For those of you, like myself (not Clower, he's had a pretty mellow attitude about the whole thing) who watched Vs. The Mask and saw Hannah and Chuck and Sarah and Shaw seeming like a possibly and got pissed, via invested emotional attachments in fictional television characters, I have a few things to say to that, and a short video.
The video first. One of my roommates loves the tv show, Lost, I found this video by Rett and Link - very apropos.
Perspective - and all is not lost.
I think both last night's episode - Vs the Fake Name - and what the show's producers have said will help put things into perspective.
[show spoiler]
So Chuck learns Sarah's real name is Sam. Sarah is concerned about Chuck because he's changing - he's no longer Chuck. Which is true - he's been so caught up in being a spy that he ditched Sarah for Hannah. For almost every episode Chuck is always the "good" / "nice" guy. He's the one getting dumped on. Even when he dissed Sarah (Sam) at the beginning of this season, it was because he wanted to be worthy of the person he thought everyone thought he was. She doesn't like what chuck's becoming --- perhaps a foil to her becoming what she already is and how she doesn't want to be that. In a sense, both Chuck and Sarah are evolving in character. For Sarah, the issue of redemption of heart, the struggle to work out what one believes and what one wants --- for Chuck, regret and being human and that not everything is so simple and without ramification. Sarah's arc is that she's always done the job. What happens when she wants something other than the job. We saw it sort of with Chuck - but not really in a humble way - the kind that comes from realizing life is heavy and burdensome, and you sometimes just make it, but that that's okay and good, too.
At least, that's my two cents on the take, and what I'd been pondering when I came across this snip it from producers Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak:
Q: Did you anticipate that the episode would elicit this kind of reaction?
SCHWARTZ AND FEDAK: We knew it was going to cause a bit of angst in some viewers. We didn’t expect this level certainly, though we are appreciative that our fans are this invested in the characters. One thing we didn’t anticipate when we made this episode was that it would be the last episode before a three-week hiatus.
Q: Why did you decide to have both Chuck and Sarah embark on new romances (with Hannah and Shaw, respectively) in the same episode?
SCHWARTZ AND FEDAK: Because we are masochists. We kid, we kid. It happens sometimes in life. If you see one person moving on, it can spur you to move on as well. But we want to stress, Chuck and Sarah are not emotionally in the same place at the end of this episode.
Q: Which of the two relationships poses the bigger threat to Chuck and Sarah?
SCHWARTZ AND FEDAK: There are things far greater than a relationship that threaten Chuck and Sarah… Stay tuned.
Q: Can you offer any hope to Chuck/Sarah fans?
SCHWARTZ AND FEDAK: As we’ve said before, [Monday's episode] was Chapter 7 of 19 of this season. We love and appreciate our fans. We know our fans are why we’re back this season. But we need them to trust us to tell the most emotionally satisfying story possible. This has been mapped out from the start, and we always knew telling this portion of the story would be difficult for some. But we need people to come to back to the show March 1st — now more than ever — and we think if they do take this journey with us, they will see what we had planned the whole time. This is part of a bigger story than just “will they or won’t they.”
Whether or not Chuck and Sarah consummate their feelings, and whether or not it's to satiate the desires of morbid Chuck fans, there's this idea that Schwarz and Fedak are alluding to - and it's growth. And just like in last night's episode where the CROCK POT showing en masse at the Buy More, patience leads to seeing a better understanding of what is really going on and what is really happening.
Which leads me to life in general. Raw emotion often can become the lens by which we perceive the world around us. If we're not careful, we often don't see the filter we're using and then make incorrect hypotheses. We see crooked and we still interpret anyway, and often wrongly so. If you don't think this is true - look at any teenager going through a break-up from their respective boyfriend/ girlfriend. If anybody needs perspective - it's them, no?
If you believe in God, and that He does have your best interest at heart, sometimes He's taking you to the most emotionally satisfying turn - even when you don't see it. Even when you don't feel it. Even when you're ready to give up and move on - to another "show". And even though you emotionally move at the microwave level - 60 seconds and it's done - life may move more at the crock pot level - hours upon hours to serve up the best dish that it can.
Just some thoughts...
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