Chuck 4.03 "vs the Cubic Z"
Oct. 5th, 2010 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emeraldstagI was really disappointed with this episode of Chuck. Let me state here at the beginning that I missed a few segments of the show (almost all of them dealing with the episode's Greta character) but there wasn't as much fun moments as I expect now during a Chuck episode. All of the Buy More segments fell flat for me. The handling of a line for a game release is never like that and I knew that this storyline was to bring back Big Mike, which I was right about.
Thankfully they didn't go completely all the way back to how things were and only gave Big Mike the Assistant Manager job. But this failed game launch seems to show that the Buy More is no longer a CIA cover store, and that once the General left all semblance of a well oiled machine disappeared (along with all of the agents outside of Greta, Morgan and Chuck). Also it disappointed me that Morgan could apparently work for the CIA but not handle a little crowd control. One thing I'm growing to dislike about the show is how they seem to backpedal whenever a change to the show happens, for example Chuck quits spying to be honest with his sister and by the next episode he is back with the CIA and lying to Ellie again.
I think the show had a big chance for a lot of fun with the return of Steve Austin as Hugo. I enjoyed his episode last season with Chuck and Hannah on the plane (I miss Hannah - I forget did she find out about his spy status?). But his scenes were minimal since the also brought back Nicole Richie's character Heather, who was in a fun season 2 episode and with her connections to Sarah's past, her knowledge of Sarah and having met Chuck's mom were made the bigger points of the episode.
This gets me into something that I feel is probably going to annoy about this season of Chuck, the insecurity involving Chuck/Sarah's relationship. Every episode seems to put them in a different situation that exploits the weaknesses in their characters and relationship to a point you would think they were destined to fail. Sarah's fear of settling down took so much focus of this episode that we barely got any development of Casey's situation with his daughter - "You should visit her" and no Ellie/Awesome at all. Obviously the ring that fell into Chuck's hands at the end and Sarah's response to it will be what the focus of next week's episode is and I'm sort of dreading it. I want their relationship hurdles not to be what the show is about and unfortunately it feels like it is about that now.
Thankfully they didn't go completely all the way back to how things were and only gave Big Mike the Assistant Manager job. But this failed game launch seems to show that the Buy More is no longer a CIA cover store, and that once the General left all semblance of a well oiled machine disappeared (along with all of the agents outside of Greta, Morgan and Chuck). Also it disappointed me that Morgan could apparently work for the CIA but not handle a little crowd control. One thing I'm growing to dislike about the show is how they seem to backpedal whenever a change to the show happens, for example Chuck quits spying to be honest with his sister and by the next episode he is back with the CIA and lying to Ellie again.
I think the show had a big chance for a lot of fun with the return of Steve Austin as Hugo. I enjoyed his episode last season with Chuck and Hannah on the plane (I miss Hannah - I forget did she find out about his spy status?). But his scenes were minimal since the also brought back Nicole Richie's character Heather, who was in a fun season 2 episode and with her connections to Sarah's past, her knowledge of Sarah and having met Chuck's mom were made the bigger points of the episode.
This gets me into something that I feel is probably going to annoy about this season of Chuck, the insecurity involving Chuck/Sarah's relationship. Every episode seems to put them in a different situation that exploits the weaknesses in their characters and relationship to a point you would think they were destined to fail. Sarah's fear of settling down took so much focus of this episode that we barely got any development of Casey's situation with his daughter - "You should visit her" and no Ellie/Awesome at all. Obviously the ring that fell into Chuck's hands at the end and Sarah's response to it will be what the focus of next week's episode is and I'm sort of dreading it. I want their relationship hurdles not to be what the show is about and unfortunately it feels like it is about that now.
