Saphra Deden wrote...
Liara doesn't earn any points for tracking down Shepard's corpse because that entire plotline was a vicious slaughter of her characterization.
Nothing about post-ME1 Liara makes sense to me. I can swallow her recovering Shepard's body from the Collectors (though why she didn't unite the efforts with the rest of Shepard's team doesn't make sense to me, but I guess one can't write a comic about VS). But the Liara in ME2? Got me constantly confused.
Why is she so obsessed with her revenge on SB? What's the horrible grievance that SB caused her? Was she THAT attached to Feron, and when did it happen? Because I didn't notice that moment in the comic. Why is she suddenly an intel broker, and one of the best at that?
I get an odd feeling that her quest for "revenge" was really a quest for power. Other squadmates had revenge plots, but not of that intensity. Liara is icily cold with Shepard, uses him ruthlessly for her quest, and completely disregards him until she's got SB. And she lets Shepard fall on the stone pavement, literally, and she doesn't give a damn about it, because her quest is more important. When I saw that, I laughed. Was that supposed to be some kind of symbolical statement? With the romanced Shepard, I mean.
I'd love to explain away that sudden, uncanny transformation with something, but I can't find anything in the game or the comic. Maybe it's some kind of asari puberty? Frightening process, causing a lot of pain to everyone around the teenaged asari. I don't know, she's just an entirely different character now.