Chuck 101

Chuck is a strange one. It's on NBC, and from what I can gather that implies a certain seriousness. There's nothing "zany" about shows on NBC, even if they're comedies. So when I say that Chuck is a comedy, and it's about a guy who downloads a government database into his brain, I mean that in an entirely serious way. He's not "Wahey, party in my head!" but rather "Oh the humanity!". It's strange for other reasons too. I can't find how many episodes it's going to have, the number on IMDB is currently 7 (was 6). The cast seems to change a lot, with the main people apparently not really the main people. Who knows what's going to happen, let's move on to the pros and cons.

Can YOUR security guards do Parkour?

Pros: It's nerdy. It's about spies. It's about nerds being spies. One of the spies is Adam Baldwin aka Jane from Firefly. It has C.S. Lee aka Masuka from Dexter. One of the spies is a hot woman, Yvonne Strzechowski. There are strange sequences of images as he thinks about something in the database that are pretty interesting. The sequence near the start with the Parkour is really fun and it's a pity there probably won't be more of it. I would watch a show about Parkour spies.

I told you retail was the thing this season.

Cons: Oh boy. It's REALLY nerdy. I don't think he is ever going to actually be a spy. There's going to be a lot of "technical" things which are really quite sad and unrealistic. Viruses do not fry your hardware and cause sparks mmkay? His sidekick is made out to be really sad, to make it look like Chuck is the better option, as if nerds are a lower lifeform. They play up the "socially retarded but can fix stuff for you so use him!" angle way too much for my liking. The idea of a) being able to email someone an 8 hour video collage from your cellphone and b) being able to stand there and watch an 8 hour video collage and then absorb it completely into your brain and c) a database being stored as a video collage, is dumb. Let's just say there are a lot of things to nitpick about this show, and I am going to stop before I start frothing at the mouth.

Stand back, I'm going to hack the bomb!

Despite the list of cons drastically outweighing the pros, I am still going to watch it. You heard me. It was somewhat entertaining and I was mostly able to ignore the technical stuff at the time. I am curious to see where it goes.