Chuck versus the NeoGAF - The Official Season 4 Thread - Mondays on NBC

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czartim said:
The beginning of Season 3 is my favorite. The will they / will they not dynamic really works well for the show since the actors are so good at showing a large variety of emotions on their face.
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Joke character confirmed.
I hope

Really though, Season 2 is just perfection from beginning to end. The cast and crew were all at the top of their game all the way through. Just perfection.
 
Screaming_Gremlin said:
I would put 3.5 along with S1/S4. Pretty much I have agreed on everything in both of your last two posts, except I dropped The Event after the pilot episode.
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The Event is terrible.

I just have nothing else in that time slot after Lonestar tanked.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Joke character confirmed.
I hope

Really though, Season 2 is just perfection from beginning to end. The cast and crew were all at the top of their game all the way through. Just perfection.
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It's impossible to beat Jeffster + Wedding + gunfight/parachuting + Mr. Roboto
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Joke character confirmed.
I hope
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He has to be. :lol Zach Levi + "large variety of emotions on his face" = does not compute.

user_nat said:
Don't really like the sound of that..
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Ugh, same. I just don't trust these writers to create organic conflict. Hopefully it turns out better than i expect...
 
aswedc said:
S2 is the last time the show had any weight. Chuck and Jill and ultimately letting her escape, Sarah killing the defenseless Fulcrum agent to protect Chuck's secret, Sarah going rogue to protect Chuck, Chuck and his dad x100, Casey slowly gaining respect for Chuck. Let's not forget that in S2 Chuck was actually in real danger of being murdered by Beckman. Now that level of seriousness seems way out of place.
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Great way of describing it. Part of the reason why versus Santa Claus might be my favorite episode is that it has a little bit of everything - drama, humor, action, plus the added punch of Sarah taking out the Fulcrum agent at the end. Great stuff, and the weight, as you put it, of season 2 hasn't really been matched aside from a couple moments at the back end of season 3. While I enjoy goofy, lightweight Chuck, the show works best for me when that's a stark contrast to the more serious spy stuff we occasionally get. I hope they get back to that soon.
 
Solo said:
Vs The Colonel says: hiya!
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Colonel is the best episode of the series, but Tom Sawyer is my favorite. Just ludicrous enough, and totally off the charts in nerdiness. Colonel is where the story, humor, action, and romance and drama all came together for a perfect 45 minutes.
 
Couple items:
- Mekenna Melvin audio interview with TV Fangirls
- TVbytheNumbers is giving away a few things over on their site


Also, picking up on what RevoDS posted yesterday and looking at the A18-49 ratings for the Mon-Thu shows on NBC week-by-week:
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[b]A18-49 ratings
Week            1      2      3      4[/b]
Chuck          2.0    2.0    1.9    1.9
The Event      3.6    2.9    2.4    2.2
Chase          2.3    2.1    1.7    1.5
Biggest Loser  2.9    2.7    2.5    2.6
Parenthood     2.5    2.0    2.0    2.0
Undercovers    2.1    1.6    1.5    1.4
L&O SVU        3.2    2.8    2.5    2.3
L&O LA         ---    3.2    2.4    1.9
Community      2.2    1.9    1.8    2.2
30 Rock        2.6    2.6    2.1    3.1
The Office     4.4    3.7    3.5    3.8
Outsourced     3.6    2.8    2.5    2.6
The Apprentice 1.4    1.3    1.3    1.3
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Average        2.7    2.4    2.1    2.2
There might be some errors in here (not sure I copied all of them correctly), but it gives a general idea of what's going on.

So, taking a closer look at this and how it relates to Chuck...
- I figure that Chase, Undercovers, and The Apprentice are done.
- The Thursday night comedies aren't relevant to Chuck's fate. If one of them gets canned, they'll just replace it with another half hour comedy.
- They'll probably stick with The Event and L&O LA because they've spent a lot of money on them and they need something in the lineup (i.e. they can't cancel everything). Biggest Loser has consistently been one of their higher rated shows, so they're not going to touch that.

Where does that leave Chuck? Probably on the bubble like before with all options still on the table (just run the 13 episodes and cancel it, order a back 6 or 9 eps, run these 13 episodes and then bring it back for S5). It's good to have a few other shows in line for cancelation before Chuck, but I still don't have a feel for how much they're going to shake up their lineup in the short term and the long term. Chuck's certainly in a much better position than it was after the first week of ratings, but it's still somewhat precarious.
 
Full synopsis is out for 4.07, "Chuck vs. the First Fight."

Potentially could spoil a major detail I assume we will learn either this week or next. Read at your own risk.

CHUCK GOES ON A ROGUE MISSION AS HE AND SARAH FACE THEIR FIRST RELATIONSHIP CRISIS - LINDA HAMILTON, ANA GASTEYER AND TIMOTHY DALTON GUEST STAR - After their first real fight, Chuck (Zachary Levi) avoids confronting Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) by going on a rogue mission that leads him to his mom's MI-6 handler, Gregory Tuttle (guest star Timothy Dalton), and a mysterious Russian agent (guest star Ana Gasteyer). Meanwhile, Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) is on her own mission to uncover the Bartowski family's long-buried past. Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin, Bonita Friedericy and Adam Baldwin also star.
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From that summary I am not really sure if I am looking forward to it, although
I wonder if the fight will have something to do with whatever causes the gun standoff between Sarah and Chuck's mom in 4.06. Actual, non-idiotic drama could happen.
(speculation just based off of TV previews)
 
Screaming_Gremlin said:
Full synopsis is out for 4.07, "Chuck vs. the First Fight."



From that summary I am not really sure if I am looking forward to it, although
I wonder if the fight will have something to do with whatever causes the gun standoff between Sarah and Chuck's mom in 4.06. Actual, non-idiotic drama could happen.
(speculation just based off of TV previews)
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Ugh, I wish I hadn't read that one; they're usually more vague than that in episode synopses. Major spoiler about Mama B's side on the good/evil spectrum.
 
RevoDS said:
Ugh, I wish I hadn't read that one. Major spoiler about Mama B's side on the good/evil spectrum
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Potential major spoiler. We really dont know. She could be a double agent, etc. Hell, she could be Volkoff and be the big bad.
 
RevoDS said:
Ugh, I wish I hadn't read that one; they're usually more vague than that in episode synopses. Major spoiler about Mama B's side on the good/evil spectrum.
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Dammit. I completely missed that detail, but I thought you were talking about what I wrote and not the synopsis so I went back to look. I sort of wished I hadn't either :/

Going to edit to put a warning before it.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Potential major spoiler. We really dont know. She could be a double agent, etc. Hell, she could be Volkoff and be the big bad.
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I'm not sure which I prefer. On the one hand, I'd hate to have that part spoiled for real. On the other, such a double (triple?) twist would put M. Night Shyamalan to shame...which isn't much better.
Potentially salvaged by the myriad possible Alias references in such a storyline
 
Whatever happens to the show, I hope the writers are given an opportunity to wrap it up nicely and not have it just stop cold.

And yeah ... S2 was the best hands down.
 
Oh god, the bikini scene.

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alright someone help me out here...

i swear the promo said that the next chuck was in two weeks, but then i saw on nbc.com that says chuck is new tomorrow, so is it new tomorrow?
 
WascallyWabbit said:
alright someone help me out here...

i swear the promo said that the next chuck was in two weeks, but then i saw on nbc.com that says chuck is new tomorrow, so is it new tomorrow?
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Tomorrow's episode is new. Honestly, I am not even sure when the first episode break is supposed to be (maybe after Thanksgiving?).
 
WascallyWabbit said:
alright someone help me out here...

i swear the promo said that the next chuck was in two weeks, but then i saw on nbc.com that says chuck is new tomorrow, so is it new tomorrow?
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The TV forecast dashboard widget says it's new.

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Tomorrow's episode is new. Honestly, I am not even sure when the first episode break is supposed to be (maybe after Thanksgiving?).
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It'll probably depend on whether or not it gets a back nine. If it doesn't, 8 straight weeks of new episodes would bring us to mid-december, and perhaps NBC will decide not to air any reruns and premiere something new in January. If it gets a back nine, then yeah, we should probably expect reruns at some point next month.
 
WascallyWabbit said:
alright someone help me out here...

i swear the promo said that the next chuck was in two weeks, but then i saw on nbc.com that says chuck is new tomorrow, so is it new tomorrow?
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The promo teases this week's AND next week's episodes. There's still a new one tomorrow.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
I thought it mentioned it was in two weeks. I wonder if many others got confused and the ratings will suffer. :(
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Pretty sure they showed a clip from the episode which would air in 2 weeks, something along the lines of "And in two weeks.. *short clip*".

My brother thought the same thing as you.
 
user_nat said:
Pretty sure they showed a clip from the episode which would air in 2 weeks, something along the lines of "And in two weeks.. *short clip*".

My brother thought the same thing as you.
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Yeah, it was fairly confusing the way they handled the preview. Someone could have easily taken it as the next new episode being in two weeks, or at best it sounded like they were saying that the next episode would be filler and we'd get some real stuff in two weeks.

Either way, not great when you're scrounging for every viewer you can get. Nice job, NBC.
 
- TV Overmind: Is Chuck Really On the Bubble?
What seems like a more likely scenario to me, is that NBC will renew Chuck for nine more episodes, and keep the show in its 8:00pm slot, with The Event at 9:00pm, and the new show The Cape at 10:00pm, replacing Chase. The Cape is about a vigilante cop who takes the guise of his son’s favorite superhero to battle evil, so it fits in very well with its lead-in shows’ sci-fi, nerdtastic audience. I also anticipate that when Chuck‘s ”back nine” is announced, NBC will say that the show will not be renewed for a Season Five so the creators have ample time to wrap up the story they want to tell, and the fans will have time to come to grips with the death of their favorite show.
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It's Monday, work sucks, someone cut me off and nearly got himself killed this morning, the short stop wrecked something in my car, it's going to cost hundreds to repair, but at least I have Chuck to look forward to.
 
- Ausiello says:
'Chuck' Exclusive: I spy a full-season pickup!
by Michael Ausiello

And now for some Chucking unbelievable news: Chuck is on the verge of receiving a full-season pickup from NBC, sources confirm to me exclusively. Although a Peacock rep declined to comment, insiders tell me the network and Warner Bros. Television are ironing out the final details of the back-nine order as we speak.

Earlier this month, Chuck cocreator Josh Schwartz expressed cautious optimism about his little-show-that-could surviving past its initial order of 13 episodes. “NBC is really happy with it creatively,” he said. “This is Chuck. We never say die.”

Currently in its fourth season, Chuck has become a steady performer for NBC on Mondays at 8 pm. And in this climate, steady is the new up!

Let the celebration begin in the comments section! BTW, Chuck is all new tonight!
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Solo said:
I don't see how that is in any way related to making the same comment before every Chuck episode, but he didn't.
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And how many people come in and just say "Chuck Day!" and post a retarded GIF? The relation is you have your shtick, I have mine.
 
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