Il Divo wrote...
smudboy wrote...
Feigning intelligence I can't.
It can, however point to it's effects. I can see it do what it's supposed to do. It makes things move telekinetically. It has easily observable effects. It is widely known and various species have this ability. It is the equivalent of any technology that is part of the mythos of the narrative. It is common.
So what is your defense precisely? That repetition somehow makes this acceptable? That's a ridiculous standard. Whether I see biotics once or a fifty times, that does not provide me with an explanation for how they work. I can use your same argument to defend the resurrection:
It is uncommon. This is clear by the number of people surprised at Shepard's being alive (former squad-mates, Captain Anderson, etc), the clear amount of time and effort in order to achieve the result, and that Jacob tells us is it was done using state of the art technology, ergo this is not something you can do in your backyard. This was not widely known and most species/organizations do not have access to this technology that we know. It is the equivalent of any technology that is brand new to the mythos and not widely circulated.
There's quite a lot of exposition on Biotics and Element Zero. There's barely any for Mr. Bombastic Resurrection and the Space Building of Fly Girls.
Let's see, biotics:
1. Has Unobtainium (Element Zero.)
2. Asari have natural biotic talent, and all species seem to possess its ability.
3. A character who explains the first ever human-turian school designed to train human biotics.
4. Various mercenaries and soldiers throughout the galaxy are biotics.
5. Mass effect fields and their attribute to FTL and drive core technology.
6. The game is called Mass Effect.
7. Biotics, Element Zero, Drive Cores, the Mass Relays: these things are explained and common.
Let's see, resurrection:
1a. Has unnamed magical glowy things attached to apparently Commander Shepard's magically recovered corpse.
1b. Has blue mystery fluid.
2. No one seems or has been able to resurrect people before, let alone human resurrection.
3a. We get incorrect audio logs barely describing some techno-jargon, "meat and tubes", impossible circumstances to recover a body let alone an explanation of what happened to Shepard's brain.
3b. Supplementary material (a la comic book) is invalid.
4. Zaeed, a human, survived a bullet ot the face. Not resurrection.
5. Resurrection is a massive plot hole/device in the space-time-plot-o-stupidsphere, for the purposes of rebooting a plot that didn't need rebooting, to make 2 years go by, and to somehow be part of a terrorist organization.
6. The game is called Mass Effect 2 (note: nothing to do with resurrection)
7. Wilson, Miranda, Jacob, 4 billion credits, a space station, everyone dies: these things are not explained, are extremely unclear and hinders the narrative.
We can accept something because of proper exposition, and it seems to be the norm. People riding around in flying cars isn't explained, but we can deduce they use some kind of mass effect fields since they increase/decrease mass, ergo, flying cars. We cannot even begin to deduce how Shepard was resurrected. Things like if Wilson ended up being a mad genius scientist who's on the verge of losing it, a whole battery of audio logs, clarity over what exactly happened to Shepard (like if we saw his body hit the surface of the planet intact, even if we know that's impossible) or even the mention of ME fields/Eezo...that would go a long, long way in helping the case.
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