Chuck: Chuck Versus The Gravitron
By fred | November 25, 2008
(S02E08) For a moment there Chuck believed it. He thought he could have a normal life, at least in part, with a normal girlfriend. For a moment he believed it, but as he remarked himself, it seems that about everyone in his life is a secret agent, and I think it would be fair to assume than anyone he knew back from his days at Standford has indeed become one, good or evil.
I mean let’s face it, Bryce is was, Jill is one, and even Chuck himself came this close to become one at the time. If you happen to have friends who went there as well for dinner, it means you might be having some CIA secret spy at your table.
At first, Jill was just the regular girl, ex-girlfriend of Chuck who broke her heart and went to Bryce, as they all do.
Then, she turned evil when it was revealed she was a spy as well, working for the dark side (Fulcrum). This week, this week we got to see something you might not expect from a show such as this one, but that’d obviously be a mistake : this week was all gray, no black and white, nothing as simple as that.
Underestimate is something that happens a lot in the show. Sure, last season Chuck was new and not really a spy, so to ask him to stay in the car and not do anything made sense, but he grew since then and he’s proven quite many time she could handle things on his own. Not like Casey, no, but in his own geeky way he can save the day as well. Just this week, thanks to the Castle manual Chuck was able to pretty much save the day. (Also, and I know those are the usual plot holes in Chuck, but who the Hell builds a place where you can control the entire place from a cell??! It’s almost like it was done with Chuck in mind, and the idea that he’d end up there with the bad guys in charge… which doesn’t sound like anything that would make sense, or show confidence in the actual agents that are Casey and Sarah.)
Of course, that all came after Chuck behaved like an idiot again, and freed Jill. But it was obvious even before the lie detector said “negative” on the screen that Jill was up to no good, she’s been lying and manipulating Chuck, and everyone really, from the start, because she was a Fulcrum agent (one of those idiots who still hasn’t figured out that Chuck isn’t just an agent, despite his involvement with Bryce or any of the recent missions…), because she wasn’t ever ordered to kill him but failed to do so; so how could he still trust her!??
Cause that was her plan to begin with, making Jill the best agent to come by in a while. She fooled everyone, more than once, and she almost managed to get away with it in the end. But the thing is, she really loved Chuck, back in the day, and only broke up with him because she was ordered to. But she still had feelings for him, and maybe that’s part of the reason she got caught in the end. Even though I’m note sure why she asked him to run with her ? Hostage? Turn him into a Fulcrum agent? Figured out about the intersect?
Of course, Chuck’s feelings were far more catastrophic, and I didn’t like his explanation in the end, how he only decided to use the “detention mode” of the Buy More cars (it’s better if we don’t ask…) only because Jill was about to kill Sarah, otherwise he would have let her go… ? She’s the enemy, she kept playing you all, and her “just listen to him” or “you have to do what he says” whenever Chuck asked her how or why she did all she did, was just a disguise. He shouldn’t have let her go, no matter what.
Still a lot of fun, and even better was probably the way this whole spy plot came together with the Buy More plot in the end, as Big Mike came rushing to the store and took the bad guy out before he could kill Casey, thinking he was just a thief.
Questions: How come Chuck “flashed” on hearing Jill’s codename, and then knew she was a Fulcrum agent, but never flashed on her real name or her picture while he has all that in his brain ? How funny was it to see Morgan salivate on a roast turkey, and not at all Ellie in her sexy sweater ? How come they didn’t invite Casey for Thanksgiving dinner ?
Morgan quickly said Anna was out of town, so I guess there’s no real explanation for his absence all those past weeks, but how could they let poor Casey alone in his apartment, probably listening and watching the whole dinner ? Well, truth is, maybe he like it better to be left alone…
What did you think of this episode ? Did Jill fool you as well ? What was your favorite line of the episode ?
