Sorry, if i bring the discussion back to this. You can go back to ice-cream and puppies and rainbows in a moment.
I preferred to spend my sunday with ... errr ... ice-cream and puppies and rainbows, but I still want to answer now.
Chignon wrote...
ADLegend21 wrote...
Chignon wrote...
elektrego wrote...
To say she just doesn't care about looks isn't right. She comments on her sister's figure, when she tells Shepard about her family. She says something like, she wished she'd look that good at that age, when Liara tells them how old she is.
I agree with you except for this part.
I, as someone who dislikes the new design, have never said that she doesn't care about her looks. I have, however, said that Ashley has always been about practicality and her new outfit and hairdo is anything but.
The Hairdo maybe, but that outfit is perfectly practical as it is a Casual outfit and even though it is, it still has armor plating on it similar to Moridon's outfit. If it' good enough for a nearly 50 year old Salarian genius, it should be good enough for our Spectre since she does get special weapons and armor due to her status now.
The outfit isn't a casual outfit, though. It has so far been presented as her combat outfit.
Furthermore, Mordin's an engineer while Ashley is a frontline soldier. I also don't see the correlation between her Spectre status and the need to abandon additional armour plating.
My post wasn't aimed at anyone in particular.
It's fine for me, when someone says they don't like the new design. Period.
I have a problem, when someone says they don't like the look because it goes against Ashley's character and against everything Chris L'Etoile, whose role in the actual character design, i.e. the visual aspects of Ashley as well as the armor, were probably rather limited, against everything, that Chris L'Etoile, maker of all things good and just, has decreed.
I merely tried to explain why based on facts from ME1 that just isn't right.
The hair: I myself am an open supporter of the bun hairstyle and I'd rather see this one back than the new one, which I like a little less.
But who am I to say it doesn't work for Ashley. As I said, there is good reason to assume, that she would experiment with those things now, that so much in her life has changed. I have often found that people who were focused on one thing for a long time and finally loosen up a little, tend to go a little overboard with trying different things, regardless of their age. The hairstyle might or might not be impractical for her, she will have to make that decision on her own. I certainly woundn't want to go into battle with half my face covered. The nature of the short scene, we ave seen her in, and the difference betweeen an impromptu rescue and a frontline operation have been already covered and also the promise of armor and helmet, I don't need to comment on this anymore.
The armor suit:
I am aware of the line Ash says about Asari commandos and their armor.
I have said before, that IMO good (practical) armor tries to find a balance between mobilty and protection. I am inclined to believe, that the new Spectre gear is probably based on different technology and finds a better balance for combat than the old ME1 armor. In such a case practicality would dictate the use of the new armor suit. To stick with the old style armor would be nostalgia.
As for the design of the armor suit, I would have a problem, if the zipper in front of the neck would stay down in an actual firefight and I have a hard time finding an explanation for the heels, despite my natural desposition to rather find a reason why something can work rather than why it can't. And I, too, want a heavier armor alternative, that doesn't mean I have to dislike what we have seen so far.
We all are making a lot of assumptions at this point, but I tried to show that those assumptions don't have to result in doomsaying.
My optimal Ashley (at this point)
Another topic that has been mentioned:
I think the game will start in a hearing, we will never know how Shepard actually got there. All my Shepards ranging from the Alliance poster boy to the egomaniacal a-hole would show up on their own free will anyway.
The first chance we will have to talk to Ashley will be aboard the Normandy after they rescued Shepard and I hope it will involve a lot of awkward behaviour and her cute sideways look.
Also, the concentration of Sheploo faces is getting to high for an Ashley Williams support thread.
In the words of David Archer:
Please make it stop!
Modifié par elektrego, 11 juillet 2011 - 09:44 .
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