every time i remember the line "you are a bartowski, chuck. start acting like one" i think about how chuck and ellie completely redefined their name and their family and their history and made their own meaning, their own future

i mean, they grew up in a home where being a bartowski meant leaving your children. yah for protection, but being a bartowski meant giving up.
but in that line, ellie is telling chuck to fight, for sarah, for someone he loves, so the opposite of what their family meant growing up

they really saw that environment and all the shit they dealt with and went, no, the cycle breaks with us. they went, we'll do better, we'll fight for each other and for the people we love, and we will be better than our parents and our past. what. angels.