Well, where to start and how should I explain?
Liara spent 50 years of her life studying the Protheans. She spent many years being lonely and in remote digs. Then in just two years she changed from an archeologist, a nice socially awkward bookish girl to the frickin
Shadow Broker! How some people can totally buy that is beyond me.
Liara was probably my favorite character in ME1. And wow, was I surprised when ME2 came out.
I do get it that people can change. But her change is unbelievable and it's way too drastic, especially for an asari.
She simply acts one way in the first game and then in the second she turns into an entirely different character with a bizzarre and completely unjustified obsession.
The Liaramancers usually argue that you have to read her comic in order to understand it. Well, that’s pretty much bulls#$t. Yes, I read the comic and it's terrible. The comic is nothing but a cash grab. In fact, I would have found her change easier to believe if I didn’t read it. In it, Liara was badly drawn and almost completely OOC. The biggest WTF moment for me was near the end where Liara left Feron behind for no reason. She could have
easily saved him but instead she just… left.
I was facepalming the whole time when I first met her on Illium. She makes the worst renegade character ever!
Her character wasn’t developed, the writers simply turned it 180°. They pretty much butchered her character and used her as a plot device. Seriously, why do so many people bother justifying and explain all this? Even Ali Hillis admitted in an interview how confused and frustrated she was because she didn’t understand Liara in ME2.
http://www.rpgsite.n...illis-interviewHer Illium cameo was awful. One the biggest things that struck me was how she ignored the relationship. When you meet her she’s like “Hey Shepard, I just need you to hack some terminals for me. Mkay, thanks. That would be all then.” You know what she does if you refuse it? She threatens and possibly blackmails you. That's lovely.
Another thing which bothered me was how she didn’t care about Shepard going on a suicide mission.
Bioware would like us to believe that Liara went through hell in order to just recover Shepard’s corpse. But in ME2, she doesn’t show worry about Shepard going on a *
suicide* mission against the Collectors, the exact same guys she was trying to prevent getting Shepard’s body in the first place. It makes no sense. I know she mentions something about it in LotSB but that's only
after you finish it and invite her up the Normandy.
LotSB is a great DLC. In it, Bioware did actually put effort into Liara’s character. They did flesh her out more. Yes, I understand that things were difficult for her. Yes, I do feel sorry for what happened to her. Yes, I wish my Shepard didn’t “die” and that he was there for her instead. But… I seriously don’t buy her change. There is so much bad writing.
The main problem with ME2 and LotSB is that they don’t give any sort of justifiable reason as to why Liara underwent such a drastic change. Her transformation from the character she was in ME1 to the character she is in ME2 makes no sense.
LotSB almost completely ignores the comic and her Illium cameo. What really happened to her after Shepard’s death? What about the part where she threatened and possibly blackmailed Shepard? What about the part where she didn’t care whether he would die on the suicide mission? What about the part where she wasn’t there for Shepard when he needed her the most? These things are what mainly ruined the romance for me, which is a shame because it was my favorite one of all.
LotSB did a better job than just a cheap and lazy “that’ll do” explanation, but it didn’t redeem her character.
So overall, what can I say?
Do I prefer the ME1 Liara? Yes.
Did I lose interest in Liara during ME2? Yes.
Would I like the ME1 Liara back? Of course not. Too many things happened and I cannot ignore them. Besides, at least she became more confidant, she matured and she became more independent. I love those. I love her new look as well and I’m hoping Bioware keeps it in ME3. I may still facepalm whenever she tries to be renegade but perhaps I'll get used to it. And I’ll make sure she stays being the Shadow Broker in ME3.
Modifié par AwesomeEffect2, 13 novembre 2011 - 08:46 .
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