UserForFun wrote...
Renegade/Paragon, doesn't matter..
Why would Shepard, choose Mordin ( An uncontrollable/unpredictable sociopath ) A hormonal time-bomb, that could implode at any time over Samara, which has one thousand years of experience, and already sworn her allegiance, and utter obedience to Shepard..?
I don't even see a choice... Is painfully obvious.
If Morinth is inherently evil like many people say, how is it that when pit against her mother she always opts to run? Does she recognized Samara as her mother? Is it a line she never thought to cross? If so where does that come from? The idea that Samara is her better or is there something behind the scenes?
You say that Morinth is a time bomb or a hormonal time bomb. I don't see where you get that since everything alludes to Morinth picking her victims. Samara represents a greater threat considering she registered her presence when she landed on Illium, but engaged in a confrontation so worrying that she was sought out to be detained for fear that she might cause a diplomatic incident. That her position as Justicar renders her aid from local Asari law enforcement if need be because her cause would be viewed as greater than what's on any Asari cop's plate.
The story that someone posted a link to a few pages ago serves to illustrate Morinth as many people were made to or chose to see her. It doesn't illustrate a possibility of looking at Morinth in a different light. All this I said before, but what if those who see her as evil were to look at what might be?
Suppose Morinth maintains her freedom as a sort of homage to her sisters. That she runs free because her sisters and others like her are unable to do. She thinks of herself as some kind of folk hero. Suppose she's looking for a cure herself because no one else is trying, but she has to comply with her addiction to progress. That her addiction actually stops her from moving. Going with the vampire motif, Morinth goes into a form of torpor when not abiding her condition.
Though we're told stories about this person, what they are and what they can do, we're never made witness to what they've done. We're told it happened and are therefore we're nudged to assume it happened. Until Morinth says something it can be up in the air as to whether she killed Nef or not. That kind of absence would kill any particular tale you want to tell.
When a chance exists for confirmation of what Morinth can do or what she is, we're interrupted. What we see is a level of hypnotism. People say the meld was begun, but it wasn't. The meld was enacted on the SR2 after the suicide mission was complete. That time the chance resurfaces, we get a game over screen. There's no game over screen that prompts you to resume, load, or exit when Shepard dies during the suicide mission. Shepard dies and Joker talks to TIM. In regards to Morinth, we get a game over screen that, in many cases, signifies that something didn't occur the way it should. It's the same as getting shot in any skirmish on any mission including the suicide mission up until the point Shepard is able to make the jump to the Normandy. So I'm left to think that something could have been done to ensure Shepard is able to survive the meld with Morinth and that's exactly what happened with me the first time. I went to earlier states trying to find out what I missed that would have let my Shepard survive.
Nothing in that apartment scene is conclusive of anything. Three pieces allude to competition rather than predation and one speaks of a suitor. A suitor is one who pursues the intended. For all we know, Morinth could have told the suitor what she was and what could happen to him and he didn't care. We have real life situations in which people knowingly marry those who have AIDS. Not HIV, but what HIV evolves into. They try their best to be careful, and some end up lucky. Others not so much. What's funny is that a situation is presented with Jack where she has someone who cares for her, the mention serves to give her doubt as to how she lives her life through male Shepard's responses, but she chooses to view it as the guy screwing her over because it keeps the wall up. It keeps her from turning "soft". Likewise with Morinth, she may be maintaining a wall so that she doesn't become a mess at thinking about all those she can never have. She becomes cold to deal with her condition.
So when the question becomes what do we see in a character like Morinth or why we like her the answer is: we see room for growth. We see expansion that can go either way to round out the character. For Shepard it could easily be that (s)he is never given the whole story about Morinth. Everything is heresay.
Those, like me, who want to see more dimensions of a character can't ever be made happy if Morinth remains as she is. I, personally, am tired of villains with no motives when it appears there may be good motives (for them) for what what they do. I got enough of that when I was a child with one-dimensional villains who were evil "just because" and I've grown up knowing that any opponent I have is someone's friend, significant other, and/or relative. So it is the case that, in fiction, the same would apply: one person's hero is another one's villain.