There's this guy named Chuck. He's pretty much a big loser. Computer geek. No skill with ladies. Very little social ability, etc. One day, he gets an email from an old college buddy, who became a spy, and the email downloads a CIA super computer called the Intersect into his head. The next say, a CIA agent named Sarah Walker and an NSA agent named John Casey show up to "handle" Chuck. In other words, they protect him while the government figures out how to get the Intersect out of his head. And they decide to use him/the Intersect to catch some bad guys along the way.
Through the process, Chuck learns some spy abilities and gains some confidence and eventually falls in love with Sarah. Sarah struggles to determine whether she was just following her cover identity or whether she falls in love with Chuck. In the end, she admits to having feelings for Chuck and they become a spy couple. Eventually they get married and discuss starting a family, etc.
Okay, if you watch the show, or plan to, and haven't yet seen the final two episodes, stop reading. Come back after you have finished.
So, short version of the story, the government gets the Intersect out of his head a while back, after they create a new version that, not only gives the user a crapload of knowledge, but also gives them Matrix like fighting ability. The problem with this new Intersect is it makes you lose your memories. It's like the Intersect controls so much of your brain that it can't hold all of your information as well.
So, in order to stop a dangerous plot of some kind, Sarah ends up putting the Intersect into her head. Then, she gets captured, and the bad guy forces her to use the Intersect over and over again until eventually, all of her memories are gone. She forgets Chuck, she forgets their relationship, she forgets that she's in love with him. It's all gone. Back to who she was when she met him. A cold, calculating spy woman who has no feelings for this random loser guy.
Meanwhile, Chuck is still in love with her. I mean, she's his wife. So he tries various tactics to get her to remember that she loves him, and all of them fail. She then, he tries to make her RE-fall in love with him, and that seems to fail too.
So, picture yourself in that scenario. You're in love with someone. You've had so much time together. All of these memories and stories and events together. Suddenly, they forget that you even exist, and even though they believe that you're telling the truth, that you have this life together, they just... Don't feel it anymore. "Yes, I'm sure you're right. I'm sure we did get married and talk about family and fall in love. But I don't have those feelings anymore. They're gone."
The finale episode of the show consists of Chuck and Sarah trying to find and capture/kill the bad guy who screwed up Sarah's brain. And they travel to a whole lot of places that happen to be familiar to their relationship. Then at the end, there's a like 3 minute clip show of some Chuck and Sarah moments throughout the 5 years of the show.
It really was a beautiful way to end the show. I loved the symbolism back to the first season of the show. It was great. I'm just bummed out that it's over. It was such a great show. I'll probably need to own it at some point. There were a LOT of "I'm Chuck Bartowski" moments that I had while watching the show over the years.
Anyway, that's it. I just wanted to talk about the show and what I thought of it. If you watched the series, or the finale, or whatever, leave me a comment and tell me what you thought. Thanks!
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