Ieldra2 wrote...
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Liara's comment about Miranda in LotSB:
I love it and I hate it. I love "What are you fighting for? The future of humanity, as evidenced by the perfect Ms.Lawson?" and I hate, hate, HATE "You have no idea how much you've changed her" for the same reason as jtav does - it suggests that Miranda has no agency and initiative in ther romance. People may change because of their loved ones, but that doesn't mean the loved one did the changing. Also I'd prefer not to see too much change except in the romance, and I don't think there has been a lot of change except in the romance.
I think i'm in a different time zone to everyone else here or something, everytime i log back on the conversations moved on in huge leaps lol.
Anyway just noticed this and wanted to post something on it so sorry if i'm going back over old ground.
The Liara comment that you say you hate "you have no idea how much you've changed her" i think your taking it differently than i did.
Yes your points after it make sense but the comment itself i don't think is to be taken as literal as you seem to be taking it, its a much more generalised way of saying something to proof a point.
Miranda has changed because of the romance with Shepard not because of anything specific Shepard has done, (well perhaps other than showing her that she isn't as perfect as she thinks). Miranda in her conversations with Shepard admits as much , she's impressed by what Shepard has acheived and what Shepard may acheive and it puts her own acheivements into perspective.
Look at what Jacob says about not being good enough for her and that being a reason why their (aparent/alledged) romance could never work, part of this to me is that up until Shepard, Miranda had never met someone she considered equal to her or perhaps good enough for her.
Then look at some of the things Miranda says in the romance itself, she worries about Shepard and the fact that he/they may not survive.
Pre Romancing Shepard do you really think Miranda would have been upset if Shepard had died stopping the collector?
To me thats all that line was supposed to represent that like with everyone else Shepard meets/interacts with throughout mass effect, Miranda has grown from the experience being with Shepard, if you then add the romance and the little details we find out about Miranda in the SB dossiers, then from how she was at when Liara met her first to how she is by the end of me2 she's changed considerably.
Could they have expressed this any better in one line than how they did, i'm not sure but i think they did ok with it as long as you yourself put the context and meaning into it and don't take it literally.
Modifié par alperez, 21 juin 2011 - 11:41 .





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