Chuck Review: With All Of My Heart Comments (Page 3)
53 Comments
Bonnie
January 28th, 2012 8:06 AM
I thought it was a marvelous ending for a wonderful series. I'm sad to see it end and I wish another network would pick it up. I liked the endings they had for everyone. I think Chuck and Sarah will be OK. I kept yelling at Chuck telling him to do what Morgon told him to do and kiss Sarah. I like to think it Worked.
Laura
January 28th, 2012 7:47 AM
I am sad to see the show gone. I have watched Chuck since day one and loved the show. The ending was good but I would of loved to see a happier ending. Hopefully, they will have a movie.
Scott
January 28th, 2012 7:14 AM
Of course the easiest fix for ambiguous endings is the spinoff movie. How many of us would go to see a Chuck wrap-up movie on the big screen?
*Raises hand*
I think maybe the writers had that mind because the series box set will sell by the bucketload, enough to fund a movie.
james
January 28th, 2012 6:37 AM
i see allot of people are not happy with the ending of chuck which i find this silly. they stuck to the story line with no magic do overs and everyone moving on with there lives. and i liked the ambiguous ending because it was real and left it's self open to each person to say how it ended. and to all those who say Sarah is back to where she started you could see that even though she couldn't remember, the feelings were still there. so i chose to see that they lived happily ever after; it just took a bit longer than we thought to get there.
David
January 28th, 2012 5:50 AM
in the words of Dominar Rygel the 16th:
Good Bye.
Good Luck.
Good Riddance.
.................
Hated it.
Still sad, but that's okay
January 28th, 2012 3:38 AM
Oh yes... this isn't the first time Chuck has thrown a bit of a curveball at us. Does anybody remember Emmett? I'll take this twist over a twist like that one! 'Nuff said. :-)
fortyseven Rank: Regular Character
January 28th, 2012 3:32 AM
I like ambiguous endings sometimes but Chuck shouldn't have ended ambiguously. Yes it was great to have several retrospectives. Mind you, there could have been retrospectives without having Sarah lose her memories of Chuck. Sarah regaining her memories would have been cheap but only as it was written. Bringing in Quinn in the last 4? episodes was bad writing/plotting anyway. Quin could have been introduced at the beginning of the half season. Sarah could have lost her memory much earlier instead of Morgan. Ellie could have worked on memory restoration for a few episodes. Chuck not shooting Quinn was poor writing. He could have used a tranq gun. Levi did great in both episodes. Mostly resetting Sarah just to have an overly sad finale and ambiguous ending is contrived writing/plotting.
Sad but that's okay
January 28th, 2012 3:21 AM
'with Sarah hardly remembering who Chuck is'
But see, we *know* some of her memories are breaking through. Wienerlicious, porn virus, 'S+C' on the wall, etc.
It's not a 'then I woke up from a dream' situation. It's a chance for C+S to fall in love all over again, and over time (as with Morgan), some (if not all) of those memories will come back into focus.
I'm 'happy' with the ending. Nobody died, happy endings for all (even C+S, because they have a chance)- all in the tradition of all the twists this series has made over the years (and the several 'series' ending mid-season and season finales (courtesy of the are-we-cancelled bogeyman).
And one of my favourite bits is the new owners - Subway. I wonder how much (if anything) they paid for this episode. I wouldn't be surprised if their part was comp'ed as a way of saying 'Thanks' for being an integral part in allowing us the joy of watching this series so much longer than anyone could have expected a few years ago.
Joe
January 28th, 2012 3:11 AM
The ending was good for what it was... We all didn't want this show to end and neither did the producers but they had to find a way to end it. They couldn't just have Sarah remember everything out of the blue that would have killed the show and everything it's done in the past 3 years. In my opinion this reallly was the only way for it to end with out killing the show. There is no way for Sarah to remember chuck it would kill the whole intercept wiping out the brain idea. Even though I wish Sarah got her memory back and everything would have been awesome, it couldn't. I just hope some other tv station signed this show because it is a legit money maker and NBC is making a huge mistake.
Uncle Jackass Rank: Regular Character
January 28th, 2012 2:36 AM
Did anyone also notice the allusion to that same corridor where Bryce Larkin took out 5 agents and swung into action from the first episode from Sarah's brainwashed perspective?
Marcus
January 28th, 2012 2:34 AM
As I said to each there own but I would have rather taken the "happily ever after" over the producers essentially crapping over five years worth of development both story and character wise. For me this ending felt about as cheap as "and then I woke up, it was all a dream." Tonight's ending essentially similar to that. Someone said once, I believe Patrick Stewart, that if a character is the same on page 1 as they are on the last page then you have a problem. So Sarah after five years is essentially the same character as she was from the pilot, no effective change. I would have even taken her dying over what they did tonight at least it wouldn't have completely negated the journey she took the last five years as a character, but that's just my opinion.
AcesCharles
January 28th, 2012 2:26 AM
Completely disagree with the above posts.LOVED the fact that it didn't end on a "happily ever after" with Sarah obviously getting all of her memories back. That would have felt incredibly cheap to me
Marcus
January 28th, 2012 1:55 AM
To me, at the end of the day, Chuck is a comedy and so for it to have the ending it did, didn't really seem to fit with the show since it's inception. You have a show like Friday Night Lights which is a realistic drama and yet it gave an ending that was more satisfying and provided more closure than the one that Chuck did tonight. I can see why in an interview Yvonne Strahovski said she expected something different from the finale, perhaps not for it to suck, but to each their own I suppose.
Sa'ad702 Rank: Regular Character
January 28th, 2012 1:40 AM
I think the ending was satisfying but at the same time I would have wanted more. Chuck never wanted to be a spy but over time and working with Sarah he got used to the idea, so much so that he started his own company in the 5th season. At its heart the show has also been partly about the inner struggle that Chuck has about being a spy and not being a spy and they should have had something about that. Instead of them going their separate ways. Unless I missed it?
Dan is right, every episode of Chuck has had heart, humor and action and the finale had three times that.
Another side note, but Chuck and Alias ended in the reduced 5th season and the last scenes were shot on the beach. lol. Not that they can be compared.
Marcus
January 28th, 2012 1:29 AM
I have to agree with the previous comments. If there was any show that needed an ambiguous ending Chuck wasn't it. For a show that was always on the cusp of being cancelled, except for the clamoring of the fans to keep it on, it made no sense to not give the fans a more satisfying ending. All the character development of Sarah, the Dream house, the picture of them and the baby was pretty much all for not. What would have been wrong with knowing that Chuck and Sarah are okay somewhere, happily married with a child? I'm hoping that the producers are doing a George Lucas and saving some pivotal scenes for the DVD so as to encourage people to buy it, otherwise that ending was blah at best for five years of being a loyal fan of the show.
Thanks for another excellent recap/review, Dan.
The plots this and the last few weeks have been silly, with too many ridiculous escapes by Quinn, and his too often letting our team live. Obviously, the writers were putting up relatively weak excuses to set up the strong heart moments.
"with Sarah hardly remember[ing] who Chuck is, Casey darting off to find Verbanski, and the Awesomes moving to Chicago"
A very BITTERSWEET ending, but kudos to the writers for the reminder that so often things do not work out perfectly.
Overall, for me, this series deserves every bit of all 5 stars.
Quinn: What's happening? Chuck: One word…Jeffster!
January 28th, 2012 8:06 AM
I thought it was a marvelous ending for a wonderful series. I'm sad to see it end and I wish another network would pick it up. I liked the endings they had for everyone. I think Chuck and Sarah will be OK. I kept yelling at Chuck telling him to do what Morgon told him to do and kiss Sarah. I like to think it Worked.
January 28th, 2012 7:47 AM
I am sad to see the show gone. I have watched Chuck since day one and loved the show. The ending was good but I would of loved to see a happier ending. Hopefully, they will have a movie.
January 28th, 2012 7:14 AM
Of course the easiest fix for ambiguous endings is the spinoff movie. How many of us would go to see a Chuck wrap-up movie on the big screen?
*Raises hand*
I think maybe the writers had that mind because the series box set will sell by the bucketload, enough to fund a movie.
January 28th, 2012 6:37 AM
i see allot of people are not happy with the ending of chuck which i find this silly. they stuck to the story line with no magic do overs and everyone moving on with there lives. and i liked the ambiguous ending because it was real and left it's self open to each person to say how it ended. and to all those who say Sarah is back to where she started you could see that even though she couldn't remember, the feelings were still there. so i chose to see that they lived happily ever after; it just took a bit longer than we thought to get there.
January 28th, 2012 5:50 AM
in the words of Dominar Rygel the 16th:
Good Bye.
Good Luck.
Good Riddance.
.................
Hated it.
January 28th, 2012 3:38 AM
Oh yes... this isn't the first time Chuck has thrown a bit of a curveball at us. Does anybody remember Emmett? I'll take this twist over a twist like that one! 'Nuff said. :-)
Rank: Regular Character
January 28th, 2012 3:32 AM
I like ambiguous endings sometimes but Chuck shouldn't have ended ambiguously. Yes it was great to have several retrospectives. Mind you, there could have been retrospectives without having Sarah lose her memories of Chuck. Sarah regaining her memories would have been cheap but only as it was written. Bringing in Quinn in the last 4? episodes was bad writing/plotting anyway. Quin could have been introduced at the beginning of the half season. Sarah could have lost her memory much earlier instead of Morgan. Ellie could have worked on memory restoration for a few episodes. Chuck not shooting Quinn was poor writing. He could have used a tranq gun. Levi did great in both episodes. Mostly resetting Sarah just to have an overly sad finale and ambiguous ending is contrived writing/plotting.
January 28th, 2012 3:21 AM
'with Sarah hardly remembering who Chuck is'
But see, we *know* some of her memories are breaking through. Wienerlicious, porn virus, 'S+C' on the wall, etc.
It's not a 'then I woke up from a dream' situation. It's a chance for C+S to fall in love all over again, and over time (as with Morgan), some (if not all) of those memories will come back into focus.
I'm 'happy' with the ending. Nobody died, happy endings for all (even C+S, because they have a chance)- all in the tradition of all the twists this series has made over the years (and the several 'series' ending mid-season and season finales (courtesy of the are-we-cancelled bogeyman).
And one of my favourite bits is the new owners - Subway. I wonder how much (if anything) they paid for this episode. I wouldn't be surprised if their part was comp'ed as a way of saying 'Thanks' for being an integral part in allowing us the joy of watching this series so much longer than anyone could have expected a few years ago.
January 28th, 2012 3:11 AM
The ending was good for what it was... We all didn't want this show to end and neither did the producers but they had to find a way to end it. They couldn't just have Sarah remember everything out of the blue that would have killed the show and everything it's done in the past 3 years. In my opinion this reallly was the only way for it to end with out killing the show. There is no way for Sarah to remember chuck it would kill the whole intercept wiping out the brain idea. Even though I wish Sarah got her memory back and everything would have been awesome, it couldn't. I just hope some other tv station signed this show because it is a legit money maker and NBC is making a huge mistake.
Rank: Regular Character
January 28th, 2012 2:36 AM
Did anyone also notice the allusion to that same corridor where Bryce Larkin took out 5 agents and swung into action from the first episode from Sarah's brainwashed perspective?
January 28th, 2012 2:34 AM
As I said to each there own but I would have rather taken the "happily ever after" over the producers essentially crapping over five years worth of development both story and character wise. For me this ending felt about as cheap as "and then I woke up, it was all a dream." Tonight's ending essentially similar to that. Someone said once, I believe Patrick Stewart, that if a character is the same on page 1 as they are on the last page then you have a problem. So Sarah after five years is essentially the same character as she was from the pilot, no effective change. I would have even taken her dying over what they did tonight at least it wouldn't have completely negated the journey she took the last five years as a character, but that's just my opinion.
January 28th, 2012 2:26 AM
Completely disagree with the above posts.LOVED the fact that it didn't end on a "happily ever after" with Sarah obviously getting all of her memories back. That would have felt incredibly cheap to me
January 28th, 2012 1:55 AM
To me, at the end of the day, Chuck is a comedy and so for it to have the ending it did, didn't really seem to fit with the show since it's inception. You have a show like Friday Night Lights which is a realistic drama and yet it gave an ending that was more satisfying and provided more closure than the one that Chuck did tonight. I can see why in an interview Yvonne Strahovski said she expected something different from the finale, perhaps not for it to suck, but to each their own I suppose.
Rank: Regular Character
January 28th, 2012 1:40 AM
I think the ending was satisfying but at the same time I would have wanted more. Chuck never wanted to be a spy but over time and working with Sarah he got used to the idea, so much so that he started his own company in the 5th season. At its heart the show has also been partly about the inner struggle that Chuck has about being a spy and not being a spy and they should have had something about that. Instead of them going their separate ways. Unless I missed it?
Dan is right, every episode of Chuck has had heart, humor and action and the finale had three times that.
Another side note, but Chuck and Alias ended in the reduced 5th season and the last scenes were shot on the beach. lol. Not that they can be compared.
January 28th, 2012 1:29 AM
I have to agree with the previous comments. If there was any show that needed an ambiguous ending Chuck wasn't it. For a show that was always on the cusp of being cancelled, except for the clamoring of the fans to keep it on, it made no sense to not give the fans a more satisfying ending. All the character development of Sarah, the Dream house, the picture of them and the baby was pretty much all for not. What would have been wrong with knowing that Chuck and Sarah are okay somewhere, happily married with a child? I'm hoping that the producers are doing a George Lucas and saving some pivotal scenes for the DVD so as to encourage people to buy it, otherwise that ending was blah at best for five years of being a loyal fan of the show.
Rank: Extra
January 28th, 2012 1:18 AM
Thanks for another excellent recap/review, Dan.
The plots this and the last few weeks have been silly, with too many ridiculous escapes by Quinn, and his too often letting our team live. Obviously, the writers were putting up relatively weak excuses to set up the strong heart moments.
"with Sarah hardly remember[ing] who Chuck is, Casey darting off to find Verbanski, and the Awesomes moving to Chicago"
A very BITTERSWEET ending, but kudos to the writers for the reminder that so often things do not work out perfectly.
Overall, for me, this series deserves every bit of all 5 stars.
Rank: New User
January 28th, 2012 12:50 AM
I enjoyed the two hours, but a little disapointed with the ending. I would prefered an ending that was obvious and more happier than the one we got.
January 28th, 2012 12:30 AM
Sorry but hated it. Should have renamed the finale Chuck vs. The Soprano Ending