Hello all.

I just finished up my 2nd ME3 playthrough in readiness for the EC, and I got a lot of advice from people in this thread about how to get Kaidan back a bit earlier and take him on the bomb/platoon missions after the coup. I did that, got the right running order and nothing locked out or expired, hooray.
But, I did experience some problems with his dialogues ... I never got the scene in the observation deck where he talks about his parents, and when I clicked on him *before* we went to the Citadel for the date I got his 'I can't stop grinning' line. (I reloaded and went to the Citadel first, came back and got it again.) I also got his flirting convo after the Cerberus scientists mission, where he says we should go to the Citadel to get steak (this was *after* the Citadel date).
Has anyone else who left the bomb/platoon missions until after the coup had this, or did I do something weird? As I mentioned, no main or side quests locked out, and I clicked on Kaidan *every* single time I went back to the ship after a mission. Is the only way to get the scene about his parents to do the bomb/platoon missions before the coup?
It's not the end of the world, and I saw it in my last playthrough, but of course I want as much Kaidan as possible.