This week’s Friday Five comes to us from atcDave, Chuck fanfiction guru and all around nice guy. You can usually find him hanging out at Chuck This Blog. For those more cynical sorts, who suspect this Friday Five is just an excuse for Dave to recommend five more Charah stories, well duh. But I have chosen five stories that are …
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Friday Five: Where to See the Cast of Chuck
Chuck‘s final episode aired more than three years ago, and since then the cast has been mighty busy. Let’s check in and see what they’re up to now, shall we? 1. Zachary Levi Zac’s next role is a guest turn as Abraham Lincoln in Deadbeat on Hulu, starring his podcasting buddy Tyler Labine. But the big news is that Zac is returning …
Read More »Friday Five: Chuck Musical Montages
This week’s Friday Five comes to us from Ernie, one of the fine folks leading intelligent discussions about Chuck over at Chuck This Blog. A montage is described as a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. A musical montage (my definition) is one that is …
Read More »Friday Five: Fan Fiction – Charah Stories
This week’s Friday Five comes to us from atcDave, Chuck fanfiction guru and all around nice guy. You can usually find him hanging out at Chuck This Blog. Chuck and Sarah’s romance is very much the heart of the show. This is even truer for fan fiction. Even the very earliest works were usually very optimistic about our favorite couple. So …
Read More »Friday Five: Books That Define Chuck Characters
This week’s Friday Five comes to us from G. Walter Bush, author of Unpacking Chuck. He’s currently working on a follow-up volume, coming later this year. 1. Chuck inserting Roark Industries schematics in & “reading” Brian Vaughan’s Ex-Machina Echoes Chuck’s desire to have Intersect removed from brain and no longer be a walking computer. 2. Jeff reading Flowers for Algernon Echoes …
Read More »Friday Five: Best Firefly References
One of the reasons Liz and I were so excited about Chuck way back before the pilot was even filmed was the casting of Adam Baldwin as John Casey. We were both fans of his before, especially from his role as Jayne Cobb in Joss Whedon’s (sadly) short-lived series, Firefly. Apparently the Chuck writers were also fans of Firefly, because …
Read More »Friday Five: Songs That Still Remind Me of Chuck
This week’s Friday Five comes from longtime ChuckTV contributor/recapper Cay. Take a musical walk down memory lane. Recently, I was listening to the radio and Bon Jovi’s “Blaze of Glory” came on. I realized that my first association was with a certain Jeffster music video. Thinking about it, I realized that even 3 years after the final episode, there are a number …
Read More »Friday Five: Fan Fiction – One Shots
This week’s Friday Five comes to us from atcDave, Chuck fanfiction guru and all around nice guy. You can usually find him hanging out at Chuck This Blog. One Shots are single chapter short stories. This is a perfect way to get started on reading fan fiction, and there are many excellent one shots to choose from in this fandom. …
Read More »Friday Five: Chuck Metaphors & Symbols
This week’s Friday Five comes to us from G. Walter Bush, author of Unpacking Chuck. He’s currently working on a follow-up volume, coming later this year. 1. The Waterlilies painting in “Tango” “Waterlilies” serves as a metaphor for Chuck’s inverted reality in the murky and deceiving espionage world into which he has been thrust, as well his blossoming romance with Sarah in the show’s …
Read More »Friday Five: Things In Chuck I Think Differently About
This is a guest post from Joe Buckley, a longtime Chuck fan and regular contributor at Chuck This! blog. Well, this started off as “Five Chuck Episodes I’ve Changed My Mind About”. But then, I realized this was going to be a hard topic. After all, I feel very much the same about both my favorite and least favorite episodes. …
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