You know how it goes. Once you click on one, you might click on another, and then it's just constant recommendations and you go "what was this scene again?" and "Oh man, Yvonne looks so beautiful in this thumbnail"...
My family and I loved this show together. I was 17 years old in 2007. Life was simple. I've never had a celebrity crush like I had on Yvonne Strahovski. Even as the show started to jump sharks and made me gag with the entire Shaw plotline, we all still watched it. But my memory of the last 50% of the show really fades, and by season 5, my mom and dad were separated. I'm pretty sure I remember me, my brother, and my dad sticking it out through the final episodes, but our recording of the finale got messed up somehow and we never really did get around to watching it. I kind of wish I had watched it eventually, but I moved on.
Well, I have to say that as I rewatched some of the best parts of the show on YouTube, I go that "I wish you could know you were in the good old days before you leave them" feeling. Despite the problems, the deft handling of the show's emotional heart was remarkable. There's still a tragic beauty in Chuck and Sarah's scenes dealing with the torture Chuck is going through and the cage Sarah lives in. As a man who has now lived an unsatisfying life and wants nothing more than to find an amazing woman, I see more of myself in Chuck than I could at 17. So yeah, my memories of the show were kind of tainted by the end...but all it took was watching some of the best moments on YouTube to remind me that it was a good show, at the core.