@ Hazzel: Thanks!
Though I wish you actually could ****** him off and have him remain unloyal.
I do wish that SOMETHING could invoke Garrus to be defiant in some way but I would rather see that in ME3. ME2 was another teaching moment for him but I think the lessons should stop there, Garrus has grown into his own man and he should develop a strong opinion of what he considers right and wrong by ME3, there shouldn't be that level of hesitation in the last game.
As much as I would rather paragon him I can't help feeling like I'm acting like a condescending know-it-all towards Garrus sometimes. I eventually want him to say "Shepard I want this , you're leading the mission but that doesn't mean you get to control every choice I make, you're my friend, not my commander"
I seriously want to see a role reversal in the relationship. Can you imagine, you're about to shoot someone and you suddenly see a paragon interrupt , you click it but then find out it's not yours? That's because it's Garrus's, depending how you influence him it'll be a paragon or renegade interrupt. He'll intervene and Shepard will have a "WTF?!" look on her face because no one has done this to her before. If she gets angry about it afterwards Garrus can calmly say that "You taught me better than that shepard , I just wanted to stop you making a mistake"