Finders Keepers is a humorous science fiction about god and backpacking in Europe. Not so much about god as about the people he has working for him creating the universe. Donald and Danielle steal some time from making the Milky Way to make love on the newly created earth. Unfortunately they lose a jar of cosmic building material too.

This Jar is the focal point for the two storylines that follow. One continues with Eternity and the stressful and oh so human lives people lives there with their cocktail parties and work issues. The other follows a cast of humans and downcast Eternians on Earth and how their travels interweave each other’s as an unsuspecting New Zealander finds the Jar.

A Young American, Jason Medley takes to backpacking in Europe. That part felt genuinely self experienced to the point that some parts got a bit wordy. Jason meets Theo from New Zealand and they have a sort of bromance while traveling around Europe. Yes that is the New Zealander who found the Jar.

There is a bit of love here and there which helps the story.

It is a well crafted story and the weave created by the people trying to get the Jar or finding out about it is clever and I enjoyed it most of the time.

I have a hard time beside the wordy bit in the travelogue to say anything bad about this book.

Finders Keepers serves as a fun pastime and I wouldn’t mind reading more by the author.

Book Information

Finders Keepers by Russ Colchamiro (3 Finger Prints 2010) – review copy – Amazon US | UK

Caught in the netherworld between college and a career, novice backpacker Jason Medley and adventuresome Theo Barnes stumble through this novel filled with European hash bars and hangovers, religious zealots and stalkers, saucy girls and overnight trains—all under the looming specter of adult responsibility. But when a jar of the universe’s DNA accidentally drops to Earth from eternity, these new friends find their loyalties put to the test, unaware that a motley crew from another realm is feverishly chasing them across the globe with the fate of the Milky Way hanging in the balance. Traversing Europe, New Zealand, and the backbone of eternity, this hilarious buddy story not only tackles friendship, sex, love, and desire, but also God, reincarnation, and what really happened to the dinosaurs.

The episode continues in similar ways even if it includes a French Chateau, a microchip hidden in a bottle of wine, and the usual fun and games. The team is back on track.

Some moments were really hilarious like when Casey has to play Chuck’s manservant. Lester is also having marriage problems of the arranged kind and she is on her way to the Buy More. You can guess how that goes.

Another highpoint is when Sarah ambushes Morgan, I never seen her so hot. I am taking control of this mission now, Morgan you are working for me now. First Morgan and then Casey get involved in the proposal. Morgan is surprised when Casey tells him he knows what is going on. Cause I am a spy not a moron.

Casey is the Man! I am so impressed and his advice to Chuck is so Right.

But as often in Chuck it is close, so close but Sarah has her mission now…

Wow and Bravo! This show really makes me happy. I am happy you guys and gals are back!

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It is hard not to get a bit excited about this week’s Chuck. His mommy trashed his Intersect and now he has to find a way to get it working again. The agency calls in a gang of boffins that try to ‘lift the rock that blocks him from using the Intersect’.  The Ninjas was a nice touch.

I didn’t enjoy that part as much as I enjoyed Jefster getting creepy with the latest Greta (Summer Glau). OMG she is hot! She played a CIA assassin assigned to the Buy More and Jefster is outclassed on so many levels it is hard to know where to begin. Morgan is caught in the middle. Entertaining, Summer Glau played a different kind of creepy, of the more deadly kind. Operation Get-A-Greta involves the whole civilian staff and ends in an interrupted cage-match between Greta and Jefster where Case saves the day.

Case is grounded protecting Chuck while Sarah chases Mommy all over the world. “I wake up with my trigger finger twitching” he tells. It is like most of the stuff he does highly entertaining.

Sarah and Chuck got some downtime before he goes after the latest cure, “The Fear of Death”. He and the latest boffin go off to Switzerland and danger.

The episode ends with a cliffhanger.

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Sarah and Chuck’s mother meet in a gun faceoff! Awesome!

This was a very emotional rollercoaster episode with Chuck’s mom getting in touch again, Jeffster doing the Halloween decorations and Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund) guest as professor in fear.

The cool tech was a nifty little holographic pad. The next iPad?

Chuck has some mommy issues he eventually starts to deal with only to have her snatched away from a meet with Ellie. And now he has Sarah issues, major issues coming up in that relation next week.

There were also some good lines this episode.

My mom shot me!

Chuck How did you get here? My mom dropped me off.

Next Week? My name is Bond, James Bond. I say no more. No it’s not Moore, watch the video and see for yourself.

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Chuck is one of the best shows on TV at the moment. I know there is lots of new shiny shows with complicated characters with angst up to their tonsils but this is some uncomplicated fun.

This week Chuck and Sarah go to fashion week in Milan and I have been promised a catfight between two of the most beautiful babes on TV, so shush. I like the way they always makes the girls reveal themselves in this story. I guess Awesome is the token balance guy.

The long legged model that kills a man right between the eyes is an arms dealer and they are sent there to intercept the smart bullets she stole in France.

“Women have a lot of baggage; you should be happy Walker only have a suitcase” is Casey’s chipper advice to Chuck about Sarah never unpacking.

Sarah’s unpacking is a theme of this episode, Chuck mentions it as they are about to be blown up. It is maybe not the best of last words so he ends up in the doghouse and with a naked model. But their plan to smuggle out the dress brings Chuck a big smile.

Back home Jeffster is back! Morgan discovers a critical flaw with the Buy More cover. Casey and Morgan bring Jeffster in, hilarious. Ops, Morgan let it slip to Casey he is talking to Alex…

And after that save Morgan become the new Store Manager! Wow!

This is how Sarah looks after Chuck says “Marriage, Baby, and children. Maybe we are next.” Sleep on that!

This was another good episode and we are still laying the foundation for the season so I hope for some more action next week when some old friends returns and it looks like my wish is their command if I watch the video.

Looking at the pictures this post is quite naughty, I need to better myself and get a wider selection.

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The Big Bang Theory is a good way on becoming the new ‘Friends’ from what I hear from ratings and media. I, I like it because it is geeky and joke with fandom. The chemistry especially between Sheldon, Penny and Leonard is another reason I watch. In this weeks season premiere Penny learn that Sheldon has a girl friend and that he never have been on a date. Never knowing when to stop talking she ends up chaperoning Sheldon on his date. That part was hilarious.

Howard do have his moments this week he has his hands on a robotic hand made for the space station but knowing the Wolowitz mind set you will not have any problem imagine the use he puts it to. That scene with him in the hospital with Rajesh and Leonard was another high point in the premiere.

In general it was a snappy and fun season premiere that promises more of the same delightful geeky entertainment we have come to expect from The Big Bang Theory.

Next week Sheldon discover that he will not live long enough to be uploaded into a computer when he dies …

Latest news is that Kaley Cuoco (Penny)  suffered a broken leg and will miss a few episodes. “She’s scheduled to make a full recovery,” says the spokesperson.

I will return with a short review of the program tomorrow.

Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists, the kind of “beautiful minds” that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard’s roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow CalTech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities… including love.

Episodes

4.01 The Robotic Manipulation

Penny finds herself along for the ride on Sheldon’s first date ever; while Wolowitz finds a new use for a robotic arm.

4.02 The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification

Sheldon realizes he won’t live long enough to download his consciousness into a robot body, and attempts to extend his lifespan

4.01 Chuck vs the Anniversary

Excited is such an understatement. Chuck and all his friends are back! Let’s see what the new season has in mind for us.

Chuck asks Morgan for help. But why do they not explore the base first. It is just wrong. It is Destiny all over again. I want to see the underground base now! Okay never mind Sarah is on, what where you talking about? Sarah is going on a mission with Casey that is going to be longer than expected so it is good that they say good bye first.

New secrets! I never saw that one coming (sure). They spend four months running around the world looking for Chuck’s mom burning a lot of money so when they return to LA the bad ass repo man takes their $400 car! What amazes me is that Sarah didn’t notice that Chuck was gone for four months? She had a long mission…

They are after Marco a Russian arms dealer, they trap him but he sets off a portable EMC device blacking out half of the city. When his thugs arrive they leave by skydiving. “Good you packed the shutes”.

Morgan gets a bit creepy and suggests that Chuck should try Sexting with Sarah he even takes some photo and send off to her which will have significance later. The Buy More is back under CIA management. A real hottie meets them and Morgan tries his usual charm but she puts him in his place. Store Manager General Beckman put Chuck in his place. He is back with the CIA weather he wants it or not.

Sarah and Case is back with the EMC device for Chuck to flash on before taking off again afterwards. Sarah takes Chuck aside to ask about the picture he was sending. He explain but later on the plane she starts to think about sexting him. I don’t mind at all, she is pleasing to the eyes.

Unfortunately Casey comes back and they get gassed and taken to Moscow by Marco. As if meant to they arrive in Mosco at the same time Morgan and Chuck lands. They were following a lead from a menu to an arms dealer in Russia. This is when it gets even more fun with sexting. Sarah is tied to the chair and sends Chuck pictures with her messages and Morgan things she is sexting Chuck. SOS means skin on skin, yes.

It is not until she sends the facility and the room number that Morgan understands that they are in trouble and tell Chuck who is downloading the files about his mother. They go to the rescue in the usual Bartowski way.

It is amusing when Marco comes back and looks happy when he stops her form texting more. It is not you we are after, is those two master spies that has started to come to close the last four months. And then he starts to show them photos of Chuck and Morgan traveling the world! Sarah and Casey have interesting facial expressions.

Chuck saves them but not before he has to use an EMC bomb that destroys the files he had been downloading. The getaway bus was a sweet touch. Happy Anniversary, Honey!

Back home the gang gather in the underground base and promise to help Chuck find his mother. He is going back to work for the CIA, which he sets out to tell Ellie but she is so happy as she tells him she is pregnant that he can’t tell her. So there is going to be some lying to your family this season anyway.

Linda Hamilton gets to finish this episode and everybody that knows about her family trying to find her. That includes Marco. She is quite agile I must say.

Wonderful season premiere, lots to explore this season. Two new underground bases we get to explore next episode or so and then the epic search for Mom. I expect some forbidden love from Morgan soon to. Remember Casey’s daughter Alex…

Next week we meet the Incredible Hulk and a formidable Victoria’s Secret agent when Chuck and Sarah go to Milan

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What is it with NBC and spy shows? Do they need another, they have Chuck. It looks like fun CSI-level scifi action.

Outwardly, Steven Bloom and his wife, Samantha, are a typical married couple who own and operate a small catering company in Los Angeles – with help from Samantha’s easily frazzled handful of a sister, Lizzy. Secretly, the duo were two of the best spies the CIA had ever known, until they fell in love on the job five years ago and retired.

When fellow spy and good friend Leo Nash goes missing while on the trail of a Russian arms dealer, the Blooms are reinstated by boss and agency liaison, Carlton Shaw  to locate and rescue Nash. Following leads that take them to cities spanning the globe, Steven and Samantha quickly realize that perhaps this supercharged, undercover lifestyle provides exactly the kind of excitement and romance that their marriage has been missing.

Cast

• STEVEN BLOOM (Boris Kodjoe) - When he’s not in Los Angeles balancing the books and drumming up business for Bloom Catering, Steven Bloom can probably be found in an exotic locale alongside wife Samantha, taking down terrorists and combatting imminent threats to national security. His charm and calm under pressure make him the perfect undercover agent. Throw in his martial arts training, cryptography skills, and security tech expertise, and you see why he’s one of the CIA’s top spies, and the love of Samantha’s life.
• SAMANTHA BLOOM (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) - Samantha Bloom co-owns and runs a small catering company based in Los Angeles. Her tenacity, knife skills, and exacting standards make her the iron fist of this family business. When you add in her extensive repertoire of foreign languages, aptitude for picking locks, and ability to seduce any bad guy, you understand why secretly, Sam was one of the best spies the CIA has ever known. Coming out of five years of retirement, Sam and her husband Steven are back, keeping the world safe from the most dangerous villains… and they’re also available for bar mitzvahs and weddings.
• CARLTON SHAW (Gerald McRaney) – CIA company man Carlton Shaw has done it all and seen it all. Gruff, seemingly joyless, and a stickler for protocol, he finds it exceedingly difficult to cope with his new assignment: handler to reinstated agents/caterers Steven and Samantha Bloom. With great pain and reluctance, Shaw liaises with Langley to send the Blooms on their world-saving missions around the globe.
• LEO NASH (Carter MacIntyre) – A longtime agent with the CIA, Leo’s success comes from his inability – or refusal – to draw a line between work and play. As proficient in spycraft as he is with booze and women, he’s a reckless but amazing agent. In his history with the agency, Leo’s been partnered with both Steven and Samantha on separate occasions, but now works as part of their team. His past relationships with both of them make for a very interesting dynamic.

Episodes

1.01 – Pilot

Steven and Samantha Bloom team up outside the kitchen – SERIES PREMIERE - A sexy, fun, action-packed spy drama that proves once and for all that marriage is still the world’s most dangerous partnership. Outwardly, Steven Bloom (Boris Kodjoe) and his wife, Samantha (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), are a typical married couple who own and operate a small catering company in Los Angeles — with help from Samantha’s easily frazzled, handful of a sister, Lizzy (Mekia Cox). Secretly, the duo were two of the best spies the CIA had ever known, until they fell in love on the job five years ago and retired. When fellow spy and good friend Leo Nash goes missing while on the trail of a Russian arms dealer, the Blooms are reinstated by boss and agency liaison, Carlton Shaw, to locate and rescue Nash. With assistance from resourceful CIA field agent Bill Hoyt, whose professional admiration for Steven isn’t hard to miss, the pair is thrust back into the world of espionage, disguises and hand-to-hand combat. Following leads that take them to cities spanning the globe, Steven and Samantha quickly realize that perhaps this supercharged, undercover lifestyle provides exactly the kind of excitement and romance that their marriage has been missing.

1.05 – Jailbreak

1.06 – Xerxes

1.07 – Assasins

Updated September 16.

You should not be reading this if you don’t like spoilers by the way.

Last season Chuck finally got together with Sarah (Hurray) which only increased my enjoyment even if Agent Shaw slipped in there between them in the beginning of the season before he turned to the dark side and joined the Ring. This season the writers promised not to put anyone between the two. “Fandom has showed it’s a bad idea”. That is not to say there wont be ups and downs in their relationship.

It was also the season when Morgan learned the truth, that Chuck was a spy. That episode when Chuck told him when they sat there bound together in the Dojo of the Castle (their secret lair underneath the Buy More) is one of the best Chuck moments ever. He is now in training under Casey’s gentle guidance. Casey and Morgan was absolutely fantastic together in season 3 so expect sparkles here.

But it didn’t stop there his sister Ellie also found out in the season finale. There she was in a CIA office in protective custody when her brother sneaks by and takes down her handler. That was pure enjoyment. Ellie is going to be Pregnant according to Ausiello (EW)

Captain Awesome won’t be reviving his short-lived career as international superspy anytime soon. “Last season Awesome realized if there was one place in the world where he wasn’t awesome, it was on spy missions,” notes exec producer Chris Fedak. “He’d like to stay as far away from the spy world as he can.” That’s particularly true now that there’s a mini Awesome on the way. “He is going to be way more into all of the rituals of pregnancy than even Ellie is,” says fellow EP Josh Schwartz of the daddy-to-be.

Is it only I that think of Star Wars when John Casey told his daughter? She was running away from him at the time since he was only a weird man that took her up and carried her out to his car and drove away with her. Then stopped and said “You can trust me”. I would be running too. But she stopped when he cried “I am your Father”. I hear that Casey’s daughter Alexa (Mekenna Melvin) is going to be a recurring star this season but I haven’t seen her name on the cast on any of the first episodes yet. Morgan was clearly interested in her to Casey’s disapproval. That probably means that Morgan will be involved in some bodily harm. Alexa is one person I am thrilled to learn to know better. We haven’t seen so much of her before.

It’s no accident that producers have shown us that Casey’s daughter has some serious combat skills. “It’s a spy show, so I think she’s going to be on some missions,” reports Adam Baldwin, who plays Alex’s proud papa. (tvguide)

I hope you have seen the finale already. The sad thing is that Stephen Bartowski (Scott Bakula), Chuck and Ellie’s father  was shot by agent Shaw but before he died he built a Governor to prevent the Intersect from overloading. Shaw stole it but Chuck took it back before Morgan blew up the Buy More. Jeff and Lester are on the run since they believe they are responsible. Some fans have noticed that Stephen died in close proximity to a Ring base that experimented with cryogenic regeneration. So he might not be dead.

Talking about another undead that might upset some fans. Rumor says that Agent Daniel Shaw might be back. He is loaded with the Intersect too so he might be a real problem for Chuck.

General Beckman is now a Series Regular. Rumor says we will see her legs!

The Buy More was destroyed in the season finale. This season the Buy More is now owned and operated by the CIA, so it has the most badass employees ever — quite a change. Every week there will be a new kickass CIA operative green-shirt working at store with Team Bartowski, recast with someone awesome, but each going under the alias of “Greta,” regardless of whether they’re a man or a woman

I expect Chuck to take up his father’s secret work, whatever that is and to search for his mother. He promised Ellie to stop being a spy after he stopped Shaw so he has to keep it a secret from her and probably even from Sarah at first. Morgan is the first one he is going to involve according to sources inside the show.

You can’t have missed that Chuck is getting a mom Mary Elizabeth Bartowski. The mystery surrounding Chuck’s mom is at the heart of the season, and there are going to be some shocking surprises in the first episode,” previews Fedak. “By the end of the episode we are going to turn everything on its head with regard to who she is.” Linda Hamilton will play Chucks mom. She disappeared from her children’s lives when they were still young. Now she will appear throughout the season, leading Chuck to discover that her life was shrouded in secrets. She was a spy, a CIA agent … and that’s just the beginning. Who is she today? One thing is certain: She’s not the soccer mom who left her children so many years ago.

I am vibrant and thrilled about the new season. I will keep this post updated with news as they become available.

Episode Details

Chuck 4.01 – Chuck versus the Anniversary (NBC) September 20

It’s a very different season this year in the sense that Chuck’s retired from the CIA and he can’t tell Ellie he’s a spy, but he also has to find his mom, So he has to do it without using the CIA resources, so he finds himself in the season premiere not being able to tell Sarah what he’s up to and not being able to tell Ellie what he’s up to. All he has in the world now is Morgan, which is a terrible, terrible fate for anyone trying to accomplish something in life.

CHUCK BEGINS A SEARCH FOR HIS MOTHER, WHICH HE MUST KEEP A SECRET FROM THE CIA AND HIS SISTER — LINDA HAMILTON GUEST STARS AS MARY BARTOWSKI — DOLPH LUNDGREN, HARRY DEAN STANTON AND OLIVIA MUNN ALSO GUEST STAR — Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Morgan (Joshua Gomez) go on a rogue globe-spanning mission to find Chuck’s mom. Meanwhile, Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and Casey (Adam Baldwin) follow a trail to Russia as they investigate the mysterious Volkoff Industries and its operative, Marco (guest star Dolph Lundgren). Back at home, Ellie (Sarah Lancaster) delivers big news to her family. Bonita Friedericy also stars.

The premiere will guest star Dolph Lundgren as Marko and Harry Dean Stanton as Harry and Linda Hamilton as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski.

Olivia Munn will play Greta#1  an impossibly cool, smart, and pretty CIA agent who intimidates and schools Chuck and Morgan.

Dolph [will] try and ‘break’ Chuck in Season 4 premiere.” Action star Dolph Lundgren  will be hittin Chuck’s up-coming season. This isn’t the first time the actor has played a role on Chuck. In March’s ‘Chuck vs. the Final Exam,’ rogue FSB agent Anatoli Zevlovski’s alias was Ivan Drago — the name of Lundgren’s Russian boxer in Rocky IV.”

Chuck 4.02 – Chuck versus the Suitcase (NBC)

CHUCK AND SARAH TRAVEL TO FASHION WEEK IN MILAN TO RETRIEVE A HIGH-TECH SECRET WEAPON — KAROLINA KURKOVA, LOU FERRIGNO, AND ISAIAH MUSTAFA GUEST STAR — When Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) go undercover in Milan, Chuck realizes the “Achilles’ Heel” in their relationship, but must set personal issues aside for the mission. Meanwhile, Morgan (Joshua Gomez) recognizes a fatal flaw that compromises the new Buy More. Elsewhere, Casey struggles to put down roots in Burbank. Bonita Friedericy, Vik Sahay and Scott Krinsky also star.

Looks like the return of Lester and Jeff? Isaiah Mustafa is Greta#2. This episode will most likely involve a fight scene Yvonne Strahovski was shooting on a catwalk with supermodel Karolina Kurkova (I am guessing it is here since there was a casting call for a dangerous, sexy, and kick-ass supermodel for this episode), and it’s definitely going to rank up there as one of the best girlfights evah on Chuck according to Kristin at E!

Lou Ferrigno, who was painted green to play the jade giant in the ’70s and ’80s series The Incredible Hulk, will play the bodyguard of an evil spy model (ex-Victoria’s Secret Angel Karolina Kurkova).

Chuck 4.03 – Chuck versus the Cubic Z (NBC)

A prison transfer delivers old foes the Buy More, canceling Chuck and Sarah’s romantic mission; Morgan gets a surprise from Big Mike

Stacy Keibler as Greta#3

Chuck 4.04 – Chuck versus the Coup d’Etat (NBC)
Nicole Richie returns as Heather Chandler, Sarah’s high school nemesis (2 years ago, the reunion episode). According to a Chuck insider, a prison transfer goes awry and Heather, ends up being stowed away at Castle (a.k.a. the underground CIA base). But here’s where things get really interesting: We have been told her arrival dovetails with some serious bumps in Chuck and Sarah’s deepening relationship. And you better believe that Ms. Heather will use that rift to her advantage.

Stone Cold Steve Austin’s Hugo Panzer is also making a comeback this episode.

We don’t have a Greta in episode 4,” says exec producer Chris Fedak. Adds fellow EP Josh Schwartz: “The Buy More is not in that episode. Chuck’s away on a mission.”

Armand Assante will be back as Alejandro Goya, the king premier of Costa-Gravas, but this time he’s bringing his woman with him! Yep, look for Mrs. Goya; producers are hoping to find a major name to play the part.

TV Guide has just disclosed that actress Tia Texada will guest star as Hortencia aka Armand Assante’s character’s wife. Coming with a secret, she will be introduced when “Chuck and the gang visit the Premier’s beautiful island in his native Costa Gravas.”

Chuck 4.05 – Chuck versus The Couch Look (NBC)

Chuck 4.06 – Chuck versus The Aisle of Terror (NBC)

NBC has tapped the original Freddy Krueger—a.k.a. Robert Englund—to guest star in the Halloween episode. Englund will play Dr Stanley Wheelwright, an evil scientist who can make your waking life a nightmare.

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Last Week

Last week was the crossover event with Eureka where Fargo first visited the Warehouse to upgrade the computer system and they made a lightsaber together. Then Claudia visited a time challenged Eureka where minefields materialized around them and there was kissing. Great cross by the way, I loved it.

This Week

This week is mostly about Pete and the Regents. Mrs Frederic seeks out Pete and give him an undercover mission he can’t tell the others about because it involves treason on the highest level. It all becomes real when he sees Benedict meeting with an artifact thief. But the whole thing is induced by an artifact that creates delusion and paranoia. Pete is not good at keeping secrets so Myka soon becomes suspicious, she even stage an intervention thinking he started drinking again. Pete’s delusion includes an old contact Kate Logan played by Tia Carrere from the original Relic Hunter tv show where she played globe-hunting, black-belted archeology professor Sydney Fox. I remember it fondly, it was cheesy but entertaining. Back to the story. I understand why the waitress gives him such a weird look when he makes out with Kate. He is the only one who can see her. The surveillance video is comic. In the end Myka and Artie sort it out.

On a side story Claudia discovers the protocols for dealing with her in case she becomes a threat to the Warehouse and has a go at Artie about it. That was the most entertaining part of this episode.

I think this was a decent episode but not spectacular but thats just me. I am also a bit surprised there isn’t anything yet about H. G. Wells and her sinister plan.

News about Christmas Episode

Syfy announced there will be both an Eureka and a Warehouse 13 Christmas special this year. I am happy they join Dr. Who, the Closer and other shows in this fine tradition. Here is an excerpt from their press release.

On Warehouse 13, as the Warehouse team prepares to celebrate the holidays in snowy South Dakota, Pete (Eddie McClintock) and Myka (Joanne Kelly) are called upon to hunt down a malevolent Santa Claus. Meanwhile, in time for Hanukkah, Artie and his estranged father, Isadore Weisfelt reunite after 30 years. Award-winning actor Judd Hirsch returns to television guest starring as Artie’s father. Paul Blackthorne also guest stars as a harried work-a-holic who becomes terrorized by a strange series of robberies committed by a thief dressed as “jolly old Saint Nick!”

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Warehouse 13 2.07 – For the team (Syfy)
An old foe helps Myka and Claudia investigate strange deaths on a college wrestling team, and Peter has to seek medical assistance from an unwilling source when Artie falls ill.

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No one is pregnant, at least as far as we know (that was my lame guess why Anna was back). This week in Chuck I imagined all kinds of joy when Ellie and Awesome return unannounced. But the clever cleaning gnomes fixed their trashed apartment. Instead of flashing Chuck has these weird dreams every time he falls asleep, they eventually leads him to a psychiatrist and a fast forward to the CIA loony bin.

We all know Sarah has difficulties expressing her feelings, telling Chuck she loves him for example. It becomes clear how much it bother Chuck when he lays it out to Doctor Leo Dreyfus (guest star Christopher Lloyd) “we have a solid relationship” he starts with before it floods out of him in a true Chuck rant.

Morgan dressed in a tuxedo, walks like a god when he crosses the store on his way out to meet Chuck. Anna who is there to ‘catch up’ with him is flabbergasted, Morgan brushes her off because he is on a mission tho help Chuck prove a murder plot on an African president, this is just before Chuck is enrolled as an unwilling mental patient.

If you remember the back story Morgan was devastated when Anna broke it off with him. Now he is natural, as natural as Morgan can be, focusing on his ‘Bro’ and how to help him, this happens one more time, Morgan brushes Anna off again and in the end Anna realizes she wants him because she can’t have him and in one of the final scenes of this episode she tries to take him back, but Morgan realizes he doesn’t want her any more and decline. I felt it was a pity, because I like Anna, her character is interesting and bitchy, but it felt right for Morgan, well handled by the writers and the actors. Will we have a pining Anna in the Buy More now? Or is she going back to Hawaii?

Maybe we should talk about the main plot of this weeks episode? Chuck dreams, he foretell an assassination attempt by the Ring on a visiting African president at the concert the following night . He shouldn’t have woken everyone in the middle of the night to do it, Casey needs his beauty sleep. Instead of believing him a sleepy Beckett sends him to a CIA psychiatrist. Chuck and Morgan goes to the concert hall to prove he is right, dressed in the aforementioned tuxes. He falls asleep after an amusing little chat with Morgan about relationships accompanied by shushes from their fellow spectators. He dreams again the scientist beside the president is the killer, Chuck confronts him, flashes on the tooth as a fake containing Ring data and punches him so the tooth flies away. Sarah and Casey arrive in time to see him taken away by guards.

That’s when he ends up in the CIA mental hospital where spies end up when they can’t take it any more. It is quite a treat with all the quirky characters there. When The scientist shows up with two goons to find out how Chuck got the Intel, a patient who thinks himself Merlin tries to save the situation and yells “Spy Attack!”, and all the patients go totally Kung Fu and you believe its in the bag, the bad guys speed dart them with their trank guns.

Sarah and Casey believe in Chuck but analysis of the tooth proves it is 100 percent human and doesn’t contain any Ring info (that is because chuck picked the wrong tooth by the way). They all end up at the Doctor’s house in the middle of the night, when Sarah arrives Casey is already there. That was a good and emotional scene where Sarah for the first time says she loves Chuck. “Maybe you should tell him that” the doctor tells her before they leave for the hospital and saves the day.

The big arc of the rest of the season hits somewhat unexpected. Ellie works for the Ring! Justine (the ring operative/camp leader from Africa) cons Ellie into believing he is a CIA agent sent there to protect her father. He tells her that Casey is a bad man sent after her father. After she accidentally discovers Casey’s arsenal she have no trouble believing it. And after Awesome tells her it is crazy that she would believe something like that about Casey she also believe Justin telling her not to talk with anyone else about it, they would only tell her she is crazy. In the end Justine convince her to contact her dad.

In the end Sarah tells Chuck she loves him, just as he is about to tell her that he might have long term problems due to mental stress from the Intersect, so he doesn’t tell her. If we are to believe Chuck’d dreams Shaw is still alive. But Chuck doesn’t tell Sarah when he wakes up. When will they ever learn? It is amusing most of the time, the young two’s inability to communicate.

Did you notice the weird ‘hypnotic’ screens on every TV in Buy More? What’s with that? They had some obvious Rorschach pattern going on.

An even better episode this week, rumors says Chuck is renewed with an order for 13+9. It could be official any time now.

Next episode is 3.17 Chuck vs the Living Dead

After his last dream, Chuck asks Morgan to help him on a side mission. Their investigation becomes complicated when Stephen J. Bartowski returns and learns that Chuck downloaded the Intersect 2.0. Luckily, Chuck’s father may be able to help his son.

Chuck is really heating up with them being a couple and Morgan joining the team. This week they brought a new intro, a 60s kind of homage to old school spy series with chuck driving in a red sports car, and Sarah driving in her black car, them looking at each other and then Morgan driving up in a scooter behind them. And then Morgan wakes up. Neat.

I almost forgot that Morgan is living with Chuck now, at least he doesn’t sleep in the nude any more, but I can understand Sarah’s reluctance to move in.

The spy business is back on track, Chuck and Sarah are assigned to a mission lead by a legendary CIA power team, Craig and Laura Turner, a married couple. At first Sarah and Chuck are happy they found their role models but they show themselves to be nothing of the sort. Remarried three times they are bitter and fight all the time, but charming in a way. Their mission is to steal a chip at a party, but they ‘botch’ it by starting a family shooting match drawing all the attention. Chuck and Sarah pick up the ball and decide to show them how it is done, not knowing the chip is guarded by a Bengali Tiger. That’s was quite amusing, Chuck not wanting to shoot it, because tigers are an endangered species.

Meanwhile Casey got his orders to train Morgan or they both would have to go back to boot camp. Casey is great, no one can do angry like he can. He and Morgan has an interesting report, and Morgans assignments are timely cut in between Sarah and Chuck’s. I thought they did it particularly well when they synced Morgan sneaking on Big Mike trying to steal the security card he had around his neck switching back an forth to Chuck sneaking up on the sleeping tiger to get the necklace with the chip. You know that Chuck is allergic to cats? now you do. His sneeze wakes the cat and they have to run for it. Why didn’t you shoot it? It almost ate me, he asks Sarah. Its an endangered species she answers calmly.

Mission accomplished they leave the party only to be relived of the chip at gunpoint by the Turners.

After being double crossed by the Turners, Chuck and Sarah wants revenge, so they track down them at their hotel and bag and tag them, bringing them home to Chuck? But instead of the US Marshals, the thug they stole the chip from is outside the door, with his tiger. There are some tense moments there before Morgan and Casey arrive. Confronted by the tiger Morgan does the brave thing and bait it into Ellie’s apartment and locks it inside. It totally wreck the place which is going to be interesting next week when Ellie will return home to much surprise.

I was afraid they wrote Mr and Mrs Awesome out of the rest of the season, but I am happy to discover they didn’t. We get to see them arrive in Africa in pouring rain, run into the wildlife and treat some patients before Awesome suddenly falls ill and they have to ship him back to the states for treatment. I thought that was nice by the writers to get them back that soon, but they are more wicked than that. To my surprise the camp boss picks out a Ring communication device and report ‘They don’t suspect anything’. He caused the sickness somehow, returning Ellie and Awesome, next week.

Could this be the start of the season arc? We will see next week. I can’t wait.

Lily, Robert and Miller find themselves in a support group for people who attempted suicide.

This episode introduces us to Robert and Lily, two star-crossed lovers from very different worlds who would probably never meet under normal circumstances, are thrust into a support group for survivors of suicide attempts which soon changes their lives forever.

Chuck and Sarah spend a lot of time handcuffed to each other this episode and they do say ‘I do’ a lot to, and that’s not a spoiler. Chuck makes me happy, this weeks episode is also the first after the first season finale of this season. Chuck and Sarah finally got together in Paris last episode a few weeks ago. Now we meet them on a train doing the business for days, which is a little weird as they are only going to Zürick. They never leave the cabin the first days until the snarky attendant tell them that the train do have perfectly working diner cars. They decide to give up the spy game and run away together, to celebrate they go to the diner where they separately spot the same bask terrorist. They try to ignore it, but their better self get the upper hand, it’s all amusing the way they both try to back up what they think the other one wants to do.

Meanwhile back in the US, lady boss is getting impatient and tells Casey to go fetch and bring Morgan the Chuck expert with him. They have a cute scene with the CIA search engine, or was it Google? Morgan shows of his Chuck-fu and they are off to Europe. Morgan with a Backpacker bible in one hand and a self created Canadian cover story for himself. Going around being real polite to everyone, because thats what Canadians do.

Ellie and Awesome are going to Africa. Awsome tries to smuggle his weights into the luggage, again. Ellie tells everyone that it doesn’t matter that Chuck isn’t there for her going away party. Lester and Jeff invite themselves to the party and they do a pretty decent song while Ellie drinks herself into a stupor. Are they going to be gone for the rest of the season? Hope not, I love them both, Awesome because he is, well awesome, and Ellie because the way she have no clue what her brother is up to makes for so many entertaining situations and that she is kind of awesome to.

Sarah and Chuck decide to do a last mission before they quit, but it doesn’t exactly go as planned as they try to apprehend the terrorist. It’s lucky Morgan and Casey is there to save the day?

After all the trouble Chuck and Sarah have had earlier in the season it finally worked out for them, this must feel good for all the fans that rooted for them, and then some. Really splendid return on Chuck, emotional, funny, warm and a bit fuzzy.

Flash on!

There are a bit of eye candy for the ladies in this episode and and it is Chuck running around in a towel. He looks quite athletic.

Zachary Levi returns a bit to the original Chuck in this episode, the vulnerability is back. Yvonne Strahovski on her side continue to shine as Sarah, she is is hurt but she also are more than a bit ashamed of what she believe she has turned Chuck into. Especially after she give him his red mission, and see Chuck kill a man. It’s really Casey helping him out after the mole draws a gun but Sarah doesn’t know that.

Chuck tries to have a heart to heart with Sarah again and again in this episode. He also set up their stake out as a date. It’s really cute until they are interrupted.

Lester and Jeff fooling around in the store when Casey looses it and smash their heads together and they threaten to sue. Chuck tells Casey Without a licence to kill you are a menace to society. Big Mike takes Casey under his wings and teaches him the ropes in civilian life. I love that we get a bit more Buy More this episode.

Lester playing hardball with Casey to humiliate him is so much fun. I love Casey, he’s a real comedian.

Chuck has a talk with Casey where Casey explains why he helped Chuck. You wouldn’t do it, you are not a killer, he tells Chuck. Sarah is blaming herself for what she made Chuck do. But she also says she dont love him any more. Can it have something to do what she thinks he did?

Thing is now that Chuck is a real spy on his way to Italy and Sarah on her way to Washington.

Excellent episode Chuck is better than ever, I can’t wait on whats going to happen later tonight when Chuck will try to win Sarah back.

We are back to full Chuck-ness, I was not overly happy for Chuck in last episode 3.08 Chuck vs the Fake Name [review/recap] he heard Sarah tell her true name to Agent Shaw and he broke up with Hannah because he realizes he still have feelings for Sarah. The episode left him all alone and unhappy. More than his feelings are affected, he’s ability to flash is clearly affected too since he hasn’t flashed in a week.

So in the start of this episode he is grounded and have to sit out when the others go out on a mission with agent Shaw filling in as Sarah’s husband as they stake out a hotel for the ring operative there. Your heart really goes out to Chuck there, he knows what the problem  is but he has no one to talk with it about and that’s what this episode is about.

But it is also about Buy More, where corporate goons descend for an aledged sale of the store. The staff get interviewed one by one and the tension rises as building inspectors go over the building with a comb. Eventually they stage a very photogenic protest as you can see above. Lester takes to the stage and does a ‘labor’ song and they even reenact the marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. Lots of good moments there. Levi (Chuck) is directing this episode himself and it is much more playful than earlier this season and I like it.

Awesome is taking Ellie to a retreat to get away from everything and they are really enjoying themselves sunbathing and slurping drinks. It just happens to be the hotel where the Ring agent was hiding out. Sarah and Daniel discover that Awesome is the target and take him to the side at the same time Casey discover that the whole thing had been a ruse to get them away from their home base.

Meanwhile Morgan confront Chuck in his minuscule office  about the secrets that hangs between them. It ends with Morgan ending their Bromance devastating Chuck further.

The corporate suits interview all the staff. Lester’s interview was fun as was Big Mike’s. Soon enough we understand that they are Ring agents sent there to find Agent Charmichael and the secret base under the Buy More.

Morgan are hiding in the locker room when the Ring agents finds the door to the lair. You can see the WOW in he’s eyes when he sees the door slide up. The ring agents enter and Morgan follows. This is one of the best scenes ever in Chuck! Morgan is so rattled. He sneaks back out and tries to convince Chuck that they have to man up and resist, while Chuck tries to get him to play it safe, its such a role reversal. Before they can do anything they are captured and brought down to the dojo.

The ring operative tries to force Chuck to tell him where all the Ring data are by torturing Morgan. Chuck has to admit that he is indeed a secret agent working for the United States government under the code name Carmichael. But they are interrupted by the arrival of Shaw, Sarah and Casey leaving Chuck and Morgan all alone in the Dojo. Chuck tells Morgan everything and you can see how all the worries and guilt he has been feeling for having to lie to Morgan for so long just fall off his shoulders. Morgan’s reaction is priceless.

They also talk about Sarah and in case we didn’t know it before, Chuck really loves her. Even Jeff said so last episode.

Free of all worries Chuck is free to flash again so he saves the day with some Kung Fu awesomeness when the bad guys comes back.

The real agents reaction when they learn that Morgan knows the truth is also priceless, they want to send Morgan on a witness protection program but Chuck refuses and get backup from Sarah, she stands by her team. I wonder with delight how Morgan knowing are going to play out.

This episode feels like the Chuck I love, joyful geeky fun, I am happy you are back Chuck!

Only real worry I have after this episode is if Awesome and Ellie will be gone on an extended trip? Are they out due to budget concerns? I enjoy them every time they are on, Ellie is getting way to little time in each episode.

Tonights episode will have something to do with the voice coming from the Ring communicator that Casey answered in the last minutes of this episode.

Enjoy!

Ellie is still worried about Chuck and Awesome are keeping secrets from her. So she decides to confront Chuck, after a long monolog outside his shower she ends up meeting Hannah and having a slightly awkward talk which Chuck saves by promising to cook dinner for the four of the four of them.

Ellie & Morgan found out of Hannah last episode where Chuck and Hanna hooked up. I really enjoy Ellie being nosy and Awesome’s inability to be the bad guy and lie to his girlfriend. That’s the way Chuck used to be.

To put things a little bit into perspective Chuck and Sarah was planing to run away together after season two. Chuck choose to pursue a career as a spy instead of a life with her, that must have hurt and damaged her trust in him. At least if she is in any way human. I have to admit I was a bit surprised by that turn of events. It doesn’t seem to track with Chuck as we know him. I thought he and Sarah had true love for each other. Maybe the new Intersect have a personality changing effect? Maybe they will have to find a way of getting it out of Chuck before he turn totally callous and cold? I don’t know, that is just idle speculation at this time, back to this episode.

The Buy More staff is getting suspicious of Chuck. Maybe he has a deal with the devil? At least there is some kind of mind altering drugs involved. It’s amusing the way Lester and Jeff speculate of Chucks way with the ladies now when he and Hannah make out during the meeting. They even involve Big Mike.

Morgan is away on a leadership seminar this episode, I can already see the consequences that is going to have when he gets back.

When planing their day Chuck has to lie to Hannah right away.

Sarah tries to keep her relationship with agent Shaw strictly professional when they pretend to have a date eating ice-cream while intercepting an assassin. The assassin’s name is Rafe Gruber and Chuck has to go undercover as him to find out the real target. There is some good moments there with the interrogation and Chuck acquiring Rafe’s manner just by listening to him, I think that was a new Intersect ability?

Sarah is starting to get really uncomfortable with the changes in Chuck, his ability to lie and to handle the asset in the other episode. Some speculate in that Chuck tries to become the man Sarah wants him to be, but I am not that sure. Why would he leave her at that train station to go back to being a spy?

I definitely think he is in the doghouse when it comes to Sarah. She is hurt and she thinks he has moved on with Hannah. Chuck arriving in the morning with spring in his step after a night with Hannah doesn’t make it any better. We can all see Sarah’s pain.

Casey is a rock. You can always count on him being his usual self. He and Chuck goes undercover and meet up with two obvious gangsters at a club. When one of  them recogise Casey as Alex Coburn, some kind of government hit man. Chuck has to dig deep into his role to stall for time. And he digs deep.

Both me and Chuck thought Casey would kill him afterwards. But he didn’t instead he had the first really friendly talk with Chuck in the whole series like he really like Chuck as a friend. That was really frighting. Sarah is even more unsettled with Chuck’s ability to save the day by ‘torturing’ Casey.

Even then it is quite sweet when shaw and Sarah make the dinner for Chuck while he is busy at spying. And Ellie, Awesome and Hannah like the food much better than the one he usually do, and they continue to tell him so. That’s amusing.

Sarah look up Shaw in his hotel room to have a talk with him about being professional. He meets up in a towel. I guess we get a little eye candy for the ladies to even up the eye candy we are used to. When I think about it awesome was also ‘top less’ when he talked to Ellie. Hmm, unfair. We only saw Hannah in a towel and she wasn’t even top less.

She is clearly affected by his looks and asks him to put some cloths on. They talk about secrets and that Sarah doesn’t like secrets. She finally tells him that she don’t want to have any secrets and that her real name is Sam.

Meanwhile Chuck learns the real target he is supposed to kill is Daniel Shaw. He gets a sniper rifle and headphones so he listen in on Sarah and Shaw’s conversation and he loses it totally, realizing that he loves Sarah telling the gangsters that it’s his girl  down there.

Even the gangsters tells him to do something about it, if he loves her, he should.

He refuses to shoot and makes an excuse that he wants to kill Daniel with his bare hands, which seems to convince them.

They cheer him on and he heads over to Daniel and Sarah. He confronts Daniel and ‘pretend’ to fight him over Sarah. The fight seems pretty real. Shaw doesn’t stop until the real assassin shows up and take Sarah hostage. A shot is heard and Sarah falls dead to the floor.

That’s the moment Chuck realizes how much he loves her. Both he and Daniel cries out when she open her eyes and sit up. Casey saved the day with an unparalleled shot that killed Rafe.

Later that night Chuck have a long talk with Ellie that convince him that lying to your partner is not fair.

So he does the Good Guy thing. He breaks up with Hannah. Because he still have feelings for Sarah but not only because of that. Also because he doesn’t want to betray her with lies every day. Of course ha can’t tell her the truth so instead he comes across as a douche bag breaking up with her the night after they first slept togheter.

He walks home all alone. We all feels his pain there.

The episode ends with Sarah kissing Daniel in the Den, she is moving on?

Chuck has his work cut out for him, if he wants to redeem himself in Sarah’s eyes, he has a long way to go especially when she is getting more involved with agent shaw.

If I was to speculate I would guess that Chuck will make a mess out of this a few episodes. That Shaw hides even more secrets than he has told Sarah and that that is going to affect their relationship. What if his former girlfriend wasn’t killed by the ring? What if she was his wife and she joined the ring? He might still be married to her?

When I look back to what I have written I realize this was indeed a good episode even if it was emotional.

Both Chuck and Sarah are persued by their respective partners. Hannah has to take the initiative for Chuck to realize that she wants him and they finally kiss.

The Ring is smuggling something in the mask and they have to switch it before the Ring agents gets to it.

Meanwhile, Morgan and Ellie team up and have cute little meetings contemplating Chuck and his secret ways. If I was Awesome and saw all this i would draw a different conclusion.

How long do you think it will take until things with Chuck and Hannah crash and burn? Or Sarah and Shaw (Saw that one coming from the first scene he was in, so predictable)? When is Casey gonna get some loving?

Good episode, I say watch it now. Chuck is still one of the most entertaining shows around.

Good that Chuck gets some loving, but what about Morgan? He had it bad for Hannah. We will have to wait almost a month to find out. Chuck goes on hiatus until after the Winter Olympiad, next episode is March 3.  The black hole sucks again, hiatus, hiatus there is dedicated sports channels you know!

Official description. Chuck must turn an enemy agent into a spy for the CIA – Chuck  juggles his two lives as he trains new Nerd Herder Hannah (guest star Kristin Kreuk) and gets his very own asset who is caught up with The Ring. Chuck thinks he can handle his asset all on his own but Sarah and Casey feel the need to intercede. Meanwhile, Awesome must lie to Ellie when she starts to ask questions about Chuck and Morgan , Jeff and Lester do some recon work to learn more about Hannah.

I enjoyed this episode, there is build up for further action later and there is quite a few amusing and funny moments and some emotional scenes there as well.

Chuck is a grown up agent now, which he sets out to prove. To Casey’s grumpy approval and Sarah’s growing displeasure. She is deeply disturbed that the sweet Chuck she came to love can be so callous, but she tries not to show it. She also realize, the similarities between herself and Chuck as he tries to develop an asset (spy-talk for befriend). I am afraid Chuck might too. Sarah and Chuck’s relationship had already hit a snafu but I am afraid there is worse to come if Chuck goes on as here. We can see that he doesn’t feel good about doing what he does, but can Sarah?

I am sorry we didn’t see more of Hannah in this episode. Morgan’s roundabout way of approaching her was funny and her trying to fend off Lester and Jeff was amusing.

Awesome is suffering from fright since his own spy mission and make Ellie suspicious which will turn interesting  for this season, Ellie doesn’t strike me as the type who would stop until she knows. Ellie also makes a surprising ally in the search for the truth.

Funnies moment was when Chuck was trying to get the laser out of Casey’s pocket. Sarah looked seriously disturbed by it.

Chuck is having a strong season. I recommend you watch it now.