Chuck S05E01 "Chuck Versus the Zoom" [** SPOILERS **]

FreudianSlippers

Chuck must adjust to his new life as a business owner and being a spy
without the Intersect in his head or the support of the CIA.
Carmichael Industries' first mission is a rich thief Jean Claude (Mark Hamill) and a conning investor, Roger Bale (Craig Kilborn), who has stolen money from some of the world's most dangerous people. In the mean time Morgan helps Chuck with a special surprise for Sarah.
Back in the Buy More, Jeff and Lester have taken things to another level with their latest scheme.

FreudianSlippers

I fecking love this show

Wetai

Doesn't seem the same w/Morgan as the Intersect (Zoom!)..
I've got a feeling he'll get it back (at like E10) and it'll end with them both having it (willingly) removed at 12/13 when they've taken care of Decker & co.

The episode was pretty good though, especially at the end;"Leave me!" [Press Play!] "DONT LEAVE ME"' :]
The first 35mins seemed like Filler to me, the action didn't start till his "Plan", as he came in with "Computer Emergency?", to me.

don ramo

i only said it was ok, it would have ranked higher except i think theyve wrecked the dynamic having morgan as the intersect,

morgan as the interesect is to unacceptable, this being the final season chuck should be the intersect doing missions by himself with the team as back-up,

i can already see some kind of scenario where the CIA will make chuck fail so he can become somone that they need him to be, maybe chuck has been earmakred to take over some division of the CIA, if not the whole CIA, and me thinks maybe orion has a hand to play in it, maybe hes been running the whole thing all along and now wants his son to succeed him,

I thought it was awful (oops I voted for "poor" before I saw "awful" :rolleyes:). It's desperately tired and old. What about when he jumped from the office window and landed on the van without injury? I didn't know he was superhuman with or without the Intersect. I'll stick with it just to see how it ends. If it wasn't the last season I'd dump it in a shot.

And Mark Hamill...Jesus! Now I'm really afraid of getting old!

Basq

Thought it was bloody dreary myself too..

.. it's just seems so far removed from the good fun of Chuck - season 1 and 2 (and the majority of season 3).

Richard Dower

I voted OK....because it was just OK.

FreudianSlippers

I think Chuck secretly still has the intersect, because he IS the intersect. Whatever thing they put on him just represses the abilities temporarily because the CIA wants Chuck to be a master spy without the abilities to make him even better when he does have them back.

Wetai

It was quite daft they get all this money ("A cool billion dollars"), there's part of a scene talking about how much the team is costing .. and then Poof! It's all gone .. the next episode. They'll probably get that back, eventually, too...

Staplor

The supression idea is quite good. I mean this is main stream American television, the CIA can't be evil.