Also, please kill Shaw. He's dull.

He's no Bryce Larkin that's for sure.

Dude. I didn't know that "V" tonight was a recap clip show! On one hand: lame. On the other hand, I can go to bed earlier!

(Wow, this narrator has the world's most boring voice.)

yes, I didn't know this either. I am pissed.

I am going to try to watch V because I loved it to distraction when it was on 20 years ago. However, I am having a hard time getting over the fact that I dislike the main character FBI agent woman.

And they're repeating two hours of V on Saturday.

So, I could have watched either Southland or Justified earlier.

Watched the latest Chuck. I could never get behind the show because of the unconciliatory overall tone with the subject matter. It's all yucky and messy and gross, and not in an awesome HBO/Showtime/FX way.

The whole Sarah and Casey are cold blooded killers but we like them they're awesome Yay! oh no Chuck you're sweet Kaylee and we don't want you to be a killer and you don't want to be a killer but you want to be a spy which means you need to be a killer and that's wrong wrong wrong for you and I'll hate you if you become like me and hey I'll help you get in a situation to become like me even though you're grossly underqualified and....

::pantpantpant::

I mean, there's some interesting stuff in there, but the way the show handles it pushes the interesting aside and leaves just the yucky for me. And I can't help but think that it's because they are bending over backwards to make their premise work. It's too much like trying to get yucks out of Monk's mental and emotional disorders.

For me, Sarah's chosen career and her desire to keep Chuck pure could be fascinating, and delve into her own possible self-disgust and wish for personal purification, which they touched on fleetingly towards the end of the other nights ep, but has been bugging the shit out of me for years. To keep him the way she loves him meaning that she has to get to that level and keep him with her, meaning getting out of the business. But really I keep coming back to: Chuck needs to get the fuck out of the kitchen because they use gas stoves.

I think it's more than hypocritical that Sarah can't be with Chuck if he's a killer, but can be with Shaw who's a killer, but apparently just not a good spy. But that whole will-they-won't-they thing is artificially extended and I never bought her character from the start.

Just watching the Chivalry episode of Highlander. I think it's the highwater mark for Methos/Duncan. Wingfield is such a purring tease.

I think it's more than hypocritical that Sarah can't be with Chuck if he's a killer, but can be with Shaw who's a killer, but apparently just not a good spy

I never found it hypocritical, necessarily, just handled poorly by the writers. She fell for what made Chuck so uniquely Chuck. She fell not just for him, but for what he represented, in terms of the normal (ish) life she never had because of her unorthodox upbringing and then her career. In her mind, Chuck taking that step and becoming a killer eradicates the last bit of what made him special and different from everything else in her life.

The paradox, of course, is that Chuck not being a full-fledged spy kept him from being her full equal, in both their eyes. It would always be an unbalanced relationship.

Not that the writer/lizard brain has been playing with different scenarios or anything...

For me it's seeing that she seems to hate the killer in herself that makes me wonder how she can date a killer. But just one killer. Well, two, assuming Bryce Larkin could kill too. Just not Chuckles. Your description of what she sees in Chuck (she only likes him if he can't kill in self defense, for instance) is terribly shallowly handled by the writers.

It shows a tremendous lack of self-awareness of Sarah's part, which I think is a disservice to both the character and the viewer.