{"id":15422,"date":"2016-10-17T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chucktv.net\/?p=15422"},"modified":"2016-10-17T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:09:48","slug":"chucktoids-an-axe-to-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chucktv.net\/2016\/10\/17\/chucktoids-an-axe-to-grind\/","title":{"rendered":"Chucktoids: An Axe to Grind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cChuck vs. The Living Dead\u201d opens with a pronounced focus on Orion sharpening an axe with a whet stone in his cabin hideaway. To what purpose? It serves as a controlling metaphor for an episode in which Orion clearly has an axe to grind with the espionage life in general and the CIA in particular, given the separation & endangerment they have caused his family.<\/p>\n

Seeing Eve Shaw\u2019s spy will in Castle, Orion laments, \u201cFor every spy, there\u2019s\u2026somebody who has to open that box, read that message, and mourn their loss. This is a bad business, and I don\u2019t want my family having any part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After tricking Chuck into revealing himself as the Intersect 2.0, Orion flees, claiming, \u201cI can\u2019t just stay here and watch my son die.\u201d In a twist of irony, though, Orion observes just how invaluable spies can be when Chuck and Sarah use their skills to save him from a Ring ambush. In fact, Sarah pointedly uses the very same axe to deflect a deadly knife, saving Chuck.<\/p>\n

By episode\u2019s end, Orion sings another tune: \u201cYou downloaded the 2.0 for the same reason I created the original: to help people\u2026I\u2019m going to do everything I can to\u2026help you be the man you want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chucktoids come to us from G. Walter Bush, author of Unpacking Chuck: The TV Series Interpreted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Unpacking Chuck 2.0: The Conversation Continues<\/a><\/strong>, both available via Amazon.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n