In just 5 short days, my favorite TV series, Chuck, will be coming to an end. Monday, September 24th, 2007 to Friday, January 27th, 2012. 5 years. The best 5 years of my life, because of this show. Chuck is a unique show, and will be remembered as one. Every season, the show has been in danger of cancellation, but every year, the amazing fanbase has fought for the show's survival, and every year, we have brought the show back. The 5th season may be the last, but better to go out with a final season than to get cancelled. I know when the series finale airs in 5 days, it will be bittersweet and I will cry when it ends, but I'll also be happy that such an amazing show was able to have such a strong impact on my life for as long as it has. The show itself may be over, but it's heart will live on in its fans. It seems like just yesterday when I watched the pilot because I was bored, never expecting what it would become for me and everyone else who loves it. Chuck will be missed and while, yes, I would've loved for it to keep going, it's had a good run, and NBC was good enough to give it a final season, and that is all I can ask for: One last go, to end things properly. I'll miss all the laughs, all the culture references, all the amazing Chuck/Sarah moments, all the Jeffster performances, and everything else, but when I think back on Chuck and these 5 years, I'll have a smile on my face because I got to spend 5 years of my life as a fan of the best show in the world. =)

" 'Speak now or forever hold your peace', the words said by preachers at the end of wedding ceremonies all over the world, right before the vows. It's a last chance for protest, a moment that makes everyone's heart race, a moment I've always been strangely fascinated by. So many fantasize about bursting into a church, saying what they'd kept inside for years like in the movies. In real life, it rarely happens. Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, in fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've come to fear more is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say 'I love you'. When we should've said 'I'm sorry'. When we didn't stand up for ourselves or someone who needed help. Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone. What you say might be too much for some people. Maybe it will come out all wrong and you'll stutter and you'll walk away embarrassed, wincing as you play it all back in your head. But I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest. So say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying "I could've, but it's too late now'. There is a time for silence. There is a time waiting for your turn. But if you know how you feel, and you so clearly know what you need to say, you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should SPEAK NOW."
"This album is called FEARLESS, and I guess I'd like to clarify why we chose that title. To me, FEARLESS is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshman year of High School at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again...even though every time you've tried before, you've lost. It's FEARLESS to have faith that someday, things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even though you can't breathe without them. I think it's FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he's in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say 'You're not sorry', and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Leting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on, and being alright, that's FEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and happily ever after. That's why I wrote these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS." - Taylor Swift

Josh Schwartz: "THEY SAY EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING. In the spring of 2007, I was on set for the last day of shooting The O.C. when I got the call. I need to immediately watch an audition for the lead of my new pilot Chuck. The actor who had just read? Zachary Levi.

And so began the most quixotic, satisfying, and, at times, surreal journey of my career. In the fall of 2007, I was lucky enough to have not only Chuck premiere but also another series I had co-created, Gossip Girl. What were the chances given that there are seven days in a week, that both shows would air against each other? They did, and my parents upgraded to a dual DVR.

As momentum for Chuck's first season started to build, the writer's strike hit. We didn't know if we'd be back. We anxiously waited almost a year to return. As season 2 came to an end, we learned that NBC was going to air The Jay Leno Show five nights a week in prime time, eliminating five hours of time slots. Once again our future was in jeopardy. We may not have been a breakout hit, but we had a passionate fan base, and when NBC released its preliminary fall schedule in 2009 and Chuck wasn't on it, those fans mobilized.

This wasn't just a letter writing campaign but something that involved a new weapon in a fan's crusade to save a show: mayonnaise. We had done some not so subtle product integrations promoting Subway sandwiches (which are delicious!). So our fans hit Subway shops around the world, ordering tens of thousands of foot-long turkeys. This garnered attention on a national level. NBC took note. With a mixture of pride and awe I can tell you: Chuck was saved by sandwiches. And by the the greatest, most passionate fans in the universe.

What kept Chuck from being a runaway hit was the same thing that made those who loved it so committed: a mash-up of genres--from spy to sci-fi to romantic comedy--with a heart devoted to its characters and a soul steeped in 1980s summer-movie geek culture. Well, '80s everything.

Co-creator Chris Fedak and I used to marvel if the 13-year-old versions of us could see the show we were making, we'd lose our minds. It was our adolescent love of Quantum Leap that led us to pursue Scott Bakula for the role of Chuck's dad. Knowing our precarious ratings situation, Scott advised: "Keep your head down, keep making the show. Next thing you know, it's five years later. That's how we did it on Quantum Leap."

Casting actors we grew up loving didn't end there. We were unabashed in our geekdom. Doc Brown's Christopher Lloyd playing a member of the medical profession so Chuck could call the Back to the Future star "Doc"? Check. A huge influence on Chuck was Fletch, so it was an honor to have Chevy Chase play one of our best bad guys. Of course, there would be no Chuck without James Bond. The first Bond movie I was old enough to see in theaters? The Living Daylights. So imagine the pulse-pounding excitement we felt when Timothy Dalton signed on for a season. And who else could have played Chuck's mom than the female icon of summer movies of yore, The Terminator's Linda Hamilton? The list goes on, and we knew our fans would be as excited about all this as we were.

Now thanks to NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt, we get to say a proper farewell to those fans with our Jan. 27 series finale. And with every end comes a new beginning. On the last day of shooting Chuck, my daughter was born. That gives you perspective. My hope is one day some kid who grew up watching our show will have a show of their own, and that kid will hire one of our talented actors to appear. Then that actor can advice that kid, "Keep your head down, keep making the show. Next thing you know, it's five years later. That's how we did on Chuck." " - Josh Schwartz, co-creator of 'Chuck'