Chuck Producers Tease Season Three
Written by Ian Cullen on December 17, 2009 – 11:23 am -
One show I’ve been watching a lot of over the last two seasons is Chuck, which by my reckoning is a television show that hits all the right buttons and gives us a self depreciating look at geek humour.
In a recent chat to SciFiWire the producers of Chuck revealed a few facts about the third season of the hit NBC series.
As fans will already know. The last season ended with Chuck getting a software upgrade which makes the Matrix ‘I know Kung Fu’ program that taught Neo all his slick moves, only with the somewhat clumsiness that only Chuck can display.
In fact fans that are worried that knowing Kung Fu will make Chuck less of a bumbler need not to worry. Zachary Levi who plays the title role reassures that the slick moves will actually have Chuck become even more of a danger to both himself and those around him.
“For two years I kind of sat on the sidelines and watched Adam Baldwin and Yvonne Strahovski, Casey and Sarah respectively, kick bad guys’ butts and was very jealous of that,” said Levi during a conference call with journalists, which also included executive producers Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. “Not that Chuck should have been able to do it at that point. He was much better at running away or screaming like a little girl. But now that he has this new Intersect 2.0 and the abilities that come with that, he is able to kind of lend a hand in the kick-buttery, if you will.”
“He’s still the kind of somewhat bumbling hero, and I think that’s what brings so much of the heart and premise of the show and keeps that there. Though Chuck now has these abilities, they’re fleeting, they’re in and out, they’re glitchy,” said Levi. “This new door that we walk through now just lends itself to both more action and more comedy, which I think is good all the way around, and it doesn’t change the heart of the show, which I think some fans I know were maybe concerned, like, ‘Oh, gosh, now he’s Jason Bourne. It’s not going to be the same show anymore.’ I can guarantee you I am no Jason Bourne.”
Although Chuck now has the Intersect 2.0 implanted in his brain. The new software isn’t flawless, and much like Microsoft Windows, can and does go wrong from time to time.
With the new Intersect you have to keep in mind that it was designed for a super-cold emotionless spy like Bryce Larkin. Someone who could essentially handle all these new abilities,” said series creator Chris Fedak. “Now the problem is that’s it’s been downloaded into a guy like Chuck Bartowski, who’s filled with emotion. And anxiety, fear, he’s in love with his partner, all the things that actually don’t help the Intersect don’t help with these abilities.”
That means sometimes the Intersect works “perfectly, and sometimes, when he gets flustered, when he gets upset, it begins to essentially fritz out, and he’s not able to flash,” Fedak added. “Now, in regard to the abilities themselves, there’s a lot of abilities. … They’re infinite, really, in some ways. I didn’t know Spanish guitar would be in the new spy Intersect, but, you know, it’s in there. So it’s really funny to kind of see what else was hidden in there by the Intersect scientists.”
You can get more Chuck Spoilers here at SciFiWire.
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Tags: Chris Fedak, Chuck, Josh Schwartz, NBC, Yvonne Strahovski, Zachary Levi
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