Chuck vs.The All-Time Series Low (ALL-TIME!!!)

[Pearl@32]

Yeah I was reading up on TV by the numbers ~ it doesn't look promising. Somebody on there commented, "My, my what big teeth that [cancellation] bear has. Chuck might save himself by pushing LOLA into its path." 

At least there is also sentiment of the Moore/Eick betrayal: "Worst thing in the world they [Chuck writers] could do would be to leave that [finale] open, or throw some new "twist" in that doesn't resolve things in a good way. For an example of the wrong way to finish a series, see Battlestar Galactica." 

Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

[Phyll33]

Does anyone else ever go over to the Chuck message board to read anything? That message site crashes
my computer everytime. I get the spinning ball from hell almost everytime I go there. I wonder why. It
never happens anywhere else.

[TinkTanker]

Does anyone else ever go over to the Chuck message board to read anything? That message site crashes
my computer everytime. I get the spinning ball from hell almost everytime I go there. I wonder why. It
never happens anywhere else.

Get a Mac. 

[Phyll33]

Does anyone else ever go over to the Chuck message board to read anything? That message site crashes
my computer everytime. I get the spinning ball from hell almost everytime I go there. I wonder why. It
never happens anywhere else.

Get a Mac. 

   

[Pearl@32]

Just when I thought it was looking really freakin' hokey with Chuck's disguise, it goes and ends so nicely. <awwwwwww>

[Spooky]

That was a nice ep.

[TinkTanker]

Monday's episode tied the all-time low. So I guess the news can be spun that it didn't go any lower.

[Pearl@32]

Chuck is taking a beating going up against Dancing with the Retards.

Everybody is chiming in on tvbythenumbers.com ~ that the most fans could expect is 10 or 13 episodes, if not cancelled.

Either way, there is a "Broadcast Network Upfront Meeting" next Monday and we will probably find out then. (Other networks are meeting M-T-W or T as well.)

Here's a quote from a commenter over there:

As a die-hard Chuck fan from the beginning, I hope they just cancel it. I'd love a 5th season, but this one has been so lacking that the budget cuts are really starting to show. Even Robert Duncan McNeil (one of the show's directors) said in an interview with TrekMovie.com

"...In terms of that kind of complexity, I think we all feel like all of the things that we've wanted to do we've really been able to do, which we couldn't say in the years past. Not that a fifth season wouldn't be incredibly exciting, and we could do a lot of fun things. But, I don't know, this year there's a different sense. I can't explain it. It's a resignation to "whatever will be will be". In the past we've always felt like, "Come on, give us one more! We've got some really cool things that we want to do that we haven't done!" This year I think there's a real sense of, "we've done a lot of cool things." We've done a lot of cool things that I think people didn't imagine that show could be or could do, with the way the characters have grown and with the mythology."

http://trekmovie.com/2011/05/03/exclusive-robert-duncan-mcneill-on-how-he-would-improve-star-trek-voyager-Chuck-renewal-chances-more/

Josh Fedak (EP) said there will be stories that will be tied up nicely but that there will be a cliffhanger. Let's just hope it's not a horrible one, just in case.

Despite the finale being titled "Chuck vs. the Cliffhanger," Fedak assured me that the episode features "some fantastic resolution to a number of the stories that we set up this season." But as has become something of a Chuck tradition, the final scene features a "cliffhanger component that launches us very much into [a possible] Season 5," Fedak adds. What would such a season look like? "There were a number of stories that we've always wanted to do – even from Season 1 – involving who Chuck is as a person and as a hero. So [Season 5] would be an extension of that."

http://chucktv.net/2011/05/04/spoilers-season-finale-boasts-expensive-action-sequence/

[Spooky]

Chuck is taking a beating going up against Dancing with the Retards.

I wish they could change the time slot, but I can't honestly say it would fair much better in any other prime time slot, maybe the Friday death spot? Don't think it would do any worse there.

[TinkTanker]

But, I don't know, this year there's a different sense. I can't explain it. It's a resignation to "whatever will be will be". In the past we've always felt like, "Come on, give us one more! We've got some really cool things that we want to do that we haven't done!" This year I think there's a real sense of, "we've done a lot of cool things."

That's kind of how I feel about it. At this point, I won't miss it if it is gone, I'll watch it later in the week if it comes back. Ann always works on Monday and by the time she gets home and we get dinner plated up, House & Chuck have finished recording. And we watch House and then Castle if we aren't too tired. Chuck is usually Wednesday or Thursday night, if not the weekend. Though I will say the last couple have been better than rest of the season.