Chuck Versus Phase Three: Sarah-Centric Awesomeness!

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How do you like your Sarah Walker?  Pouring her heart out to Chuck?  Wearing short shorts and pouring water all over herself?  How about kicking ass and taking names of everyone in Southeast Asia? 

Whichever your pleasure, "Chuck Versus Phase Three" had everything you could ask for from a Sarah-centric episode.

Fighting Mad

Even though Chuck was in an Inception-esque dream coma throughout the entire episode, this week's installment was one of my favorites of the season.  Given all the Sarah beat downs, the Morgan hilarity and a nice B plot with Awesome and the Buy Morians, what was not to like?

As we do here with these reviews, let's take a look at how the Chuck Triple Threat panned out this week.

Comedy
We had Morgan continuing to thrive in the spy world.  Well, in making us laugh while he attempts to succeed in the spy world.  He caves in to Sarah about Chuck's proposal with no hesitation, he over shares and then he waves a gun around proclaiming that he knows how to use it, once again calling all the bad guys "dirt bags."

Three other comedic highlights from the hour:

  1. Awesome bragging about the Toyota Sienna's five out of five stars for side impact protection.
  2. All of the people in Thailand referring to Sarah as the giant, blonde she-male.  
  3. Casey being a usual at the stomping grounds for the "scum of the Earth."

Action
After a few weeks lacking in fight scenes, this week stepped it up a notch.  The kick boxing battle royal in the sand had enough adrenaline to keep me up all night.  To be fair, though, after dismantling that Thai champion in the ring, should Sarah have had to face Sagat and General M. Bison to move on to the next round?

Sarah was also kicking ass and taking names before and after that epic fight.  Of course, she had help from Morgan, who pretended to be a pot head tourist looking for a hostel while Casey and Sarah took out some more bad guys and eventually found Chuck.

Chuck Versus Phase Three Scene

Heart
It came down to a pair of moments when Sarah proclaimed her love for Chuck, with or without the intersect.  The first came as an admission to Morgan, but it still got my heart pumping.  When she finally had the nerve to spill her heart out to Chuck?  Fantastic. Yvonne Strahovski was absolutely brilliant as the tears came rushing out when Sarah was trying to wake Chuck up from his dream state.

Moving On
Hello, crazy green light computer formerly of Steve Bartowski!  What will you have in store for us?  I love that Awesome and his merry men got the computer to turn on by any means necessary, but it was also nice to see Ellie be the one to figure out the password.  What was on that first screen?  Might it be related to the intersect?  Frost and Volkoff?  Something crazier? 

Can't wait to learn more next week.

Chuck Versus Phase Three Review

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