Melancholic Chuck (Ben Folse Do Not Read)

The title is to keep Ben from reading spoilers that may appear in this post, no matter how vague I have been.

This last Friday marked a bittersweet day for me, the final season premiere of my favorite show in the whole world, Chuck. This is the one show I have watched since it started and have stuck with through the many ups and downs the writers have created. That being said, after watching the premiere, I was struck with inspiration as to how I could relate Chuck to Kierkegaard, so here I go.

During the first two seasons of Chuck, the titular character had something that he regretted having, and he constantly complained about having it. During the next two seasons, this something he had changed in form and he soon knew he would regret it if he didn’t have it.

Is anyone seeing a pattern here? Anything that might possibly be familiar or similar to what we’ve been talking about recently?

At the start of this, the fifth season, he no longer has the item he had before, and he truly regrets not having it. He is insecure about his position in life now and wishes he had the item back. I wonder though, what would happen if he were to get it back. I think that once he gets used to not having it, he would regret having it again. And then he would regret not having it if he were to lose it again. And so on, and so forth.

This is really starting to look like a passage in a book I have that may or may not be marked yellow with highlighter.

I am now much more excited about watching this last season to see how this pattern of regret plays out. Ever since reading that passage in the book though, two phrases have been running through my head. The first is; Catch 22. The second is one that Eleanor Roosevelt coined initially and I don’t think I’m going to write it out on this blog, because, well, yeah... If I write it out, I’ll regret it, and yet if I don’t write it out people may not know what phrase I am talking about, so I will regret not writing it out. I could write it out, or not write it out, I will regret it either way.

Until next time,

~Meghan

P.S. I commented on Jaime’s post “Thoughts”