A long and fruitful week here at the Death Star, with a veritable windfall of interviews, book and television reviews, and columns. Plus we debuted our newest feature, gaming reviews, proof that yet another intergalactic corridor is sewn up with our thread. If you were too busy chefing up a test run of Thanksgiving to check in every day, never fear! I have your cheat sheet, my weekly run-down of our original content so that you can be sure you didn’t miss something awesome.
Interviews
As the capstone to BSC’s rerunning of Victor Gischler’s World’s Worst Interview series, Keith Rawson takes his own stab at conducting a WWI with Victor Gischler himself
Another video interview from the Poisoned Pen Bookstore, as Keith Rawson sits down with Stuart Neville, author of The Ghosts of Belfast, which both Brian and the Nerd of Noir raved about earlier this fall
Damon Cap got to sit in on a conference call with Tiffani Thiessen to discuss her role on USA’s new hit, White Collar, and we have the full trasncript of the call
Book Reviews
Aaron Teiser lays down the Inside Straight on the 18th installment of the Wild Cards series, edited by George R.R. Martin
Medora happily returns to the world of Marissa Doyle’s Leland sisters with Betraying Season
Tainted is the first book in Julie Kenner’s new series, and amberdrake is already looking for the next one
Maria enjoyed Unleashed by John Levitt just as much as she did the first two installments of the Dog Days series
Brian ventures down into the basement with Ball Peen Hammer by Adam Rapp and George O’Connor
Professor Crazy found The Prisoner by Carlos J. Cortes to be more frightening in its near-future technology and political corruption
Brian visits Allan Guthrie and the character who might be his most fractured yet, Nicholas Glass, in Slammer
Movie Reviews
Damon Cap takes his kids on a stroll down memory lane as he reviews Saturday Morning Cartoons 1970s Volume 2, a two-DVD set just released by Warner Brothers
The Week in Television
Katelin found her Desperate Housewives to be a bit slow on the usual crazy scale this week as they perhaps took their own caution to be “Careful the Things You Say” too seriously
Gerald So was a little disappointed with The Big Bang Theory for not focusing enough on communication in “The Guitarist Amplification”
CSI: Miami kicked off the CSI Crossover Trilogy this week with “Bone Voyage,” which Scott Parker enjoyed in part for the Ray Langston/Horatio pairing - as close as we’ll get to Horation/Grissom, now
Castle had one its best-crafted mysteries this week as an old murder entwines with two new ones, a political family, and police corruption in “Kill the Messenger”
Gerald So brings us a full report on a pair of spy-story episodes with NCIS “Endgame” and on the opposite coast NCIS: Los Angeles “Pushback”
Matt Cibula takes a scorecard to Glee this week as he counts off the good parts of “Wheels” versus the bad
Bones uncoverd “The Dwarf in the Dirt” this week, and Gerald So has all the details
“History Repeating” was one of the scariest and most game-changing episodes yet for The Vampire Diaries
Gaming
B.T. Robertson debuts his game-reviewing skills here at BSC with his First Impressions review of Dragon Age: Origins (PS3 edition), the latest multi-platform fantasy from BioWare
He follows it up with his personal preview of PS3′s God of War Collection
Columns
Damon’s got another BSC Vs. Battle for us–this week it’s a question of which of Elizabeth Mitchell’s SF characters is more of a badass: Erica on V or Juliet on Lost
Eli’s Plot Twist is back with a review of Punisher MAX #1, the first issue of a satisfying reboot of the series
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