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On the other hand there is a very good chance we'll just get more of the same and they'll pretty much take any remaining virtues of the character and grind them into dust.
This is what worries me more than anything: that the DLC will make things worse instead of better. And seriously, at this point, why should we assume otherwise? Every comment out of Bioware since they shipped ME2 has been arrogant and self-congratulatory. They honestly think they did everything right. As Liara fans, we should all be bracing ourselves. The worst might be yet to come.
I think most Liara fans are already on this boat.
Coming from one of the few Liara fans that liked the ending to the comic -- and for reference, I liked the ending to the Matrix trilogy, so I'm what you might call a 'little off', but I personally saw plenty of justification for 'I was afraid you would hate me' in the very same line that detonated the thread back in March -- I still have a lot of worry about this. They had the task of explaining why geeky scientist Liara became scary b-word Liara, or as a few of us on the Liara thread think is more likely, why she began wearing that scary-b face to the galaxy while still being largely the same person, and the aforementioned task of explaining the nearly-hidden dialogue when she drops her guard. Their success at the latter is debatable, and their success at the former is practically nonexistent.
And this all goes back to promise vs. execution. They promised us 'full substantial roles' for Ash, Kai and Liara, we got roles that are not only glorified cameos, but can easily be seen as character derailment. We were promised new LIs 'so deep and substantial' that nearly everyone would cheat, and we got one person I'm tempted by at all out of seven (and she doesn't even count -- Unfortunate Implications, anyone?), and very little suggestion at all that there's any cheating TO happen. (For serious, why isn't Liara mentioned by
anyone other than Kasumi and EDI? And even the former stresses out a few people by referring to Shepard and Liara in the past tense, not me, but quite a few people.) We get promised that the Cerberus network will be chock-full of important stuff, and what we get is Zaeed and the Hammerhead and a few weapons I never use. (I can't even figure out HOW to use the Arc Projector, but Missle Launcher and Particle Beam, that's all you really need...)
And I'm sure you can guess my stance on the game overall... I liked it. (Wait, really?) Yes, I did, as a game, but the story to my eyes suffered so greatly I thought that it was farmed out to Obsidian, and it's really not as good as the first for making me feel like I have to replay it. (Whereas with ME1, I love that game so much I nearly wore out the disc.) And it's the story execution, both on the main storyline (though the loyalty quests were decent to awesome) and the LI carryover, that make me fear just about any Liara DLC that comes down the pipeline until I see it for myself.
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Hehe, that is a very nice way to put it.
