Chuck 3x15 & 3x16 Thoughts
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iaria3x15 ‘Chuck Versus the Role Models’
• I loved them having a gun stash in the couch though I agree that it probably wouldn’t be a good idea with Morgan there. The whole exchange between them when Chuck discovers the guns gone was excellent. I really loved it. Chuck’s gritted teeth “Honey, darling” made me giggle and I loved Sarah’s return volley of ‘sweetheart’. I’m kind of hoping that it will become a running gag that their place has hidden caches of weapons and other spy things around the house.
• With Sarah now living with Chuck I’m wondering if now might not be the time for Morgan to be finding his own place.
• I was surprised that Awesome and Ellie’s condo was still theirs since I thought they were renting, and if they thought they were going to be gone for a year I don’t know why they’d keep it.
• I loved the different opening sequence with Morgan dreaming himself into a spy tv show.
3x16 ‘Chuck Verses the Tooth’
• I was not completely pleased with what was happening with the ladies this episode.
- The Ellie situation seems so obvious now that I can’t believe that I never considered something like this – Ellie being duped and used against her family – happening. It’s so obvious in retrospect, including Ellie turning to Devon and his reaction, because of course he would protect Chuck’s secret. And it all could have been avoided if Chuck had just been honest with her – if not from the beginning then at least since Devon or Morgan learnt the truth. It’s ridiculous that both of them know but no one has told Ellie, especially since her life has been in danger several times already because of who her brother is.
- It does however tie in with Chuck/Sarah this episode, and what is now appearing to be Chuck’s inability to be honest because he wants to protect people from truth he thinks they may find upsetting. It’s not acceptable with Ellie but it’s infuriating with Sarah. She is his partner both in a professional and personal sense and you would think that at this point he would have realised that he has to be honest with her in order for both those partnerships to work. In the previous episode he was all over the Turner’s as a spy couple he wanted to emulate but what he should have taken from that experience is trusting your partner enough that you tell them the truth is the way to go. Chuck not telling Sarah the truth about the Doc’s suspicions over Chuck’s future health was bad enough but him not telling her the truth about his dream that Shaw is alive is what is really making me angry.
This whole episode was about Chuck seeming crazy because he was trusting his dreams, Sarah trying to believe in and trust Chuck despite him seeming more and more crazy and succeeding at it, and how they could trust each other. So he should have told Sarah about the dream, Sarah who would believe it, and who if true this dream will have a serious and direct impact on. I want to smack Chuck upside the head for both Sarah and Ellie.
• How the hell did Kowambe find Chuck or even know who he was? Plus would a CIA mental hospital for crazy ex-spies, many of whom probably know important secrets, really be so easy to find and access? I also had an issue that there were no female spies at the mental hospital.
• It was nice to see Anna again, and while I didn’t really like how things played out with her and Morgan I do think his response was actually the right and mature one.
• I loved them having a gun stash in the couch though I agree that it probably wouldn’t be a good idea with Morgan there. The whole exchange between them when Chuck discovers the guns gone was excellent. I really loved it. Chuck’s gritted teeth “Honey, darling” made me giggle and I loved Sarah’s return volley of ‘sweetheart’. I’m kind of hoping that it will become a running gag that their place has hidden caches of weapons and other spy things around the house.
• With Sarah now living with Chuck I’m wondering if now might not be the time for Morgan to be finding his own place.
• I was surprised that Awesome and Ellie’s condo was still theirs since I thought they were renting, and if they thought they were going to be gone for a year I don’t know why they’d keep it.
• I loved the different opening sequence with Morgan dreaming himself into a spy tv show.
3x16 ‘Chuck Verses the Tooth’
• I was not completely pleased with what was happening with the ladies this episode.
- The Ellie situation seems so obvious now that I can’t believe that I never considered something like this – Ellie being duped and used against her family – happening. It’s so obvious in retrospect, including Ellie turning to Devon and his reaction, because of course he would protect Chuck’s secret. And it all could have been avoided if Chuck had just been honest with her – if not from the beginning then at least since Devon or Morgan learnt the truth. It’s ridiculous that both of them know but no one has told Ellie, especially since her life has been in danger several times already because of who her brother is.
- It does however tie in with Chuck/Sarah this episode, and what is now appearing to be Chuck’s inability to be honest because he wants to protect people from truth he thinks they may find upsetting. It’s not acceptable with Ellie but it’s infuriating with Sarah. She is his partner both in a professional and personal sense and you would think that at this point he would have realised that he has to be honest with her in order for both those partnerships to work. In the previous episode he was all over the Turner’s as a spy couple he wanted to emulate but what he should have taken from that experience is trusting your partner enough that you tell them the truth is the way to go. Chuck not telling Sarah the truth about the Doc’s suspicions over Chuck’s future health was bad enough but him not telling her the truth about his dream that Shaw is alive is what is really making me angry.
This whole episode was about Chuck seeming crazy because he was trusting his dreams, Sarah trying to believe in and trust Chuck despite him seeming more and more crazy and succeeding at it, and how they could trust each other. So he should have told Sarah about the dream, Sarah who would believe it, and who if true this dream will have a serious and direct impact on. I want to smack Chuck upside the head for both Sarah and Ellie.
• How the hell did Kowambe find Chuck or even know who he was? Plus would a CIA mental hospital for crazy ex-spies, many of whom probably know important secrets, really be so easy to find and access? I also had an issue that there were no female spies at the mental hospital.
• It was nice to see Anna again, and while I didn’t really like how things played out with her and Morgan I do think his response was actually the right and mature one.
