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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 07/23/10
Another week is passed, and on Sunday I am a year older. There was a grass roots movement at work to assist me in paying the registration necessary to enter a book at the Frankfurt Book fair next month, but it ran into one whiny voice. Plans are still underway to collect the money but I am not sanguine. I may spend the money just to thumb my nose at the whiner.

It is hot, and we have at least two months more of it, and I have finished yet another column for you all, so let’s get this started.

From kotorfanmedia we begin with Ninjer
and Sic ‘em, Jedi Boadicea gives us Bastila’s mind with Consequence

Over at Fanfiction.net risokura has Revan one her way with My Promise

And pick of the week goes to Jiara’s old but good The Gift

Time drifts on, and I must keep up. Signing off…
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 07/16/10
Approaching my birthday, hot as blazes, and we have a new Operations Manager for the campaign. Life flows on, as does the column.

This week the best were few, but we had them; all from kotorfanmedia. We start with the reprise pick
Allronix’s Payback, then Karacat takes us back stage with The Sith Lords: Behind the Game. Kitome give us the reason for Kreia’s banishment with Bingo and Jedi Boadicea wins best of the week with Final Days

Well enough time to finish my coffee, and I’m out of here.

Signing off…
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 07/09/10
More changes, but everything is the same still with me here. Work goes on, and I am now expanding three of my works in progress in small increments.

But I am tireless in my duty to you, what fans I have, so we go on to this week’s best.

From kotorfanmedia we have a different take on the end game with SaturdayInAugust’s Vacation, my foot! and the Krayt dragon with Ellagne’s Dragon's Wisdom

From Fanfiction.net we have something old and something new with Sera Terranova’s Langauge of Love and our best of the week with Prisoner 24601’s Chasing Redemption

So on with my life. Signing off…
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 07/02/10
Coming up on the 4th of July weekend, and it’s hot enough to consider frying eggs on the sidewalk a good idea. At least there is air conditioning in the building. I found some good stuff to look at so here goes.

From Fanfiction.net we have Revan’s going to the dark side in The Lady Revan’s Dark Changes

Then at kotorfanmedia I ran into a number of those who I reviewed before I created the Pick of the week, so belated hats off to David Gaider for Denouement, Zk273 who gave us the seriously amusing Ask HK 47 and Caritas0 who gifted us with When All is Said and Done Jumping back to the present we have Faltallon’s search for Revan in
A Bad Day in Paradise and Jiara’s bizarre May the Farce Be with You

But best of this week goes to Scythe404 for Jabba's Palace - Original Cut

Well, back to editing my other works. Signing off…
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 06/25/10
You’ve no doubt heard the term, use ‘em or lose ‘em, right? I had that problem with the 1st of July coming up. You see while I am allowed 80 hours of paid time off, anything not used by the first of July is pruned off down to 40. I was looking at this happening so I did something I rarely do; I took two days. That is why this review is late today, since I seriously slept in. Then I started reviewing again at kotorfanmedia when I should have gone to fanfiction.net so I have four in the can for next week at least. But for all of you out there here’s what I found this week…

From kotorfanmedia we had a slew of fairy tales set in our favorite universe. It leads of with Wook’s Bedtime Story, Midnight Hawk with Imago: A Tale Of Two Sith. and the Reprise pick from Allronix Revan's Gift

Over at Fanfiction.net we had the Reprise pick from gekkeiju In your Dreams, part 1 of 2

Best was split, and both for the silly and outrageous. Arrow with Malsel and Revtel and SawHawk
with Star Wars and the Honey Pot

Well, I am going to do absolutely nothing for four days. See you all next week…
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 06/18/10
Another week of work, and looking forward to a couple of days off starting Sunday. My family is talking more, but anything is more than nothing. I had mentioned I might have to add ‘baby catcher’ to my resume, but the State of Nevada stepped in and she’s covered, so the baby has been born, and I wasn’t within a mile of her when it happened.

I am drifting like a leaf on a stream, and the thing that focuses me wonderfully are those who have posted their work, so here I go…

From Fanfiction.net we have the turning of Malak from Kusco with The Fall of Malak

From kotorfanmedia we have HK going off on a tangent with Ghostie’s HK-REDUX - Part 1 – BAD MEMORIES What got Canderous moving again with
TwilightMan’s The long, sad death of Canderous Ordo, pt.1 a very young mission betrayed with Prisoner 24601’s
A Bedtime Story and a reprise pick and pick of the week, Karacat’s fairy tale KOTOR Fairy Tales: Puss in Boots

Well it’s payday and the world awaits. Signing off…
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 06/11/10
My week started out interesting. I got to work Tuesday and the security guard asked if I wanted to deliver a baby.

Odd question, yes? When I’m confused, I get flippant, I commented that I didn’t know how much that would cost in stamps, so I needed to know how much that was before I said yes. He told me he wasn’t joking.

I know most people at work think I am unflappable, but that still threw me for a loop. So I said, sure, if you need someone, I’ll try my hand at it. It wasn’t until later I find out that we have a girl working there who is A: Enormously pregnant, B: doesn’t have even the minimal insurance the company offers, and C: Intends to work right up until the labor pains kick in.

As yet I am not a baby catcher, but it might happen. But on to the important stuff for this week.

You know the old slang comment, ‘it’s all good’? Just about everything I read this week got a nod for pick, and it was hard coming up with who was best. But I tried my hand at it…

From kotorfanmedia we have LS Angel’s delivery of Carth's Message the boding of TheJediSentinel’s The Holocron Confessions: The Outer Rim Dustil’s descent into darkness from Prisoner 24601 in Innocence Lost a view of hope with HCF’s Above the Ruins - Chapter One And Revan’s departure in Darth Exile’s Reprise pick The Second Jedi Order: The Beginning

Over at Fanfiction.net They kept me on their toes starting with Atton looking into his own soul with kaizokunami’s
Dead Eyes
Jiara Anatalis’s angst driven Letting Go Bastila and Atton talking in Wraithfighter’s That Old, Familiar Feeling Silvershadow667 giving us a look at unmentioned love with Atton's Redemption.
And best for an excellent flashback session during an interrogation with Caritas O’s When All is Said and Done

Well, I’ve added almost 50 pages to my own book in the last two weeks, and raring to do more. So I am signing off yet again. But as the Terminator said, ‘I’ll be back’…
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Obsidian to make Dungeon Siege III, Squeenix to Publish
Posted By Darth Insidious - 06/07/10
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 06/04/10
Another week has passed. One of my stories came back to life with a vengeance, increasing by 30 pages that has to be edited into smoothness. And I found some old favorites in odd places.

About three years ago, I started doing my picks of the week, and I felt those older stories that hadn’t got that specific kudo deserved them, so a number, even one I originally read at kotorfanmedia
Yet found this time at Fanfiction.net
Is getting a belated nod.

This week should be called kids, kids, kids because of the 8 picks of the week, over half are about the younger generation of characters. From kotorfanmedia we have a tattoo parlor from Wook with Coming of Age: Malak
Wook, Mira actively hunting love with Arrow’s New Ties A homicidal schedule with Jiara’s Every Hour On the Hour which by the way split Best of the best this week. School kids at lethal play with Kosiah’s The Facts of Life and letting go of hatred with Envoy Cools’ A Discussion

From Fanfiction.net we have an interesting student teacher relationship with mushroom-hunter-d’s The Troublesome Student which shared the Best of the week spotlight, the reprise pick of the week that traded places in Phoq’s
Like Wolves
And rounded off with the teenage love story from xInuyashaxangelx,
Kotor: Beginnings

Well maybe I can polish that story a bit today. Signing off…
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 05/28/10
Well this week is getting more interesting. For some reason my bow wants me working one of my days off. There are times when being loyal and dependable is a serious pain in the butt, let me tell you.

Well let’s get to it. From Fanfiction.net you have a different Clone Story from the Clone wars with Halo Lady’s
Different from the rest

Over at kotorfanmedia the week was dominated by those who were reviewed before I started doing Picks of the Week. Starting with WebMistressGina’s Knights of the Old Republic III: Force of Echos Charys with Foretelling of a Wet Wedding Seraterranova The Language of Love, but others who were only missed because of the story filing system shown on their own with KOTORFanForLife getting a nod for
KOTOR: Defiance and Karacat getting Best of this week with Star Wars KoTOR: Behind the Game

Well I leave you to finding out which of these you liked best. Signing off…
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The Critic Returns
Posted By machievelli - 05/21/10
Another boring week. Temperatures still rise, and by next month we’ll be talking triple digits. MY life is so routine, I sometime want to oversleep just to throw a wrench in the works. And yet again, I arrive with a new series of offerings. So let’s to it…

From kotorfanmedia we have old and new. Weh have Mission in a pink dress in Arrow’s Demure Bastila expecting in Athenaprime’s Inevitabilities Carth struggling with the truth in Envoy Coolis’s Differences and Malak as the good guy in Lastofthelineage’s Debt, Chapter 1 - Innocent Captive

But best of the week went to the new site with Sera Terranova’s treatise on memory in Layers of Deception over at Fanfiction.net

Well payday at least. And I have to block in a couple of ‘do nothing days to keep my paid time off. Signing out and off…
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