Chuck and Heroes

Wow, what a 1-2 punch NBC has on Monday nights. Everyone else can just give it up, especially if Chuck ever gets the recognition it deserves.

I think I actually enjoyed Chuck more than Heroes last night. But both were just great.

We finally get to find out why Chuck was framed by Bryce and kicked out of Stanford. I thought it was a bit crude that they went to such extremes and ruined Chucks life, but Bryce did it to save Chuck from the CIA. It also showed their initial meeting and how they became friends to begin with. Chuck saves the day in the end when his 2 handlers are out-gunned and out-manned. And next week looks like super yummy Yvonne thinks its time to step up the relationship. But enter Rachel Bilson, a very hot chick who happens to also like Chuck. What is a guy to do?

Heroes of course delivered as very few shows ever do. Hiro escapes with the help of the princess Yaeko and then he goes back to defeat Kensei. Hiro then has to leave before he destroys history anymore. But in reality, he has actually set it on course as it should be. And Yaeko will pass down the stories of Kensei as a true hero.

Claire and her boyfriend, Wes, get close until Noah, aka Claire's Father, aka Horned Rim Glasses, comes home. Wes freaks and thinks its all a setup. Claire has been trying to tell him for sometime and just now gets it out. Is this the last we see of Wes? I doubt it. HRG, is totally pissed and ready to pack up and leave. Claire can be stubborn as well and refuses to go.

Suresh is having a very bad day as Matt Parkman and Nathan show up to save the day. Suresh admits to Bob that he is working with HRG to bring down the company. The guy is an idiot. Matt's Father is really the assassin killing people. But he is really just the strong man for a guy named Adam. Matt's father turns Niki and she attacks Suresh and goes after Bob and Nathan. He also traps Matt into the same nightmare that Molly is in. But Matt stretches his limits and pulls his father into the nightmare with them and then gets him and Molly out. Leaving his father trapped in his own nightmare and saving the day.
But Niki has the virus in a syringe and ready to give it to Bob. Nathan is able to talk her down, but she only stops herself by injecting herself with the virus. Only later does Suresh discover his blood does not work on this strain of virus. There is no cure.

Peter left off last week when he time traveled into the future one year to find out 93% of the population had been wiped out by a virus. (uh-oh!) He was taken for decontamination and tested but was clean. His mother then came into talk to him and gave him his memory back. He traveled back to the present, but without the girl from Ireland, she was left in the future. There he was met by Adam, who just happens to also have been Kensei!!

Wow!! what an ending? I loved it and it caught me totally by surprise. I cannot wait until next week. 1 hour for this show is not nearly long enough.

Until next time...