jwalker wrote...
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As someone else said, if you are going to blame Ashley for the 'shooting Wrex repeatedly when he's down' stance, don't forget to label Shepard the same way. After all, not only does he have the potential to do the EXACT SAME THING but he also has the capacity to be a lot more brutal about it and even less respectful.
So as long as we are putting people into the camp of 'blamed for what might be occuring' then Shepard goes in there as well.
As it stands, the way I saw it... Wrex had been shot. He had fallen to his feet and was lying there gurgling, odds are, he was dying. Hence, he was finished off.
It's not like they are going to administer aid to someone who had come dangerously close to shooting the Commander and of whom definetly wouldn't be part of the team anymore. And it's not like he would just be left to painfully breath his last either, not when for all we know his spleen might be sticking out of his neckpipe.
And it's not like Ashley's going to be tearfully sobbing when it comes down to killing the guy who endangered the life of her commander/boyfriend. Also, she wasn't 'enjoying herself' in the sense that she was chuckling with glee while she shot him, she had her face furrowed in angry concentration. She didn't look like she was having fun, just looking concentrated while shooting. It's stupid to assume that her reason for distrusting alien foreign powers connects to the idea that she reaps sadistic pleasure out of killing non humans.
The kind of accusation a moron* would make really. Also if Wrex killed a human and quipped about it, or Garrus killed a Quarian and made a one liner about it, would that be sufficient evidence that they just really like killing humans and Quarians out of racial hate?
I doubt people would make that connection, so why Ashley?
Besides even if he wasn't wounded, what's more dangerous than a seriously angry Krogan? A recently wounded seriously angry Krogan. Ashley would have had to finish him off and make sure he doesn't get back up. If he was dying, he needed to be put out of his misery, if he was only wounded he needed to be put down before he got back up and started real problems.
Finally of course it would be Ashley. After Wrex, she's the best weapons specialist on the team, hence she would be the only one who really could take him down with a gun. Apart from Shepard him/herself of course.
That said, there is something ridiculously out of character about that whole scene, regardless of whether it was Shepard or Ashley. Because it's really trying to nail the point in so heavily that this is a renegade outcome that it makes the characters sound almost like cartoonish super villains.
Plus there's something really 'uncanny valley' about how Shepard just calmly watches (even nodding slightly I think) when Ashley shoots Wrex and after he's dead and there's nothing Shepard can do about it then the paragon/renegade dialogue actions pop up.
So if you do the paragon options and see Shepard suddenly react with a 'WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT' after contently watching the whole incident play out with no signs of visible emotion, it doesn't look like he actually cared that much.
Let it be clear, Ashley's reasons were logical from a military standpoint, it's not fair to blame Ashley but not Shepard for the whole 'shot many times' thing and overall it's a scene filled with innaccurate character portrayals that people then clumsily use as evidence of Ashley's 'racism' ignoring that later on she's happily volunteering to assist Kirrahe and the rest of the Salarian team.
I don't see it as 'the degree of harsh and dark evil monstrousness and lowness that Ashley can stoop' I see it as 'the degree of harsh and dark evil monstrousness and lowness that Bioware are prepared to make Ashley go out of character in order to advance pre concieved plot devices.'
*not calling you a moron personally.
EDIT: That said, never let a save game pass where Wrex dies on Virimire, he's too awesome to let die.
Modifié par V-rex, 22 décembre 2010 - 08:29 .
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