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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
We’ve come to the end of our five year journey. JEFFSTER! are off touring Germany; Casey is doing dangerous stuff with Verbanski; Alex and Morgan are moving in together; Big Mike is working for Subway/Buy More; Ellie and Awesome have awesome new jobs in Chicago; and Chuck and Sarah are restoring her memories and falling in love all over again while .
Most of us have been moving through the five stages of grief for the last week or more. Maybe you’re all the way to acceptance, maybe you’re still on denial. Maybe you just want to reminisce with fellow Chucksters. This is the place to do that.
By the way, stage 2 is “Anger” and stage 4 is “Depression”. Just sayin’. 😉
Please remember to be courteous to each other. This is an emotional time for all of us, and this is a place of support.
Just watched over here in the UK, after getting minimal sleep. Chuck vs Sarah I thought was ok. However the finale for 40 minutes of it was just epic, Jeffster, words dont cut it, being an aha fan and chuck fan I literally struggling to breathe I was laughing so much. And then that ending, I just sat and stared at my computer until the credits finished and was like what the hell not cool. The beach scene was great (especially after watching the pilot again yesterday) but why not at the end have sarah turn around and say lets go buy that house or something like that.
Well just finished watching it over here in the UK, after a night of minimal sleep. Chuck vs Sarah was okay nothing great. But that finale was epic up until the last minute and a bit more on that later though. Jeffster for me totally stole the show being an aha fan and a chuck fan you can imagine how happy I was. The ending well I was gobsmacked I just sat there until the credits ended staring at the screen before saying what the hell was that, seriously for all we know they could spend the rest of their lives just sitting on the beach. The beach scene itself I had no problem with infact I loved it especially after watching the pilot last night, but sarah could have at least said lets go buy that house or something like that.
I have never been as emotionally connected to any tv shows as much as i have with Chuck, every week i anxiously wait for a new episode and had a tear in my eye when the final episode finished. Would have loved the perfect ending with a flash forward of their kids but going full circle was a great idea and gave us the opportunity to go through the highlights of all 5 seasons!
Thanks for the great work Mel and Liz!
Chuck rocks! I’m so sad to see the end of the show. I will keep my eyes out in case something else pops up in the future. Good luck to all the cast and crew and thanks for keeping the website up and running in the meantime Mel 🙂
Do you think that NBC even realise that Chuck is just going to get bigger and bigger?? The cult is just going to grow and grow.
I haven’t watched the last 2 episodes yet being as I’m in the UK but from the sound of things an opening has been left for a movie or a special episode. If that’s the case then I will be happy…..
This may not help everyone – but I decided to watch Chuck vs Goodbye a second time tonight and I’m glad I did. I cried (*much*) more but loved it more – I think because I wasn’t so anxious about what was going to happen like the first time around. The second time I caught more throwbacks and saw more of the raw emotion that the cast must have been feeling. And the ending seemed longer and more hopeful.
And yes with Chuck having the intersect back (which seemed to be overshadowed by Sarah losing her memories) there’s space for a movie. Amazing one-of-a-kind show. Congrats to cast and crew. Now I’m going to go back and watch the old Chuck and Sarah.
Never seen Sarah like that ; Chris and Josh were so brave about this choice:
Stress and attention …high level .
Chuck doesn’ t know what rancor is: he believes to touch a soul ever and ever .They throw up the s tairs ? no problem .
I think this was a red line in the show and this is the reason i lvove it..it’ s real.
Ellie and Devon, Morgan : the Family who doesn’t leave you ..never ,along the night until a new sun .
CAsey : you ‘re not only a gun machine..i always told :your embrace tells everithing
Thanks Chuck for this dream
i have loved chuck from the very beginning. It is the single most amazing show i have ever seen. but i can’t get over the way it ended. Sarah is my favourite character of the series and i can’t believe everything she became has been wiped clean i feel like i don’t know her anymore almost like a friend has moved away to another country and all you have to talk about now is the weather.And what really gets me is the fact that the bomb wouldn’t have exploded if they kept playing music right so surely they could have added at least some of sarahs memory files to the intersect and she could have diffused the bomb and the road to recovery would have been faster and more certain.I think when the final finally comes around on tv here (new zealand)next year i will have to miss the last 15 mins and pretend she gets her memory back because the rest of the finale was fantastic.
Dear All,
First of all, it is my first comment ever, so pls bear with me.
I finished watching the finale (tears, laughs etc) and for some reason i found myself wanting more. I liked the closure for all the characters and i liked the idea of C&S falling in love all over again. However, even using imagination on the open ended finale, i cant help but feeling that sth is missing. I ve been watching chuck from the beginning and experienced all the angst, joy, heart warmth that the characters offered. So much that I felt them my family and friends (started crying again), looking forward to see them every week, see them progress, bond, have their family dinners and all other small things that made you like them more and get attached.
For this reason, I am grateful for chuck and thank you goes to all the cast and crew, writers,producers for their hard work week after week.
Having said the above I cant help but wonder if this family dynamic and bonds between team b, devon, ellie,alex would stick around. Could sarah, without her memories or even slowly getting them back, be a part of this family again?
I cant help but remember one of my fav ep endings, chuck vs business trip, and sarah’s speech, the ring partii or baby or push mix, cliffhanger where the group got out stronger. I guess this is what i missed from the finale. one last gathering before everybody is off with their lives.
Of course it helps that C&S will be together and figure things out together but I also cannot help but wonder what comes next. I’ve read many views and many opinions but none mentions the sketch from bulletrain. I was waiting for it to come out of chuck’s pocket but it did not. I hope the dvd deleted scenes can put our minds at ease a bit. I can hope that there are these additional 30 seconds for sarah to remember which will only fill that small void in my heart and give some kind of closure.
If not, i can always hope for a movie but i will seriously miss these characters which i honestly consider my friends for life .
Thank you all for reading. It really has been an amazing ride.
I hope all the best for everybody and hope one day we have the chance to have chuck again in our lives.
Love, Aeryn
As a loyal chuck fan from the first episode, I feel short changed by the ending. All I needed was for Sarah to say” I remember”. And maybe a flash forward to a family get together at the bartowski home ( like so many heartwaming scenes from this wonderful show). But I feel short changed. I feel cheated. And to me, with that ending, it tarnishes the past five seasons knowing it ends with such ambiguity. It’s not clever. It’s not creative, and it’s not good story telling. It’s unfair to the die hard fans of the show who stuck by it and did all they could to get it as far as it did. And it’s flat out rude. I really would love an explanation from the writers. What made them think this was a good idea. Let’s end it happy five or six other times and pull the rug out on the very last, true ending. What? To put the ending in a chuck-ish analogy, imagine the original star wars movie. Luke is in the death star trench, there is a shot of him pulling the trigger to launch the torpedo down the tube… And that’s the end of the movie. Did he blow up the death star? Did the torpedo go in? Who knows. It’s up to the audience to fill in the rest… WHAT!? That’s not how you end a story. Especially a feel good, heartwarming story like chuck. sorry s/f you dropped the ball with an extremely loyal fan base. And it makes me very sad and angry. I wanted my chuck to end with me feeling like I did at the end of chuck vs the baby, not like this.
Anyone want to try and petition for a Season 6? We can’t just leave such an awesome show to die! 🙁 I found one, here: http://glorbi.com/bringbackchuck/ maybe NBC could revoke their decision and pick up a new season next year? 🙁
Bargaining stage 3…
The NBC President must have reviewed all the seasons of Chuck and then watched the finale–I can now understand the logic of ending the series–as far as closure goes it should have ended with season four. Sad to leave so many loyal supporters let down. Think of all the variables that got Chuck and Sarah together that no longer exist-Sarah will have many temptations to leave–we are back to will they or won’t they.–living apart? No support group excep for his little bearded buddy.–feel like I wasted a lot of time over 5 seasons however I knew F&S should not be trusted–they are on my blacklist–could have been so great–very sad.
Absolutely love Chuck – one of my favourite shows ever and one of only a couple of series I watched religiously.
As a whole I loved the final ep, it was so nice to be taken on a journey of the C+S relationship again and the throw back to all the various wonderful moments throughout the entire series was aces :).
I really wanted that final question answered though, I feel just a slight bitterness not getting the final closure I desired. I was just desperately hoping for one last “everyone around the dinner table” moment to finish off on a warm feeling after the end to such a great series! Having said that, you could tell Sarah was slowing regaining her memories so I feel like normality would be restored. Ugh but I really wanted that nice warm moment at the end…
Anyway moving beyond the final ep, what an amazing show Chuck has been. What I think is great about ending the series is that it has left everyone wanting more. Ratings aside – I think you can either finish a series while it is wonderful and loved or you can keep it going again and again and it loses its magic. So for me what I love is that this ended at the right time, before Chuck was past his use by date and I’ll forever enjoy the series as a result.
Definitely going to have to watch every season back to back immediately – what stage of the grief process is that – ha!
Finally just wanted to extend a massive thank you to all the team running chucktv.net, have always appreciated having such an awesome place to go to for all things Chuck!
Watched it three times and am now pretty certain that when the clips of previous seasons come on she is getting her memories back and then she asks chuck to kiss her because she knows she loves him not because of magic.I have gone from hating the ending to loving it.
I was bummed last night and decided I would re-watch the last episode and I have come to a similar conclusion. Chuck’s Sarah was most definitely still in there and was beginning to emerge again once she started hearing the story of her and Chuck. The listening intently and laughing together on the beach along with the flashbacks along with how she said “A Magic Kiss?” Then saying, “Chuck, Kiss Me” meant that her memories were already returning from listening to the stories about their love for one another and how they fell in love.
It will be a long road for her memories to come back, but it looks like the ordinary guy will get to be with the girl he loves after all.
I have to say ending left me meh. If they’d never been married, maybe it would work. But to leave that amount of dangling . . .
Rest of finale was quite good.
In the end everyone got what they wanted, except Chuck & Sarah and the viewers… My wife and I felt Chuck worked so hard to have the relationship with Sarah… that it was sad they sort of started over. At least they will get the start over, but for the fans we will never see that and for my “Team B” it is sad. I am so glad Casey got to where he was, his embracing hug to Chuck was a highlight… because you felt the friendship was there and had grown. So we are happy, sad and stunned… still love the show and it will be missed.
Thank you to the cast, crew and chucktv.net for all the hard work!
Casey hugging Chuck. “Russians are huggers – lol” Yeah Casey, if that makes it ok in your book than by all means. A fitting goodbye for the friendship they ended up having with one another.
Why is everyone so dissapointed at the ending? I thought it was perfect. Chuck won Sarah back. And seeing as she was already starting to remember it is clear that she will have her memories back. It is definiately not a relationship reset, once she remembers, she will most likely be back to where she was before Quinn took her memories. If not. Well, they’ll get there eventually.
I guess I should start out my chuck story. I was only 11 when chuck first premiered. I was pretty excited about my mom letting me watch a primetime show, because I had just started sixth grade. I was kind of a nerdy awkward kid, and well seeing chuck go from being some dude that was down on his luck to saving the world week after week. It inspired me and it felt like these characters were becoming my friends. Now it feels like I’ve lost some of the coolest people I know. I’d like to thank all of my fellow fans who have enjoyed the experiance just as much as me. I’d also like to thank the cast and crew of the show they’ve been fantastic. And finally I’d like to thank you Mel, the chucktv.net family will always hold such a special place inside my heart. It feels so special to be part of the chuck community words can’t describe how many subway sandwiches I’ve eaten for you people. Thank you all so much! I hope each and everyone of you finds something special to do with the rest if your life. Now just remember “don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
At first I hated the show.I thought that Chuck was the biggest nerd there ever was,he didn’t fight and he was acting like a first class coward.But,not 1 month ago,I watched an episode where Chuck broke up with Sarah (fake break-up) and I kinda liked it.So,I started watching the show from episode 1.I watched all 4 seasons in 2 days.I was mesmerised by the show.It had such an unbelieveable chemistry between the actors,the story was amazing.The more I watched,the more I fell in love with it.But,what I didn’t like was the fact,IMO,the show had very little drama,and the drama that was there was not enough.Nevertheless,I love the show,and I gotta admit,I’m kinda sad it’s end is here.But,everything has to come to an end I guess.I think at some point I was even depressed that the show was gonna end in the near future.Just wanted to say that Chuck is the best show I watched since The Friends.
omg, i can’t stop crying,now i can understand why yvonne cry for a month,its hard for me as fan i can’t imagine how she felt because she is a big part in this show
When I first started watching Chuck – I was nearly about to graduate college, working at a Best Buy and dating an amazing girl (who I felt I had no justification dating – and then I married her soon there after).
For me, so much of the show paralleled my life – though my wife wasn’t a superspy, the fact was, Chuck was the everyday guy, and someone who turned around and grew in front of our eyes.
For me, the ending was beautiful – well done and it told the story for us one more time. It was also clear she was getting her memory back – so I have no concerns about Chuck and Sarah.
The ending was bulls**t. Entourage had a better “ending”. They might as well have had Chuck kissing Ellie…pretty much a sister-kisser.
Even a hint of the kiss between Chuck and Sarah in season 2 Chuck vs. the Seduction Impossible would have been more satisfying.
I kept hoping for someone to channel/call Alison Adler to help write this last scene.
Every other possible finale gave us more closure…..very, very disappointing
I’ve been pondering this ending for a while now. I’ve watched it 3 times. 1) If Quinn erased her memory, how could she remember she was a spy ? 2) Where was her Mother and Sister to help her with her memories ? 3) If Ellie could hypnotize Morgan and regress his memory, why couldn’t she do it to Sarah ? 4) How did Subway buy the BuyMore ? Did Carmichael Industries run out of money ? 5) What happened to the money Decker froze? 6) Is Chuck still working for the Buy More ? It feels like he’s back to Square 1 with no dreams. Sarah is out looking for her head, where will she live ? I would have preferred if she said ” Chuck , I remember everything” That would have been a satisfying ending I could live with. This show needs to continue one way or another. On another network, movie ? True Chuck fans keep this show going for 5 years, coming up with new fresh ideas. There are still many more stories to tell. Why did Sarah leave her mother to gallivant with her father ? Morgans childhood. His missing father. Jeff and Lester’s parents. What is Sarah’s real last name ? What made Chuck so special to have the intersect only in his head. Star Trek got canceled after 3 years. The movies have kept it alive up until now. Chuck fans changed TV viewing habits. If we ban together we can continue this saga. We have the internet. Pass this message around. “Long Live Chuck” Thank You for listening. 🙂
I guess it doesn’t matter if she remembers or not, they are in love again so it will all work out.
I’m devestated it’s over though…. I’ve been following for years and it’s become part of my life… it will be so strange not having a new episode of Chuck to look forward to…
It did seem to be wrapped up a bit too quickly, they should have finished the main storyline a bit earlier and spread out the happy ending part for longer. I would have liked to see a flash-forward to a few years later with Chuck and Sarah moved into their dream house with a baby or two happily ever after.
Chuck was by far the best tv series I’ve ever seen, the only one I’ve felt genuinely upset about losing. For the last year I have almost completely stopped watching TV, Chuck being the only exception. Now I can’t think of any other shows worth sitting through all the ads for.
The actors/actresses and everyone involved in this fantastic series have done a tremendous job and touched the hearts of many many people who will remember this show for a long time.
I’ll miss you Chuck and Sarah!
They sure wrapped it up but there’s a ribbon missing 😀 I agree with couple of previous comments. End is satisfying but it is LIKE something is incomplete 😀
Greatest TV show ever. Nice job.
I think Mel had said it best. It was left somewhat open so as a fan you can imagine where the story goes from there. After watching it again, I feel like Chuck & Sarah “have” rediscovered their love for one another, “magic kiss or not” and that slowly her memories of Chuck will return just as her memories of the stacking of cups at weinerlicious, remembering irene demova and so forth.
We didn’t get the ribbon on Chuck & Sarah. We did however get to peek inside the present just a little bit as we are left with them passionately kissing on the beach when Sarah tells Chuck to kiss her.
The videos Sarah watched of her mission log pointed to a time when she had fallen in love with Chuck and decided to kiss him when the mission they were on involved a life and death situation (Chuck Vs Imported Salami). She made that decision again to kiss him. That’s all I need to know that she remembers or has fallen in love with him all over again. Boy still gets his girl.
Mel, I have a few questions for you,
I remember there was a post some time ago where you mentioned how to pre-order chuck season 5 on DVD but i cant find it. Do you still have a link for that? And can I pre-order it in Australia?
Last question is i’ve always wondered how you got the music to each episode, does Chris Fedak or somebody send a list of songs to you after the episode has aired or do you find them yourself?
When i saw the final few minutes i felt like coming on here and writing about how i felt ripped off, but after some thought i realised that it was such a sweet and beautiful ending going through the last 5 years laughing and crying together.
I also realised that they left that it left it open for us to imagine how the characters lives will go on.
Although i was disappointed not to see sarah regain her memory, im so exited to put on my ipod to my favourite songs and imagine the rest of their lives 🙂
I have never went out of my way to find out who the creators of shows are, but after this I will never again watch anything that Schwartz and Fedek have.
MAY THEY BURN IN HELL
“MAY THEY BURN IN HELL”
WTF.
Whats wrong with you.
Chuck was genuinely one of the best TV Series’ I’ve ever watched, actually no, scratch that, It was the BEST. I felt I could really relate to it and it’s such a unique show that it can win an audience world wide, no other show has ever had such an awesomely crazy wild amazing concept with such great actors who play such convincing characters. I’m genuinely upset that it’s over, 5 years of watching Chuck and it’s all over, what will I do?? I reckon that the ending of series 5 gives great closure yet sets the show up for a final series with Sarah seemingly starting to regain her memories and everyone starting to take the next step in their lives, plus the hint from General Beckman (“if you ever feel like saving the world again, you know where to find me”). So in conclusion:
CHUCK=Best TV show/ best thing on TV I’ve ever watched and someone has to buy the rights to air it and produce it on a different channel because NBC doesn’t understand the value of a show that has a loyal and strong fan base, all they seem to be obsessed with is the viewer ratings 🙁
I’m afraid I didn’t laugh at all during the episode – I found it just too sad and dark to be able to laugh. And the ending was a punch on the guts. I think Chris Fedak, on the other hand, has had a good laugh … at our expense. “love letter to the fans”. Yeah, right. If that’s what he thought was a love letter I wonder seriously how he ever managed to get himself a girlfriend/wife 😉
Or maybe he and Josh Schwartz are just too intellectual for me, because I just don’t get it at all.
Thought I would just drop this in here but last night #goodbyechuck was apparently trending globally. Some people call it the little show that did, maybe it is bigger than we thought it was.
Chuck is one of the best shows I’ve ever watched.It had everything,but the most importantly it had the chemistry between the actors.It was a part of my life for 5 years and now it’s gone.It’s kinda sad that it didn’t end in a way many of us would have wanted,but at least it ended on it’s own terms,rather than being canceled.I don’t think we will ever see a show like Chuck again.When I remember the first season,I get really depressed.All that the cast and the fans were through,I mean it’s overwhelming.But I’m proud that I had the privilage to be part of this amazing show.Farewell Chuck,we won’t forget you.
for one brief shining moment….
Chuck 2007-2012
Thanks, Chrosh
I agree with you chris What is wrong with that person saying he wants schwartz and fedak to burn in you know that is so nasty look I know chuck did not end the way we would have liked but thats the way it did we can’t change it so lets just love it forever!!
i thought that was way harsh too and inappropriate and that is coming from someone who is very very meh about the way they chose to end things. your right that is the way they did it, it cant change. but that being said, i will probably not support/invest in other projects by S or F. i waited and supported the show for 5 years and was not expecting such an ambiguous ending. the only question i needed answered was if she got her memory back, that was it, and they denied that. They erased all her character development of the past 5 years.
First of all, I just want to say that I thought we needed to see the magic. Maybe I’m too idealistic and a hopeless romantic but is it too much to ask that Chuck and Sarah have that magic, Disney princess happy ever after? I loved how Jeffster got signed though. In all my life, I would have never guessed that. I also thought that Morgan and Alex moving in together was a little abrupt. Yes, they were getting bak together but moving in? Hmmm…. Anyways, I loved that little cute moment between Baby Clara and her Mimi near the end. It just showed a touch of sweetness in a bittersweet scene. and I love Zachary Levi like one of the crazy stalkers who work for Jeffster but I thought his face was a little forced whenever he was bawling his eyes out. But enough criticising and on to reminiscing. Show of hands who cried when Chuck told Sarah their story with all the flashbacks. (o.o)// Would love to see a reunion show a few years from now? Can we come together and make that happen? For now, I’ll settle for fanfiction and writing my own alternative endings. Now I hope that just because Chuck is over, that doesn’t mean this lovely place will be forgotten. I may have only found this site recently but it got me through the withdrawal symptoms when I couldn’t watch Chuck fast enough. I love this place and maybe it could turn into a site where we could just learn about what the Chuck cast might be doing in the future? Save me time stalking them elsewhere that’s for sure. Now I’m goig to stop talking before I dig myself deeper into stalker mode.
I wanted to post this on the forum but here goes:
I’ve loved this show from the very beginning, mostly for its humor and especially for its heart. The show has taken dark and even sometimes ridiculous turns, but it never lost its heart. The finale had everything that I believe fans loved about the show. Was it perfect? No. Will people bitch and moan? Sure. I can think of far worse endings though. Chuck could have woken up and found the last five years were a dream or worse yet, everyone is actually dead and everything from the current season was some complicated preparation for the afterlife.
It didn’t end like that though. It ended as it began, with hope. It ended the way I wanted it to end. The Intersect came back into play and the story, much like life, goes on.
If we’ve learned nothing else from the show, never giving up, even when it is the easiest option, takes more guts than taking out a room full of baddies with Kung-fu.
Thank you Chuck. You made Mondays and Fridays a joy.
It is funny how I feel this morning. Funny how you guys mentioned the 5 stages of grief in your last podcast and I thought, “oh, its only a TV show.” Even if it was THE tv show. I knew it was going to be hard but still it is just TV right. But now I think it was the denial stage. We all knew it was coming, but somehow it didn’t seem like it would ever come. Maybe it was because we (I say we as if I had anything to do with the show itself) have been on the edge of cancellation so many times, that one almost assumes something will save us. Or maybe it simply was denial. Then after watching the show anger set in. Not anger at the episode, because I really enjoyed it, but just anger because it is now gone. The 3rd stage is bargaining and that is a stage that every Chuck fans has already gone through so many times. You know, “I will buy Subway forever if you save Chuck”. I will watch other NBC shows if you bring back Chuck. Come on we all went through it many times. So I think I skipped this step in the sequence having done it so many times already. But now it is depression. Hopefully this will only last a day or so, so I can move on to acceptance. This, I hope, will occur when I listen to the podcast. In the end Chuck was many things to me. It was a fantastic show, but also a tremendous challenge. I am a competitive person and getting Chuck renewed was a challenge that we undertook (and won) each season. We stood up and made NBC take notice and whether they ever admit it or not, it was good for all. So with that tonight I will head out and raise a glass and say Cheers Chuck, thanks for the memories.
mel,
anger is stage 2
depression is stage 4
Oh one more thing about the person who wanted schwartz and fedak to burn in well you know as DEAN STOCKWELL’s Character would say on quantom leap. he’s A real nozzle!!!
I remember it was 2007. I heard about a show that had the same name as mine and I was like oh man I have to watch this show. I watched the pilot as it aired on NBC and instantly fell in love with the show.
Chuck is my all time favorite show and I have watched all episode at least twice. I own all four seasons and have seen a lot of the actors interviews behind the scene videos, you tube clips you name it.
The fact of the matter is you can’t end a show whose fan base loved the fact that Sarah and Chuck were together. Sarah loosing her memory and forgetting the last 5 years basically made it seem as if the past 5 seasons were useless.
Why end a series that was suppose to have its final ending in a cliffhanger?
I agree %100 with you. Leaving the show with a cliff hanger was the only down side. Maybe when they where writing it, it seemed like the perfect ending. The bad thing is, its making people want a season 6 even more than they would have even if it ended perfectly. Even though we stood up the NBC years ago, and got chuck a few more seasons, we have to understand that chuck isnt the type of show you can watch from any episode and understand whats going on. This is the reason why the ratings got so low. People either gave up on chuck or we just couldn’t get enough new viewers. For us chuckters that having been watching since the first episode, know how good of a show it is, and know that it doesnt truly deserve cancellation, know that we are doing all that we can. I hardly doubt that chuck will receive a 6th season, but theres no harm in trying. for the past 5 years i’ve been waiting once a week just to watch my favorite show and NO i dont want it to end. but we’ve accomplished so much for the show these past 5 years, maybe its time to really say goodbye.
Chuck is the BEST!!!
Sign petition here:
http://glorbi.com/bringbackchuck/
not going to happen…even a million signatures wouldnt mean anything. even if all those million watched, it wouldnt be enough unless all those viewers are 18-49 and all have nielsen boxes.
you will have to start an occupy NBC protest ,
-Every one will dress like a nerd herder or a green shirt.
-we would have to get Big Mick to lead the group.
-we would also have to build an intersect to re-program there minds.
big mike not mick
Can we please do a re-vote on favorite Jeffster song? They delivered one of most epic songs of the 80s…. And easily the greatest music video from an artist not named Michael
I was always dreading this day ever since i heard that the last season for chuck was the 5th. I thought it wouldn’t affect me at all but I’ve been feeling a bit blue ever since i watched the last two episodes. I always thought the series finale to chuck would be like the ending to scrubs, having “chuck” have all problems solved and ready to move on from the spy life. I pictured a happy ending with nothing to leave us feeling UN-easy, ending with the show showing us what chuck and sarah’s life would be like after the 5 years.. ( e.g. 5 years later- bought the house, has kids, everyone is happy.) Its not that i dont like the ending, i just feel that its left us ‘hanging’. Like we feel there’s something more, questions that havnt been answered that are swimming in my head. (Will sarah ever regain her memory, if so, why hasn’t morgan, will they be together,) I feel like the 5 years of chuck and sarah have been thrown away never to be found again. i dont know, maybe its just me that is uber upset that the show is ending (i cried like a baby during the last two eps) or its the show having a segway for a very unlikely season 6. I was also upset to find out that chuck only got 13 eps instead of 24, the least they could to was give chuck a full season. though in the end, i do and do not like the ending of chuck, but i will forever love chuck.
I think they should have done the whole Sarah loses her memory at the beginning of season five so we could have a whole season to see it work out
i truly believe that sarah was already getting her memories back before the final beach scene and that her asking chuck to kiss her was, as commented already, because she loves him, not because she wanted morgan’s magic kiss to work
in 60 years of watching tv this was the best show i have ever seen and can only hope that the star trek magic of a 3 year show leading to multiple movies can be replicated here
to the cast and crew and fans—-this was the very best that televison has done
I love chuck giving it only13episodes for the 5th season kinda made me sad but I always will believe in Chuck and Sarah. Here’s hoping the staff found a way for a deal for a very awesome movie prospect. I found something good in the open endedness I get to imagine the many possible ways all the characters go on with their lives. Chuck will always be a major part of my life.
The beach scene was such a great ending for me. In the pilot beach scene, Chuck is so lost/unsure what he just went through (diffusing the bomb and the idea of spy life/Sarah/his existence) at this point in the pilot Chuck knows nothing about this girl and she asks him to trust her completely,which he does. I LOVED how chuck reciprocates this to her in the same way.
When he tells her Morgans “theory” The way she asks “what is it?” makes me believe she desperately wants the story she’s just heard to be true. Her telling chuck to kiss her was a great way to show her trust in him, just as he trusted her with the spy life. Great reversal and an amazing ending to an awesome series!!!!
Yep, that’s what I took away from it after watching it again. We definitely got our ending to the show. So many shows don’t get that these days so as fans we are fortunate. Morgan’s theory… lol… I like how Ellie laughed it off and Chuck & Sarah want their fairytale ending with a kiss. That’s where we were being led by Morgan’s comments about watching fairytale movies with Clara. The prince and princess magically kiss and everything will be ok for them as they live happily ever after. These two got their happy ever after on the beach.
I will start by saying that I am not happy with the last 5 min of the show. I agree with another post I saw somewhere that said it should have ended with a fade back in after the kiss with Sarah saying “Chuck, do you still want to have a baby with me?” then Chuck saying in his stumbling way “You remember…” and Sarah interrupting him “Everything.”
I have been with the show from season 1 episode one and for the last year my wife and I have watched on Friday nights for our standing date night. We were both left with bitter tastes in our mouths after tonight. I hope that the DVD gives us the ending that everyone secretly or openly was wanting, otherwise I am going to have to sell seasons 1-4 since looking at them would just make me angry. If this doesn’t get resolved then I wish I could have my memory of the show erased for the last 5 years.
Hi Chucksters,
I just had to add my thoughts on the ending. I have to say that last night, I cryed and laughed for 2 hours. I have watched Chuck since the Pilot and loved all the call backs to past episodes. I have Never been so invested in a show before and Im sure never will be again. I joined Twitter to save Chuck, wrote letters, spent a small fortune on Subway footlongs and told advertisers that I am not Nielsen viewer. So, I was sad that it was ending and the way it ended on the beach just felt tragic. But I rewatched the ending this morning and it was a lot better. I do wish they had ended with her memories restored and in their dream home but I do think they did give us clues that Sarah would get her memories back. Plus it seemed to me that when they were talking on the beach, Sarah was still in love with Chuck. The memories may not be there but it looked like the feelings were back. Now maybe that is just the way I want to see it but thats how I’m taking it.
Thanks for everything Mel, Liz and Gray! Looking forward to the Podcast.
My name is Susan and I am STILL a Chuckaholic.
What a wonderful love letter to the fans! LeFranc and Judkins knocked it out of the park with this finale. The creators and writers are so *respectful* of the fans. The more of a fan you are and the more familiar you were with the series I think, the better you enjoyed it. There were so many call backs to previous dialog, wardrobe, location, key moments of character development. I feel they wrapped it all up in a neat little package. The most brilliant of all was “Take On Me” by Jeffster! The finale had the same feel as the finale for season 2, which in my opinion was 2 of the most original, best written, directed, acted, produced hours of TV ever. As a matter of fact, “Chuck” has forever changed the standard for how the nerd gets the girl. Sheldon and Penny in “Big Bang” pale in comparison and are a weak rehash of Chuck and Sarah.
As for Sarah getting her memory back and not being spoon fed the answer; kudos to the creators for this. Yes, let each fan write the ending in their heart. C’mon you haters, you know in your heart how it ends and it’s YOUR version of their story. Brilliant!
Thanks to all (this site especially) for a wonderfully original and creative 5 seasons. My family and I enjoyed it tremendously. I will miss “Chuck”!
“you know in your heart how it ends and it’s YOUR version of their story. Brilliant!”
Oh come on, that’s the cop-out reasoning often used whenever a story ends up in the air. It’s the so, so clever and intellectual way to end. I didn’t need a spoon-fed ending, no. But I should have liked a slightly more sensitive ending with just a leeeetle more hope allowing me to rationalise “my” version of the story end and actually enjoy it.
Agreed. All i needed was to know if she got her memory back or not…that was it. I didnt need a spoon fed ending of babies and house ect. All i needed was that one question answered. We’re not left to wonder HOW their future happened but IF it happened at all. I wonder if F and S expected this…I have looked at many places on the web to see the reaction at the finale and it has been the same as on here where it seems the majority of the fans are disappointed. And for people who claim the fans are so important to them…yeah, to me it felt like a slap in the face
Wow, really? You weren’t given enough clues throughout the show to figure our how it ends? OK, I will tell you. Sarah regains certain parts of her memory back over the years and she trusts Chuck to fill in the gaps. She, of course, falls in love with him all over again because the fates have deemed that they are meant to be. Now, there it is. I, personally, cannot see another possible scenario given the information that the writers provided us and based on the way it was acted. So that’s why I think it worked and can’t be labeled as a “clever and intellectual” way to end the series. I think part of the message was the overall blue-sky possibility starting over. I would be interested in knowing if you thought it was going a different direction. Going into the finale, I was extremely skeptical that they were going to be able to pull it off because amnesia storylines are so hackneyed and as you said earlier “cop-out). I think they pulled it off.
Just out of curiosity, did you object to the proposal scene where the actual words of the proposal were left to the viewers imagination?
Also, my earlier post should have real “Leonard and Penny”, not “Sheldon and Penny”, of course.
I hope you respond, Wilf because I really want to know you feeling on this.
When I watch shows I often find plot holes, and they really bug me.There have been several throughout the Chuck series but here are just a few i have noticed about the end.
First off Chuck is my all time favorite show and not just because it has the same name as mine.
1st plot hole) Why was Chuck and Ellie and Casey not more worried about some of the memories she might have lost. They continued to question her the episode before but now all of a sudden even though she had been captured by Quin they don’t worry at all. They went through all that trouble with Morgan to see what might have happened but were not at all worried about Sarah
2’nd Plot hole) When Morgan lost his memories he lost things about him more related to the past like much farther then 5 years ago. Favorite movies of all time. He basically lost the nerd parts of himself. However Sarah just magically lost the last 5 years of her life. All about it but still remembered people like Bryce.
I’m sure there were more but these 2 just bothered me right from the beginning of the finale.
do you think there will be more of an ending on dvd. parts of it got cut off or they will add a little more to it to get people to buy it