Serpenttt92 wrote...
TIM is not indoctrinated.
Then how do you explain TIM initially sending Miranda and some Cerberus units to retrieve Shepard's body after the events of ME 1, spending billions of credits and 2 years to procure Shepard's revival, looking up dossiers of the best people in their professions and giving them to Shepard, building a new Normandy, giving the Normandy and Shepard a new crew, and funding some of Shepard's missions then suddenly TIM is sending Shepard and his crew into dangerous missions with high risks of death like Horizon and fabricating a false distress signal from a "turian scouting ship" so Shepard can be caught in a trap set by the Collectors.
Ok stop and think for a moment.. Why would a Collector ship be stalled out in the Terminus? If TIM made the false message, then how exactly does he know that the Collectors were there? The Turians wouldn't have been there if the message was false from the beginning. The Collectors KNEW that Shepard would be coming. TIM KNEW that Shepard and his crew would be going into a trap. Why would TIM send Shepard over to the Collector ship anyways? There are some reasons.. like seeing what kind of tech they have.. what they could be storing on that ship.. reasons as to why they're capturing humans.. etc, but TIM throws a problem at Shepard and blindly Shepard has to figure out what his objective is, if not the objective is vague and not as important as other possible objectives.
When the suicide mission happens, Shepard is ready to destroy the Collector Base when TIM coincidentally shows up trying to persuade Shepard to preserve the base. As you try to reason with him to destroy the base because it's an abomination, the tech that the base holds is too nasty and amoral. Also implying that TIM might be crazy enough to build his own Reaper (and we know that Reapers can't be controlled and it's insane to even think that you can control one). If you have chosen to destroy the base, TIM gets upset and frustrated.
Now stop and ponder again. Up until now TIM has been very calm, smooth, and slick. Now in a flash he's angry and very disappointed with destroying the base. Now think about it from a renegade perspective. Say that you gave TIM the Collector Base. TIM is very pleased and from the cutscene. You did everything that he wanted without fail. Then why..? Why is he out to hunt you in ME 3 if you did so much for him? The obvious and most likely reason is "He's indoctrinated"
Reasons why he is indoctrinated (without the comic involved):
1) Shepard is the icon of humanity. Hurting Shepard would only destroy what TIM invested in from the beginning of ME 2 and hurt Cerberus' reputation for stopping the one man who would save the galaxy and humanity.
2) His actions in ME 2 reflected subtle assistance of helping the Collectors (and thus the Reapers) retrieve Shepard's body. That was a goal that they had all along even before the events of ME 2. Cerberus may have been helping humanity in the beginning, but like Dr. Kenson in DLC Arrival, but like the sadly indoctrinated doctor who suddenly turned to aid the Reapers, TIM has become the same as her slowly but surely. His actions reflected his transformed mental state.
3) Regardless of your ending choice in ME 2, he still has something sinister on his mind. You can see it on his face. Whether it be to further aid the Reapers as confirmed already or it be to destroy Shepard and take on the role as the predominant icon of humanity. Doing so only negates their popularity even further. Sadly, because they are hurting Shepard, they're automatically on the side of the Reapers. Shepard is the key to winning the war after all. If Cerberus, with all of it's money and resources, could put up a stand to the Reapers alongside the rest of the galaxy and change it's reputation for the better, but it decided to go the wrong route and deny their humanity.
Retour en haut
