GeneralSlotts193 wrote...
Not sure if it has been discussed, but I've always felt that Miranda's resignation from Cerberus should you choose to destroy the base seemed very much out of character for her. I bet this isn't anything new around here, but I've been thinking about it some and I may have come up with a different interpretation of it.
Has it been discussed? In about five million words. While I can accept her resignation as such with some mental twisting around, I happen to agree with you, particulary the way she talks with TIM about the whole thing if you choose "this is an abomination" at the first exchange with TIM ("using anything from this base seems like a betrayal") is something of a pet peeve of mine. As for why, see
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here.
I've been wondering if Miranda's allegiance to Cerberus is secondary to her allegiance to the Illusive Man. We don't have much insight into there relationship, but we do know that TIM took in Miranda when she felt that she had know where else to go, and I'm sure this meant a lot to her. And over time there relationship grew, and I'm sure it became commonplace for Miranda to ask favors from TIM, and expectations would likely be that Miranda would pay those favors back. Maybe TIM needing her for a senitive mission he didn't want messed up, when she has a more interesting project on the go, who knows. This is just a hypothetical.
Hmm. I've always thought Miranda believes in the ideals of Cerberus (advancement of humanity) more than in TIM personally. But you have a point, it's a topic worth exploring. We don't have much to go on, though, except Miranda's assertion that TIM has humanity's best interests at heart.
I may not be the biggest fan of Miranda but I always try to do right by her. So along comes Shepard, and Miranda has some personal issues to be dealt with, and Shep runs off to set things right asking nothing from her other than what she had already given, which is her help in assaulting the collecter base. At this point Miranda is thinking highly of Shepard, maybe not at TIM's level but close, they have formed quite the team. During the suicide mission TIM asks then orders her to betray Shepard, and I believe Miranda felt betrayed by TIM just by him having put her in this situation. It was supposed to be the three of them working together, but TIM lost her by forcing her to choose, as at no point can Shep order her to do harm to TIM and I think that's the key.
Yes, that's one spin I've put on the situation, and it's the one I'm using in the one game where I destroy the base. Only there's that damnable "betrayal" line, which suggests it's more about the base and the supposed wrongness of using its technology against the Reapers than about TIM.
flemm wrote...
It's no surprise the line is controversial. It's a defining moment for the character, a big change of perspective, and then we are left hanging with only very limited insight into the motivation and thought-process behind the decision.
That's what I fear more than anything else - that this is a sign of things to come. Miranda making big strategic decisions based on emotions would not be my favorite character anymore. Her "the mission comes first" attitude and her willingness to make pragmatic decisions and defend them when challenged is a big part of what attracted me to her. We rarely get women like that who aren't portrayed as villains. Instead there has always been a damnable tendency to portrait a woman as a man's conscience. Miranda appears to break the mould so far, and I am desperate, really desperate that this element will not be not lost to her character in ME3.
There's also the fact that there isn't any other LI than Miranda for a more Renegade-ish maleShep.
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