by Lykaon — published on April 14th, 2009
It might have felt like a Jill episode, but I still managed to come up with an impressive 72 screen captures to the gallery for Episode 2.20 – Chuck Versus the First Kill.
Sarah had a lot of background jealous-acting to do as Chuck dealt with Jill.
Doing the screen captures always makes me appreciate the subtle facial expressions that Yvonne Strahovski so capably brings to Sarah. You can tell she’s not a fan of Jill in many a scene.
I was also proud to have gotten a relatively high number of action shots. The blur makes them so hard to capture usually, but Yvonne’s extended shoot-out helped to get some good ones.
Don’t forget to check out our Chuck music page to listen to some of the tunes of this episode as well.
Enjoy!
by Lykaon — published on April 13th, 2009
The weeks are ticking by as we get closer and closer the Chuck season finale. Hopefully, it’s not a series finale!
I’ll take my intro this week to remind everyone to write your letter to NBC — Chuck has to come back or I will be lost and roaming this world with no purpose.
But for tonight I have a purpose; for tonight we focus on first kills. Time for my review of Episode 2.20 – Chuck Versus the First Kill.
“It’s time to try our latest flavor – Obama Guava.”
This is a fitting quote to this episode because First Kill was a completely different flavor of Chuck. I don’t know what they were smoking when they scored this episode, but the music placement was atrocious.
It was also sadly another episode with not nearly enough Yvonne Strahovski for my taste, but at least she got one of her coolest gun fights to date near the end.
I’ll talk more about the pacing and music near the end of the review, but let’s get to the content of the episode.
“Here they are — Mr and Mrs. Bartowski!”
So here comes Jill again. She wasn’t nearly as hateable this time around, but she certainly wasn’t likeable either. I feel like the writers felt like they need to ‘finish’ the Jill storyline and worked her into a plot she didn’t need to be part of.
I have nothing against Jordana Brewster, but does she always talk as if her jaw is broken? Maybe there was a bad accident on the set of Fast and Furious or something, but she barely moved her teeth the entire episode.
She provided a pretty convenient plot device to get Chuck defiant, but the chemistry that the two had in the earlier episodes was completely lost this time around.
I guess that’s to be expected, but at least she redeemed herself and created a reason for Beckman to get mad.
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by Lykaon — published on April 7th, 2009
It was rough going, but I’ve added 42 new screen captures to the gallery for Episode 2.19 – Chuck Versus the Dream Job.
Though the pickins were slim, I managed to scrounge together a few good shots of our girl, Yvonne Strahovski.
Watching these back, I kind of liked the vibe from Sarah. She treated Chuck a little more like a boyfriend in a very subtle way, and less like a handler.
For the record, Sarah’s geek cover name is Jodi Jullian as can be seen on her name badge at NextCon. You’ll need to know that for some random Chuck quiz down the line I’m sure.
Enjoy!
by Lykaon — published on April 6th, 2009
If we were talking about my dream job, I’m pretty sure running a website about Yvonne Strahovski for a living would fill that void.
Unfortunately nobody’s paying me, but I’ll just continue to love Yvonne in my free time and give you my humble review of Episode 2.19 – Chuck Versus the Dream Job.
(don’t read this review if you don’t want to be spoiled; some pretty big spoilers were unavoidable)
“I’m sorta freakin’ out here.”
I’ve been banking on the fact that Sarah actually recognized Papa B and I was immediately proven to be wrong. I guess Yvonne’s look was because Chuck’s dad was a crazy old man.
I really liked the opening sequences with Chuck’s dad. Scott Bakula did a really good job of playing the unkempt, eccentric dad. I couldn’t quite imagine it before the episode but now I’m sold.
“You said you were going to make pancakes!”
Man Ellie’s had a rough couple of days. I’ve never even been particularly drawn to her character but the poor chick has just been run over by everyone in her life lately.
I’m really starting to feel for Ellie and I’m glad at least the Devon situation is resolved. It was all a bit contrived to begin with, really.
And then to have daddy abandon her again? Ouch.
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by Lykaon — published on March 31st, 2009
I’ve added a 60 new screen captures to the gallery for Episode 2.18 – Chuck Versus the Broken Heart.
I thought for sure that this episode wouldn’t yield many screen captures. With Sarah replaced by Forrest and not as close to Chuck for most of the episode, surely there couldn’t be much right?
So wrong. Yvonne Strahovski did some amazing emoting in this episode, as she so often does. Not only that, but we also got a return of the ‘Chuck’ smile! That one special smile that she only flashes for Chuck. So awesome.
Be sure to also check out the music page for this episode to find links to the awesome soundtrack to The Broken Heart.
Enjoy and don’t forget you can comment on and rate the pictures as you go now!
