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Legacy Ruined?

posted 10 years ago by martraynor
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I watched Chuck for the first time this past summer, and watched the entire series over the course of about three months. Since then I have re-watched the entire series at least once, and re-watched season one a few times, and other episodes from each of the seasons numerous times. Needless to say (but I will anyway), I LOVE CHUCK!

As the show and the characters really settle into my heart and mind, I find myself liking each of the seasons more or less and in varying degrees. For instance, after watching season 1, I loved it. Then came season 2, and I loved it more. Then came season 3, and I hated it (I should say at this point that for me, the main reason I liked the show was the relationships, esp. between Chuck and Sarah). Then the last half of three blended into 4, and I was in Heaven. Loved it. Then season 5 came along, and though it felt different, I enjoyed most of it until the final four episodes. Try as I might, I cannot see it as a happy ending.

But now that I reflect on it holistically, I feel differently about the seasons, and I'm kind of mad about it. For me, season two led me to believe that Chuck and Sarah were getting together. Then season three starts and everything has gone to pot. What the hell?!? So now, I don't enjoy season two nearly as much because I know it was all a sham by the writers/producers. But I still like season 1, I guess because it's far enough removed from season 3.

Then I still love season 4, but the great episodes for me from season 5 are for naught because of how it all ends (I know, if the ending sucks it really kind of ruins the whole experience, because if Sarah doesn't remember, what's the point of any of it?). But again, for me anyway, season 4 is far enough removed from the end of 5 to not let it bother me (too much). But some of the growth, especially for Sarah, is lost from vs. the Baby and the Business Trip. So sad, really.

I can't explain why this silly little show has hit me so hard and affects me so much,but I can't stop thinking about it.

I'll continue watching, and hope that I will come to love the entire series as much as I used to, but it's hard. I just feel so betrayed, to a degree, by early season 3 and late season 5. I don't think the powers that be realized how affected some of us were by what they were doing with "our" beloved characters.

[–] fenrir-prime 9 years ago

Digging up this old thread, I was always just a casual watcher of Chuck when it was on. Never followed the story and just thought "hey this is kinda cool" when I saw it on TV. But this past week I started watching the whole thing on Netflix, and as of a few minutes ago after watching S3E1 I stopped and I don't plan to ever watch it again. I've now read ahead using the wiki as well as a lot of comments.

It's silly to be so emotionally involved in a TV show like that, but seriously, that episode completely goes against EVERYTHING they'd written into the characters of Chuck & Sarah up to that point. The culmination of everything both of them wanted either openly or transparently on that train platform and it doesn't happen. I don't think I've ever been this disappointed in a show. Especially after what I thought was an excellent first 2 seasons.

As a really late comer to the Chuck scene I apologize to those who love the show and were there from the start, but seriously, that episode makes no sense and is a total dealbreaker for me.

[–] MurphAndTheMagicTones 9 years ago

Very few people like the season 3 premiere, other than Casey having fun with that minigun in the helicopter. But the show does eventually straighten itself out. Blame Schwartz and Fedak for believing in the BS Moonlighting Curse.

If you count half-seasons, you can make the argument that seasons 3B and 4A may have trumped even season 2.

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"It'll be a slaughter!"
"That's the spirit!"---The Last Starfighter

[–] indyjim101 9 years ago

Really? 4A? This surprises me, because, while I enjoyed Season 4 on the whole, I really disliked the first third of the season. Once Tim Dalton shows up, the whole thing improves enormously, and becomes quite good, but the first part of the season, the show seems to have completely lost its way. The only connecting thread is the plot about Chuck wanting to find his mother, who has barely been referenced before--I did not find that compelling at all. But once Dalton shows up , the season gets a lot better.
As for 3B, I enjoyed that...but not to the level some people apparently did.