I don’t know if it’s me but I’ve been noticing recently that Chuck/Sarah have been lacking something since Season 3. What ways can you think of could improve the Chuck/Sarah relationship in the show?
Ways to improve Chuck/Sarah
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Let them get married and live happily ever after, the end. Stories don't go on forever, and Chuck's story never had that many good years in it, anyway. There's no story left to tell, all they can do is draaaag things out artificially. It's gruesome, like keeping a brain-dead patient on life support.
Cancel the show and let the cast and writers go onto new things. With all the pilots NBC is ordering, they can afford to finally cancel the show.
Cancel the show and let the cast and writers go onto new things. With all the pilots NBC is ordering, they can afford to finally cancel the show.
Well, part of it is just that "forbidden fruit" always seems more enticing than the real thing.
I don't know that the final moment of Sarah choosing Chuck over Agent Superman was done as well as it could have been. It felt a bit anti-climatic, especially in comparison to the pure hotness/romance that was the make-out scene in "Chuck Versus the Colonel."
And I don't think the Chuck/Sarah relationship is being done badly. But I do think that one thing it's missing which it had in S1/S2 is that it's begun to conform to traditional gender roles. Whereas in Season Two, we'd get scenes like Sarah walking up to Chuck at the end of "Chuck Versus Santa Claus," hugging him, and whispering in his ear, "I will never let anyone hurt you" -- it's this wonderful, heartbreaking, romantic, and very, very feminist scene, because we see the woman taking the role of the protector and the man taking the role of the more passive partner. And I think that that was a really interesting, and really fun, inversion of traditional gender roles.
And what we see post-Intersect 2.0 in S3 and S4 is this situation where now, Chuck is the protector much of the time. Which, to a point that's a natural outgrowth of the fact that Chuck has grown as a character, and he's now able to be the guy who fights, too, rather than the guy who leaves the fighting to Sarah and Casey. But all the same, I miss seeing Sarah be the protector sometimes. It's nice when Chuck gives a speech about how he'll always protect Sarah given the choice ("Chuck Versus the Subway"), but I see "heroic man protects beautiful woman" plots all the time, and I think that by making Sarah more passive, we lose part of her character and part of the spark that Chuck/Sarah had in the first two seasons.
Which is not to say it's being done horribly, either, nor that Chuck shouldn't step up to the plate, too. I suppose I just think that they need to find a better balance, because nowadays, Chuck is starting to seem like the dominant partner in their relationship. Which, I just don't see. I see them as being either truly 50/50, or as Chuck who's the sort willing to let Sarah take charge most of the time, but I don't see Chuck as being the assertive, active, protective, dominant partner.
Sarah is fine as she is. But Chuck has totally lost all his geek factor this season. What happened to the creative techie who is able to think outside the box and used internet porn to disable a computer triggered bomb? I was actually happy when Chuck lost the intersect. I thought we would see the old Chuck somehow be able to improvise and beat the bad guys even without the intersect.
I actually think it's nice for them to have a normal, healthy relationship without the angst.
Clark and Lana angst, which went on for *years*, got pretty much unwatchable. This is nice.
Clark and Lana angst, which went on for *years*, got pretty much unwatchable. This is nice.
Clark/Lana is an example of how romantic angst can be poorly handled but that isn't always the case.
John/Aeryn is a great example of how romantic angst can be handled very well.
John/Aeryn is a great example of how romantic angst can be handled very well.
John and Aeryn had a natural, non-contrived barrier in their relationship. Chuck and Sarah don't have that. That's why we get the confusing ping pong whether Chuck wants to be a spy/doesn't want to be a spy/can't be a spy and be with Sarah/Sarah can't be a spy and be with Chuck/both are scared of commitment/Sarah got dragged off to Zanzibar on an open ended assignment so there goes the relationship/etc ad nauseum. It's just the writers frantically scrambling to maintain angst in the relationship, and it's tiresome. There is no angst. The story is over. Let them live happily ever after, the end.
Kill Casey. Seriously, that would crank everything to 11+, but the show is too harmless to make that happen.
I was wondering why Rachel Bilson didn't come back yesterday.
Temis is right, the show should die.
They've been treading water for so long it's obvious they have no idea where to go form here and have no intention.
I find the Awesomes more interesting than Chuck and Sarah these days.
If a monkey joins the team I might just cry.
Temis is right, the show should die.
They've been treading water for so long it's obvious they have no idea where to go form here and have no intention.
I find the Awesomes more interesting than Chuck and Sarah these days.
If a monkey joins the team I might just cry.
I do enjoy Chuck, but yes, I agree; it's time to put the show out to pasture. I adore Casey, but he has absolutely NOTHING to do. Morgan is really starting to grate on my nerves. We barely get to see the Buy More gang now, and the Awesome family are more interesting, and believable, than the main characters.
Maybe, after the wedding, it would be a good time to wrap it up.
Maybe, after the wedding, it would be a good time to wrap it up.
The beginning of the end was "I know kung-fu." Once Chuck got control of the Intersect and became a reasonably competent super-spy, the core "fish out of water" premise of the show was undone. They tried to resurrect a bit of that by bringing Morgan into the fold, but it's been pretty weak.
I hate to say it, but I agree. They should quit while they're ahead, before the show becomes a self-parody.
Wait!
Going out on top was the theme of last weeks episode.
Casey moving on, and Morgan moving out.
Were the writers begging to be put out of their misery too through theme?
Going out on top was the theme of last weeks episode.
Casey moving on, and Morgan moving out.
Were the writers begging to be put out of their misery too through theme?
Season 4 has been much about family and growing up right from the beginning. Maybe the writers are writing this season as the last without clearly knowing it.
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