Chuck Versus the Santa Suit

Well this episode was fantastic! So scary and suspenseful with Sarah being taken.

Morgan and Alex are adorable, as usual! I've grown to love Morgan in all his quirkiness!

Awesome and Ellie are great! Ellie saving the day is really cool!

Chuck is bad-a$$ as usual. I love him whether he has the intersect or not. His and Ellie's relationship is precious. Being without their parents since they were young certainly strengthened their familial bond. It shows in so many episodes. It's great that family is just so important to chuck!

Love Casey! Love the Christmas theme! Love the characters! Another amazing episode!

What happened? I'm genuinely confused. The other 3 episodes before this were good. All of a sudden the dialogue is extremely poor. Especially the plot and reveals in this is half assed. I don't get why this episode is rated higher than the last couple. It's disappointing. It's not Shaw i have a problem with. I liked his arc and him as a villain and him coming back makes sense but the writing is just LAZY!! It's the plot holes. It doesn't make sense to me. I can't get past it. It just sucks because otherwise it had the ability to be good as well. Well not good but It could've been up until now. As it's been leading to this but I can't get past anything that happened and I'll tell you why.

Let's start off with Shaw and him breaking out of prison and his perfectly timed release of the virus. That he apparently came up with before he went to prison. Fine I'll believe it but what I won't believe is that the government (CIA) locked him up with the Intersect. We saw how easy it is to take the intersect away and even suppress it. We've seen it with Chuck so many times. It's quick to do. When they have access to high tech. Like come on, wouldn't happen. They'll take it from Chuck who's gave them information for years and saved and helped them. But they'll keep it in Shaw who's in prison. Maybe they did take it from him and he found a way to get it back but they didn't state that. But what's even more ridiculous is that they brought Daniel Shaw back just to use him. They disposed of him too quickly. Got an unbelievable plot. Why build this up then do that so fast? Waste of an arc. Even him trying to kill Sarah. When we know he wanted revenge so bad. Tried and failed a few times. He would probably just kill her quickly. Shaw has no backup as well. Which is weird since he's been doing everything he's doing. It's just so stupid. Not even a good fight sequence. Badly executed is an understatement. I know it's only gonna get worse if the rest is like this episode. Well at least I got 3 good episodes until it went up in flames again.

Chucks hacking skills and abilities. I liked it in episode 5. It worked. Even the references were good. I know he has some skills with computers obviously but they made him out to be better than the CIA here. Since when is he better than anyone who works for the CIA who are geniuses with computers? They make it out like only he can do it. I would've even liked to see him do more of this but it's rushed. It works. I can see it for him but it felt forced and there wasn't enough build up of him actually doing this.

Can't forget "does Chuck know about the baby" as well. Hinting that she had a baby from a previous relationship. Of course that's gonna be a storyline. There's been talks of them having kids. But it was very obviously they wouldn't have her be pregnant on screen as without her it's only Casey who's able to do the missions properly. It would've be the same if she sat them out unless they time jumped. She gets kicked in the stomach basically every episode so it wouldn't work. Of course there will probably be an adoption. Which I don't see how, it would be very traumatic if they're already with a family. Unless someone is looking after he/she for her but earlier seasons it was unlikely she would ever settle down she said that so that's very unlikely. Not my kind of plotline but hopefully it isn't too bad.

Also I couldn't even enjoy the other stuff going on in the Buy More. It was good we saw more of them but unfortunately It just wasn't funny. Not sure if it was supposed to be but it wasn't. It felt out of place. Considering this arc has been the centre of this season. I think the plot holes were too much that I just couldn't find anything likeable about it but I will say that the only thing that I actually thought was likeable during the whole episode was near the ending, Casey telling Alex he loved her finally and she said the same. And him saying "that Grimes kid isn't so bad. Maybe you should give him a chance" I feel like he's come full circle. Very heartfelt moment. I like the father and daughter moments between them and they've brought more emotion and great action than a lot of scenes during this whole series.

Literally not a single person cares about Shaw but writers keep bringing him back time after time. The writers of this show must be secretly in love with Brandon Routh who plays Shaw so they are looking for every chance and every excuse to bring him back to the show even though no one who actually watches the show cares about him. He's not interesting, not funny and nothing but annoying.

Maybe writers should have made a separate show for Brandon Routh where is the starring actor playing the main character so that they can admire him and fall in love with him over and over again but they should have kept him out of Chuck.