Chuck -2x18 -"Chuck vs. The Broken Heart"-Discuss/Grade <SPOILERS>
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The way our brains work have a physical component, even if you're talking only about electrical impulses jumping synapses. So Chuck's solution has got to be physical. What else could it be, hand-waving or magic?
Chuck's brain could be reprogrammed not to trigger memories when given certain input, but that would require new information being downloaded into his brain. At some level, something physical is happening - his synapses are being told to fire when certain information comes its way. They need to be told not to do that - by something akin to a computer program, which will physically interact with the structures in his brain. Can't work any other way.
Chuck's brain could be reprogrammed not to trigger memories when given certain input, but that would require new information being downloaded into his brain. At some level, something physical is happening - his synapses are being told to fire when certain information comes its way. They need to be told not to do that - by something akin to a computer program, which will physically interact with the structures in his brain. Can't work any other way.
Checkmate
Commodore
Even if some mumbo-jumbo technobabble is used to remove the information from his brain, there's no reason to believe the NSA or CIA are going to allow him to live. He may believe that, but there's no reason at all to think they would. If there's even the tiniest chance that he'd ever remember something, he'd be compromise national security.
His only solution is to become a real agent, preferably an analyst who looks over recon data until he flashes. It's stupid having him as a field agent; exactly on par with carrying around the only existing database in your pocket. You lose him, you lose it all.
His only solution is to become a real agent, preferably an analyst who looks over recon data until he flashes. It's stupid having him as a field agent; exactly on par with carrying around the only existing database in your pocket. You lose him, you lose it all.
I'm unsure why he only flashes once when he encounters new stimulus. Surely every time he sees Sarah and Casey, then he should have seen again and again the flashes of them being bad ass from the pilot? Either he's faking it that he's not flashing and reflashing over the same old garbage, or every piece of intersect information in his head can only be recovered once.
Bomb squads more often than than not, rather than defusing a suspected bomb, attach their own explosives and force a detonation of the "bomb" in a controlled environment...
Now it might look painful or odd every time Chuck Flashes, but if they could trip every piece of intel in his head by spending a couple weeks rolling through a new intersect or the majority of the data bases that the original intersect drew it's intel from, them if he doesn't stroke out, then he should be clean, give or take.
Of course, if the flashing causes all that super compressed data to expand, then maybe his brain will run out of storage space, which is why they don't store everything in active memory to begin with?
I'm sure i once saw Chuck flash because of something he heard. Otherwise I would suggest, to just remove his eyes. It's not a simple choice between death or blindness, but death or blindness and deafness is a little steeper a choice.
Then he flashes after reading something on a brail newspaper and they have to cut his hands off too.
The life imprisonment scenario in the Secret CIA Prison sounds better and betterer.
Bomb squads more often than than not, rather than defusing a suspected bomb, attach their own explosives and force a detonation of the "bomb" in a controlled environment...
Now it might look painful or odd every time Chuck Flashes, but if they could trip every piece of intel in his head by spending a couple weeks rolling through a new intersect or the majority of the data bases that the original intersect drew it's intel from, them if he doesn't stroke out, then he should be clean, give or take.
Of course, if the flashing causes all that super compressed data to expand, then maybe his brain will run out of storage space, which is why they don't store everything in active memory to begin with?
I'm sure i once saw Chuck flash because of something he heard. Otherwise I would suggest, to just remove his eyes. It's not a simple choice between death or blindness, but death or blindness and deafness is a little steeper a choice.
Then he flashes after reading something on a brail newspaper and they have to cut his hands off too.
The life imprisonment scenario in the Secret CIA Prison sounds better and betterer.
The only point I was trying to make earlier was that it's probably not something Captain Awesome can remove by cutting him open.
Yeah, I think they should delve into that a little more. It would be nice if Chuck could learn how to focus it a little bit by concentrating on the subject he wants information on.
This isn't the type of show that will get into the minutia of its own premise.
Chuck got stuck with the information to flash on top secret intel. It's in him. He's valuable, they have to protect him.
Trying to put it under a microscope is trying explain why Jeannie gets small when she goes into her bottle. Or where the extra matter from comes from when Samantha changes something small into something big.
Not important. Go with the premise or don't. Debating character arcs and storylines is fine, but dissecting a comedy's premise is like dissecting a fish. By the time you get to what makes it work, you've killed it.
Just enjoy the fish.
--Ted
Chuck got stuck with the information to flash on top secret intel. It's in him. He's valuable, they have to protect him.
Trying to put it under a microscope is trying explain why Jeannie gets small when she goes into her bottle. Or where the extra matter from comes from when Samantha changes something small into something big.
Not important. Go with the premise or don't. Debating character arcs and storylines is fine, but dissecting a comedy's premise is like dissecting a fish. By the time you get to what makes it work, you've killed it.
Just enjoy the fish.
--Ted
You eat live fish?
Have you seen Chuck when he attempts to lie?
All they'd have to do is wave a national secret before his face and see if he gets woozy and cross-eyed.Have you seen Chuck when he attempts to lie?
Not important. Go with the premise or don't. Debating character arcs and storylines is fine, but dissecting a comedy's premise is like dissecting a fish. By the time you get to what makes it work, you've killed it.
Just enjoy the fish.
--Ted
I'm inclined to agree. CHUCK isn't really a spy show. It's a romantic-comedy with spy-fi trappings.
Since Chuck isn't going to bother explaining how or why the Intersect works, the only think stopping Awesome from conducting brain surgery is whether it would be funny. Seems like an obvious slam-dunk to me, especially if Chuck is awake (which happens in real life brain surgery) reading the schematics and telling Awesome which synapses to poke. OW!
Of course, the writers might not think of this angle. Right now I'm more concerned with the show getting another season.
Of course, the writers might not think of this angle. Right now I'm more concerned with the show getting another season.
Has someone been watching Farscape lately?
^ or Spock's Brain?
or every 3rd episode of grays anatomy ever made?
i liked it when they were subtly electrocuting that amnesia girl patients brain to see if it would bring back her memories, and different shocks provoked her to speak different languages which she was unaware of and surprised that she knew.
i liked it when they were subtly electrocuting that amnesia girl patients brain to see if it would bring back her memories, and different shocks provoked her to speak different languages which she was unaware of and surprised that she knew.
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