yukidama wrote...
I just did this last night and the ending felt a bit hollow siding with the templars... I dunno. Maybe it's because I'm firmly team mage, even though I do see the points of more moderate templars like Cullen even though I don't completely agree.
Or maybe I'm just having a case of the Shepards, where I loved my first character so much that I don't really care about my others in the same way, so their roleplaying and characterization suffers (example, I picked every single sarcastic line without thinking on templar-siding dude). Like, for me Commander Shepard is a feisty redheaded Infiltrator paragon with renegade leanings who loves Garrus, and Hawke is a good guy mage with a bit of a lighthearted jokey edge who loves Anders and mage freedom. Kinda hurts replayability, but I'd rather feel super attached to one of my PCs than not really attached to none like I was with my Wardens.
Case of the Shepards... lol.
I know what you mean, although I have a menagerie of Shepards who I love a snuggly-wuggly bunch.

A menagerie of Wardens, too. And I'm shaping up to have an equally large collection of Hawkes. However, there's always one I consider "canon" and usually one or two more that are my absolute favorites.
I think the reason why siding with the templars is so hard is because in the end, the Right of Annulment ends up slaughtering a lot of innocent people. Potentially dangerous innocents, yes, but still. I haven't seen the cutscene from the templar point of view, so I don't know if it differs at all, but in the end you see big guys in armor cutting down skinny little girls with funny hats. It's hard to watch.