Anyone know who played the lady at the “spa”? She looked familar (name isn’t on IMDB)
Brian
Same here, yourself! 
Anyway, as I said in the Community thread, naked Sarah = right week to pick up an HDTV.
I’m surprised Chuck and Sarah couldn’t figure out how to make an elite hacker work in a spy agency. “Maybe Carmichael Industries is a software company.” That was just dumb.
Update: Only five episodes of **Chuck **left!
Quick notes on the past few episodes:
506 - Chuck Versus the Curse - Lots of screentime for Ellie and Devon in this one, which was fun. Nice to see Rebecca Romijn as the villain, too.
507 - Chuck Versus the Santa Suit - a really disappointing, anti-climactic end to the whole Omen virus storyline. Shaw was a fairly unpopular character and I’m surprised they brought him back. General Beckman smooching Chuck in the Santa suit was pretty funny, though!
508 - Chuck Versus the Baby - I always love a Sarah-centered episode and this was no exception. Cheryl Ladd was well-cast as Sarah’s mom, and Tim Dekay (who plays Peter on White Collar) was a suitably menacing one-off villain. Some nice flashbacks to pre-Chuck Sarah kicking ass and taking names, and we even get to see Tony Todd’s character again (he played the CIA director who was always on-screen with Beckman, until he got blowed up in season 2.)
I’m not holding my breath, but it would be fun by the end of the season to see appearances by:
*all of the still-living parents again (Sarah’s mom and dad, Chuck’s mom, the Awesomes). I hope they don’t try to pull some trick where Chuck’s dad is still alive–that would cheapen the story, IMO.
*Anna Wu (Buy More girl and Morgan’s love interest in the first couple of seasons). Maybe she can hook up with the new-and-improved Jeff.
*Carina (and, heck, the rest of the CAT squad, too!)
*any and all of Chuck’s old girlfriends (Jill, Lou, Hanna), just for fun and because they are all smokin’ hot (played by Jordana Brewster, Rachel Bilson, and Kristen Kreuk. I mean… gawdDAMN!)
*any of the minor memorable villains from season 1 or 2
*Sarah in the Wienerlicious outfit again. (Maybe Chuck asks her to wear it in the bedroom) Okay, not gonna happen, but a man can dream…
Also, I’d like to see the Buy More staff (at least Big Mike, Jeff, and Lester) find out all about Chuck, Sarah, and Casey being spies.
So, another episode each Friday for the next three weeks and then the final two episodes will be shown back-to-back on Friday, January 27. Set your DVRs accordingly.
Oh, and I can’t believe Chuck and Sarah vandalized that house!
The show’s not what it used to be. You can tell they’re not trying anymore 
Being able to see Sarah makes up for all of the show’s faults though!
i like the way it’s dying though. bittersweet, and slightly telegraphing it. it was a good run of a good show, and i hope the finale is as cheesy as tangent and i both want:
reunion-fest and full disclosure!
Is it just me or did they lift that hide the baby plotline directly out of last year’s big flop, the Event?
Also, however they were trying to give Sarah different hair in the flashbacks, looked incredibly fake and didn’t match her existing hair at all.
But I still love the show and will really miss it. Stupid lousy ratings, stupid lousy NBC, stupid lousy everything.
Sarah is the Intersect now?! Argh. Bo Derek was lame, IMO. I didn’t need the return of frosted tips Morgan either. Jeffster is no longer on the case. I kinda wish they were brought into the fold in the end instead. I did like their Vail Buy More counterpoints. Chuck is limping to the finish line. I’ll see it to the end, but I don’t think I’ll miss it.
These past two episodes have been pretty silly, but still kinda fun.
The Vail bizarro Buy More was funny, as was Jeff and Lester repeatedly ending up in the car in the desert. I liked the Bo Derek stuff, even though it was really pointless.
And Sarah with the Intersect? Heck, why not? She was already a badass, so maybe she’ll be the Ultimate Intersect. But will it affect her mind in the same way it did Morgan’s? Actually, I’d kinda like to see Sarah in “asshole” mode for once. I can’t imagine they’ll go very far with this storyline, though. I mean, the finale is only two weeks away!
Seeing Sarah receive the Intersect didn’t appeal to me. It made me wonder if everyone on the team is going to get a freaking turn! Can we jam it into Casey’s skull for a couple of minutes in the next episode out a sense of completeness? And the primary problem with giving it to her is that the difference between her regular fighting skills and her fighting skills enhanced by the Intersect isn’t all that breathtaking. I expected her to say, “I already knew kung fu, but I’m a bit better at it now.”
Yeah, Sarah’s awesome fighting skills seem to come and go as the plot of each episode dictates.
Yeah, it was too good of a show to insult it by skipping out on the last few episodes. But limping, it most definitely is.
They let her lose fights a little more often now – it promotes the “damsel-in-distress” factor needed in some plots. Of course, she is usually (especially in earlier season, when Chuck was the “damsel-in-distress”) depicted as a super-competent fighter!
I miss the days when the Intersect was less about Matrix-y fighting and more about that watch that guy is wearing means he’s one of the bad guys or that briefcase the bad guy is carrying means his base is in the Mexican jungle.
Oh, I absolutely agree. I think that the show began to head downhill at the very end of season 2 when Chuck uttered the words “I know kung fu.”
Yep, the show was a lot better before Intersect 2.0. I still liked it up until the start of this season, but the show was definitely best when Chuck was an average guy with valuable intelligence in his brain.
Two more hours left. The Big Bad is pretty competent. Even his henchmen were not total mooks. Finally Jeffster is on the team, but what about Big Mike? Is he gonna be the only one left in the dark at the end of the show?
I thought this episode was one of the best this season.
First off, I’m a sucker for a story set on a train. I thought the Sarah/Intersect stuff was handled well–it was cool but carried a penalty and it drove the story.
The bad guy, played by Angus Macfadyen, is pretty good. If they aren’t going to bring back a previous villain, he’ll do fine for a final challenge. (I would like to see a “gunkata” fight between Intersect Sarah and Macfadyen. :p)
Lester and Jeff made me laugh, especially Lester talking to Casey on the earpiece.
“This is Colonel John Casey of the National Security Agency.”
“That is so funny, there’s a John Casey that works at the Buy More.”
“That’s me, you idiot! … Now I need you, my daughter needs you, and your country needs you.”
(pause)
“Canada?”
And I LOL’d at Chuck on the train: “Wait, we have something better than a Buy More–we have a train full of Japanese people.”
Nice to see Ben Browder as the henchman, even if he didn’t have much to do.
Also cool to see Sarah’s old apartment again.
So, I guess we can all see where this is probably heading. Sarah tries to take down Chuck (and, presumably, obtain the “clean” Intersect from the CIA). Chuck and the gang have to try to prevent that while not harming Sarah. Sarah gets to Chuck and is ready to off him, but he speaks to her from his heart and triggers her memory and saves them both with the power of love!
I hope a fair bit of time will be spent on the epilogue, and I’m still holding out hope for at least seeing some extended family then (Ma Bartowski, Sarah’s dad and/or mom, the Awesomes).
Not to mention “Oh Canada” playing in the background as Jeffster takes down the flu-shot baddies.