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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 01/21/12
Another week, my mind is pulling trying to write two stories simultaneously while doing that I also had to do this, which is why I am a day late...

Over at The Coruscant Entertainment Center MsFicWriter continues delivering good work with SW: TOR: Trials of a Sith Thrall: Breaking Point Not a best this week, but you were close.

Fanfiction.net starts out hot this week with three people I have never reviewed getting a pick firsttime out of the box starting with Promised Flower's To Be a Jedi Toadal Faith's The Struggle and Selkit's Nerves

Finally kotorfanmedia gives our tie for Best with JoySweeper's continuing degredation of Bastila in Bastila's Lesson pairing off with a newbie's riotous run in Jlarissa's T3-M4 Puppet Master

Well the mental vote is in, look for a new Honor Harrington based offering in the coming weeks. Signing off...
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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 01/15/12
A bit behind, family problems, but no matter. We have good stuff from all three sites this week.

Over at The Coruscant Entertainment Center we start with the tying (three way! entry
http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=209291]SW: TOR: Trials of a Sith Thrall: Unworthy
MsFicWriter

Followed by good stuff from kotorfanmedia with Tankgirly's Manaan Part 1
Jaina Solo's Truth and Best winner #2, Dinah Lance's Minor Malfunction

Then over at Fanfiction.net we start with the Reprise pick from Aminta Jae, also known as Sandra Evans with When things come full circle, Zerbinetta's Nothing and our final Best, Mister Frodo's outrageous The Life and Times of Bill and Fred

On with my life; thinking about expanding one of three stories on lucasforums, just not sure which one to expand. Signing off...
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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 01/08/12
Running late, but as I learned in the Coast Guard, 'No Excuse, sir!' We had some good stuff, and as an extra twist (As last week without a best) kotorfanmedia did not score this week. But follow on...
From The Coruscant Entertainment Center we start with one co-winner, MsFicWriter with
SW: TOR: Trials of a Sith Thrall: Absence of Lies

Then over at Fanfiction.net PhoenixAsending scores first time out of the box withThrough the Looking Glass

So much time, so little to do.

Wait a minute...
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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 12/30/11
The last of my oversized reviews, thank you all for your patience with an old man's problems. I faced only one real problem with this review; none of the authors had that extra oomph that would have made them best of the week, a first since I have been picking the ones I liked most. But there are Picks, and I'll trot them out for you...

Over at The Coruscant Entertainment Center Moynal scores the first time up with
Knowing and the edited Across the Galaxy: Chapter 1 and 2 (Edited Version) from McClure777 scores the pick that would have been given two weeks ago finally.

kotorfanmedia gave us some good stuff starting with BobGens0001's Facade and substance followed by the reprise pick Silence Is Copper-toned from
Rose07, Prisoner24601's For Her Own Good shows Revan as a willful child Verna Jast gave us Abandonment and Blaine Averre scores with Activation

The over at Fanfiction.net Jellianna Darquefyre gave us The Shadow of the Hunt and finally Sandra Evans scores twice with Men Don't Cry and Reflections

Well it's almost New Years. If you drink, do it with friends. I drink but have no friends close by. I'm reminded of the Song Piano Man;

They're all sharing a drink they call loneliness,
but it's better than drinking alone

Signing off...
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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 12/25/11
Two days before Christmas; as a pagan I deplore the fact that Christianity jacked my holiday, but since they also took 90% of the trimmings, I enjoy it. So whatever your religious persuasion, Have a happy one. As mentioned in my last post, I took a long time getting back onto the Fusion site; I had been saving my bookmarks in the Yahoo feature which is part of Internet Explorer 8 and they revamped the system while simultaneously deleting all of the bookarks. It didn't help a bit for them to send an email saying 'just reimport your bookmarks' when they had the only full list I had.

Won't make the same mistake again.

The second of my magnum reviews is done, but still unable to post on Star Wars Knights. But as I said before, just because they have to wait, doesn't mean you have to...

We start with The Coruscant Entertainment Center where MSFicWriter scores yet again with
SW:TOR Friction SW:TOR Part I Finale: Poetic Injustice and SW:TOR Interlude: Fatal Answers

She also scores a special Best of the Year nomination for the combined work. When I reached the end, I was reminded of a comment in a Teen Titan's episode. Brother Blood, who operated a school for criminal super students finds that the second best student he has ever had was operating undercover for the police. His best student, actually a Teen Titan named Cyclops had also been undercover.

His frustrated comment to the revelation was 'didn't any of my students come here to study?' That was feeling I got from her Tython Jedi Academy.

Over at Fanfiction.net Vikung-Fu scored twice with
Moment and Last Love Song
followed by Asaji with Star Wars Galaxies: Jahdi and Dranzen rounds it out with Regrets

kotorfanmedia gave us some good stuff starting with
ArchonDemetrus' Beloved
DarthJuma's Sidekicks SilverSentinel21's Coming Out of the Dark, Chapter 1 Trask has a Crush and since I like both dark and light, whether it's chocolate or fiction, our tied Best of the Week, Ravenrand16's
Moving Out and Jaina Solo with Unwanted Fall.

Hopefully I will be back into SWK this next week, though it may have to wait for the end of the year what with what Mel Gibson called the 'Silly Season' intervening. If it does, I will do what I always do; endure.

Signing off...
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I'm finally back up!
Posted By machievelli - 12/25/11
This was posted 13 December after I finally got back up. By luck and sheer unwillingness to surrender, I was able to work out how to get back on. Here is the header I wrote two weeks ago...

My computer succumbed to a very nasty virus in the last week of October, and I had to wait a month to get enough money to pay to get it cleaned, so this is very late even by my standards. Right now I am also awaiting the URL to get in to post it to SWK, so it is even later here. But I did as promised, a double potion of my usual work for those who have been waiting. So without further ado...

From The Coruscant Entertainment Center we have MsFicwriter who scored three Picks of this belated Week with A Living Instrument
Trust Me and
If you Want Peace... Sithspector wins another Pick with Squadron Legacy chapter 8 and the re-review of Chevron 7 Locke's
Just Keep Running earned one as well.

Over at kotorfanmedia Rotgutt earned one for Training as did ArchonDemetrus for
Redemption and Joysweeper returns with a new pick for Stargazing

Finally over at Fanfiction.net Louiseifer scores for
And Not to Yield followed by Dante-Raven with Tales of KOTOR The Onasi Legacy, BlueFairyDust gains the kudo for The very short Journal of Carth Onasi and LD Little Dragon gets a pick and Best of the Week for KotOR Don't Dis the Dark Lord

Well no more complaints from me, any who want to lambast me can open fire.
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Giveaway - Win The Old Republic T-shirts
Posted By Darth Moeller - 11/22/11
SWK's sister site over at StarWarsMMO.net is doing some giveaways over the coming weeks, and you will have some easy chances to win Star Wars: The Old Republic swag and even copies of the game itself! The current giveaway is for two SWTOR-themed t-shirts, and entering takes all of 2 seconds. Head on over to StarWarsMMO.net to enter!
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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 10/28/11
I am terribly sorry, everyone, but my computer hiccuped and deleted my entire article this week, so I will have to post it next week.
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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 10/21/11
Well finances still hang heavy on me. For the first time in my life I am looking at bankruptcy, not something to take lightly..

I wonder at the laws regarding it and I have the same thought Gallagher had in one of his comedy shows; when you bounce a check, why does the bank charge more of what you do not have?

Enough of my troubles. There was good stuff and bad stuff this week, but here's the good stuff...

From The Coruscant Entertainment Center we have Sithspector with an excellent battle scene in
Squadron Legacy chapter 7

Fanfiction.net comes next with the poignant
Tales of KOTOR Kiss with Open Eyes from Dante-Revan followed by the outrageous
The Fifth Time from
Mynock Spit.

kotorfanmedia chimed in with a bedtime story where the listener produced the character's names from Venga Fett with
Jolee's Chronicles (Stories That Jolee Tells)

And best of the week goes to Misty Glow for
KOTOR II The Miffed Lords

Well trudging on toward work. See you in a week...
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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 10/15/11
Another week of middling temperatures and something simple to do; walking like an idiot here and there and back again for five hours a day. Boring.

But I have you my gentle readers to satisfy, so let's get it on!

From The Coruscant Entertainment Center we have the next chapter from MsFicwriter with
SW: TOR: Dark Descent

Then, fast and furious we have Fanfiction.net where Red Ace gives us Of Swoops and Rescues and Darth Franky with Total Chaos and ends with our best from HelenaL with
KotOR Marisu Saves The Day

Well, on with my own writing. Signing off...
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The Critic returns
Posted By machievelli - 10/08/11
A change of pace. Two weeks ago it was triple digits, now it's in the seventies. Beyond that it's the same old. Got caught up in editing a work that might sell, and running behind, but I still delivered...

From The Coruscant Entertainment Center we start off the week with MsFicwriter's
SW: TOR: Suspicions/The Perfect Game

Then we jump to Fanfiction.net where Graceful5301
starts us off with Beyond the Outer Rim and Promised Flower delivers A Life That Is Mine

Over at kotorfanmedia Ryusui gives us two works;
http://www.kotorfanmedia.net/node/5850]Chance Encounters and
Origins of the Meatbag Kirabaros does good work with Promises and finally
AURevan give us Bloodlines

Best of the week was split between Greengrass1914's
Not to Know and HK47's
An Abnormal Kotor Parody

Well my days continue to be SSDD, so signing off...
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