ChuckMeMondays: Chuck vs. The Wookie

I think this will be my last ChuckMeMonday blog post for a while at least. I feel I've made my point and probably overstayed my welcome. I do love this show, though. Feel it has that rare magical/charm/heart quality you only get about once a decade. But there's only so far I want to go annoying people about it. However, I do reserve the right in re-watching older episodes to pop in here and comment on them from time to time. Then there's the whole Half Naked Count I want to keep going. Oh boy. Maybe I won't be able to get away from blogging about it?

I didn't start watching this show until it's second season. And because the first episode of Season 2 does such a swell job of (re)introducing the viewer to the entire premise of the show as well as the personalities and relationship dynamics of the characters, I kind of wonder if I would have gotten as hook if I had started watching from the beginning?

That's something I'll probably never know, but one thing is for sure - by the time vs. The Wookie rolled around I most definitely would have been hooked. It has to do with the Sarah Walker character. In the first two episodes the CIA agent comes across as a bit intense (understandable, she's a CIA agent) but I'm not sure she's really all that likable. By this episode you're all "Awh, she's a sweet kid! A sweet kid who kills people for a living, but...Awwh" Plus here they start laying the groundwork for how she and Chuck have a lot more in common than anyone would suspect. A lot of the fun of the series has to do with this gradual revelation, although the bulk of it occurs in S2.

So if you can get past the obvious T&A'ness of this episode, which frankly I thought was funny because it reminded me of watching "Charlie's Angels" back in the day (and this show is all about 80s and some 70s pop culture references) the visual gag of why this episode is called vs The Wookie is great... or gross... or both depending on your POV. If you're not hooked by the end, this really isn't the show for you.



There's already complications in the Half Naked count. Do I count random flashes of underwear or do I just count full blown half nakedness? Maybe half a point for random flashes?
Full Blown Half Naked Count: Yvonne Strahovski 2, Captain Awesome 1, The Wookie 1
with Random flash count added: Yvonne Strahovski 3, Captain Awesome 1, The Wookie 1

ChuckMeMondays: Chuck vs. The Tango

I had hoped to blog on other topics between ChuckMeMondays, but wasn't able to get around to it this past week. I have to say this episode is a treat and contains one of the funniest scenes of the entire series. Just what I need after a busy week and an exhausting weekend.



Time to start my "Who's Half Naked More" scorecard: Yvonne Strahovski 2, Captain Awesome 1. Honestly if I had the body of either of them I'd be half naked all the time as well.

Burn and Nurse

Continuing my new tradition of summer TV viewing I decided to check out "Burn Notice" and "Nurse Jackie"

I've heard a lot of chatter about "Burn Notice" as a humorous show about an ex-spy. Sounds right up my territory, but I have the say the show didn't hook me. I think I'll stick with "Alias" as my spy show of the summer.

"Nurse Jackie" had two things going for it before I checked it out - Edie Falco and the use of the 70s song "Jackie Blue" in the commercials. My co-worker was also in my ear with raves for the show this week. I was wondering if I'd ever get around to checking it out since I don't have any pay channels like HBO or Showtime (economy, ya know).

Luckily DirecTV aired the first ep on their 101 channel this weekend and I have to say I thought the show was great. It was funnier than I expected it to be, and intriguing in Nurse Jackie's moral ambiguity. Plus, as expected, Edie Falco absolutely rocks. Glad to see her back on television. Now I have to figure out a way to catch this show without the benefit (and added expense) of Showtime.

Which leads me to another topic - I love television far better than films. I barely watch any movies these days. That's another reason I gave up my pay channels. Since I rarely watched movies, if the channels were no longer airing a tv series I was interested, it was just a waste of money. (I do however miss my weekly does of Bill Maher).

Something about sinking your teeth into a tv series you love. Just having that to forward to every week, hanging out with those characters. Movies can't replicate that (takes too long for sequels). However, I do fear this may be more of the case - especially after my experiece in Fandoms:

For Some TV Cures Loneliness

ChuckMeMondays: Chuck vs the Helicopter

Yes, it's that time again. Just a warning, TheWB.com's video player sucks. So watching an episode online at the same time as all the other ChuckMeMonday'ers is not such a good idea. Watch it before. And then Twitter #ChuckMeMondays at 9pm EST/6pm PST.

This time out hilarity and ass-kickery burst out at the Wienerlicious. And a great cross show reference for any fans of 'Lost'.

Season 1, Episode 2: Chuck vs. The Helicopter

Not the best ep of season one but it's still fun. It does, however, feature the most awesome computer nerdy exchange, evah: "PCs? Linux? Chuck, we're MAC guys. We're IT artistes!"