The penultimate episode of the third time of year brings lots of Revelation of Saint John the Divine , awesomeness , evil portent , and Yvonne Strahovski in tanktops . Too bad it came roll in a Chuck’s - a - moron shell .
Listen , we could go through the plot hurdles of this week ’s episode , “ Chuck Versus the Living Dead ” — Chuck ’s dad is back , Ellie is a confused spy who conduce the Ring right to Papa Bartowski , Jeffster splits up , Chuck and Sarah bust into Shaw ’s old penthouse and steal his “ spy will ” — and we ’ll dispatch the biggies towards the end , but there was a full-grown theme I require to talk about .
There ’s a term that gets bandy around writer way all over Hollywood — usually in situation comedy , but it applies here : the Idiot Ball . As in , “ who ’s gon na carry the Idiot Ball this calendar week ? ” Basically , it imply who ’s gon na act entirely , laughably , uncharacteristically stupid this week for the interest of having a plot to hang an sequence on ? You ’ll find evidence of the Idiot Ball in shows from Friends or Seinfeld to Warehouse 13 . Some show invented characters whose sole purpose was to stock the idiot ball ( see : Reginald Barclay ) . The true virtuoso of the Simpsons is that they made the Idiot Ball toter the lead .
This hebdomad , it seems , Chuck drew the Idiot Ball forgetful drinking straw . Now Chuck might not be the most experienced relationshipper , but you ’ve got ta recognize that lie to your unexampled girlfriend — a lady friend who sleep together her fashion around a lie — will not end well . Never does . And then bald-headed - face lying to your father ? Chuck has run low a long way towards evolving Chuck from the bumbling changeling to a man who understands a decent amount about the way the world works — and see the the great unwashed in his life sentence . Chuck ’s perseverance , insisting on sling those untruth is stupefied . Too stupid for a smart military man .
plot of land should descend from character , not the other way around . It ’d be catastrophically unforgivable … if the second half of the episode was n’t so damned good . Full of aroused Book of Revelation , plot advancement … full of everything you want from an installment of Chuck . Papa Bartowski cognise that the intersect is damage his son ’s brain , and despite his qualm about the spy - game , he gibe to build a Governor for the Intersect . Sarah give Chuck her spy will , as he ’s the individual she ’s been closest to . Ellie is now , formally , in deep with the Ring .
Oh , and Shaw is back from the dead — and possessor of his Own Damned Intersect . BATTLE OF THE INTERSECT , BEECHES .
I ’m great with all of those thing . I just wish that Chuck Bartowski did n’t have to , fundamentally , castrate himself to get there .
ChuckrecapsTelevisionZachary Levi
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