Chuck

I'm watching the hotly awaited premiere of Chuck and I am afraid they have already made an incredible mistake, and that is: far as I can tell they killed off the most interesting character on the show, Bryce Larkin, in the first five minutes of the series. What's more, there seems to be a tone issue: McG is directing and he just had a male ninja knock the crap out of Chuck and whoever his annoying friend is, only to have the ninja remove his mask and reveal he is instead the pretty female co-star. It was a hideous an implausible bit of schmuck bait, so we have to assume it was supposed to be ironic or something, instead it took us right out of the pilot. I'll update later with more, but so far no good.

UPDATE: Done watching it, and didn't dig it much. Not only did McG pull the crap with the ninja, and sort of crib a scene from Wasabi, but he or whoever his cohorts were dropped the extacy of gold music from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly over the mundane kiss-off. I'm a little ill. BTW, it was revealed that the pretty spy chick was in love with the late Bryce Larkin, who probably would have been a much better subject than the characters who lived in this one. I'll give it a few more chances, but there are tone problems and those are tough to overcome.