Chuck: The 5th (and Final) Season - Page 2

stelios, Sure the final...Moment was nice.  In a...2 hour episode,  which includes 2/3rds of Sarah not knowing Chuck, it was a bit...serious, for the best Spy action comedy since...Get Smart.  What would have been nice is, Chuck restores Sarah's memories in the first...Half Hour, they save the world and then we flash forward to the Dream home of Sarah with the picket fence, and maybe a couple of children.  To me it is not...spelling out, just ending on a happy episode, and not just a kiss on a beach.

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Originally Posted by stelios 

You gotta love nerds. The show ends with everyone alive, romantically paired up, and with the leads spending an afternoon on the beach, speaking, having fun and making out. But still, it somehow wasn't definitively good enough. This mindset is more maximalist than Germany's foreign policy in the '30s.

 

 

It has nothing to do with "good enough." I prefer TV endings that fit the particular story that show has told and aren't much different stylistically from the series at large. I continue to adore The Sopranos finale, and Six Feet Under's last ep remains the gold standard.

But to label anyone a "nerd" who doesn't find closure in Chuck and Sarah "spending an afternoon on the beach" and "making out" -- things that sound awesome if you're newly in love but not at all reflective of where Chuck and Sarah's relationship was prior to her mindwipe (buying a house; planning on having some kids) -- is insulting and ignorant.

I have a hard time time describing the need for a simpler ending in a non-insulting way, so I'll just say that the show gave you at least 4 instances of Sarah recovering her memories: Organizing the Weinerlicious, remembering carving her name into their dream house, the porn virus, and going to the beach - as I recall that was -Chuck's- place of contemplation in the pilot episode, not Sarah's.

For me, the show's worst moments were when the core relationship was unequal - when Sarah was little more than a fetishized object to pursue, and when the characters hid things from each other seemingly just to propel the plot. The finale featured brutal honesty, especially from Chuck, and both characters were given an equal part in showing that their relationship was strong enough to survive almost literally anything.

Rather than wishing the finale had matched the simplicity of the core show, I wish the core show had matched the intensity and complexity of the finale.

Farsight, Well, I never would have watched...That show.  I will be fine watching the earlier...89 episodes of Chuck.  I simply will not ever watch the...Terrible finale again.

great ending. Finally caught up with the last 2 episodes and I'm so glad they didn't take the cheap way out with Chuck and Sarah. I especially enjoyed Jeffster one last time. Seeing Lester tear up at the Buy More when his dream had been realized was quite awesome. We will miss you CHUCK.

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Originally Posted by zak chase 

But to label anyone a "nerd" who doesn't find closure in Chuck and Sarah "spending an afternoon on the beach" and "making out" -- things that sound awesome if you're newly in love but not at all reflective of where Chuck and Sarah's relationship was prior to her mindwipe (buying a house; planning on having some kids) -- is insulting and ignorant.

Dude relax. I call a lot of people nerds. I call myself a nerd. It was categorically used in an inclusive way.

And to the point, what's so bad about two people we spent years watching fall in love, getting to fall in love again? Even more, it was all this talk about buying houses and having babies that was cooling me off all through the year. in terms of emotional fulfillment these two episodes where up there with the one where Sarah confessed to Chuck she loved him or when Chuck shot Shaw.