fiendishchicken wrote...
I can say the same for you.
You don't give him the credit he deserves. He brought Shepard back. And he was committed to stopping the Reapers, until they intervened. He and Cerberus fought the Reapers when no one else would. They stood behind Shepard when no one else would. And he still does what he has to. He could have controlled the Reapers. His proof of concept at Sanctuary showed that. And the Crucible allows you to do so. I will never choose it, but control proves that TIM was indeed right all along.
You see where this is going?
Turn that coin over and let's talk about Pragia, Akuze, and the stuff related to Hades Dogs. To say nothing of the Collector Ship and his mini-freakout if you decide to destroy the base.
Bottom line is he's a ruthless manipulative bastard who uses people like tools. Sometimes that's necessary, but what's worse is he's allowed his organization to become the Highly Visible Covert OP terrorist Space Camp from Hell. Again, either he enjoys authoring atrocities or he's too much of a screw up to prevent them, or to prevent them from going public.
Either way he was starting to slip way before ME3. And for that he needed to be replaced.
Oh and don't get too self-righteous with the whole "he's fighting the Reapers and backing Shepard." Even Palpatine was grooming his Empire to fight the Yuuzhan Vong in Star Wars. You going to tell me
he was noble and misunderstood? And even Aria, badass as she may be is just a gang leader thug, but she knows enough to back Shepard in the war. It's just survival. Neither deserve medals from wanting to avoid becoming Reaper goo. It just appears special because everyone that isn't them, Shepard, or his crew is terminally infected with Stupid and are living in denial.
Oh and for the record, TIM wasn't "right" about control. He still wanted to control the Reapers pre-Crucible when there was zero evidence that this was possible. That the Crucible did enable control is incidental. That's like me guessing random numbers and when they turn out to be winning lottery numbers, I get all high and mighty that I somehow "predicted" the winning numbers. Please.