolving relationship of Chuck and Sarah that is the fundamentally inescapable foundation upon which the show is built.

You can have Snakes on a Plane... just give me Charah on a Train

5. Sarah: She tows the line

Holy crap, watching the scene of Sarah tied up by Quinn and his goons and forced into intersect flashes is cruel, heartbreaking and even thinking about it in brings a tear to my eye (actually more like uncontrollable sobbing). I thought after seeing Casey pull a gun on Chuck and Sarah nothing the episode would be as difficult to watch, boy was I ever wrong! That felt like torture to watch, I mean this isn't some random character we see tortured by the bad guy in the first act...this is Sarah Bartowski, the character we have grown to love and respect over the last five years and do see her previously indomitable will being broken down like that is just such an intense experience.

The use of "She tows the line" by Crooked Fingers is an inspired musical choice and I have heard the song so many times of the past week and it always brings me back to Sarah in the warehouse and the tears just flow!

For me the absolute only saving grace was Chuck didn't see it happening, it may well of broken his heart and spirit especially as he is powerless to stop it from happening and now she has lost her memories. This is the life she and Chuck have built over the last 5 years and all may be lost...if that is not cruel and unusual punishment I don't know what is.

But in the words of Bloc Party "The Pioneers" If it can be broke then it can be fixed... If it can be lost then it can be won, if it can touched then it can be turned, All you need is time. There is nobody Sarah would rather have in her corner against insurmountable odds then her husband and soul-mate Chuck. She trusts in their love and so should we...C'mon Chuck it is time to be awesome not because you want to but because you NEED to!!

So close you can taste it... this is it Chuck, this is what you fight for!

Five Chunks of CHUCK

Versus the Bo




1. Carmichael Industries: New Directions?

So it seems as though Chuck and Sarah began the episode with idea to shift Carmichael Industries in different direction but seems as though the Intersect (and Jeffster and Buy More) will continue to follow Chuck, Sarah and the rest of team around like a bud luck penny.

Just how will Chuck and Sarah ever get that dream house and life away from the spyworld they have been talking about for all of this season? The journey so far has been long and winding and there seems to be still a few twists and turns to come. I mean we have a seemly unstable jaded ex-CIA agent Quinn hounding down Chuck for the intersect glasses and definitely unstable Jeff and Lester turning up everywhere our favourite spy team goes... life is never dull for the Bartowski clan and it is never easy either.

Despite how it may look, nothing comes easy to Carmichael Industries

2. The Return of the Frosted Tips

Funny to see Morgan return to his douche chic wardrobe and of course the frosted tips in his hair, it was also a good indication of how remorseful Morgan was for his actions as the intersect, he also showed great restraint with Bo Derek and her request for more rainbows. It appears Chuck's little bearded buddy has come a long way!


3. Sarah versus the Bo

In an episode that delved into both the funniest and emotionally intense side of CHUCK I really enjoyed the humour Chuck and Sarah brought to the Bo Derek situation. The way Chuck was all timid around his childhood crush Bo was gold; and even better was Sarah busting his balls about it! I have watched that phone call scene between Chuck and Sarah over and over just to hear Sarah say boobies! Then when Sarah knocks Bo out with the pistol butt; her retort of "Sorry I had to do that to your girlfriend" was said with just enough malice, venom and sarcasm to tease Chuck but also to remind him what's a perfect 10 when you are married to an irrefutable 12!?!




Uh-oh Chuck, I think Sarah caught you staring at Bo Derek


Kudos to Zach and Yvonne as always the banter between these two actors is brilliant, you can tell how much they enjoy working together.



4. Never say "one last mission"

Sarah had to say it didn't she...maybe Chuck needs to write her a pop culture reference list of what not to say, remember Vs The Last Details?!

We know by now nothing ever goes smoothly for Chuck, Sarah and the rest of the team and if they are going to get out the complex spy world it will take every single fibre of resilience, skill and chutzpah Team Bartowski has especially considering Quinn has taken Chuck.

If the last mission involves this many guns...chance are it won't end well

5. Walker...NO!!!

So now Sarah has the intersect, what we know it is a flawed intersect like Morgan's which caused him memory loss and augmented douche-ery. So my initial thoughts on this plot twist were wow this is freaking awesome!

No sooner has the words come out of my mouth then the sense of fear and foreboding set in... what will this do to Sarah's memory? Can her brain handle the toll flashing requires? How will Chuck feel?  The truth to Sarah is that in that exact moment all that matters is getting Chuck back to her safe.




People kidnapping Chuck makes Sarah angry... just ask Thailand


Chuck is no longer the CIA & NSA's greatest secret and intelligence weapon and Sarah is no longer his handler. This is all about a wife, protector and soul-mate pulling out all the stops to get her husband back no matter the personal or professional cost. Strap yourselves in Chucksters the Bullet Train is about to leave the station...next stops Actionville and Angst City.

Five Chunks of CHUCK...

Versus The Kept Man


Bloggers Note: Guys... sorry to say this is a very short and (a little) sweet recap this week, I started a new job and as if my poor time management wasn't bad enough already. So it may not be exactly as I wanted but I did promise @breddgal I would get this done!

A lesson to live by; "never let down a lady who sends you a cookie recipe"... you just can't! I love the recipe by the way my Grandpa ate them by the handful :-)

So here goes, please enjoy!
 1. Casey, The kept man

The Colonel experienced much of what is happening as we move towards the end of CHUCK and that is transition even if it was only a subtle change. We CHUCK fans may have thought we would never see the day... but it looks like Casey is looking forward to a life without the danger and death of being an ex-NSA bad-ass!

Just because he is looking forward to this life doesn't mean he isn't really scared, lucky for him Sarah, Chuck Alex and Morgan are there to get him through the spiralling and towards the truth. In the case of Chuck he is so focused on helping Casey out he is oblivious to a lot of the other stuff going on around him (more on that later). Words can only do so much for Casey it took a situation threatening the life of Verbanski to realise there are many worse things than being a kept man... like having nobody to keep you!

Casey now has his two best girls Gertrude and Alex and why should he have to sacrifice that part of his life anymore? He has given up more than enough for God, Corp and Country for the last 3 decades!

Like Sarah and Chuck; Casey has built a life for himself... a girlfriend, a daughter, true friendship with a great team. Plus he has a new favourite TV show...Downton Abbey! Who knew dropping bombs on Edwardian convention could be just as much fun as dropping bombs for real!




2. Chuck, CARE-ing to the point of insensitivity?

Chuck... buddy what are you doing!!

The problem with being adorable, principled and yes...caring is that you often get so caught up in something you need to fix and lose sight of everything else. 

Chuck wanted to help his buddy Casey find his caring centre and admit his true feelings to Gertrude. Chuck also adopted the CARE manifesto in attempt for Carmichael Industries to offer something the competition could not and thus corner an area of the market to exploit...the endpoint being financial stability for him and Sarah. Most importantly getting Sarah the house..the home she deserves; something for the future.

He totally missed the signals from Sarah which he professed to Casey he could read with ease. When he found out that Sarah thought she was pregnant and he had no idea you could see he really felt like a real a-hole!

But Sarah would never get upset at Chuck for being selfless and wanting to help Casey or trying to build future for them both; and seriously she could have maybe told him (Sarah...what did we learn about secrets in Baby?). The lesson I hope Chuck gets from this is don't always look so far ahead or plan for the future too much because you may miss some seriously awesome stuff happening right in front you...oh and don't tell Casey with words when it is easier to show him in a gunfight.


3. Jeffster outsmart Carmichael Industries

I never thought this would happen... Jeffster find out about the Spies in the Buy More?!?!

Jeff with you mind clear you are a freaking legend and Lester you truly are a chameleon with the way you transformed into a woman! But think about this with all Jeff has done since he got cleaned up can you imagine how much money Chuck and Sarah could have made for Carmichael Industries if they had "clean" Jeff with a functioning intersect!

One thing is for sure it seems that Team Bartowski maybe missed an opportunity by not recruiting Jeff and Lester...but mostly Jeff!


4. Sarah Walker is taking her *ahem* talents to South Beach

The South Beach mission showcased a lot of what we love about Sarah Walker... Yes I am talking about her bikini but so much more as well!

Like her friendship with Casey where she can comfortably tell Casey to "grow a pair and hammock up" or words to that effect. Can you imagine Casey letting Chuck or Morgan talk to him like that... doubt it!

Casey, Do I need to pour you a nice tall glass of "toughen up" juice?

How about when she saw Casey and Verbanski...together, we now know it wasn't her morning sickness that left her green around the gills!!




"It's all wrong" but still so funny!!


So I need to ask does anyone know if SoBe and Chuck had it planned to show Yvonne Strahovski and Sarah Walker bringing REAL heat to Miami in the same week or was it just Charahific serendipity?


5. Chuck and Sarah, next comes family?

So after the pregnancy scare and one of the funniest pregnancy tests I have seen (a peace sign?..is that an option?) Chuck and Sarah now realise that despite not being pregnant right now, they are ready for it when it happens. Another example of Chuck and Sarah making a life for themselves away from the spylife.




What the frak... a peace sign!!


Like I said earlier, we are in a transition phase for those in Team Bartowski. Taking nothing away from Casey and Morgan's recent romantic victories but perhaps the biggest transition is with Chuck and Sarah.  It seems as though the "Huge Nerd" and the "Kick-ass Ninja Spy" have change a lot over the years.  Before long who knows; they must just have something (or should I say someone) to show the world as an symbol of the journey they have taken together.

Five Chunks of Chuck

Versus The Baby


1.Evolution of the Walker


The flashback at the start of the episode only confirmed what we have known for a while, Sarah has changed...a lot!! Even if you just consider Sarah's fighting style from the flashback in Hungary at the start of the episode to her fight with Ryker in her Mom's house. Before she met Chuck and probably right up until she realised she wanted to live a live together with Chuck her fighting style was calm, fluid and maybe even a little robotic with little or no emotion. Just look at how calmly and easily she mowed down those guys in Hungary.

But now her fights are more emotional, where as before she was a robot spy trained to be emotionless and weigh up her options; no matter the situation and who was in danger. But now Sarah is like a Tigress defending her cubs when it comes to those she loves. Spies are taught to take all emotion out of these situations as we have ofter heard "feelings get you killed"; but I ask you this... without her emotions could Sarah have saved Chuck in Thailand? Could she have saved Molly and her Mom from Ryker and his goons?

We have now passed the point of Sarah Walker being just a spy, you could argue that Sarah Bartowski's roles as a wife, sister and best friend take precedence over her life a spy. So she now throws herself into the fray and fights with the emotion of somebody who has a lot to lose; some may consider it a weakness in a spy but to use her own words I think "it is what makes her great".

I think the best example of the effect Chuck has had on the evolution of Sarah as a spy and a person. Is her attitude to killing since Chuck Versus The Santa Claus, she knows that Chuck doesn't like killing but understands that it is sometimes required for the greater good. It was it that point she realised she could no longer lie to Chuck about the killing because it hurt Chuck so much (the lying more than killing) but it is also she has changed as a person. Sarah is no longer person who can kill on the CIA's say-so it has to be a final resort to save lives, in particular the lives of those she loves.

I can't tell you all just how great it was that Sarah had the epiphany to tell Chuck more about things in her spy past because really this nerd will never leave or give up on Sarah... EVER. Even if it took Ryker to help realise it, I am just really glad Sarah can now open up that little bit more.



Sarah never expected Tiger-Mom training to be so intense...




2. White Collared out of existence

Many questions were answered by this episode but if possible it seemed to leave us with just as many new questions as we got answers. 

The main question being how did Sarah go from ending the Hungary mission to beginning her mission on the Intersect Project with Chuck and Casey in Burbank?

I understand that Sarah no longer needed a handler but what does this mean for her missions with Bryce and her missions with the Cat Squad? Are we to assume she had a handler for those missions; it wouldn't make sense would it? Have I stuffed up the timeline in my head or did it all just become more convoluted?

What irony it would be if Matt Bomer's character (Bryce) was made irrelevant by an episode starring his fellow WHITE COLLAR star Tim DeKay (Ryker).

I have heard whispers that we may not have seen the last of Director Langston Graham in CHUCK; maybe this will answer more questions because at the moment I am just a little confused...did the writers just make Bryce and the Cat Squad irrelevant or worse write them out of existence? Be a shame if they did because as much as I dislike Bryce for his epic rooster-blocks on Chuck and Sarah; he did create the angst that made the romance between our favourite spy couple even more memorable!

I really hope I am just over-thinking this... :(



3. Redemption of the Beard

It has been a long and winding road to redemption for Chuck's bearded little buddy.  After the debacle of the Morgan-sect he has tried hard mend the bridges he burnt along the way. Making it up to Chuck and Sarah was easy as saying sorry (and getting rid of those pretentious frosted tips). Casey's forgiveness was a little harder because he put himself out there emotionally for Morgan and he not only betrayed the Colonel but broke his daughter's heart as well.

To fix this with Casey it required more than words; it required action by Morgan to show that he was there for the team and for Alex. This required a lot of Semper Fi-dizzle by Morgan but eventually Casey forgave him and Casey even went in to bat on the Bearded Man-boy's behalf with Alex.

Alex was right to be careful about whether to forgive Morgan or not. Let's not forget the guy who said he loved her and then broke up with her by text message; bonehead and scumbag are two words that come to mind.

By the end of the episode Alex had not only come to forgive Morgan but even let Morgan back into her life as her boyfriend and all it took was Morgan just being the best Morgan he could be the loyal, brave and caring guy who Chuck has always told him he could be if he didn't try too hard to be funny or cool.

I will leave the Morgan/Alex 'shipping to "Gun" (who may I add is a very good friend of the Blog...Thanks Gun!!) but I am glad that Morgan has Alex, the pairing may not warm my heart as much as Chuck and Sarah (but than again who does???). Morgan deserves some happiness for being there for Chuck (and Sarah and Casey) when the serious stuff goes down. I can't quite believe it myself but I have even forgiven him for his part in the Barstow incident.


4. Sarah's Family Matters

I love episodes that have a Sarah focus, they are in my all-time favourites. Even though the show is called CHUCK and not SARAH (or CASEY or MORGAN) but just like the show's title character CHUCK is at its best when it is selfless... especially when it comes to Sarah.

The fans of the show have been dying to find out about Sarah's Mom almost from the very moment we met her Dad, Jack Burton in DeLorean. Thank you to Fedak and the show's writer's for getting it done, it may have been easier to leave it all a mystery but I think this is one of a few special treats the Powers That Be have planned for CHUCK fans in this farewell season.

Just seeing Sarah with her Mom was was so special for me, we have never seen Sarah truly let her guard down with anybody except Chuck and Jack. We can now add Emma to the list; I am not going to lie to you guys and girls there was tears... plenty of tears from Sarah saying that she wants all the normal things for Molly and then the scene with Sarah and Molly talking and finally the embrace between mother and daughter. Not a dry eye in the fandom!!




I think we found a patten here....


We got all the hallmarks of a Sarah mythology CHUCK episode... a great Yvonne Strahovski performance hitting all the emotional buttons that make us love the special character that is Sarah Walker (Bartowski) and equally brilliant support performance from Zac Levi who proves once again he can shine as the second banana; full credit to the guy. I mean not many can handle being one of the E-Street band when they have built a reputation as Bruce Springsteen. Some of Chuck Bartowski's best moments have been in these Sarah-centric episodes from bringing Sarah burgers in Cougars to giving Sarah his Buy More jacket in DeLorean. Chuck always walks that fine line of wanting to know everything about his mystery girl Sarah, because she means everything to him. But also realising that Sarah has compartmentalised her life because of hurt she has suffered and perhaps because of the hurt Sarah has caused others, which she just doesn't want Chuck to know.

Finally as the blog title suggests I do love my moments of symmetry, how about the conversation between Chuck and Emma? It is quite reminiscent of Chuck and Jack at the end of DeLorean; it is quite moving to see both Sarah's parents realising just how much Chuck loves Sarah (and how much Sarah loves Chuck) and that is so awesome.

I know both Sarah's parents are eternally grateful to Chuck for being able to provide the life and love Sarah deserves... a life neither Jack or Emma could provide because of situation or circumstance.

"Thank you for giving her... this" Those six simple words say say so much! Truth be told, this is the point of the episode where I am guaranteed to lose it...EVERY TIME!!




Sarah Walker episodes always end in tears and hugs... awesome!!



5. Chuck and Sarah (and Home) is where the heart is...

This episode returned us to what I love so much about the inescapable heart and soul; in particular the great Chuck and Sarah scenes! In a show that has built itself on the strength of family and love it is the Sarah and Chuck relationship that "burns brighter than the sun" and this was the best episode of Season 5 with regards to the progression of their relationship.

How adorable was the end of the episode with Sarah and Chuck carving the names into the wall of the house that will be theirs one day. Once again Sarah is an artist with a knife- scary, awesome and heart-warming all in equal measure. Plus don't think I forgot how Emma's house looks... white picket fence...big red door...have we heard this somewhere before? I love the way the show pays attention to these little details!

It seems Chuck and Sarah will turn down the offer to re-join the CIA so that they can start to build the life together away from the world of espionage which has been the main theme of Season 5 but has also been seriously hinted at since Season 3 when Chuck and Sarah got past all the BS and entanglements. As Sarah so awesomely put it to Chuck in Role Models "Well I would like to have something to fall back on when our spy life is over".

I really hope...No...I know that there will be more great Chuck and Sarah moments to come! So as a wise nerd once said... prepare to be heart-warmed!



Vandalism is one way to lower the price of the house...



P.S. I have mentioned the episode Chuck Versus the Role Models in this post, if you haven't seen it for a while I think you should especially after watching Chuck Versus The Baby both episodes actually go well together. Role Models is after all where Chuck and Sarah make the decision to move in as a real couple and Baby we see them commit to getting the house that will be the foundation of the life away from the CIA and spying. Plus Role Models has Tigers...you should know how much I love my Tigers!! Endangered and majestic just as Chuck said!!


P.P.S. I really wanted to get out my Blog's 2011 CHUCK awards but my absolute lack of time management and prepping for a job interview of sorts has meant time has escaped me. If people out there are keen I could probably get something done eventually; but I seriously doubt it could match anything the other great CHUCK blogs out there have done.

Anyway I hope everybody enjoys Chuck Versus The Kept Man; being Sarah Walker's kept man sounds like a dream job... just wished I thought of it first! ;-)