Niemalna wrote...
I don't understand why Thane went from "accepting" his death, even basically throwing himself at it, to finally being afraid of dying, to going right back to "I've lived a good life and it's over." That kind of reasoning normally works well, but not when he's already gone through that stage. He has so much to live for, Kolyat at the very least, Shepard if romanced. This is his second life; I can't see him giving it up so easily.
And I agree with you, Moira-chan. My Shepard was well beyond and past Kaidan, and that dialogue was an obvious sort of, "Look, just take Kaidan and ignore the whole Thane thing that happened down the hallway. ;)" No thank you.
I don't understand why they gave up on him. That's what they did exactly. Their shiny new character thrown away. And not just Thane, but the entire Drell race. Never really discussed or expanded on. You learn more and more about Turians and Krogans and Protheans, but all the information you ever really get on Drell came in ME2.
I guess it's back to writing fanfiction for me. haha
Niemalna wrote...
And "The lover never leaves." That's drives me nuts. I guess some people connect it with Irikah, but I think for romanced Shepards that it's kind of a stab. Beautiful prayer, but it seems kind of cold because that's how it should have been. Not this, "Let me visit you one time and get some action." Even when he asks to do something "less strenuous" I got so excited. I was like, "Yaaay talk time talk time talk time." Go back to the conversation wheel, but
nope, same old lame dialogue. [smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/crying.png[/smilie]
They didn't treat him like a romance. He was some booty call. I'm pretty sure, after how everything went down in ME2, with him crying and them spending so much time together, that it was pretty evident that there was love. He didn't move on from Irikah and have all that stuff with Kolyat because he found some nice buddy. They had a relationship, and I feel like Shepard and the whole rest of the crew didn't seem to realize that, somehow. As upset as she was over the boy, with the way that went and connected with Earth and her people, she should have been
just as traumatized and reactive with Thane's (or any LI's) death. Because, especially if the LI isn't human, that's not just Earth. Not just her people. It's everyone, even those closest to her. No way she could just get over it without some kind of reaching out. Breaking stuff, crying on Garrus's shoulder, anything. And then, if you got a
living ending, she should be packing up and going straight to the desert like she promised to take him.
I bought some fish from Kahje's oceans. It's the best I could do for the room since we can't even have a blasted picture...
Exactly, Thane should want to live for his son and for Shepard (if romanced). We never even hear about the lung transplant again. Why didn't he try for it while Shep was locked up? There's no option to even ask him about it.
It's like the devs completely discarded his character development along with the ME2 romance. He goes from telling Shepard any time he has is hers to take and writing in his letter that he wants to stay by her side and protect her with everything that he is to telling her they always knew it would end and to live well in the time she has. The relationship was pretty much dismissed after that first and only conversation.
I was stunned because it was so out of character for him to say that. You can't even tell Thane you're there to see him. Shepard always defaults to saying she's there for the VS. There is something SO wrong with that whole scene. You're completely right, Shepard treats Thane like he was a booty call and all she wants is to get physical. There's no real option to emotionally connect with Thane again. Shepard can't ever say she loves him. Not even when he's on his death-bed. The treatment of the 'romance' ,if you can even call it that in ME3, was horrific.
I liked the prayer but not the fact that it's the same for every Shepard, regardless of whether you romanced him or not. His death should have been a more personal and emotional scene if Thane was Shepard's love.
Patrick Weekes, one of the devs, claim they "forgot" about him: Yeah, I wasn't in charge of Thane, but I see Thane's death situation as one of those things that's the drawback of a large writing team. Lots of followers talk about the Citadel Event in terms of what happens with the VS, but because Thane was optional, it didn't click with any of us that the player could also have just lost a friend or loved one THERE as well. That was a dropped ball on our end.
More like they took the ball and smashed it into our faces. D:
Miranda's death is optional but that didn't stop them from making it emotional or remembering that Miranda is a love interest and adding in appropriate lines to reflect that. It really doesn't make sense to me.
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Since what else did we get? A talk about how ill he is and how soon he will die. Great thing.... Greatest character broken again for nothing. Wanna scream loud just to bring him back... I am hoping so much that they just listen with one ear to OUR prayers. I tried to play it a second time, but I lost motivation somehow. I wanna meet him again but there is always this sentence that Shep came for Kaidan. Don't wanna hear it anymore. I think I am going to wait for at least something new they will release. Meanwhile with my very own story of ME3 in my head and the hope that they just do anything to put us out of our misery. Only good thing: it nearly cannot get any worse at all for the Thane input. I still love the game. Hell how much I love it. And how much I love my FemShep. And now I don't want to play it anymore? Come on Bioware That's the most terrible thing which could had happend 
i can't imagine how it could be worse, but given what they did to the jacob romance (and i don't even like jacob, but that sucked!), i'm not sure i want to know how badly they could butcher thane.
On a desert with a shoreline and the sunrise and happiness and love everywhere~~
And I'd like to be able to just "ctrl+find" conversations about Thane, but since @MassEffect never says his name, and I can't see the people who tweet to them, I can't find the discussions without just clicking "In reply to---" for every post. lol
