jtav wrote...
No she wasn't. Excepting a few nice romance bits, emails, and slides, ME3 Miranda should be utterly ignored and disowned as a pale perversion of the character.
I should have been clearer.
The problem is lack of context as to the events leading up to the scenes that she is in. It is like a cameo. Pop in, pop out. Except that cameos don't have parts in the plot.
It's evident that she's being Miranda off-screen, the mail from the app relays as much, the difference is is that this material should be available readily, not in a side-product. You have to go outside the game world in order to seek justification for this. She even says good luck after the scene in the apartment.
Should a DLC be implemented properly, it might help give context to what she's been doing all this time and in the time that she and Shepard re-affirmed their feelings for one another.
In short, what you're asking for is not filler material, but an addition for both context (DUH) AND expansion.
It's not so much a perversion of character as it is a lack of context. She appears aloof whenever Shepard appears, but she still gets the job done, just like she always has. That Miranda is still very much there.
The one two punch can come from DLC that applies context to the original scenes, as well as adressing previously established character arcs. The key one that needs to be addressed is Cerberus, not just for Miranda's sake, but Cerberus in general, as they are now mustache twirling villains.