lazuli wrote...
Nightwriter wrote...
But how do you feel about the fact that you can't really talk to him as a person, informally? How do you feel about how he'll never really let you in?
He is the only character who does not have a character arc. Don't you feel that's unfair?
You can talk to him as a person, or at least he offers just as much as any other character in ME2 in that department. He has a friendship style dialog that you can access while female, contrary to popular belief. And I don't feel that "he'll never really let [me] in." People master their emotions in different ways. I don't need to see Jacob blubbering or pounding his fist dramatically into the table (not that I have anything against Thane) to understand him.
As for character arcs, dynamic characters are overrated. It seems largely assumed that for a character to be effective, that character must undergo change. Yet sometimes a static character makes more sense for a given situation than a dynamic character.
I do feel that Jacob was treated unfairly, though perhaps not by Bioware. He has a terrible reputation on these forums and people slide in jabs at him in the most bizarre places. You could be discussing the benefits of one shotgun over another and find diatribes against Jacob interspersed throughout. There's a lot of "Come on, it's just Jacob" talk as well. Don't ask me to dig any up, please. I'd bet you've seen it.
I have.
See, I disagree, I do think Jacob was treated unfairly by BioWare. Everything from the way they make femShep sound around him (which discourages people from his character) to the sparse lines his romance was given in LotSB.
Jacob could have been as universally liked as Wrex. Yet he wasn't. And I don't think that had to happen.
... I hope you don't think I'm coming from a place of derisiveness here. I can see from the other posts that I might be unwelcome, so if so, let me know and I'll mosey on out.





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