http://chuckthisblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/suitcases-and-baggage/#comment-24072
wow.
…but I don’t want to spend my time waiting for lightning to strike.
I think the realization that has Sarah unpacking comes about on the second Milan mission when Chuck slams the door shut and takes on five guys so she can escape (again thinking she may lose Chuck tends to concentrate Sarah’s thoughts). I think Sarah finally figures out she got her big score and she no longer has to wait for lightning to strike to start living the life she dreamed of for so long.
Sarah has a life with Chuck, and while it isn’t normal, exactly, it’s not a future goal. It’s happening. She has a real life with the guy she loves with a home and family, and it just kind of snuck up on her while she was busy being a spy and thinking of a future with Chuck. For years, since her childhood, Sarah’s life has been one of moving toward the next con or mission, with the suitcase being both her only home and her only future. At some point she made Chuck a part of both. But Sarah doesn’t, or didn’t, think in terms of living her fantasy life with a real home and family as a normal girl other than something she wanted in the future. Then she unpacks. So now here she is laying in bed, in her home, in the arms of her guy, and he’s talking about marriage and babies, and it hits her. I have everything I ever wanted or dared to dream of. Now what? Because Chuck is right, the next steps are to make a family of their own, first marriage, then children. I doubt it’s ever something Sarah considered in anything but abstract terms, for the future, but suddenly everything is real in a way it never has been before.
I’ve always said that the dynamic I see is the better things get the more Chuck wants to move to the next step, and at each step Sarah desperately clings to what she has for fear of losing it. The pacicked look on Sarah’s face said exactly that to me.
by Ernie Davis October 4, 2010 at 11:06 am
wow.
…but I don’t want to spend my time waiting for lightning to strike.
I think the realization that has Sarah unpacking comes about on the second Milan mission when Chuck slams the door shut and takes on five guys so she can escape (again thinking she may lose Chuck tends to concentrate Sarah’s thoughts). I think Sarah finally figures out she got her big score and she no longer has to wait for lightning to strike to start living the life she dreamed of for so long.
Sarah has a life with Chuck, and while it isn’t normal, exactly, it’s not a future goal. It’s happening. She has a real life with the guy she loves with a home and family, and it just kind of snuck up on her while she was busy being a spy and thinking of a future with Chuck. For years, since her childhood, Sarah’s life has been one of moving toward the next con or mission, with the suitcase being both her only home and her only future. At some point she made Chuck a part of both. But Sarah doesn’t, or didn’t, think in terms of living her fantasy life with a real home and family as a normal girl other than something she wanted in the future. Then she unpacks. So now here she is laying in bed, in her home, in the arms of her guy, and he’s talking about marriage and babies, and it hits her. I have everything I ever wanted or dared to dream of. Now what? Because Chuck is right, the next steps are to make a family of their own, first marriage, then children. I doubt it’s ever something Sarah considered in anything but abstract terms, for the future, but suddenly everything is real in a way it never has been before.
I’ve always said that the dynamic I see is the better things get the more Chuck wants to move to the next step, and at each step Sarah desperately clings to what she has for fear of losing it. The pacicked look on Sarah’s face said exactly that to me.
by Ernie Davis October 4, 2010 at 11:06 am
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