[/QUOTE]I haven’t seen last night’s episode yet but I gather it’s set the CHUCK fandom in a tizzy. NPR has a really interesting article about it here.
[QUOTE]When you like a show, you’re effectively on a bus with everyone else who likes it, and you’ve got to let the driver do the driving. You can comment on the view, you can point out the pothole he’s about to hit, you can ask him to turn up the air conditioning, and if you want, you can always get off at the next stop and hope you can get a better ride. But if you get up there with everybody else on the bus and start trying to grab the wheel, you will find yourself tumbling down the side of a ravine, and at the bottom of that ravine, there will be nothing to watch except Deal Or No Deal.
Let us now beat our little bus metaphor to death: You don’t know the route. You haven’t seen the map. You don’t even know where you’re supposed to be going, let alone where you’re actually going. You could, at any moment, go around a corner and see entirely different scenery. Certainly, obviously, when you think it’s not worth it, you can hop off.
But if your reason for hopping off is that you find it an affront that they won’t let you drive – this is the “of course it’s a bad episode; the NBC boards are irate!” argument, which amounts to a demand for majority rule – then you don’t understand that drivers drive and riders ride. And if you can’t relax and enjoy the relative powerlessness of your position from time to time, you will deprive yourself of the best possible outcome – which is that somebody is going to take you somewhere you didn’t even know you wanted to go.
I didn’t watch it until tonight on Hulu.
I consider myself in the fandom of “Chuck”. Had my own green Buy More shirts made up for cons.
I didn’t really have an issue with the episode. Then again I think my mindset when it comes to television and plot lines might be on a slightly different wavelength than people who get all up in arms over what is going on in make believe land.
The show and plot will go where the writers want to take it. I’ve got bigger fish to fry in my life.
wait, last episode of Chuck is pretty great. The only thing i can think of to complain about is the fact that I am still hang up on Charah. And in my heart i am rooting for Chuckand Sarah. But I also love KK, so it’s hard to hate on them. A bit easier to diss on Sarah and Shaw, but I can see Shaw isn’t long for the ride, so why bother XD