Chuck

I'm fairly sure that the ending dialogue will be "Guys I know Kung Fu", Think one of the main character will die

Chuck crapping on about how much he loves Sarah magically restoring her memory

Actually decent final episode. I'm glad they didn't just magically bring her memory back.

Also I felt a sense of jeopardy for Beckman there because I thought she might end up being the final heroic sacrifice

the ending is basically them resetting any kind of character development that Sarah and John had undergone in the last 5 years.

John, despite now knowing he has a daughter, is basically going back to being an emotionally detached military man.

Sarah doesn't really remember anything and ultimately the resolution to her losing her memory is oh well I'll just fall in love with Chuck all over again. While that's preferable to her magically regaining the memory when Chuck says that he loves her or something shit like that it does mean that all that stuff about her growing from an cold super spy to making peace with her dad, losing her distrusting nature and wanting to start a family with Chuck is gone.

A slightly rubbish ending in that they're basically all where they were 5 years ago

John went to chase after Gertrude. Nothing to do with him being an emotionally detached military man. It shows development if anything.

As for Sarah, it depends on your interpretation. They dropped several hints throughout the episode that her memory was still in there somewhere. Its up to you to believe whether she'll ever get it back or not.

They tied it up on an ambiguous ending, as most TV shows do. That's fine. The problem is, it was too ambiguous. Chuck's fanbase is so powerful that they've been asking questions and the writers have actually just given it to them -- Chuck and Sarah fall in love all over again, having a great time doing so. It sort of makes everything else invalid because they just tell you what happens. If it had been well-written there'd be no need for it.

When Chuck chooses the Intersect for the people's lives as opposed to Sarah's memory, it happens in about a minute (?) of screen time. In a usual episode that probably would've been dragged out as the main plot of the episode, possibly even a mini-arc over two episodes. At the absolute minimum, it would've been surrounded by an emotional, soppy speech. Instead, it wasn't savoured at all. Like having a beautifully-cooked steak and just picking it up like a McDonald's burger.

Only need writers need to explain stuff is because otherwise too many people cry about such endings. It was pretty clear that both of them were going to end up together, only ambiguity was if the Morgan thing worked or it happened slowly. I mean FFS they even left clues in the episode itself that her memory was coming back!

Your second point regarding the intersect thing does not hold at all given the bomb was about to blow. How could they have stretched that over two episodes? It was the home stretch of course they were not going to drag on a few things which otherwise could have had its own plot line.

Only problem with finale IMO was a weak villain.

No, I agree. Let me rephrase then. It wasn't the ambiguity as such. It was obvious there was a happy ending. The problem was that there was no glimpse into it. Think of other finales, for example Scrubs and Sherlock. Scrubs had a "future" montage which told everyone what would happen.



In this finale we only see them starting that process. We don't know, like you said, if they kiss and her memory returns or if she has to relearn everything or if it comes back to her slowly. Personally, I think making her lose her memory was a poor ending to the show anyway (a bit too tragic/dark for Chuck) but with the added ambiguity you had loads of super-fans asking the same question. The writer's job was to finish it so that there were no questions! Do you get what I mean here?

Hence I said "absolute minimum". Be honest mate, that moment would've received much more fanfare in any other episode and they've been in hairer moments. How many times have they been up against an actual time on something? The writers could've done the cliche'd trick of making up as much time as needed. I'm going to be honest, I don't care for the soppy/emotional side of Chuck anyway but I think my mate's raised a valid point. Rushing moments like that was completely uncharacteristic of an episode of Chuck, in an episode which is supposed to fully embody the show!

Don't get me started on the villain. The actor couldn't even hold down the American accent. Again, are you honestly saying someone who can't be "American" for two hours of TV should be cast as the villain of the finale? Especially when you consider the brilliance of previous villains. Volkoff was miles better.

So glad they didn't gor for giving Sarah her full memory back at the instant, however they left enough clues in the last two episodes to indicate that Sarah will indeed get her memory back.

We already saw all the happy ending stuff- Chuck proposed, they had the wedding, awesomes had a baby, Morgan got his girl etc. What else could they have shown again? They gave closure to just about every single character on the show.

Yank audience are spoiled IMO. So many people having a problem with Sopranos ending said it all IMO.

Plot-lines have never be a strength of Chuck, So I am not sure why you are aggrieved about that in the final episode. They have been all over place when it comes to inconsistencies and plot holes since the pilot.

If you are talking about the movie then they pretty much had to show him alive one way or another. I have no idea what that has to do with here though.

That montage was not the future at all. It was what JD thought could easily be their future

Chuck did better than that. They actually showed all that stuff you want. What you basically wanted was for them to show Sarah getting her memory back. That is the same as Sopranos fan asking for