“People are upset. People are actually furious. The thing is, some people hate the “ambiguous” nature of the finale. I don’t think it was all that ambiguous. And without doing something as big and different, the impact would have been so much less. I’ll defend the Chuck finale to anyone.
It’s not easy for a show to excite fans at the end of a five year run, and present them with something new. But make no mistake, finales are a great time to take a risk. Chuck has given us plenty of “Chuck and Sarah are happy” episodes, especially during season 5. It was a nice risk to see the show do something that leaves fans talking, that surprises them (rather than “they’re happy and okay and everything is predictable!”) and keeps a foot in the door for a continuation via an online movie, comic books, etc. Isn’t that what you want? Do you really need the show to say “And Chuck and Sarah lived happily ever after?” Don’t you have faith? Don’t you think it’s incredibly fun to think about everything that would happen after the beach? If you want good storytelling, you can’t think every happy ending will be just as you expected. As usual, I immediately went back to my Joss Whedon roots. He taught my teen/adult self a lot about what good storytelling does. And it doesn’t always give you what you want or make you happy. If that’s what you want, then reconcile yourself to a lifetime of watching Katherine Heigl movies. But if you agree that most Heigl movies are cheesy filler, then let’s get real and let’s let the storytellers create a story worth telling.” — An excerpt from a review of the Chuck finale. (via yogaseal)
