MisterJB wrote...
Hardly. I'm more inclined to believe the writer just realized he had to cram everything into a single conversation
I don't think he did. If he realized he would've made it better.
I list to him speak, I hear lines that fall in line what with he already had heard of him in ME2, I conclude it's all there.
There is too much supposition, too much extrapolation you have to do to "find" all the pieces. I don't know why you credit all that but I do not.
And why not? Sure, give him some more powerful defenses first. I would focus on showing the results of his work; maybe an army of Husks or similar creatures, maybe turn Oriana into a boss fight or maybe show a rudimentar version of the technology TIM later uses. But when all of that is trough, why not use Oriana as a shield? It's smart.
Letting her go with Miranda in the vinicity? Not so smart.
The point here is to show that Miranda has grown, no longer needs to fear him and can free herself of him. Not make him invicible.
And change his goddamned name!
Because he shouldn't have to. Like I said before there's a reason Miranda kept running for nearly 20 years. Because nothing she could do could bring her father down. She may be perfect and brilliant and all that but Lawson should be far beyond her. Even if you take only the bare minimum equation: Lawson= Miranda + unlimited resources - conscience and compassion, the result of that is something far above the pathetic weakling we're shown. And don't fool youself, nothing we or Miranda faced could be considered "Lawson's defences". Everything was either from Cerberus or the Reapers. Without them he'd be no harder to kill than a LOKI mech. Unacceptable.
Lawson need not be invincible. But if he claims mastery over his creation he should prove it. Everything Miranda throws at him he should anticipate and counter with the vast resources at his command. I'm starting to think of Thrawn in comparison as well. Nothing she does should take him by surprise. He should know her moves before she does. It should only be through an unforseen factor (like an indirect interference from Shepard or the Reapers) that Miranda is able to overcome his defenses and finish the confrontation.
I don't even mind Oriana as a hostage. But any weakling can hold a gun on a teenager. The true Lawson would merely sneer at Miranda pointing a gun at him and coldly inform her that the minute she kills him an implant monitoring his life signs will send an elevator with Oriana locked inside plummeting 50 stories. Can she do it? When she can't he taunts her about her weakness. Cue Shepard signaling her that he broke into said elevator and rescued Oriana. A split second later Miranda fires. We see Lawson's face, a mix of shock and rage. Then he falls. That is a worthy end.
And why you are willing to overlook all these failings yet keep complaining about the name, I'll never know. Miranda isn't hiding from her father. Lawson knows where she is. He just can't do anything about it.
Oriana using it however is a major fail.
Modifié par CrutchCricket, 13 mai 2012 - 12:51 .
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