jtav wrote...
I think a physical flaw could be good, from a character standpoint. The creation of Oriana implies that her perfection is incomplete. How does she feel about being the flawed prototype? Is there some resentment there? How has she adapted? It's this specific flaw I object to.
I don't object to the flaw itself, necesarily. I think it's a fitting physical problem for Miranda's character, considering her origins. What I dislike is the idea that it is a permenant, unsolvable issue, as the email portrays it. To me, the email felt kind of condescending to Miranda. She's a fine scientist in her own right, and would know that having a benign noplasm would be a more than curable condition. And yet the doctor spouts statistics at her and mentions adoption as an alternative.
On one hand, I like that they have left the problem open to individual iterpretation. There is more than sufficient evidence for me to simply say that the doctor was an idiot. But I would like Bioware to make it canon that this issue can be overcome, that Miranda knows it, and that(in the case of her and my canon Shepard), she is intent on solving it.
To make her infertility a physical flaw that cannot under any circumstances be overcome seems to be unecesarily cruel to Miranda as a character. They did enough giving her the flaw to begin with. Doing so gave her a direction to grow, and it made people care more for her struggles. It's a wound, and it makes her character more appealing, not less. But they don't need to make the wound unhealable, and have Liara rub salt in it(bloody asari 'lots of little blue children' @#$%.)
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Sorry. I like Liara, but Miranda is better, and deserves an ending with lots of little Sheplets.
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