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<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just a needy, love-crazed girl on a husband hunt who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trained in over 200 ways to kill you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\nAs a card-carrying feminist (yes, we have cards; no, they are not pink), former riot grrl, and representative of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153she said\u00e2\u20ac\u009d point of view on this site, I only have one thing to say about this adventure into the tougher side of femininity, this blatantly sexy portrayal of female power in short shorts and covered in water, this intermixing of female vengeance and an ass-kicking hottie:<\/p>\n
Awesome.<\/p>\n
This could have gone one of two ways. The bad way, in which I stared in dismay at my screen, feeling shut out of the near-pornographic representation of a woman fighting in skimpy clothes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe way, in other words, that was about Sarah as a visual pleasure for male viewers. The good way (the way it actually went down) made me want to be<\/em> Sarah, kicking ass and not even bothering to take names.<\/p>\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what all those she-male jokes were about: they represented the other point of view. But the Chuck<\/em> powers that be managed to make this about a person with a nice rack and a great butt doing some serious damage\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly a puerile mercenary would think this was a situation in which a woman was taking on a man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s role. We, and Casey, know that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just Sarah being incredibly cool.<\/p>\n In other news: Chuck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream sequences were touching, especially the scene of Sarah walking (Sarah Walker, see?) out on him with her rolly suitcase. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that Chuck took a backseat this week, even though it meant that we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get a chance to test the fan theory that Chuck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s love for Sarah will make him flash, even though his fear of death didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n Morgan continued to play messenger boy between Chuck and Sarah. Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good at this, but Chuck and Sarah need to work on communicating honestly and openly\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey are not in a threesome with Morgan, and the biggest hurdle to their relationship continues to be their inability to take the risks that honesty involves. C\u00e2\u20ac\u2122mon, kids! You fight Baddie the Belgian, but are afraid of opening up?<\/p>\n Chuck and Sarah’s reunion was sweet, and now Chuck knows that Sarah loves him, but it didn’t resolve the question of what Sarah thinks of Chuck’s spy abilities. Does that not matter?<\/p>\n Morgan and Casey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s romance, however, is doing well. Communication is no problem for them, and they both bring a lot of useful knowledge to the relationship: Morgan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the heart and Casey is the brains (and the brawn) of the coupling. I think those two kids just might make it work.<\/p>\n The BuyMore plot didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t jibe, at all, with the A-plot this week, but it continued to set up developments for later in the season. Awesome and Ellie\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just subject themselves to another Intersect download, did they? (No, surely not. Right?) Papa B seems to have anticipated Mama B\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moves; judging from the previews, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find out more next week.<\/p>\n Bytes:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tAwesome: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Did your dad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ride get five out of five stars in side-impact protection?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Product placement, yes. But still something that Awesome would say.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tMorgan: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had this awful taste in my mouth ever since Chuck disappeared. Which makes me think that, wherever he is, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eating something icky. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a strange twin thing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tThai Guy: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amazing what a woman will do to find a husband.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tJeff: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Four words: my abscess, Lester\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gout.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tMorgan: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I overshare to connect. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a connector.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tSarah: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Anyone else wanna be my boyfriend?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tOther Thai Guy: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The people have been talking much about the giant blond she-male.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tCasey: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s with all the she-male jokes?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tMorgan: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay now. Casey and I are here. Oh! Scary snake! Scary snake!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tMorgan: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is, like, a violation of my civil rights.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tJeff: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An impenetrable riddle.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n And Pieces:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tSo, losing the Intersect is like losing penis potency. Just remember, you heard it here first.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tWhen has the CIA ever cared about jurisdiction? We just saw them install a puppet government a few episodes ago!<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tI loved Sarah walking into a Thai bar, speaking Thai, and then realizing that the entire bar was filled with white mercenaries.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tI also loved the BuyMorons trading medical advice for tech advice. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure that anyone who has ever lived without health insurance loved that, too.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\tI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to leave it to all of you to note the numerous jungle-movie references in this episode. I know there were a lot, but I only caught the Apocalypse Now<\/em> homage, which was equally well done in Hot Shots: Part Deux<\/em>.<\/p>\n Four out of four scary snakes.<\/p>\n