Chuck thoughts (for real this time)

Before I get into my own reactions, I shall direct you to HitFix's Chuck vs. the Retrospective Interview (and yes, that is five separate links) with series creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. After seeing the finale, I was actually really glad I'd read all of it (as well as watched clips of the show's best moments) because SO MUCH of the finale was callbacks to the pilot episode and season 1 (which I haven't seen in quite a while) that I appreciated the refresher course.

( In which I borrow heavily from the comments on my last post )