With Chuck ending its 5 year run tonight, we thought we’d
reminisce about our favorite (and least favorite) parts of this charmingly
nerdy show.
Things we’ll miss:
1. John Casey: He’s easily one of the best parts of
this show, and has remained that while our interest in Chuck and Sarah has
drastically decreased over the past 2 seasons. We don’t even mind that they gave
him a daughter, which we usually do (see Luke Danes, Gilmore Girls).
2. Ellie and Awesome: One of the most adorable,
fully functional, completely in love couples on tv in recent memory. They’ve
definitely changed since having Clara, but they’re still a couple we aspire to be
like.
3. The Chuck and Morgan friendship: We love this
relationship too. They’ve had their arguments, which is completely normal, but
they’ve always gotten over them and realized that they do love each other.
These two would obviously do anything for each other, and have. In general,
their friendship is a great example of true love. Forget Chuck and Sarah, we’ll
miss Chuck and Morgan.
4. The Buy More: We mainly liked confining the cast
of weirdos to this place. It could be a nice change of pace from the spy world.
When the original Buy More blew up, we were kind of bummed. Luckily, Carmichael
Industries was able to rebuild it and use it as their headquarters.
5. Zachary Levi: There were times when we didn’t
understand why Chuck was acting in a certain way, but we always appreciated how
Zachary Levi brought him to life. In other hands, Chuck might have turned unsympathetic,
especially after losing the Intersect. Luckily, Zachary Levi still made us root
for the most adorable nerd since The O.C.’s Seth Cohen.
Things we won’t miss:
1. Jeff and Lester: During the first season, we
didn’t mind them. They were pretty small characters, and we could handle them
in small doses. Even the first instance of Jeffster! was fine. After 5 seasons
though, we’re thankful we don’t have to see them anymore. We do have to say,
though, that we liked making Jeff saner (and having them both figure out the
spy secret). An interesting development for them, finally.
2. Everyone having the Intersect: We know other
places have complained about this before, but it really negates most of the
first, awesome season if both Morgan and Sarah can handle having the Intersect
in their brains. Part of what made Chuck so compelling originally was having
this special character who was needed by the government. Taking away his
uniqueness, to us, diminishes part of the beginning of the series.
3. The massive inconsistencies: In addition to everyone and their mother having the Intersect, we also won't miss sloppy plotting (like bringing all of the villains to Castle and still thinking of it as a safe location).
Regardless of what we will and won’t miss, we’re glad we’ve
had 5 seasons with this little show that could. We’re especially glad that the
show runners got 13 episodes to wrap it up, even if we didn’t like some of the
things that happened at the end. Now we can go back to eating Quizno's instead of Subway.
