Chuck Bartowski, it’s time to put your big boy pants on.
Okay, Chuck (Zachary Levi), we know you still often consider yourself still “just” a civilian who has been given an extraordinary circumstance but really that was never the case. You were a special boy from the day you sat down in front of your dad’s old wall of computers and hit play, looking a video you really had no business seeing. And yet you survived it. And thus started down the path towards greatness.
We know you take great pride in the fact that you’ve never had to kill someone. Your girlfriend Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) takes great pride in it, too. Hell, NBC is probably even pretty proud of it, too. It’s a lot cleaner for them if their hero of the eight o’clock hour dislikes guns. But tonight you may just have to man up. Maybe not shoot to kill, but at least shoot to deeply wound so that Volkoff (Timothy Dalton) can be captured and the women you love set free once and for all.
It won't make you a different person. It won't take away "the old Chuck" that Sarah fell in love with and that you still cling to from time to time. But let's face it: your life is not video games and beer nights and fixing old computers anymore. It hasn't been for a long time, and you have to fully embrace that.
You've always done anything possible and necessary to save the ones you love. That is what makes Chuck Bartowski Chuck Bartowski. And now the time has come to step up and really do anything possible to save the ones you love. Embrace the change. And don't worry: everyone who loves you will still be there after the deed is done. Or, if they're hypocrites and not, we at least will be!
“Chuck Versus the Push Mix” may be not only a defining episode for the season (and series) but for Chuck himself, therefore, when he and Morgan (Joshua Gomez) embark on their own mission to take down Volkoff. After all, they most go it alone since Casey (Adam Baldwin) is still recovering from his last encounter with double agent Sarah and uses the rest time to bond with his daughter (Mekenna Melvin). And even if Awesome (Ryan McPartlin) was looking to get back into the spy game, his anxieties over his impending fatherhood would cripple him from doing so at this particular juncture.
What do you think? Do you want to see Chuck pull the trigger or would you prefer he cling to any last shred of innocence for as long as he possibly can? Sound off in the comments below and be sure to tune in tonight at 8pm on NBC to see what decision the man, the myth, the machine himself makes.
Comments
He DID pull the trigger once before, in Chuck Versus the Other Guy. But I agree, it's time he did again. It's fine for Chuck to make every effort to find a non-lethal solution to his problems; that's what makes him Chuck, but he needs to be able to back it up by doing what may sometimes need to be done.
Then again, I'd hate to see Volkoff killed, because he's been so much fun to watch!
Chuck is definitely taking a turn for the "darker," far as storytelling is concerned. Wonder if that will help the ratings?
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