Chuck finale

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The series finale of Chuck really needs a proper reaction post, but I am just feeling TOO MANY FEELINGS right now. I am happy and sad and nostalgic and conflicted and flaily.

Anyone? Coherency?

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[carnivorousgiraffe]

AAAAAHHHHHH.

That's coherent, right?

Overall though, really, I very much enjoyed it. And possibly sobbed like a baby. ;--; And am utter convinced that with Zachary Levi's Disney Prince Powers (tm) the kiss totally worked and she remembered and everything was wonderful.

And then he kissed Morgan so he could remember his nerdy childhood again. >>

It wasn't perfect but it was really damn good. The Jeffster tears were when I just lost it.

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Hee! I mostly enjoyed it, too... it's really just Sarah's memory that I'm stuck on. And it's not a shipper thing or even a character development thing - I might be less bothered if we actually saw her get all her memories back, but it's already pretty heavily implied that it'll happen, if not with the Disney kiss, then gradually over time. I don't doubt that Sarah will fall in love with Chuck all over again. That's not what bothered me.

It's the fact that it was done to her at all. Maybe I've watched too many Joss Whedon shows where memory is a huge theme, but the erasing of someone's memory is just a HORRIBLE violation to me, stripping them of their very identity. And to do that to the show's main female character as the climax of the entire series? It's just... gross.

I mean, I get that it set up the structure of the finale, that a lot of things end up coming full circle that way. And I loved all the callbacks to previous episodes, as Chuck and Sarah relieved the early missions and jogged her memory a bit. I just wish we could've had the trip down memory lane WITHOUT the gross violation, you know?

[carnivorousgiraffe]

Oh I definitely felt the grossness too, especially in that they chose Sarah to be the focal point and not, say, Chuck which I think would have been so cool. It had this icky 'Chuck saves the girl...from being ALONE' feeling that was completely unnecessary, not to mention focusing all of Sarah's development over the past five years on her relationship with Chuck. Even in-show they all seemed more distraught over her not remembering marrying Chuck rather than, say, reuniting with her mother after five years of separation. Yeah...

Though it didn't bother me as much as it might've in different circumstances for a few reasons. For one, it doesn't skeeve me so much when it's the villain causing it and not, say, the lead 'protecting' their love interest/family by erasing their memories. coughcoughHERMIONEcoughcough And for another, I was really distracted by the way they had to twist things around to make it work as symbolically as they wanted it too.

Why did Morgan lose early memories and Sarah more recent ones? How on earth did Quinn remove her memories so precisely? How did he know what she would wake up remembering? Why didn't Chuck bring up stuff that Sarah wouldn't have revealed while undercover, like her real name or that he knew about her mother? What was with the glasses being so important--didn't the show start with Chuck getting the intersect through a computer screen? Can't they make more glasses regardless? And Chuck using up the last usage of the glasses--why didn't they just hook up an mp3 player to some speakers for the bomb? Then they've got all the time they need to get in someone to defuse the bomb don't they?

I had...a lot of questions.

Actually, what bothered me a lot was the implication during the finale that the love between Sarah and Chuck was the most important part of the entire series and not, you know, Chuck growth from sadsack Nerd Herder to someone with drive and self-esteem and contentment with his life. Someone whose made peace with his past--and the same with Sarah and Casey, frankly. But no, apparently it's all about the romance.

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Hahaha, I'm way past the point of paying attention to the plot holes. Chuck has never been the most air-tight thing ever (one TV blogger used to have an ongoing "Chuck Plot Hole of the Week" feature).

Actually, what bothered me a lot was the implication during the finale that the love between Sarah and Chuck was the most important part of the entire series

Yeah. I mean, it doesn't surprise me, because the show has always considered Chuck/Sarah the focal point, the "heart" of the show, so I'm not surprised that the finale and Sarah's memory loss was all about their relationship.

But, you know, one of the saddest moments of the finale, for me, was when Casey was saying goodbye, and he and Chuck have a heartfelt moment and then he turns to Sarah... and she goes to shake his hand like they're mere acquaintances. Which, of course, to her they are, but OMG! Casey - who unequivocally DOES NOT HUG, lol - is actually hurt that Sarah is so impersonal in her goodbye, after five years of working together. That moment said SO MUCH about the characters and how they've ALL changed each other by working as a team, not just Chuck and Sarah's romance.