CGEYE Doesn't everyone who wants to know Chuck's the Intersect, know?
You've got the leftovers from the first Big Bad, Roark (who probably posted it on his EvilDoers of Evil listserv), the newer Big Bad (who were apparently all double agents of the various intelligence agencies, so their successors probably found out during the organizational cleanup) and Volkoff and his intelligence octopus.
You've got a Buy More that shouldn't have been rebuilt, who in that industry is known for either having the dullest or most cyborg customer service staff, in an open environment that any spy willing to sniff them out can put two and two together. The only reason Chuck is alive is because none of these groups has been able to implement Intersect tech on a large scale -- otherwise, Castle and the Buy More would fall victim to a truck bomb, so the greatest threat to *their* Intersect would be eliminated.
I don't think the writers even care anymore about what the Intersect does, how logically consistent its use is, or even how their main character has been restored to a state even lower than his Beta male status in the pilot, because they've conflated the Intersect with personal power. If they actually gave a damn, they would have rethought motivating Chuck into flashing with fear (which we had AN ENTIRE ARC showing how that doesn't work); they would have shown more of what values Chuck has as a hacker and analyst (so we delink the Intersect with the subtext of impotence -- oh, noes, he can't be with Sarah because he can't perform, and she says, it's okay, dear....); and, at last, they'd give Chuck some other purpose in his life than being a Real Spy capable of lightning-fast violence, when the show always, ALWAYS, poses those gifts as a cheat. If they weren't cheats, they'd never keep revisiting how Chuck, as himself, doesn't deserve Sarah, while Sarah protests that no, she's so damaged and violent and needy that she needs this dweeby man to keep telling her she's worthwhile, honorable and beautiful.
If this were a show capable of being transcendent, they'd run with the concept of two spectacularly lost and hurt people finding each other, with no brave faces but with gallows humor. But then that wouldn't be CHUCK -- but it'd feature more honest characters.
NOVEMBER 30, 2010 AT 3:11PM EST
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/chuck-chuck-vs-the-leftovers-yippee-ki-yay-mother-lover
You've got the leftovers from the first Big Bad, Roark (who probably posted it on his EvilDoers of Evil listserv), the newer Big Bad (who were apparently all double agents of the various intelligence agencies, so their successors probably found out during the organizational cleanup) and Volkoff and his intelligence octopus.
You've got a Buy More that shouldn't have been rebuilt, who in that industry is known for either having the dullest or most cyborg customer service staff, in an open environment that any spy willing to sniff them out can put two and two together. The only reason Chuck is alive is because none of these groups has been able to implement Intersect tech on a large scale -- otherwise, Castle and the Buy More would fall victim to a truck bomb, so the greatest threat to *their* Intersect would be eliminated.
I don't think the writers even care anymore about what the Intersect does, how logically consistent its use is, or even how their main character has been restored to a state even lower than his Beta male status in the pilot, because they've conflated the Intersect with personal power. If they actually gave a damn, they would have rethought motivating Chuck into flashing with fear (which we had AN ENTIRE ARC showing how that doesn't work); they would have shown more of what values Chuck has as a hacker and analyst (so we delink the Intersect with the subtext of impotence -- oh, noes, he can't be with Sarah because he can't perform, and she says, it's okay, dear....); and, at last, they'd give Chuck some other purpose in his life than being a Real Spy capable of lightning-fast violence, when the show always, ALWAYS, poses those gifts as a cheat. If they weren't cheats, they'd never keep revisiting how Chuck, as himself, doesn't deserve Sarah, while Sarah protests that no, she's so damaged and violent and needy that she needs this dweeby man to keep telling her she's worthwhile, honorable and beautiful.
If this were a show capable of being transcendent, they'd run with the concept of two spectacularly lost and hurt people finding each other, with no brave faces but with gallows humor. But then that wouldn't be CHUCK -- but it'd feature more honest characters.
NOVEMBER 30, 2010 AT 3:11PM EST
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/chuck-chuck-vs-the-leftovers-yippee-ki-yay-mother-lover
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