'Chuck' Finale: Two weddings and a superspy

"Chuck" ended its season in grand fashion, with wedding(s), mayhem, gunplay, true love, bro-bonding, man-hugs, a passing of the torch, the single greatest wedding disaster of all time, and one hell of a set-up for next season. You hear me, NBC? Next season!

The Future
Now that Chuck is free of the Intersect, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with the rest of his life. General Beckman offers him a place on the Intersect team, but Chuck declines -- it's time to live a normal life! First order of business: Bye bye Buy More! Chuck and Casey quit together. Emmett is furious.

Second order of business: Finally get together with Sarah, for real. The government just gave him a substantial amount of back pay for spy-gaming, and he wants to spend it on her: "What I'm getting at here is ... Sarah Walker, will you do me the honor of taking a vacation with me?" Oops. She's already got plans -- heading up the new Intersect project with Bryce. Chuck despondently slumps into the reception hall, where he discovers some dead cater-waiters. Ted Roark has taken over -- he wants the Intersect, or he'll kill the bride.

Wedded bliss
Chuck tells Morgan to tell Sarah he forgot the rings -- she knows that's not true, which means something is up -- and Morgan volunteers to stall the wedding. There follows a sequence of such utter awesomeness that I hesitate to even TRY to describe it, but here goes: Chuck goes to the Castle and finds Bryce, who volunteers to stand in for the Intersect -- Fulcrum has always thought it's been in his head. Sarah skulks around the reception hall, looking for wedding gifts that double as deadly weapons. Strangely, she rejects the waffle iron.

Meanwhile, Morgan has come up with a plan to stall -- he brings Jeffster up to the altar for a little pre-wedding entertainment. And they break into Mr. Roboto, with Jeff on Keytar and Lester on vocals. The congregation stares at them in horror, and Mama and Papa Awesome trade swigs from a hip flask, while Ellie attempts to regain her inner calm in the bride's room by doing a little yoga. About midway through the song, Chuck and Bryce return to the hall, the music kicks up a notch with full orchestration, and the action goes CRAZY -- Sarah is throwing steak knives, Bryce is shooting, Roark's goons are blowing everything away, the cake and centerpieces and flowers are disintegrating in a hail of gunfire, everything is going to hell.... and THEN, when Roark's goons have the upper hand, Casey's special forces team parachute into the hall from the skylight (I KNEW that skylight would come in handy) and shoot the place to hell, rescuing everyone. At the Altar, Jeffster is wrapping it up, and Jeff sets off two handheld flares for their pyrotechnic finale. This sets off the fire alarms and sprinklers. Ellie's wedding is officially ruined. (And awesome!)

Fortunately, Chuck has that government paycheck to spend, so he whips up an impromptu beach wedding -- what Ellie wanted anyway -- with the help of Casey's Special Forces Wedding Planners (!!!). It's gorgeous and perfect, and even the Awesomes are touched. Plus! Bryce, watching the ceremony from afar, realizes that Sarah is in love with Chuck -- she's not coming with him on world-saving duty.  Finally! These two are FINALLY going to be happy together! Yay!

Complications
Or not... see, Miles, one of Casey's Special Forces guys, is actually working for the enemy -- and we're not talking Fulcrum. Fulcrum is just one cog in the eeeeeevil machine called The Ring. (No word on if it's run by a shudder-stepping girl with long black hair and seriously bad posture.) Miles shoots Roark, lures Casey into Roark's cell, kills the rest of Casey's team, and then knocks Casey out (Casey saved Miles' life once, you see, and Miles isn't willing to kill him -- yet.)

At the reception, Papa Bartowski/Orion meets up with Bryce-- who knew all along about Orion being Chuck's dad -- and tells him 1) he knows the Intersect has been changed in some way, and 2) whatever else happens, leave him and Chuck out of it. Bryce agrees, and goes off with his handler -- who Papa Bartowski, who ALSO has an old Intersect in his head, realizes is not who he seems. Sarah and Chuck retrieve Casey, and Chuck decides he has to go with them to rescue Bryce, despite all his talk about not being a hero. Papa Bartowski urges him not to go, but Chuck's got a reason - he loves Sarah! He can't let her go alone! So Orion hands over his computer sleeve thingy, and bingo, Chuck has a reason to be there.

The team gets to the Secret Intersect Location after the firefight, in which Bryce took out several goons and used his guard as a human shield to ward off bullets. Alas, human shields don't really provide much bullet-stopping power -- he's hit. While Sarah and Casey shoot it out with the bad guys, Chuck uses his Orion Sleeve to find a convenient air duct that gives him access to the Intersect room. Bryce tells him to destroy the machine, then dies. Chuck does what we all know he will -- he knows the good guys need the Intersect to fight the bad guys, so he takes the Intersect back into his head, and then destroys the machine.

Remember what Orion said about the Intersect being different? We find out what he means when the bad guys break in with Sarah and Casey in chains. They surround Chuck -- and he suddenly flashes on something, and turns into an ASS KICKING MACHINE. Sarah is shocked, and Casey is impressed. After he's knocked out all the bad guys, Chuck turns to Sarah and Casey. "Guys!" he says breathlessly. "I know kung fu!"

And that's it. Next season, if there is a next season, will presumably revolve around Chuck getting a handle on his new super-spy powers. Is that something you'd tune in for? Would you miss the Buy More -- and the Buy Morons? Did this episode live up to your expectations? Talk!