Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...
I can't make up my mind about Thane on multiple levels and I will leave it at that. I do wish he was in his own game. I think I'd like him a whole lot more if I didn't always have to pick him or Garrus. He gets overshadowed a lot so I don't consider him as thoroughly as I might otherwise.
This is true. Competing with Garrus is a tough job for anybody, but especially when that somebody genuinely has potential as a character, as Thane does. I think his romance suffers a little by comparison: Garrus has a more established relationship with Shep, doesn't have any heavy emotional baggage (ie. dead wife he can remember perfectly any time he wants) and isn't dying. I'm giving Thane his own Shep, but really, his romance is just so damn sad...
I think that dogs conversation with Alistair is hilarious. He has some other kinda ribald things he says too like when you start hitting on the duelist chick in the Pearl. I don't know how anybody could think he doesn't have a sorta filthy mind at times because he does, which just makes him all the funnier to me because then he likes to pretend he doesn't or else he gets all flustered about it.
He does crack some dirty jokes, but he usually does this with the Warden, doesn't he? Not with Zev. That's really the most jarring part about that convo for me: Alistair isn't usually that easygoing with Zev.
As for the joke being an implication about the Warden...well, it is just a joke. And Alistair is nothing if not a joker. I'm sure he never honestly compares the Warden to a...female dog.
I also don't think Garrus would want to be a Spectre. I think he has pretty much had it with official channels. That being said, he would make an awesome Spectre if he had such an inclination. I'm also not set on him leaving. I never meant it that way. I mean only that him leaving under certain circumstances wouldn't bother me that bad and I think there is a lot of storytelling potential in it. And as for dark and angsty stories and them being unpalatable, I think they often sound horrible until you actually play them, but then they awesome once you get through them if they are done well. Just think about ME2. Would you really trade stuff like the aircab conversation for anything? And yet that was brought about by some horribly angsty, dark crap involving betrayal and near death and scarring and murder and Garrus blaming himself and a lot of other melodramatic stuff. The next story doesn't have to be that way to make me happy. It's just that I think that is one plausible way to take his story that could have some awesome and intense moments in it. Okay, I'll stop kicking this dead horse now.
Ain't nothing wrong with dark and angsty. It's an essential part of Garrus' development in ME2, and it wouldn't have been the same without it. Where it'll start being a problem is if angst is all there is. Considering what we've learned in LotSB, I'd say Garrus is about due for a huge hug.
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