Re: A marriage the end of the series?

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:09:53 -0400, "Patrick McNamara"
<writerpatrick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It seems the best sign the they're planning to end Chuck is his sister's
wedding. This seems to be common for the end of many shows. Magnum P.I.
ended with a wedding. Las Vegas ended with a failed wedding (although this
time Selleck's character wasn't in a uniform). JAG didn't end with a wedding
but did end with talk of marriage. I know there's been other series,
although I can't recall which ones right now.

Marriages are typical season-finale fodder and thus, there's nothing
to read into it other than that they're using a time-honored story
trope. Doesn't even matter that they've been setting up Ellie and
Awesome's wedding since the pilot as the show has essentially had
Chuck using the wedding as something of a measuring stick for how much
he might be maturing as a person and how well he might or might not be
insulating Ellie from his secret job. Converselly, Ellie's life is
more or less the life that Sarah wants to be able to have.
Fortunately, though, Chuck and Sarah have something in common with
Ellie and Awesome besides the fact that they're in love with and like
each other: they're in the same line of work. Different specialties
(understatement ;) ), but same line of work.

So when Ellie and Awesome get married, it clearly means that Chuck and
Sarah have to, both separately and together, look at who they are now
and, if they take it as a given that they're going to be together as
both a couple and as co-workers (yeah, spies, but still, co-workers),
how they're going to navigate the unique circumstances of their
relationship.

Besides, I can easily picture somewhere around season 5 or 6, Chuck
and Sarah are being chased by Bad Guys. They're in the
SuperNerdHerdMobile, Chuck's driving, Sarah's about 6 months pregnant
(yes, by Chuck) and hanging (somewhat) out the passenger-side window,
wearing a bulletproof jacket not so much for protection, but for
padding to keep Baby Bartkiowski from bouncing around too much in all
that amniotic fluid. Yes, when the show becomes "Mr. and Mrs. Chuck"
(minus all the working against each other crap and the Brangelina
crap), it'll still be a hoot and a half. But only if the writers are
actually interested in telling stories that use the spy biz as a
metaphor for marriage in the same way that it's using the spy biz for
romance right now.

-- Rob
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