lillitheris wrote...
First, you have to account for time. Miranda grows into something she is not in the beginning.
On the topic of Legion in particular, you’re oversimplifying. If we go back to the popular gun analogy, Legion is like studying a revolver whereas the base is like using a club made of the bones of murder victims.
Now, even if the Legion case were much more similar, she could still choose differently later, when her understanding has grown.
Your believable arc is only thus because you assume Miranda is unchangeably amoral.
First, I don't see that much of a different between studying Legion and studying the Base. Both are tools (granted, Legion less so but that was not known at the time) which have been used for murder. And you can retrieve the Reaper IFF and have the crew kidnapped imediatelly afterwards which doesn't leave time for much of a change.
Placing those who are alive over the memory of dead ones is not amorality. And while I recognize Miranda can change in certain aspects, they are mostly reserved to her treatment of Shepard and Cerberus. And neither of these necessarely indicate a change from moral relativity to absolutism.
Stances such as "Sanctuary is wrong" were evidenced in ME2 when Miranda denounces Teltin as a mistake.
Placing sentimentality over eficiency is not a trait of Miranda except if Oriana is involved. It is evidenced only once in ME2 and not once in ME3. She abstained from visiting or contacting Shepard on Earth because of how it might look to the Alliance.
So, I see nothing in ME2 or ME3 that even remotelly supports "Using anything from this base seems like a betrayal." As such, I am confortable with denoucing it as OOC and a case of horrible writing.
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