flemm wrote...
Pretty much all of the material in the game for Miranda is devoted to developing other aspects of her character than the one that wants to put a control chip in Shepard's brain.
Right, but this means that this part of her character isn't really changing or 'developing' as you pointed out quite handidly with the whole 'other aspects' statement.
flemm wrote...
However, if she had had her way, I doubt Shepard would have been revived at all, thus there would have been no question of a control chip.
What makes you say that? He (or she) is, after all, 'a bloody icon.' One that the other species respect (maybe even fear a little depending on your playthrough). Shephard is just a beacon that the other races can presumably rally behind and while there may be little worth to it when push comes to shove, there is still worth to it.
flemm wrote...
In the case of CB, getting rid of it is not a naive choice, at least not in any obvous way, all aspects of the situation considered. Keeping it and trusting TIM to use it appropriately is arguably the more naive choice.
Arguable, perhaps, but there is no clear-cut preference here, where pure pragmatism is concerned.
I don't want to turn this into yet another one of
those threads, but from that 'pure pragmatic' approach it is pretty naive to just destroy the base, simply because we aren't at the technology curve (at the time of ME2 at least) to adequately combat the Reapers when they arrive as evidenced by EDI's statement during the game and by our own experience (borderline meta-game knowledge; but that could be rectified in universe afterwards by Shephard reading after action reports etc) of the Battle of the Citadel cinematic when Sovereign almost single-handedly rips through the fleet to the point where in ME2 the Systems Alliance is to the point of
rebuilding.Without some sort of plan (even if it is just sketch work) to serve as some sort of adequate foundation to start a building block, it isn't pragmatic at all to nigh shoot yourself in the foot and hope for a miracle otherwise.
This is what I expected Miranda to voice to some degree. It's okay if she later told me her own private thoughts and even misgivings about the issue when we're at a more relaxed and informal situation but then and there I expect her to have a more 'even handed' approach.
I agree that it's ridiculous to just blindly trust Cerberus without a hint of hesitation, but at the end of the day they are as threatened by the Reapers as the rest of us (that was at least my thought when I finished ME2, and I think I would be stubborn regardless in ME3 even if they *are* working with the Reapers, because I can still think that I pursued any and all leads)
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