We’ve added 45 new screen captures to the gallery from Episode 2.08 — “Chuck Versus the Gravitron.”

This week was a lot less Yvonne than I was hoping.  We didn’t get any sexy shower scenes or exploding sniper rifles to capture.

But what we did get was a lot of really expressive Yvonne.  Jill totally conflicted Sarah, and it’s evident through many of the screen captures.  I know we say it all the time here at Strahotski.com, but man can that girl act.

Enjoy!

I’m not sure if last week’s ’stream of consciousness’ review was a success or a failure, but in order to keep both of us interested I’m going to try something else new this week.

One of the things that makes it fun to relive episodes are the quotes, so I’m going to write my review in sections, led by relevant quotes.  Could be fun, right?  Might be slightly spoilerific, so beware.

Ok, let’s get going…

“The Awesomes are coming?”

I was glad to see Ellie back.  And the Awesomes are coming!  I wish they really had shown up, but I’m glad they haven’t forgotten the Awesome moniker.  It’s so tempting to let him become Devon and forget.

Honestly, Chuck calling him Captain Awesome is one of the things that hooked me on the show at the beginning (in addition to Yvonne Strahovski of course).

“Imagine I’m Jill.”

Sarah is one smooth talker.  If only she could have carried through with the kiss, it would have made us all a little bit happier.  The Chuck & Jill kissing just isn’t really doing anything for anybody; least of all Chuck.

“It better not be another freakin’ Opera.”

The Orange Orange secret hideout never ceases to be the coolest place on earth.  Now they have a 100% accurate lie detector with a fancy game show screen readout.  Very slick.

The whole thing with Chuck & Jill was a little too obvious.  I guess we had to get all this out there, but meh — I don’t really want to like Jill.  No sense in trying to redeem her; especially since she’s gonna keep on being mean Jill.

“Grimes put you in charge?” 

The Buy More plotline was a little bit weak this episode but the whole setup was worth it for Big Mike personally taking out Leader.  By far, the moment of the episode.  That was classic.

Oh and btw, where the heck is Anna!?!?!?!!?

“This is the manual for the entire castle-base.”

Yvonne never ceases to amaze me with the facial expressions she can put on.  When Leader was directing Casey and Sarah back to the holding room, Sarah had such a look of disappointment, pain and anger.

She just can’t fathom why Chuck would do this to her.  She’s taking it personally and professionally at the same time.  Truly amazing.  I’ll be glad when we can get back to episodes with more Yvonne.

I really liked the tech-spy stuff.  It’s a perfect way to get Chuck involved with the spy stuff.  I hope they keep that going.  What else can that car do anyway?

“When you were about to kill Sarah, you made my decision for me.”

Well, I guess Jill’s finally gone.  I think we’re all better for it, and maybe now both Sarah and Chuck realize what they have in each other. Only time will tell, but I’m glad we’re done with this roller coaster ride.

Screen captures should be up tomorrow.  Let me know how you liked this review style, or just post your happy thoughts about Jill finally getting the boot.

We’ve added a whopping 60 new screen captures to the gallery from Episode 2.07 — “Chuck Versus the Fat Lady.”

I thought this week was going to be Strahovski-lite again with the whole Jill plotline taking center stage, but Rob assured me we’d get some good captures from this episode.  I’m willing to admit when I was wrong, and I was wrong.

We got some awesome screen captures from this episode!  There’s something for everybody — smiles, guns, and underwear.  What more could an Yvonne Strahovski fan want?

I’m pretty sure the shower scene has yielded some of the more scandalous photos of our collection.  Out of context, who knows what’s going on there!

Enjoy!

WRONG ONE! You’re kissing the WRONG ONE!

Okay, now that that’s out of my system welcome to my humble review of  the 7th episode of the season, Chuck Versus the Fat Lady.

I’m going to ‘live’ review this one.  Which means I’ll write as I watch and see what happens.

As a warning, it might not be as spoiler free as normal.  You’ll have to let me know how you prefer the live blogging to the more philosophical post-reviews.

This one started off better than last week by a mile. Watching Sarah try to act cool with Chuck’s admission of his relationship with Jill was excruciating but enjoyable at the same time.  But then to see Jill being jealous of Sarah.  Perfect triangle.

Red dresses + knee high boots are always for the win.  How someone could need to think about their choice between Sarah & Jill is beyond me.  I mean seriously, even the actress who plays Jill must know she’s no Yvonne Strahovski.

Buy Moria. Ha.  FBI’s dumb, not deaf. Ha.  More homosexual overtone antics with Casey and Chuck.  That’s never going to get old, is it?

I don’t know if I feel proud that I know what a Fibonacci sequence is or embarrassed.  Finally, the hot shower scene we’ve been waiting for.  Strangely, I don’t feel bad for Jill at all.  Is that bad?

Morgan’s beard holds so many secrets. Ha!  Yet he didn’t know Jill was even in town.  He needs to pay more attention.

Ok.  Best scene of the entire series.  Casey can sing like a choir boy in perfect pitch?  Omigosh.  I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so much.  Casey simply has to get more screen time.

Meow – cat fight.  I wanna see Sarah pull Jill’s hair out and throw her from the stage into a pit of ravenous lions.  I really don’t mean offense to the actress who plays Jill.  I’m sure she’s a fine lady; she’s just moving in on Sarah’s happiness and I just can’t have that.

Ew.  Brute force encryption breaking?  It’s the NSA in a fictional world where they can download computers into peoples’ heads and they can’t do better than that?  Honestly.

Nerd code.  That nerd code is so nerdy not even I would have a chance at cracking it.  Who knows stuff like that and still works at Buy More?

I miss Awesome and Ellie.

Oh noes! They took Jill.  Good. Keep her for all I care.

Seriously, Casey. You know Sarah’s not gonna shoot Chuck.  The look on Yvonne’s face was heartbreaking.  How does she do that with her face every week so well?  She’s very underrated as an actress in my opinion.

Yvonne with a sniper rifle is pretty hawt.  Jill could never hope to be that hot.  Why are they so mean to Sarah?  Mean mean writers.

You care about Chuck, Jill?! You don’t know how to care about Chuck, Jill.  Sarah cares about Chuck.  Grrr.

Sarah really does handle things pretty well.  I don’t know how she keeps it together.  I’m not going to be fooled by Jill’s cleavage.  That doesn’t make her as pretty as Yvonne.  They can’t fool me.

OMG.  What an ending!!!  I won’t spoil anything, but wow.  This is really a phenomenal arc despite last week’s iffy direction.  I can’t wait to see where it goes.

Okay.  So looking over this review — it’s a mess.  Let me know if you liked it.  I think it might work as a companion piece to read while watching the episode.

Screen caps should be up tomorrow afternoon.  Until then, talk about how much Jill needs to take a hike in our forums or right here in this post.

We’ve added 35 new screen captures to the gallery from Episode 2.06 — “Chuck Versus the Ex.”

Yet another week with not a lot of Yvonne.  I was shocked to end up with so few pictures at the end.  There was also a new director this week who seemed to spend less time with close-ups of Yvonne than we’re used to seeing.

That doesn’t mean it’s all bad, though.  Her waitress outfit was a nice change of pace, and there are some definite shots of a jealous Sarah in there.

Enjoy!