First time i watched Chuck and i can't help feeling betrayed. It makes me feel that everything that happen didn't matter at all. Sure they ended with a kiss but come on she didnt love him anymore. Yes they want people to imagine the future , but I don't want that. If i wanted something like that might as well just give the pilot and make me imagine the rest of the show lol
Big fail imo on a show that i actually enjoyed till this point.
Believe what you want, I guess. But Sarah asked to hear their story and asked Chuck to kiss her, so it didn't sound like she didn't love him anymore. And even if she didn't, she certainly wanted to try again.
How I Met Your Mother's finale. Now THAT was a fail. Same with Seinfeld's finale.
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"Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!"---Han Solo, Star Wars
You are not alone. I know a lot of people who were disappointed with the ending of 'Chuck' too including my Wife and Sister but at the end of the day I would like to believe Sarah got her memory back after she kissed Chuck and I think you will find if they make a movie or a limited TV series of the show (like they have done with 24 and Heroes Reborn) Sarah will have her memory back.
I think there is a good chance 'Chuck' will come back in some shape or form.
i liked it only because it made it unpredictable. usually after a while shows become predictable but this one didnt. it also made it so theres a possible return. I also thought it was cool how they incorporated everything from the first episode. Keep in mind too that the show almost ended so many times because of budget concerns. the last season was rushed but they only had like 13 episodes.
shareIt appeared to me Sarah was already 'gradually' regaining her memory as the final episode went along - honestly I thought they were making that point pretty clear.
So, for me, of course she gets her memory back.
I really liked the finale.
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yeah i did too. to me though she was slowly regaining her memory but the feelings still werent there.
shareThe feelings may not have been fully back in that last kiss, but you don't laugh and cry at a long story involving you and want to kiss the guy who told it to you if you weren't affected by it in some way.
For myself, I wouldn't have done the "Sarah losing her memories" plotline in the first place. But I think, like many other plotlines, they retrofitted the plot to the guest star they could get. Like suddenly giving Casey a past with Gertrude Verbanski because they could get Carrie-Anne Moss or giving the Volkoff plotline a second go-round because of how well Timothy Dalton worked in the first half of season 4. I think they could have done a better plotline for Angus MacFayden than him supposedly receiving the Intersect had Bryce not stolen it.
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"I've had 236 partners & I've fallen in love with every single one of them."---Angie Tribeca
thats true but they only had 13 episodes. i remember when i was watching it i felt they didnt do a good job establishing his bad guy story line. i also feel they overdid the whole intersect thing. i mean there were so many intersects yet they couldnt have one for sarah to regain her memories? one thing i feel they could have done was told that guy who made the first glasses intersect to make another one in exchange for his freedom or something like that.
sharei also wonder IF: his character didn't have something to do with the whole thing, Decker said to Chuck 'do you think this wasn't a plan?' (i paraphrased).
i mean Rourke had a "piece" Hartley/Volkoff had a piece, and the General had a piece that would straighten out the Intersect......all those that HAD to be take down to GET those pieces, Fulcrum, The Ring, and Volkoff ALL had to be taken done to GET those pieces soooo....did Quinn pull all those strings?
it is the only thing that would make sense of what Decker said....any thoughts?
Chuck is my favorite TV show of all time, but I was also a bit bitter with the finale. After a year or so it came on NETFLIX and watched it again and came to terms with the finale and all the great times from the show's 5 seasons.
I chose to believe Sarah's memories returned or she fell in love with Chuck all over again. There is proof to back up those theories. Sarah was remembering things while with chuck in the finale, like how to run the Wiener place. And then she was very happy with the kiss in the end.
But what convinced me the most that she fell for chuck again is from an episode in season 3 "Chuck vs. the Other Guy" when she tells Chuck, "Yes, I fell for you sometime between you fixing my cell phone and defusing a bomb with a computer virus". Which means she fell for him in the Pilot and Chuck did those same things in the finale.
I finished this series over a year ago and I still feel a little sick to my stomach heartbroken about the last couple of episodes: Chuck pleading with her to remember him, and then the ending that lets you decide if they end up together, even though they would be starting from scratch... Even if that IS what you choose to believe, it sucks to know that they won't have the connection based on what they have already been through together. Sigh, maybe I just get way too invested in my stories. Anyway, my point was that the way it ended hurt my heart, yet now that I've gotten to thinking about it, I kind of want to torture myself with last few episodes again...
shareI've just rewatched the whole show for the first time since it ended, so pretty much exactly a 4 years gap.
Knowing how it ended made the last 3 episodes pretty traumatic. From the point Casey warns Sarah not to use the intersect glasses it's like the whole Chuck/Sarah story is being trashed. Besides we know Sarah didn't need the intersect due to her skills (Chuck saying to Orion when asked if Sarah had the intersect too, "No that's all her"), they'd have found another way out.
The scene where Quinn shows Sarah the flash cards and Sarah screams as each flash removes more of who she has become is the hardest scene to watch in the whole show. So heartbreaking seeing her tortured like that knowing that we aren't given proper closure on whether she ever gets her true memories and feelings back.
When Chuck has to decide whether to use the last intersect upload to help Sarah or to defuse the bomb, I think he made the wrong call. Save Sarah, there are other ways they could have handled the bomb.
I wish they'd done something in the final episode to give us a definitive answer. Even just having Sarah suddenly grab Chuck when they kiss on the beach (like she did when they first properly kissed when the 'bomb was about to explode') to show us that Morgan was right about one kiss having enough emotion behind it to back up what Devon said about emotions being powerful things.
I don't feel there's anything substantial left to say in any future story to warrant a film or more episodes, other than a proper resolution to how they left Sarah.
The producers saying they wanted to leave the ending open for the viewer to make up their own mind is nonsense. No fan of the show would have wanted Sarah to not have recovered her memory so there is no better alternative than have Sarah back to normal.
There's an extended version of the ending. I think it was part of the Blu Ray set. Anyway, they kiss and Sarah's memories begin flashing back. Definately not the ending I expected but I found it to be bitter-sweet and fitting for the tone of the show.
shareI'm still amazed at the lapdogs of this show like Murph defend the awful finale and act like Season 5 wasn't terrible and a slap in the face to fans. I am rewatching the show with my girlfriend, who is seeing it for the first time, and we're well into Season 4. I don't know if I should tell her to skip Season 5 because she hates spoilers (she got mad when I said the dynamic changed in Season 3) but I know she'd hate to see the characters and writing devolve into crap, too.
shareI felt exactly the same way. Incredible show, but one of the worst endings ever, IMO. I bothered me so bad it may keep me from ever re-watching the show.
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