thoroughly whelmed.
Feb. 24th, 2012 02:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eleanorjaneSo I'm in fairly heavy-duty task avoidance mode at the moment and thus I've been mainlining Chuck in all spare moments over the last few days. I'm about halfway through Season 4 at the moment; I've got 22 episodes left, and I'm really enjoying it. I did have to skip a few episodes here and there due to story ick buttons, and skim-watched chunks of a few more to avoid other story ick buttons, but by and large it's been consistently, well, Awesome. There have been huge numbers of moments, in every season, that have made me do the Flappy Hands of Squee. (And others that have made me cry. Like Castle, this show is good at switching effortlessly from banter to heartbreak.)
One thing that I'm really finding interesting is that for once, the character I find most appealing on the show is the main character -- normally the characters that appeal to me personally (in terms of people I'd be attracted to romantically or want to be friends with) are the sidekicks, token geeks and goofballs - best summarised as "I'd take McGee over DiNozzo any day of the week" - but one of the joys of Chuck is that Chuck himself is, you know, one of us. He's the kind of person I would actually want to be friends with, which is a rare thing in mainstream media.
It also doesn't hurt that he's played by Zachary Levi, who was adorably, geekily cute in Season 1, and somehow by Season 3 he'd morphed from cute into 'blisteringly hot'. Wow, seriously, just wow. (Which makes Chuck's continued insecurity about Sarah's feelings, based on his perception of her being out of his league, kind of ridiculous. Oh, Hollywood - I remember when you tried to convince us in Miss Congeniality that Sandra Bullock wasn't that hot, too. It didn't work then either.)
One thing that I'm really finding interesting is that for once, the character I find most appealing on the show is the main character -- normally the characters that appeal to me personally (in terms of people I'd be attracted to romantically or want to be friends with) are the sidekicks, token geeks and goofballs - best summarised as "I'd take McGee over DiNozzo any day of the week" - but one of the joys of Chuck is that Chuck himself is, you know, one of us. He's the kind of person I would actually want to be friends with, which is a rare thing in mainstream media.
It also doesn't hurt that he's played by Zachary Levi, who was adorably, geekily cute in Season 1, and somehow by Season 3 he'd morphed from cute into 'blisteringly hot'. Wow, seriously, just wow. (Which makes Chuck's continued insecurity about Sarah's feelings, based on his perception of her being out of his league, kind of ridiculous. Oh, Hollywood - I remember when you tried to convince us in Miss Congeniality that Sandra Bullock wasn't that hot, too. It didn't work then either.)