Anyone else watching Chuck?

[alrocky]

Anyone care to explain why agents from one US spy agency are trying to kill another agent from another US spy agency?

 

[Lord Evermore]

Originally posted by: alrocky
Anyone care to explain why agents from one US spy agency are trying to kill another agent from another US spy agency?

Bryce was a rogue CIA agent. The computer he destroyed was a system used by both the CIA and NSA to share their information and process it to find patterns and correlations. So he got killed doing it. The NSA and CIA both wanted to be the ones to regain the information. That's just politics and power-hunger.

 

[hdeck]

chuck tied for 2nd during it's timeslot. let's see how far the drop off is next week.

 

[austin316]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Recorded it. Watching it now. I got through 15 minutes of it and counted like 43 billion bad, overused nerd cliches and misused, dumbed-down technology things.

Downloading the data from the mainframe to the computer causes all of the data to randomly display all over the screens in the room? And the room's entire internal surface area is made up of computer screens for what reason?

The download to the handheld took a couple of minutes. Sending the email to Chuck which contained all of that data took half a second before the handheld self-destructed. And though the handheld was destroyed, the secret agent "picked up a trace signal" that led them to Los Angeles; what the hell kind of signal could even remotely possibly give them that information?

The Mac falls on the floor from 5 feet up and shatters. I thought they'd be a little sturdier than that, given the price. The side of it falls off, every internal component falls out and breaks into pieces, including the hard drive. And the ninja agent leaves it there despite the fact that the NSA can recover data from a hard drive even if you try to destroy with anything short of a drill, thermite or acid.

All of the "geek jokes" and references to nerdy things just make me groan, they just stand out so much. I expect them to wink at the camera when they use one of them. Haha, a dumb guy comes into the store and doesn't know he needs a tape in his video camera, what an idiot, haha. Oh Nerd Herd, where could they have come up with that, and they work at Buy More and drive Focuses with orange and black colors.

I'll finish the pilot and maybe watch one more episode if I can stand it, but I don't think I'm going to be able to stand this. It's Jake 2.0 all over again, but on network TV.

If they didn't try so hard to put in "inside jokes" for the geeks, plus the jokes about geeks that average people will get, AND didn't have gratuitous instances of technology that is so badly misused and misrepresented, then it might be okay. But then, they'd have to start off with finding some less implausible idea for how Chuck gets all the data into his brain.

Lord Evermore....... Its a tv show..... and a comedy at that! Jeez man, lay off the "nerd herd" talk and you might actually enjoy it.

on a side note, did you hear about Heroes, Bionic Woman, Reaper, Battlestar Gallatica, etc...... I bet you hate those too since they aren't realistic.

 

[alrocky]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore

Originally posted by: alrocky
Anyone care to explain why agents from one US spy agency are trying to kill another agent from another US spy agency?

Bryce was a rogue CIA agent. The computer he destroyed was a system used by both the CIA and NSA to share their information and process it to find patterns and correlations. So he got killed doing it. The NSA and CIA both wanted to be the ones to regain the information. That's just politics and power-hunger.

Yes, I got that, Lord Evermore. Thank you. I just don't see the need for competitive US spy agencies to kill each other over it. Guess we all get annoyed over different aspects of a show - the directive to kill a fellow American agent just stuck me as (writer's) overkill...

 

[FoBoT]

i watched it on the DVR tonight
i wasn't sure where it was going at first, but by the end i was liking it

 

[Indolent]

Originally posted by: austin316

Lord Evermore....... Its a tv show..... and a comedy at that! Jeez man, lay off the "nerd herd" talk and you might actually enjoy it.

on a side note, did you hear about Heroes, Bionic Woman, Reaper, Battlestar Gallatica, etc...... I bet you hate those too since they aren't realistic.

So I relented and watched it tonight...

For a comedy, there sure weren't a whole lot of jokes or funny parts.

And the premise of the show is just dumb. A cia/nsa computer gets blown up and now chuck is the only one with the info? Were there no backups?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
Yep, watched it last night.... won't probably be watching it again. Not my cup of tea I guess.... was just too corny!

"This laptop has a backdoor into it's DOS blah blah blah..." sounds like a complete noob wrote the script.

yeah then logs on into the internet. WTF?

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Jugernot
Yep, watched it last night.... won't probably be watching it again. Not my cup of tea I guess.... was just too corny!

"This laptop has a backdoor into it's DOS blah blah blah..." sounds like a complete noob wrote the script.

yeah then logs on into the internet. WTF?

He logged onto the internet to get to the malware site. I can almost see the DOS backdoor thing being legit...sortof.

 

[cthulhu]

I'll give it a couple of more episodes. I wasn't impressed.

 

[BCYL]

I just watched it... it was corny, and dumb, but entertaining... the chick was hot so that definitely helped... I will give it a few more episodes...

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: Jugernot
Yep, watched it last night.... won't probably be watching it again. Not my cup of tea I guess.... was just too corny!

"This laptop has a backdoor into it's DOS blah blah blah..." sounds like a complete noob wrote the script.

yeah then logs on into the internet. WTF?

Notebook with internal wifi in a hotel that's probably a hotspot.


Not one of the best new shows but will probably stay on the DVR list for awhile.

 

[nageov3t]

I'm still liking it a lot more than I thought I would. :thumbsup:

certainly better than the latest season of prison break.

I'm damned tired of seeing Bellock walk around in his tightie whities.

 

[jdini76]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I'm still liking it a lot more than I thought I would. :thumbsup:

certainly better than the latest season of prison break.

I'm damned tired of seeing Bellock walk around in his tightie whities.

He has pants now.

Chuck is pretty good. I am enjoying it.

 

[MBrown]

Its meh. It just gives me something to watch before Heroes comes on .

 

[SpunkyJones]

Watched the pilot. Didn't completely suck, but didn't interest me enough to tune in again.

 

[Nik]

I was interested in watching it until the classic 24-style tech speak started. If you're going to write something with a strong technical subplot, then you'd better know what the hell you're talking about.

 

[nakedfrog]

He should have known something was up when he got that call to go to a customer's house to do a Linux install

 

[conehead433]

Jake 2.0 revisited basically, although I thought Jake 2.0 was better and it got canceled after a season.

 

[EvilYoda]

Just watching it now and Sarah in the Weinerlicious outfit is...delicious.

 

[FoBoT]

just watched Ep. 2 on DVR, i like it! now to locate the nearest Weinerlicious store

Sarah better have a "beat up someone" scene every week

 

[her209]

Here's a dumb question: Why doesn't the government have backup tapes of the information that was "downloaded" into Chuck's head?

 

[alrocky]

Sarah has shown her underwear two weeks in a row. Who's thinking this is gonna be a trend or a signature of the show? And who's wishing for peek at a thong for week three?

 

[lupi]

"Why can't you guys do it"

"It's a PC Linux install, we're the Mac guys, we like to call ourselves IT specialist."

 

[FoBoT]

another fine episode, including sarah fighting in the weinerchick outfit