yep - http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/03/chuck-casting-sarahs-mom-cheryl-ladd/
So any ideas why iTunes doesn’t have Chuck season five???
Sounds like corporate political BS
NBC and Warner Bros (who own Chuck) usually negotiate online distribution this time each year. This happens’ every year, although we are usually further a long in the season so most people don’t notice it.
Beh. I say onto NBC, “Beh.”
A quick question regarding Chuck … DVD quality.
We’ve just started watching this show through DVD on Netflix. It is very enjoyable and we’re on disk 3 of season 1.
Each disk’s presentation is somewhat grainy and noticeably flashy in transition. We’re watching through our Panasonic BDP100 Blu-ray player and don’t notice the trouble with other DVDs (owned or Netflix).
Heck, even our Columbo DVDs (yes, I watch Columbo and I’m secure with that) present clearer images than these Chuck DVDs seem to.
I hope with season 2 DVDs the presentation problems clear up.
Has anyone else come across this oddity of Chuck DVDs?
Cheers,
OB
I frakkin love Columbo, especially the Nimoy and Shatner episodes.
When I saw Zachary Levi at Comic Con 2011 in the Chuck panel he seemed changed. Different. Almost indifferent. After seeing the Chuck finale I can understand why. It’s tough to say goodbye to this show. The ending was good. Even Chuck good. But I wanted more. I certainly wanted different. The loss of memory story line upset me to say the least. While I appreciate being taken down memory lane with the mirroring pilot/finale I didn’t feel like the story had progressed much. The nearest similarity I can point to is the Star Trek: The Next Generation finale “All Good Things.” All Good Things tied the entire 7 seasons together by closing the loop on the trial of humanity from “Encounter At Farpoint” but it didn’t just re-live the same story. Rather All Good Things took everything from the past seven years and built on it. With Chuck v The Goodbye I felt like I was re-watching the same episode as the pilot. Maybe I’m just being too harsh on the show or maybe I’m just bitter that the show is over. In any event Zachary’s demeanor at Comic Con 2011 is now at least explained to me: maybe he wasn’t satisfied with the ending either.
~Shooter Out
They didn’t film the finale until early December, so that wasn’t it. I thought the finale was pretty good. The romance stuff has never been the center of the show to me (an important part, but not THE important part), so that might have something to do with it.
It was pretty clear to me that Sarah was already slowly starting to get her memories back, so whether the kiss worked or not, she’d have them all eventually. It may have taken 2 seconds or it may take 2 years, but she will remember everything eventually. The fact that she left the spy life to rediscover her past and that she told Chuck to try the kiss told me that she wasn’t the same person she was at the start of the series. I see her still living with Chuck, since even Quinn told her that Chuck was a big part of the last 5 years of her life. They probably won’t be sleeping in the same bedroom for a while (though with how passionate the kiss was, I could be wrong there).
Yes, S2E6 “A Stitch in Crime” has a “Smiling Spock”, which is awesome. S6E1 “Fade Into Murder” features “The Shat” in all his glory. as a bonus, Walter Koenig has a bit part as a police detective at the crime scene. S5E4 “A Matter of Honor” has Ricardo “Khan” Montalbon matching wits with the Lt Columbo.
All in all, Columbo is my “go to” comfort television. When I got the sniffles and want to veg on the couch with chicken soup and cough drops, Peter Falk is the man.
Cheers,
OB
Oh, on the video quality issue, some posts on AVS forum says that it was just the way the series is shot. It is not a result of transfer to DVD, it is just the look it had at broadcast time. we’re still liking the Chuck. We also notice it a bit on “Burn Notice” Instant Watch ( with the lovely Gabrielle Anwar and Bruce Campbell ).
Shooter, from the clips of the Chuck panel and the media round table afterwards, Zach Levi was in tear thanking fans for support on multiple occasions. I don’t think he was indifferent, at least not during the panel session, he was very emotional to have to say good bye to the show.
Question…
in the series finale, Chuck couldn’t bring Sarah’s memory back with the glasses because he had to use the intersect to stop the bomb… but in the end he pulled the old Irene Demova virus. So… he didn’t use the intersect to actually stop the bomb… and he didn’t need intersect to find porn virus at all…
so… why didn’t he just give Sarah her memory back?
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He flashed to get the bomb case open without setting off the anti-tamper device and blowing everyone up, which let him find the bomb timer, which he then defused with the virus thanks to Sarah’s suggestion
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makes sense… i forgot the case was also rigged. but still… seemed like a weak reason to reintersect.