Starlog magazine has a new interview with Yvonne in their latest issue, and they’ve posted an excerpt to their website. It gives us some new tidbits about Yvonne and her background, including her taste in movies…

It’s only fitting that her major credit is a fantasy series, not only because the actress is an SF fan who likes “ALIEN movies and JURASSIC PARK,” but also because it’s part of her upbringing. “My parents both have scientific backgrounds,” she notes. “My Mom is a lab technician, and my Dad is an electronic engineer. I grew up around that, and I do enjoy SF movies and television.

I’m also pleased to present to you the 3 most gigantic photos of Yvonne I’ve ever seen. These are ridiculously huge. I’ve added them to the Public Appearances album, as they appear to be taken at some sort of black-tie event. Don’t worry, you can see her head in the full versions. Be sure to click the “full size” link on the photo popup to see them in all their glory. Beware that your browser might try to scale them down for you.

Credit goes to All Beautiful Women for finding these.

We’ve added 70 new screen captures to the gallery from “Chuck Versus the Marlin.” 

Here are the screen captures from the last episode we’ll likely see for a while. 

This episode was full of Yvonne and it was hard to choose which screenshots to put in the gallery.  As always, I try to keep it manageable and I think I got some good ones.

I especially like the Pita girl screen captures.  She was the best villain to date in my opinion.  What better villain to thwart the hot dog girl than the pita girl?

Sometime in the next few days I’ll put up a gallery for screen captures from the promo bits.  In the meantime, let me know what you think of these.

Enjoy!

We’ve added 70 new screen captures to the gallery from “Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover.”

Hopefully I haven’t gotten rusty at capturing screenshots of Ms. Strahovski. Although Undercover Lover wasn’t a Sarah Walker focus episode, I think you’ll be happy with what there is.

She was beautiful in her dress for the party near the beginning, and she has some classic facial expressions from her meeting with Ellie.

I’ve also taken shots of the fun little promos that aired throughout the two shows, but I’m going to save those up for their own gallery after I get the screen captures from Marlin up.

Enjoy!

I write this review with a tinge of sadness. At this point, it is unclear when we might see more Chuck, and in turn more Yvonne Strahovski. The month long hiatus was bad enough.

Nonetheless, I’m here to review Episode 1.13, Chuck Versus the Marlin.

While the last episode didn’t give us much Strahovski, this episode had quite a bit of her. The relationship with Chuck and Sarah was touched on a little bit more, which I know is a fan favorite.

The real special newcomer in my opinion is Pita Girl. I’m sad that she got arrested.

I’d love to see her back in a future episode even if she did totally kick Sarah’s butt at the Wienerlicious. I briefly thought about making her a fansite, but decided that would be premature.

I feel like the show had to have been picked up between Episodes 1.11 and 1.12. Before 1.12, the show seemed tentative and cautious. There wasn’t much about Casey or Morgan, and especially not Ellie and Awesome.

Then magically it seems that the writers felt they needed to invest more into these characters and we get two great episodes where we really see more of who these people are and what they mean to the world of Chuck.

The plot involving Chuck and how important Devon/Ellie are to him were well-played this time and didn’t just feel like extra baggage like it has in the past.

And then there’s lovely Yvonne. Once again, she gets to exercise her emotional chops by conveying everything she needs to in a smile, or a tear. She really plays emotion very well, and this is another great example of that.

But then she can turn around and give us amazing fight scenes. It’s every guy’s dream!

I’m sad to see Chuck go, but at least it gave us a couple of episodes to make us fall in love all over again and anxiously await its return.

Screen captures for Undercover Lover should be up tonight. Marlin likely won’t come until Saturday, though. Until then, hit up our forums and chat away!

After what seems like an eternity, I’m excited to be back reviewing episodes of Chuck!

Tonight we get two episodes, but I’ll take this time to boycott The Apprentice and review Episode 1.12, Chuck Versus the Undercover Lover.

Quite simply, this episode was amazing. It seems like a bucket of money fell into the production phase of this episode. It was so much more high quality (technically speaking) than other episodes.

Explosions were richer, the picture was crisper, and the story was perfectly edited together with the A plot and the B plot.

Though there wasn’t much to see in the way of Yvonne Strahovski, focusing on Casey for an episode was extremely refreshing. He’s too long been a shadowy figure on the outskirts of the world of Chuck.

Perhaps its the long hiatus that made me love this episode so much, but I think it’s also just a little bit of man crush on Adam Baldwin. He’ll always be Jayne Cobb to me, but he owns John Casey just as well.

I was also really happy to see Captain Awesome and Ellie fleshed out a little more. Though Awesome has always been … awesome … both he and Ellie have always been bit characters to the larger plot.

This episode sees them come to the forefront and really take on their own plotline.

If you go back and read my early reviews, I really ragged on Sarah Lancaster for not fitting into the show and being comfortable in her character. That’s all a thing of the past. She fits into Chuck as well as anyone now.

This episode didn’t have much in the way of Sarah Walker, but the promos during the commercials treated us to some Yvonne Strahovski hottie Australian accent. That was a treat all by itself.

Only one hour until Episode 1.13! The review for that will be up later and screen captures of both will follow this weekend.

Welcome back!