Thanks for the reminder! I sort of drifted away after the first few years... too many shows to watch, too little time... and there's always the opportunity to catch up later with DVDs or something.
But I certainly wouldn't want to miss the finale *as it airs*!
[scurries off to program the DVR to make sure I don't forget before tonight...]
My interest in Chuck flagged a little sometimes but always zoomed back up and I've really enjoyed this season, and the show is wonderful with comedy yet also brings the real emotion. It's gotten me to tear up a few times too. It seems to have gotten an iconic foothold in pop culture, too, even if the audience was small, yet it seems like people know what it is.
I totally ♥ Chuck and Sarah. I'm hard-pressed to think of any other couple on TV or movies that I felt so invested in. It's the secondary characters I sometimes felt got too much screen time. (Though I love some of them too - just in measured doses.) And their guest stars were amazing!
I have to admit that I'm sad and happy at the same time. I mean it is sad for it to end and all but like you said 5 seasons is an excellent run and I feel like they didn't stay and wear out their welcome like *coughs*othershows*coughs* and while there will lots of ups and downs I would have to say that in my eyes there were much more ups than downs
5 seasons is usually my optimum--I've stuck with more than one show past the 5 year mark out of love and results are very, um, mixed. Not that they don't ever stay on their game but I think it's more of an exception.
5, maybe 6 at the MOST is what I'm hoping for Fringe. I will be crushed if we don't get a season 5 but feel it should wrap it up soon after.
Babylon 5 had a great 5 year plan and its showrunner stuck to it. That was a great show start to finish IMO.
Yeah I agree--most the shows that I watch don't get past the third season and end with a unsatisfying ending but I think that 5 is a nice number and it allows for the story to develop and not to get stale you know?
As for Fringe-- I don't watch it (I tried a few times but I didn't like the pilot and well I don't know any interesting episodes beyond that-- usually if the pilot doesn't strike me then a later episode will...my viewership of Community and Supernatural started like that...), but I do hope that it gets renewed for you and the other viewers...
Chuck was fantastic sad but really touching I thought...I used quite a few of tissues and that is a good mark for me as a finale.
It was a multi-tissue Chuck finale. I watched with a friend and we sat there and sniffled together. We really liked it, it was bittersweet and yet hopeful and feel it leaves a suggestion of there being a lot more challenges and adventures and they will be okay but there are always obstacles.
I hope Fringe gets renewed too, and Nikita. I want SPN renewed for the sake of other people, right now I have no opinion (except it would be a tiny bit of relief to have it go) although depending on what a S8 might look like I could return to yes! Let's have that! If SPN stays in its current format, I won't wish for its cancellation because it would make too many people I know sad, but I don't care either way for myself.
If Fringe and Nikita gets cancelled and SPN gets renewed, I will cry. D:
It's a little spoilery so I didn't go into detail in the post but you rarely on tv get to follow a canon couple all the way from a) first meeting and b) growth of sexual tension to c) consummation and d) functioning steadily as a partnership after consummation. I'm impressed and delighted Chuck succeeded at it since most shows once the pairing gets together, the show falls apart or the relationship does and I've loved seeig an active on-screen partnership where they are romantically involved. Romance doesn't out a halt to the kicking ass and crime-solving.
I never really paid attention to Chuck.. to the extent I have no idea what it's even about. I am however, in dire need of a new show... (fuck all the links i'll find will be MU won't they, doh!). I get the impression from your post it's totally worth watching.. but um, what's it like/about??
The premise is that this guy named Chuck Bartowski who washed out of Stanford U and works at a Buy More winds up with a CIA database in his head called the Intersect. He gets assigned two handlers, Sarah Walker and John Casey (CIA and NSA respectively). Wackiness ensues while Chuck tries to keep his new strange spying role a secret from coworkers and his sister Ellie and her boyfriend and his BFF Morgan Grimes who like Chuck is an sf fan and a geek.
It's funny and adorable and pokes fun at itself a lot. The geeky characters start out as a bit too exaggerated but then grow and the show has a positive portrayal of geeky fan type characters. The character development overall is really strong. There is a well done central romance (Chuck/Sarah) but it's mostly about family, finding family (non-traditional and traditional) finding your own identity, friendship. It's mostly comedic but takes a "the bullets and emotions are real" approach along with that.
you're aces Dot, aces.mel_b_angelJanuary 28 2012, 21:19:19 UTC
that is a brilliant description! i often stumble with the first bit, and lose (non fandom types) with the whole intersect thing, and i can see it's better to keep that bit as simple as possible, as you did!
the finale was wonderful - exciting, sad, romantic, silly, it even had a musical number! what more could you want eh?
i shall miss them all terribly, but i feel good about where we left them, definitely.
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But I certainly wouldn't want to miss the finale *as it airs*!
[scurries off to program the DVR to make sure I don't forget before tonight...]
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My interest in Chuck flagged a little sometimes but always zoomed back up and I've really enjoyed this season, and the show is wonderful with comedy yet also brings the real emotion. It's gotten me to tear up a few times too. It seems to have gotten an iconic foothold in pop culture, too, even if the audience was small, yet it seems like people know what it is.
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Chuck and Sarah FTW!
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5, maybe 6 at the MOST is what I'm hoping for Fringe. I will be crushed if we don't get a season 5 but feel it should wrap it up soon after.
Babylon 5 had a great 5 year plan and its showrunner stuck to it. That was a great show start to finish IMO.
Chuck! We'll miss you! *wibbles*
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As for Fringe-- I don't watch it (I tried a few times but I didn't like the pilot and well I don't know any interesting episodes beyond that-- usually if the pilot doesn't strike me then a later episode will...my viewership of Community and Supernatural started like that...), but I do hope that it gets renewed for you and the other viewers...
Chuck was fantastic sad but really touching I thought...I used quite a few of tissues and that is a good mark for me as a finale.
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I hope Fringe gets renewed too, and Nikita. I want SPN renewed for the sake of other people, right now I have no opinion (except it would be a tiny bit of relief to have it go) although depending on what a S8 might look like I could return to yes! Let's have that! If SPN stays in its current format, I won't wish for its cancellation because it would make too many people I know sad, but I don't care either way for myself.
If Fringe and Nikita gets cancelled and SPN gets renewed, I will cry. D:
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It's funny and adorable and pokes fun at itself a lot. The geeky characters start out as a bit too exaggerated but then grow and the show has a positive portrayal of geeky fan type characters. The character development overall is really strong. There is a well done central romance (Chuck/Sarah) but it's mostly about family, finding family (non-traditional and traditional) finding your own identity, friendship. It's mostly comedic but takes a "the bullets and emotions are real" approach along with that.
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the finale was wonderful - exciting, sad, romantic, silly, it even had a musical number! what more could you want eh?
i shall miss them all terribly, but i feel good about where we left them, definitely.
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Chuck. I MISS IT ALREADY. Glad it went out strong but it's gooooooone. D:
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