I heard some people were betrayed by the final season and the finale itself. Is there a recommendation to new viewers to where they could finish the series with a satisfying ending? Like I watched Supernatural but only ended it after season five because there are so many seasons that messed with the earlier seasons.
shareEnd of series two. If the show had been cancelled then, Chuck would still be a show that I look back on with huge affection - and would no doubt constantly bemoan the fact that it had been cancelled.
Simply because I wouldn't have known what was to follow.
I must admit, that i am also not so particularly happy with the later seasons, where they decide to turn Chuck in to a super CIA agent.
The first two seasons are more fun to watch, where he is only Chuck from the Buy More, who just happens to have the Intersect in his head.
where they decide to turn Chuck in to a super CIA agent.
I thought it was good up through the marriage proposal (season 4A), 4B had a lot of missteps but the finale for season 4 was good. It was obvious, though, in season 5 that they were running out of gas. And although I thought the finale itself was fine, how they got there was the big mistake. The finale basically cleaned up the mess they made in the prior episodes. And the fifth season suffered from the casting choices the most. It felt like they shoehorned in these new plots to match the actors and actresses they could get, like Carrie-Ann Moss and Angus MacFayden. And sorry, Chuck and Morgan were a decade out of the age bracket that would have lusted after Bo Derek.
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Well said @MurphAndTheMagicTones. I totally agree. Season 5 not only had guest casting issues, but I also think that when they moved the team away from the CIA and starting their own business, it lost its umph. Part of what made the show fun was the CIA/NSA involvement to be honest. I can understanding showing how our government can be both good and not so good is realistic and it was well done in previous seasons, but in Season 5 they hit an all time low with their treatment of the agencies. I know it was all to lead to the finale, but they could have stayed well within their previous premise and employment situation and still accomplished the finale through similarities they had in the past (like wihen Folcrum had infiltrated all of the agencies). I just wished they had stuck more to the previous seasons in "feel." Season 5 almost felt like a different show.
That all being said, I still enjoyed it, but do find I don't re-watch S5 near as much as I watch the first four seasons. And I do skip several of the latter half of S4 except the build-up to the S4 finale episodes. Seasons 1-3 I watch a lot and S4 up to the engagement and then the build-up episodes to the finale. But Season 5 I think I only watched twice.
Season 3 was very inconsistent but still had some great episodes.Seasons 4 and 5 were crap and I have never rewatched any episodes from the last two seasons
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