Friday Five: Answering Your Chuck Questions

I get a lot of emails, PMs, and comments from Chuck fans. Many are fairly mundane, like requests for assistance navigating the forums or asking if I know when new episodes will be on iTunes (I don’t), but scattered here and there are more interesting questions. After a couple of years of this, it finally hit me: why not share some of these questions, and their answers, with the fans at large? Yes, sometimes I am slow on the uptake.

In this inaugural Friday Five I’ll tackle some questions I’ve received recently. Future Friday Fives may feature other content, but if you have a question you’d like answered, feel free to email me. (Do I even need to say that I won’t be revealing big fat spoilers? Yes? OK: I won’t be revealing big fat spoilers.)

1. Where do you stand on some of outfits or situations that the writers seem to put Sarah into?  Do you think it fits within the context of the show, or do you think it is gratuitous at times and the writers are trying to take advantage of Sarah’s/Yvonne’s good looks for ratings? -pendragon
   For the most part, I think her outfits and situations are within the context of the show. I also think they’re pretty good about balancing suggestive situations and clothing for her with similar ones for, say, Devon. Is it sometimes gratuitous? Absolutely! It’s part of the espionage conceit to have a gorgeous but deadly woman  scantily clad and/or in a suggestive situation. It doesn’t bother me as an adult (I do talk to my young nieces about these scenes before they can see them, or I fast forward) because “scantily clad” is not all we’re given for Sarah, unlike most women in Bond movies. She’s a three-dimensional character with so many other facets to explore.
2. How many episodes will Hannah appear in? -  eleventy-billion fans
   I’m pretty sure it’s 3, but in a recent interview Kristin Kreuk said 4. I’m still pretty sure it’s 3, though. But it might be 4. How’s that for a non-answer?
3. How many episodes will Shaw appear in? -  eleventy-billion-and-thirty-six fans
   Let’s go with 8. At least.
4. I was wondering what your thoughts were on a possible relationship between Hannah and Chuck? – aidan
   I understand why Chuck appears to be smitten by Hannah, she’s adorable. If I were him, though, I’d be a little uncomfortable if a girl I just met moved halfway around the world to work at a low-paying job to be around me. Is she a Ring agent? CIA? A stalker? We’ll have to watch and see.
5. What do you know about Scott Bakula’s return to the show? -srh_brtwski
   I know that he won’t return until after the original 13-episode arc is completed, but other than that all I have is speculation based on what I know about the next 8 or so episodes. I hope it will involve Mama Bartowski, but at this point your guess is pretty much as good as mine.

That’s our Five for this week! Got questions? Send ’em my way and I’ll try to answer them in future Friday Fives. Don’t forget, you can also email Chuck vs the Podcast with your queries and get three opinions instead of one.