I don't think we are overanalyzing. We're doing just what Bioware wanted us to do: speculate or analyzing.
Just rewatched the Guardian sequence on youtube. Shepard is never told to for Synthesis to jump into the beam, she just has to "add her energy to the Crucible[...]". A rational, thinking human being never loses the need for self preservation. Unfortunately I don't know how people in truly desperate situations would behave, like near death. But I'd assume that Shepard had an bigger-than-life need to keep fighting, despite ALL odds.
So why would our Shepard just run and jump into a beam of light (or walk into an explosion) without considering alternate solutions - like suggest giving a blood sample or something similar.*
I know situations where I act irrational, don't question what happens around me, no matter how unusual. Hell, I even jumped off a few cliffs without thinking about the consequences: Dreams. See how Inception
explains a dream. It even makes sense to me as a player: On my first playthrough I didn't noice most of the 'obvious' logic holes, only afterwards it all started coming together.
Yep, with IT this is nothing new, but since we are discussing why Shepard is running towards explosions and jumps into death...
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*: It was enough for Javik to have residues of organic tussue sample to get the significant information about the individual. Taking this as ME lore, giving up the whole organism is not necessary.
Modifié par MaximizedAction, 29 avril 2012 - 03:44 .