Around 8pm I noticed that my TiVo was recording the season premier of Chuck - and either my new projector was whacked or the episode was in 3D.  A quick trip to CVS and I was 8 pair of free cardboard 3D glasses richer.

It seems like there’s a new craze to do 3D, but has 3D technology changed much in the last 20 or 30 years?  Not really.  There’s still only 3 or 4 ways to do 3D. And without special equipment (or in every home in america) you’re limited to the red and blue glasses.  Well these glasses were blue and yellow.

I’d say for Chuck the effect worked barely good enough to be watchable.  My wife would probably disagree and say that it wasn’t watchable at all.  But I gave it a fair chance and watched the whole episode.  I am a Chuck fan and would have watched it anyway. They did a few of the standard fun 3D tricks, like having knives thrown towards the camera. And Yvonne Strzechowski in 3-dimensions wasn’t bad either.

The most effective shots were the main title and other graphics.  Overall the 3D glasses made everything dark. And my eyes never got over the everything-blue-in-one-eye-and-everything-yellow-in-the-other effect.

Still it was nice to see some promotion going into the new season of Chuck.

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