this is why we can't have nice things.
Feb. 21st, 2011 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndnickersonso, chuck tonight.
The previews promised this odd Eyes Wide Shut thing with a masquerade. I'm gonna be honest, it opened with Chuck doing the most cringe-awkward sexy-dance ever (maybe I'm a terrible person but it weirds me out that, as Sepinwall pointed out, Chuck is the girl in their relationship) but then Sarah revealed this red nightie/angel wings getup and I was all about some making out. Which, of course, we didn't get, because Morgan and Alex were doing some creepy thing that involved chocolate and made me think of bad fanfic.
Anyway then they go to said masquerade (as Steve Heisler at the AV Club pointed out, time is weird in Chuck-verse) but it's lame (why was Vivian having a masquerade in the first place?) and they abduct her just to take her back to London. I want to write some fanfic where they casually reveal that they have personal transporters they use all the time. So then there's some talky stuff and Sarah actually doing this adorable growly thing with action figures while trying to "bond" with Morgan and Morgan leaping from "These are toys!" to "I have to move out!" Which, uh, yeah. But back to your mom's place? Ugh.
To be honest I started zoning out and then there was the ludicrously awful horseback riding chase scene/Casey defending Sarah from snipers. I will totally admit that, if I fell from horseback, I would definitely lie on the ground and cry and clutch at my head or whatever, but Sarah has snapped back from worse and instead she just sort of moans and I was like, lame.
Then Casey gets offered a ride down the magical Jeffries tube that was just installed in Castle and Vivian unlocks some super secret thing (it was SO NICE of the CIA to keep electricity on there, and NOT have anyone on guard, AND leave all the furnishings, AND... oh, everything) and... I want whatever she saw to be Orion but it won't be because things aren't that awesome.
Then there was the sleep sheep. Maybe Ellie and Awesome are so sleep deprived that it's all they can do to be wearing both shirts and pants AND operate a motor vehicle, but damn. PUT THE CHILD IN THE NURSERY. DONE.
What I'm objecting to most, I think, is that from week to week internal continuity depends only on which writers worked on it and what they remembered. I'm beginning to think there is no writer's bible when it comes to characterization or backstory or even WHAT HAPPENED IN OTHER SEASONS AS CANON. Sarah and Chuck are getting married in a few months? Mary Bartowski has just flitted off into the night without a whimper? Maybe they will get married on a pirate ship at high sea like Will and Elizabeth did, but if not I think they got some planning to do.
I apparently want this show to be a lot more angsty than it is. Or to have more consequences. Or, at LEAST, to have more of Chuck and Sarah making out. It was the Valentine's Day ep, for God's sake. THEY DIDN'T MAKE OUT. We didn't even get to see the heart-shaped souffle!
=(
So, yeah. Most of the people I knew IRL who watched Chuck have stopped. I have one rabid fan friend left. I know I'll keep watching, but I have this bad feeling my dissatisfaction is just going to grow.
I mean, unless the wedding episode is EPIC. And possibly involves Chuck marrying a clone of Sarah.
The previews promised this odd Eyes Wide Shut thing with a masquerade. I'm gonna be honest, it opened with Chuck doing the most cringe-awkward sexy-dance ever (maybe I'm a terrible person but it weirds me out that, as Sepinwall pointed out, Chuck is the girl in their relationship) but then Sarah revealed this red nightie/angel wings getup and I was all about some making out. Which, of course, we didn't get, because Morgan and Alex were doing some creepy thing that involved chocolate and made me think of bad fanfic.
Anyway then they go to said masquerade (as Steve Heisler at the AV Club pointed out, time is weird in Chuck-verse) but it's lame (why was Vivian having a masquerade in the first place?) and they abduct her just to take her back to London. I want to write some fanfic where they casually reveal that they have personal transporters they use all the time. So then there's some talky stuff and Sarah actually doing this adorable growly thing with action figures while trying to "bond" with Morgan and Morgan leaping from "These are toys!" to "I have to move out!" Which, uh, yeah. But back to your mom's place? Ugh.
To be honest I started zoning out and then there was the ludicrously awful horseback riding chase scene/Casey defending Sarah from snipers. I will totally admit that, if I fell from horseback, I would definitely lie on the ground and cry and clutch at my head or whatever, but Sarah has snapped back from worse and instead she just sort of moans and I was like, lame.
Then Casey gets offered a ride down the magical Jeffries tube that was just installed in Castle and Vivian unlocks some super secret thing (it was SO NICE of the CIA to keep electricity on there, and NOT have anyone on guard, AND leave all the furnishings, AND... oh, everything) and... I want whatever she saw to be Orion but it won't be because things aren't that awesome.
Then there was the sleep sheep. Maybe Ellie and Awesome are so sleep deprived that it's all they can do to be wearing both shirts and pants AND operate a motor vehicle, but damn. PUT THE CHILD IN THE NURSERY. DONE.
What I'm objecting to most, I think, is that from week to week internal continuity depends only on which writers worked on it and what they remembered. I'm beginning to think there is no writer's bible when it comes to characterization or backstory or even WHAT HAPPENED IN OTHER SEASONS AS CANON. Sarah and Chuck are getting married in a few months? Mary Bartowski has just flitted off into the night without a whimper? Maybe they will get married on a pirate ship at high sea like Will and Elizabeth did, but if not I think they got some planning to do.
I apparently want this show to be a lot more angsty than it is. Or to have more consequences. Or, at LEAST, to have more of Chuck and Sarah making out. It was the Valentine's Day ep, for God's sake. THEY DIDN'T MAKE OUT. We didn't even get to see the heart-shaped souffle!
=(
So, yeah. Most of the people I knew IRL who watched Chuck have stopped. I have one rabid fan friend left. I know I'll keep watching, but I have this bad feeling my dissatisfaction is just going to grow.
I mean, unless the wedding episode is EPIC. And possibly involves Chuck marrying a clone of Sarah.