daigakuinsei wrote...
Thoughts:
1. I'm not afflicted with a terminal illness; Thane is. You were told your time would be short, so enjoy it while it lasts.
2. The "more than enough" argument is silly. Some people have bad lives, some have great, and others have truly tragic. Thane is probably in that last category. If the writers saw him that way, then that's how it should play out. How you respond in the middle is what matters.
3. The dossiers also say the disease had gone through metastasis, so lung medigel wouldn't be enough. You're making too many assumptions about immune systems and drell-specific antibiotics.
4. Re: Lung Transplant - Thane had a death wish. I know you can temporarily change that if you do a FemShep romance, but given his eidetic memory I could see that changing easily back to resignation.
I do feel for Thanemancers because ME2 romances generally got shafted unless they were Normandy crew in 3. Should have been a longer cutscene and maybe the Paramour achievement, but expecting him to live is excessive.
I don't think expecting him to live is excessive at all. Shepard died in space and yet she was brought back to life.
Once you set a precedent like that in your story then a lot can happen. A cure for Kepral's syndrome has been in the works for years before Shepard even meets Thane. They could be close to a break-through for all we know. This is fiction. The writers could have done something with it but it's clear they didn't want to use many resources on any ME2 character.
The lung transplant was probably Thane's best bet. It's not a cure, but it could have extended his life.
Thane did have a death wish before meeting Shepard
but that changes if you romance him. The fact that he went back to being resigned to his death with no explanation in ME3, is just plain bad writing. There's no way to question him about why he changed his mind. Instead his character development was trashed. For what? To railroad the character into a single outcome - forced death.
I still wonder why the lung transplant was mentioned at all in LotSB if nothing ever comes of it. You can't even ask Thane about it. Why did he choose not to do it? It just never comes up.
It just makes me angry that we know he had an option but it was ignored with no rhyme or reason. Just to force his death scene on us.
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