Chuck 5x12: Chuck Vs. Sarah

Original Air Date: 27 January 2012

Storyline: Sarah keeps an important secret from Chuck in order to insure the success of a mission. Ellie and Awesome receive some life-changing news.Review: I don't know what I was expecting going into the two-hour finale of Chuck. Maybe redemption for an awful last season that left me wondering what happened with the show that turned the world into mass-hysteria. Maybe, give the events from last week's episode, an action-packed installment that would put this show right up there, next to the best of its genre. Unfortunately, "Chuck vs. Sarah" managed to be more of a soap-opera than anything else. Bare in mind that I will review each of the two finale episodes separately and at this moment I haven't watched the last one.

So, Sarah has the Intersect and she doesn't remember who she is. And last week's hour ended with her receiving the mission to kill Chuck because he's a traitor and a threat to national security. With this premise in mind, I was going into the finale excited, for two reasons at least: Quinn had managed to transform into an opponent worthy of a series finale and Sarah going after the love of her life should make for an exciting, action-packed, emotional and thrilling episode. Instead, Quinn failed to deliver, reversing to just a villain who was in no way the admirable one I had hoped for. And the rest... well, it was nothing more than the oh-so-dreaded soap-opera.
I know Chuck fans will hate me for this. I'm not a die-hard fan of this series, in fact, I found it fun overall, but nothing too exciting; the combination of comedy and action is a cool one, especially when you add up the nerd factor, but at some point, at least one of the characters has managed to disappoint me and when you only love one of the many - and not even a lead one - it's clear that the show will never be one of your favorites. 
The reason I talked about the characters is because I will say again how annoying Sarah has been throughout the five seasons. There were a few times when I started to warm up to her, but she just seems entirely fake all the time, no matter how much she tries. Sarah is at her best when she's a heartless killer so forgive me if I say that I don't buy her tears when watching the tape detailing her Chuck mission.
But let's detail the episode because if I start ranting about her, I will never stop. With Sarah going after Chuck, you'd think you'd have enough thrill to compensate for the lack of it throughout this last season. Unfortunately, I didn't feel any of it. It would have been so much better if Sarah were the one to push the button, effectively blowing the Intersect room (and her hubby) up, or if Chuck were to really get shot in the back in the end. But, other than a really cool fight scene where she took care of the guards at the CIA facility, nothing else impressed me.
Moving on to the comedy part, as annoying as Morgan is 90% of the time, his Hogwarts reference when he discovered the invisibility cloak was the best thing this rather mediocre episode had to deliver.
Otherwise, we had to watch Chuck cry for half of the episode and trust me when I say that Zachary Levi's face is not cute at all when he cries. This was too much of a Desperate Housewives-kind of drama for me and I just started doing something work related in parallel, to stop myself from cringing every time he tried to convince his wife that their love is eternal. 
Going to watch the finale now and I really, really hope it will be better. I hate it when I waste time with a TV show just to be disappointed in the end.Chuck 5x11: Chuck vs. the Bullet Train Back to Season 5