Chris Fedak on the final day of the BuyMore tear down.
“[Sarah getting Intersected and losing her memory] came about at the end of last season. We started working out what would happen if Morgan had the Intersect and the more we talked about it, the more we thought it would be cool if the Intersect had a different effect on other people, especially this new version of the Intersect. And then we thought… The biggest part of the show was the Chuck/Sarah relationship and that there would be nothing as dramatic as what happens if one of them would have their memories [taken away] - that they would lose the relationships if something as traumatic as this could happen. And we thought it just infused a very big emotion into the final two episodes. It was part of our pitch to NBC and it was there from the get go.” — Fedak (source)
“…the other thing about that ending is that in the final moments of the show, it’s the emotional toughness. Chuck is there and he’s not telling Sarah, remember me, please remember me, he’s not crying, he’s not pleading with her. He’s just telling her that it’s going to be OK, that he’s going to help her. He’s there however she needs him. That was a big moment. Zac and Yvonne knew exactly what they were doing. We’ve been doing this for five years now. We talked about it for a second, and he knew this was the maturation moment. This was something totally internal and was Chuck being a real husband.” — Chris Fedak (source)
Who was one character [where you wished you could have] expanded their story line?
Chris Fedak: We would have loved to have further explored the relationship between the younger Mary, Stephen, and the-man-who’d-become-Volkoff — which would include the origin of the Intersect. There’s also Sarah’s backstory, why she chose dad over mom, what happened when she first joined the CIA. I guess those are stories for another time. [ x ]
“…the tears were a disaster. People would be typing into the computer for the last time, and they’d break into tears.” — Chris Fedak (source)
We’ve learned a lot over the past five years: You can disarm a bomb with fruit juice, arcade skills, or some good old-fashioned Internet pornography. Never underestimate the power of sandwiches in renewal negotiations. And then there are those two semesters of brain science we took, just to confirm that sunglasses really can teach someone kung-fu. (First lesson: It’s not called “brain science.” Second lesson. Of course they can. They’re sunglasses.)
But most importantly, we’ve learned how great it is to be part of such a loyal and enthusiastic community. We wouldn’t be here in season five if it weren’t for you and our fans. Your support has been critical not just in making this show possible, but in making it such an enjoyable ride. - Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz
“… but going back to when we began to work on the pilot, it was a show about a guy that gets a computer in his brain and the adventures that he goes on, and very soon after that we realized it was a love story between Sarah and Chuck. […] We’ve always viewed the show from the Chuck emotional journey in the sense that if you look at the first season of the show, it’s about a guy who doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life, it’s the quarter-life crisis. And over the intervening four seasons, we’ve taken him from the guy who doesn’t know what he wants to do to he knows what he wants to do but it’s really hard, he wants to be a spy. And then the love story with Sarah Walker. I think that the show has very much become Sarah and Chuck’s emotional journey now, because when you get married you start sharing your dreams with your wife and your husband, so this season of the show is about the intermingling of those dreams. About Sarah and Chuck wanting that house, thinking about their future, wanting this company to work. And over the course of this season, realizing just how crazy it is to want to think about the future, to think about the house, think about maybe a family, and to also be in a private spy company.” — Chris Fedak (source)
- AX: Is there anything either or both of you would like to say about CHUCK?
- FEDAK: Watch. We just want to do as many as possible.
- GOMEZ: Yeah. I want to do more. I’m bittersweet. I’m so glad we got a real ending, but I don’t want it to end. I know it has to, but I would have never asked for it to end.
- FEDAK: I want it to go on forever, too.
