Oops, sorry... I meant two different shows 'Chuck' and 'Reaper' 'Chuck' is about an apathetic geek in a dead end job at Big Buy (big computers electronics store) who accidentally gets all of the secrets of the NSA and the CIA downloaded into his brain. Since these agencies are jealous of each other and won't share secrets they are useless (Adam Baldwin who was Jayne on Firefly plays the NSA agent, and you'll notice that this area of comedy makes 'Chuck' the anti-24 and anti-Alias), but Chuck knows their separate secrets and can combine them and actually be effective. I loved the pilot.
'Reaper' is about an apathetic geek in a dead end job at Big Store (something like that - it is a huge mega hardware store) who finds out on his 21st birthday that his parents had sold his soul to the devil. The Devil (who is very funny) shows up but is only asking him to collect escaped damned souls.... The first one in the pilot is a no brainer: an arsonist who had killed a lot of people in his life time has returned to re-burn all his old arson sites (which were rebuilt, one into an elementary school). The kid and his pal run around the hardware store making fire retardant outfits for themselves and manage to collect the evil damned soul guy.... It was very funny, and I'm sure they'll get into more morally confusing people in the future that he'll have to 'reap'.
I'm glad to hear that you don't entirely hate Hiro (who I really like, the actor was so funny & sweet at comic con, besides I think his character is starting to grow more), because liluv has gotten so that she can't stand seeing him.
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Date: 2007-09-30 02:18 pm (UTC)'Chuck' is about an apathetic geek in a dead end job at Big Buy (big computers electronics store) who accidentally gets all of the secrets of the NSA and the CIA downloaded into his brain. Since these agencies are jealous of each other and won't share secrets they are useless (Adam Baldwin who was Jayne on Firefly plays the NSA agent, and you'll notice that this area of comedy makes 'Chuck' the anti-24 and anti-Alias), but Chuck knows their separate secrets and can combine them and actually be effective. I loved the pilot.
'Reaper' is about an apathetic geek in a dead end job at Big Store (something like that - it is a huge mega hardware store) who finds out on his 21st birthday that his parents had sold his soul to the devil. The Devil (who is very funny) shows up but is only asking him to collect escaped damned souls.... The first one in the pilot is a no brainer: an arsonist who had killed a lot of people in his life time has returned to re-burn all his old arson sites (which were rebuilt, one into an elementary school). The kid and his pal run around the hardware store making fire retardant outfits for themselves and manage to collect the evil damned soul guy.... It was very funny, and I'm sure they'll get into more morally confusing people in the future that he'll have to 'reap'.
I'm glad to hear that you don't entirely hate Hiro (who I really like, the actor was so funny & sweet at comic con, besides I think his character is starting to grow more), because