rynluna wrote...
The writers need to do something like this. They need to put the focus back on Shepard like you did. I hope that her squadmates would be concerned about her now, after everything she has been through and done for them.
i agree. not that ME2 didn't have its moments of terrific writing. i think it really did. but due to the fractured nature of the missions, there were no times where shepard got to be the focus. just a few moments where she could yell at tIM more if she wanted to or express how much she preferred Cerberus to the Alliance if that was her thing or whatever. just a few more lines would have made the difference.
in playing back through the beginning again, it really shows to me: tIM says "if you don't find the evidence we're looking for, you can leave." only...you can't. i kept thinking i'd be able to ask miranda for details about how dead shepard was and...you can't. the writing implies this stuff will be dealt with later, but there was really no point at which you get to return to any of those conversations. i'm hoping ME3? maybe there are secrets to be found there? but that seems like a long time to wait.
anyhow.
re: Shepard's decisions
there were times i played earlier incarnations of kyrie as pure paragon and that felt contrived and even naive. mainly because she doesn't have the luxury of making the "nice" decisions all the time. but i also feel that when she made decisions based on her own temper, she went renegade, and that also felt understandable, but wrong.
in the end, she registers as mostly paragon, but she's goes about it in a neutral way.
basically, her metric is this: she's a weapon for the Alliance. she generally believes in what they stand for - saving innocent lives. on mindoir and elysium they pulled through. working with garrus, wrex, tali, and liara - and hearing kaidan and ashley's opinions - took her from seeing humans as the innocents to seeing all races as having innocents and villians.
she's less comfortable with being a spectre than a commander. generally speaking, she respects rules, likes knowing where she stands. she'll make dicey decisions if she has to, but they bother her. feros she liked - the mission was clear cut: save the colonists, stop the thorian, get the intel. therum was fine. BDtS she hated, but she stopped balak (previous playthroughs i had her stop him out of revenge for mindior, other times she saved the hostages for the same reason. it only felt "right" when she stopped him just because that was what the rulebook called for) noveria she would rather have left the rachini to the council. given the decision between genocide and a risk, she took the risk. she now half wishes she didn't. she managed not to kill a single person on feros, but lost a scientist to the biotic extremists. i let the casualty stand rather than replaying it. on hardcore difficulty, i felt that was about right.
one major exception to her neutral/ rule following nature is being with kaidan. skirting regs seriously messes with her neat categories, and she isn't quite sure how to handle it. she saves him on virmire as much because of neutral objectives (he was with the nuke, need to make sure nuke goes off, he was with shadow team and therefore is her responsibility, he's the ranking officer, etc.) as with her feelings for him. i've had some people tell me that it's cold to save him for those reasons rather than just because she "liked" him, but she liked ashely too. anyhow, that's kyrie for you. she almost *doesn't* save him because of her feelings - but then she realizes that would be stupid. she doesn't even want to think about what she'd do if ashley & kaidan's ranks/skills were reversed.
it completely devastates her that the alliance abandons her in ME2. she doesn't know who to trust anymore, so she's trusting her gut instinct, and that's shaky ground. she punches elias kelam a lot. she shoots elnora (actually, she was going to take elnora into custody, but the b*tch pulled a gun and what are you going to do?) she saves the civilian sector on watson. she lets kasumi keep the graybox - mostly out of irritation with the alliance and men (which is why i always do that quest towards the end of the game). she keeps garrus from becoming a murderer and she saves the factory workers on zorya, regardless of if she can convince zaeed to join her or not. she brings jacob's father in because he needs to face charges. she's a firm believer in the process of law - not that it always works, but that it's the one thing that separates civilization from the pure vigilantism of pirates and mercs (whom she highly dislikes. hence, she really is not fond of zaeed, but puts up with him).
she highly distrusts cerberus, not because she has a problem with their stated goals, but because they're so dang sloppy. tIM claims rogue cells all over the place and yet he seems to know everything. they claim to be for humanity, but they do experiments on innocent humans all the time. she thinks they're full of sh*t and she can't wait for the opportunity to get away from them. she is always tempted to keep the base, but then she doesn't, because she distrusts tIM and reaper tech. she does have a tendency to blow up things she doesn't know or trust. (which is weird that she let the rachni live, but there you go).
basically, i see kyrie as trying to be lawful good (to use the old d&d alignment system) - but that whole system is inherently flawed. when created laws conflicts with things that are objectively good, a choice has to be made. so sometimes she leans more lawful neutral (just shoot the dang thing and call it good) and other times to the pure good (genocide can't be justified....but will i regret this later?). and sometimes she just gets pissed off and yells at the turian councilor before she stops herself.
as for the geth, i dunno. i've had kyrie go both ways. i guess i'll find out when we get there. i seriously think she'll blow the thing. rachni are at least sapient. geth - she doesn't know how to deal with geth.
Edit: omg, wall of text. i had no idea that was so long. ><
oh, and kyrie is always faithful to kaidan. she's never wanted anything for herself so badly before, so though horizon crushes her, she simply isn't about to let go - not when there's any hope left at all. so kaidan-faithful has been a constant for her. yep. constant little kyrie. lucky kaidan.
Modifié par sagequeen, 26 octobre 2010 - 07:40 .
And Bioware did as good as nothing with it (they only started to redress that matter somewhat in LoTSB). Sable's great story touches upon the whole morality of what Miranda and Cerberus have been doing; you know, only thinking whether they could resurrect her, and never wondering whether they should. And what they took from her in the process.
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