All this talk about Lost has bored me. So much silly philosophizing and mixed up theology makes for interesting viewing for the average audience, but not so much for me any more. And John Locke did not wake up with Suzanne Pleshette to end the series (as I had hoped). All this for a story that never happened. (And Hugo, imnsho, was the real hero.) But instead of arguing about all this, I propose we get down to a real controversy. Here is the question: Who is the greater spy — Chuck or Sydney?
They are quite similar: Both have spy parents. Both dealt with absentee parents. Both dropped out of college. Both are phenomenal martial artists. Both are in their mid 20s.
One thing Chuck has going or it is that it fulfills the old cliche: Nerd gets hot chick.
But back to the question: Who is greater? (No, not Chuck Norris.)
May 27th, 2010 | 8:54 pm | #1
chuck
May 27th, 2010 | 9:30 pm | #2
Chuck gets my vote, not because he is the better spy but because it is something alien to him that he has recieved (the intersect) that takes him in his weakness and makes him special. This is something i can relate to as any Christian should be able to. We in and of ourselves are weak but we recieve something (the Holy Spirit) that makes us something special. So on behalf of incapable, worthless, worms everywhere i say you go Chuck Bartkowski and take that free gift and use it for good!
May 27th, 2010 | 10:26 pm | #3
But Sydney’s show actually had a satisfying ending that wrapped up the loose ends (along with an appropriately creepy “end” for the bad guy). So just based on that alone, she gets my vote.
May 28th, 2010 | 5:30 am | #4
Craig,
Yes, but she killed her mother.
May 28th, 2010 | 6:59 am | #5
Well, yeah, if you want to nit-pick, she had some family issues.
May 28th, 2010 | 6:59 am | #6
Who’s Chuck Bartkowski?
May 28th, 2010 | 7:02 am | #7
Speaking of which, I just never saw her father and mother as a couple. Her mom had such lovely eyes, too. But anyway–off to work.
May 28th, 2010 | 8:20 am | #8
Chuck is a mensch. Did I get that right? I haven’t been able to watch the show at all this season, but the first 1.5 seasons were great.
From what I can tell, the show’s creators made a big mistake in using the matrix implant in Chuck to give him abilities, like martial arts expertise, that he wouldn’t have had. Experience requires…well, experience. You can’t do it just by referencing an internal user manual.
On the other hand, Sidney is…well, Jennifer Garner. Oh, be still my beating heart…
May 29th, 2010 | 11:34 am | #9
How could a spy with a penchant for disguises and Lena Olin for a mother NOT rule?
May 29th, 2010 | 3:32 pm | #10
James Bond actors: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, or Daniel Craig?
Daniel Craig. He’s the most physical James Bond of them all and you do not want to mess with him and have him chase you. Otherwise, you will feel the pain from the Daniel Craig version of James Bond.
May 29th, 2010 | 8:13 pm | #11
TUD,
Roger Moore. He was a “saint” so to speak. :-)
May 29th, 2010 | 10:12 pm | #12
“On the other hand, Sidney is…well, Jennifer Garner. Oh, be still my beating heart…”
All those lingering shots of her exercise routines. I felt sort of like a spy myself. Of a sort.
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