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Come With Me If You Want to Live

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under TV Reviews | Comments (6)

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For what was the midseason finale of “Chuck” (it doesn’t return until January), last night’s episode was a little disappointing in that it featured no killer action sequences, and certainly nothing like Sarah’s tour de force of kick-assery from last week. Morgan’s Die Hard spoof was amusing but anti-climactic (and recycled from a previous Christmas episode). Anticlimactic could also describe the narrative return of Chuck’s Mom and Volkoff, although Timothy Dalton is a really pleasant surprise this season on “Chuck.” That guys is insanely fun. Who doesn’t love to watch a dangerous international arms dealer play charades? I was really sort of hoping that the answer to his charade was License to Kill. Alas.

However, if I have to hear about Ellie not wanting to know about the spy game, or Devin not wanting to lie one more time, I’m going to abduct their baby and raise it to be a spy just to spite them. Shut the fuck up. You’ve got two great characters, and two incredibly hot people. Use them. And how disappointing was it that neither Ellie nor Awesome were the ones who got the new intersect? Indeed, doing without the intersect for three episodes, and considering all the trouble Chuck went through to try to flash, re-obtaining it by opening a laptop was, again, supremely anti-climactic.

But, I forgive everything because, I actually did a little mental fist pump when Linda Hamilton said to Chuck, “Come with me if you want to live.” Too easy? Perhaps. But it worked a number on my inner 14 year old.

And here are The Most Hideously Unflattering Screengrabs from Last Night’s “Chuck”.

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Comments

Everyone is going to read this whole post before they realise it doesn't say anything important.

Posted by: jesuschrysler at November 30, 2010 9:41 AM

That came out wrong. I was trying to make a joke and instead it sounds like I was saying something bad about the Chuck post. It should read:

Everyone is going to read this whole comment before they realise it doesn't say anything important.

Alas, the moment is lost.

Posted by: jesuschrysler at November 30, 2010 9:44 AM

Yeah. You messed that up...

And improved it.

Posted by: Wembley at November 30, 2010 10:04 AM

Agreed on the Ellie/Devin thing. They need to do something other than bitch/kvetch about the rest of their family being spies. I too thought Ellie was the intersect and was thinking it was going to activate when she saw Volkoff. So what was the point of having the first part of the "puzzle" be something only she could solve? Really odd resolution there. Maybe there is more to that but you'd think it would be the stinger at the end of the episode if there was.

I was hoping Jeffster would be killed but at least they were comatose most of the episode so that worked out ok. Dalton has been awesome, I really hope he's not out of the picture. Volkoff is just unhinged. If he had shown that level of charisma and fun as Bond then his entries would be better regarded.

I thought sure they were going with an amnesia cliffhanger but it looks like they went for a "we may be cancelled so we should tidy up" mid season ending instead. Makes the last few eps seem pretty pointless though if there was no cost to Chuck and the gang in the end to get the intersect back via deus ex machina.

Posted by: TylerDFC at November 30, 2010 10:12 AM

I like that Pop Bartowski made a code that required input from both of his kids, but they didn't really play on that the way they could have. You know, as a moment for Ellie to realize that she spent years encouraging Chuck to DO something with his life and now is bitching about the fact that he does and maybe it's not her place to tell her grown brother how to live his life. Either that, or they should have let Ellie and Awesome get a taste of the intersect so they could understand, but I think that premise is preempted by her pregnancy (even though it's the perfect cover for a destructive freak out).

I never again need to see Morgan without a shirt on.

Posted by: Reba at November 30, 2010 11:31 AM

So I might be looking to closely into all this, but how could Chuck have gotten the action intersect from his dad's hidden computer? If the car/computers was hidden back in the day (and I think it was) then the intersect should be an older version. Which brings me to my second problem, information changes, daily. Who is allied with whom, where things are located, can all change. Since the intersect doesn't have an update feature, how can it always be accurate? And if I am right about it being an older version, then its accuracy will be even worse. But I doubt any of this will be covered in the show.

Posted by: Morgan Lefai at December 1, 2010 6:58 AM