M. Hanky...have I seen people do that? Yes, I have. Personal experience aside but it really is a hard concept to grasp. The one being pushed away wants the opposite. The few happy moments that can be had because really, do they want their last memories to be one of distance? The one dying doesn't see that, all they see is wanting to help the other move on. In a way, it's kind of like acting like you are already dead. I am really fumbling here.
Ok, Thane wants Shep to be happy. I can't imagine his character and how he was presented to us would ever want Shep to go on until her death unhappy and alone. He would want her to move on. To make his passing easier, he's probably in the mindset of pushing her away. If her last moments with him are more like on friendship terms and not a romance, maybe he figures it would be easier for her to move on.
Now here is where the crux of the problem lies, it is in some human's nature to NOT pull away when a loved one is dying. They want to cherish all they can while they still have time. They don't want all the talk to be about the grim reaper standing right behind you.
If that is indeed Thane's intention, he wants to make his passing easier for her by distancing her, then it's understandable but for the one being pushed away it hurts. Would it have been better if they did have another set or two of dialogues? Yes. Give Shep that one last moment to tell him how she felt. A happy moment in the midst of war. I loved the shoot off with Garrus. It was great and for that moment, war was not the foremost thing on anyone's mind. Would I have been a little more content with a similar scene with Thane? Yes. I am of the mindset that a cure would automatically equal a happily ever after? No. I read the codex and the books. I am aware that there are hints that the average human lifespan in this time are somewhere near 150 years but a drell's average lifespan is 85 years. At some point, Shep would have to say goodbye to Thane. If she did live to 150 and he was cured and he lived to 85, she'd still end up without him for 70+ years. Right...my math is horrible these days. There are 8 years between them so she'd roughly 77 when he died of old age. Feel free to correct that.
Some of the issues lie with Liara saying during LotSB something along the lines of what you do with the time you do have. Well, Shep got detained for 6 of those months. Months that could have been spent with him. So really, they got shafted there. Would I find this a better pill to swallow if the whole detainment didn't happen or wasn't that long? Probably. Thane wanted to visit a desert. Didn't happen or we didn't see it. I suppose head canon could say they did but I think some would like a confirmation one way or another. Again, I do not speak for everyone. If I got clarification that for example, Shep wasn't immediately taken into custody..if they had a month or two before it happened then I could imagine the rest. I am one of the ones that does not need to see everything. Kind of like how I like the older horror movies, like Psycho, you didn't NEED to see her getting killed, they gave enough to let you imagine it. These days people NEED to see everything and forgo imagination.
His death I could accept but what was a bitter pill was the lack of dialogue, the recognition by achievement that I carried the romance to the end, and how it seemed no one remembered him after he died. FFS, he just saved a councilor. You would think someone would remember him.
Modifié par utaker1988, 04 juillet 2012 - 05:20 .
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