-the tension built up in the past two episodes continued and will do so for the rest of the season until the pulsing season finale?
-a main character died?
-a cliffhanger of an ending leaving you anticipating the next week?
NO!
instead, the whole idea of the separation between Chuck and Sarah lasting for a very long time came to a very quick and happy ending, and any hope of a tense fingernail-biting finale leading to a climactic decision between right and wrong for Chuck/Chuck's mom/Sarah and the possibility of eliminating Volkoff came crashing down.
To summarize, Chuck and Morgan managed to sneak onto Volkoff's "floating fortress" of a boat (after luring him there in the first place by scaring him onto it) undetected, met up with Sarah and Chuck's mom (who were sneaking around the deck without Volkoff being suspicious at all), and decided to go hang out together and find Volkoff's secret computer network. Once they get past all the obstacles and into the computer room (there was a Deus ex machina in the form of Morgan developing talent as a yoga master out of nowhere to sneak past some lasers and comically and predictably having all his clothing cut off by them except for his underwear), Chuck sneakily plugs a flash drive into the main computer without his mom noticing and then takes it out without a further mention of it. They get almost all the way into the computer system, but don't have Volkoff's voice password. Can you guess what happens next?
Shocker! they're caught by Volkoff. Then a truly unexpected and yet predictable plot development in the form of Orion (Chuck's dead dad) being alive after all! He messages Frost (Chuck's Mom's nickname) and tells her to meet him at his old cabin.
Frost manages to grab a gun and allows Chuck, Sarah, and Morgan to escape. There is no further mention of these people. (But don't worry, they're not pulling off some predictable rescue that will leave you absolutely unsatisfied. I promise.)
So Volkoff goes off to kill Orion (because he's super jealous and digs Frost) and when he gets to the cabin, guess who's there?
did you guess it? IT'S CHUCK!!!! cause Orion is totally dead still. sorry.
and he ties up Volkoff and puts a gun to his face. "but wait, Chuck doesn't kill people!" Exactly.
So Volkoff gets loose and is about to shoot Chuck in the face. and he has one of his dudes smother John Casey with a pillow (he's in the hospital). And Chuck's mom is about to be shot. AND SUDDENLY CHUCK AND MORGAN ENACT THEIR TOTALLY UNEXPECTED BACKUP PLAN WHERE THEY RECORDED VOLKOFF'S VOICE AND USE IT TO UNLOCK THE NETWORK AND DOWNLOAD IT TO THE COMPUTER RIGHT BEHIND HIM IN ORION'S CABIN!!!!
Didn't see that one coming.
and instead of turning around and destroying the computer behind him (you know, kick it? throw a chair at it? you're in a cabin for heaven's sake!), Volkoff stands there and is all like "wut?"
and John Casey was only pretending to be dead! woah!
and then Sarah somehow opens the blast door and rescues Frost spectacularly and easily. SHOCKER!!
But Volkoff recovers and is all "well i've got my men outside waiting! you'd need an army to get out alive!!!" and then Chuck is all "*opens the door and the CIA is standing outside* will this suffice?". Didn't see that coming, and ESPECIALLY didn't anticipate the "will this do?".
and then, at the end, Chuck finally gets to propose to Sarah and she accepts. (after she died her hair from black to blonde in the time it took to take a helicopter from the cabin to the hospital.)
and the preview for next week is basically "here's another lame filler episode before we do something exciting again. AND...it'll feature a prior character we want to bring back just for the heck of it".
Let me tell you folks, the writers pulled out all the stops and wrote a truly unique and non-repetitive-cliche episode this time. AND IT HAD A LAME HAPPY ENDING TO IT TOO.
I mean, wait until the season finale for the happy ending. that's how it should usually go. Not in the middle of a season like this. There is no thread of consistency over this season. It's all just a bunch of episodes with a few of them being tied together recently. The first few weren't like that at all. So what's next? Who knows. All I know is this: Chuck is not as good as it used to be, and I'm seriously considering not watching it anymore. It used to be way, WAY better than it was. Now they're just telling a story based on the characters and NOT relevant to the original storyline at all. Chuck's intersect is a useful asset now and again, but usually not major. There are just things about this season that just don't work. The writing is not as good as it used to be, the story isn't as exciting, the story doesn't always flow, and there are way too many cliches to tolerate at times.
My diagnosis is this: The writers need to come up with some new big development that will last at least two seasons (and be interesting), and make it somewhat unique too. Otherwise, this show will fizzle out soon. Soon.
My fingers are crossed, because I truly enjoyed all previous seasons of this show, and would like to see it continue. Here's hoping.
-Cody
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