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[Reever]

Someone With Mass wrote...

There's nothing that states that those statues were Prothean before Javik came up with the explanation, so...I really can't see why everyone's whining about retcon. Unless they don't know the proper meaning of the word, which is a very strong possibility on this forum.

The visions? They were meant to guide other Protheans to Ilos. Of course they're going to include the statues. The Protheans also have that ability to sense those who have been in certain places, like with Javik and Grunt. There's a possibility that resonance or whatever of the inusannon was included in the message so other Protheans would know where to look on Ilos, since that ability is as natural as breathing to them.

I'm also glad that the Protheans looked a bit like the Collectors, because those statues were just fugly.

Agreed.

Legion of 1337 wrote...

The Codex uses the top pic for the
Protheans, because everyone just assumes that they must have made those
statues and they must be of themselves.

In ME1, I don't think
any real thought was put into what the Protheans looked like. So when
they put those statues in (which they could easily have not done,
avoiding the confusion), they had to retcon it and clarify that the
statues weren't of Protheans. So it's still not explicitly stated what
they depict, though the new assumption is that they are
Innusannon.

You also have a point.

Though I don´t know why anyone would put around so many statues of their own species (can´t say it isn´t possible, just think of Ancient Greece/Rome etc. But if you think about the time and age they should stem from...doubt they are there since the beginnings of the Protheans...but that´s only a thought.).

Fixers0 wrote...

 The art of the Mass Effect Universe
(artbook) does indeed confirm that these statues were supposed to depict
protheans, and the title of the statue in Donovan Hock's also reads
''prothean statue'', so yeah it is indeed a rather sloppy
Retcon.

Why did they say something like that? If they didn´t, it would have made perfect sense in-game (even if it said "Prothean Statue", it still could be the researchers/scientists were wrong and they never really found out how they looked - or the title is literal, like, you know, it´s a statue made by Protheans ).

[Googleness]

just read official post.

Javik (prothy the prothean) says the Illos was a myth to his people and it was a planet of the big rulins civilization which came before the protheans there for it's not a prothean statue.

problem solved.

[Han Shot First]

BaladasDemnevanni wrote...

Fixers0 wrote...

 The art of the Mass Effect Universe (artbook) does indeed confirm that these statues were supposed to depict protheans, and the title of the statue in Donovan Hock's also reads ''prothean statue'', so yeah it is indeed a rather sloppy Retcon.

Certainly, assuming we include artbooks as canon. Personally, I think artbooks are down there with twitter feeds in regards to establishing the canon of the ME universe. 

The artbooks do give you an idea of what the devs had in mind. And originally the Ilos statues were supposed to be representations of the Protheans. Another clue (besides it being stated outright in the artbook) that the Ilos statues were supposed to be Protheans, is that they match the forms seen by Shepard in the Prothean visions.

Javik was a retcon.

That being said, it is a retcon that works. Javik provides an explanation as to why he doesn't look like an Ilos statue: the Ilos statues are Inusannon.

[Reidar]

I agree with most of the arguments, that the statues are of Inusannon, and misinterpreted as Prothean.

But, what I really don't like, is how the Javik-model is just a copy/paste work from other species... It has the neck of a drell, the hands of a quarian, the mouth of a salarian (a bit straightened out, though) and the headfringe underside that looks like turian or maybe asari, and the top like the collectors, and so on... They didn't really draw him, they just made him like a strange cloning from this days species... sloppy...

[jasonxxsatanna]

In the ME art book there are several versions of him drawn, some of the designs even resumable salairians, but I think they went for his current look to have a connection to the collectors

[Kabooooom]

The ones on Ilos weren't Protheans, they were Inussanon. This is explained in-game.