Spoiler alert: If you are still planning to watch the series finale of the television show Chuck, read no further. Chuck was the NBC action, comedy, romance series that ended this past January. Chuck Bartowski and Sarah Walker work together as spies. After several seasons of on and off again romance, in the next-to-last season destiny prevails: committed to each other, they marry. In the last season, they are about to retire from the spy business when an accident involving spy technology results in loss of memory for Sarah. Without her memories, Sarah is convinced by a bad guy that her mission is to kill Chuck. Before she is able to carry out her mission, she realizes that she has been tricked. She doesn’t kill Chuck, but she has no memory of him either. Friends and family try to intervene. Sarah repeatedly tells them that the part of her life with Chuck is gone and, worse, she doesn't seem to want to remember. Yet, something is clearly tugging at Sarah. Chuck is heartbroken. But true to his character in the series, he remains patient, kind, and loyal to Sarah. He continues to ask Sarah to listen to “our story” in the hopes she will regain memories of their life together. Sarah continues to resist. Then, in that last scene of the show, she turns to him and says, “Tell me our story, Chuck.” As tears stream down her face, Sarah listens to Chuck. Joy and laughter bubble up. Now Sarah wants to remember. Although the ending is ambiguous, Sarah has clearly made the choice to love. Because she has made that choice, we can imagine that memories of life with Chuck will return. The ending touched something universal. Sarah is in exile, separated from love. Yet the memory of that love cannot be completely extinguished. We are in exile, our memories of the interconnected Whole of which we all are a part is fuzzy. Yet, our memories cannot be completely extinguished. Here is how
Tell Me Our Story
Tell Me Our Story
Tell Me Our Story
Spoiler alert: If you are still planning to watch the series finale of the television show Chuck, read no further. Chuck was the NBC action, comedy, romance series that ended this past January. Chuck Bartowski and Sarah Walker work together as spies. After several seasons of on and off again romance, in the next-to-last season destiny prevails: committed to each other, they marry. In the last season, they are about to retire from the spy business when an accident involving spy technology results in loss of memory for Sarah. Without her memories, Sarah is convinced by a bad guy that her mission is to kill Chuck. Before she is able to carry out her mission, she realizes that she has been tricked. She doesn’t kill Chuck, but she has no memory of him either. Friends and family try to intervene. Sarah repeatedly tells them that the part of her life with Chuck is gone and, worse, she doesn't seem to want to remember. Yet, something is clearly tugging at Sarah. Chuck is heartbroken. But true to his character in the series, he remains patient, kind, and loyal to Sarah. He continues to ask Sarah to listen to “our story” in the hopes she will regain memories of their life together. Sarah continues to resist. Then, in that last scene of the show, she turns to him and says, “Tell me our story, Chuck.” As tears stream down her face, Sarah listens to Chuck. Joy and laughter bubble up. Now Sarah wants to remember. Although the ending is ambiguous, Sarah has clearly made the choice to love. Because she has made that choice, we can imagine that memories of life with Chuck will return. The ending touched something universal. Sarah is in exile, separated from love. Yet the memory of that love cannot be completely extinguished. We are in exile, our memories of the interconnected Whole of which we all are a part is fuzzy. Yet, our memories cannot be completely extinguished. Here is how