The only so called "evidence" I've read about that COULD be considered (I did, too) and is hinting that Shepard was NOT indoctrinated, and that somehow BioWare thought that the endings we do have "really happened" (not a nightmare, not indoctrination, really happened), is the Prothean A.I. on Thessia. That Prothean A.I. "detected indoctrination" when Kai Leng arrived, since indeed just as much as the Illusive Man happens to be indoctrinated. Since Shepard had been talking to the A.I. for some time before Kai arrived and since the A.I. never reacted to any indoctrinated presence, then it "should mean" that Shepard was in fact "normal" and not indoctrinated.
My problem with that "evidence" (more like a theory) is the following:
1) That A.I. is Prothean, which means it was built by Protheans 50,000 years earlier during their own cycle. Whatever method(s) is used to detect indoctrination must be method(s) / technology of detection that happens to be detecting specific "types of" indoctrination that the builders of that A.I. happened to be aware of during their own cycle. That means - possibly - that Kai Leng's indoctrination is a mere coincidence that it had been detected by the A.I., due to the type of indoctrination "used" for Kai Leng which was "detectable" to start with.
2) Shepard, contrarily to Kai Leng, from what we know (maybe it's not the case) has (most likely) a crap load of synthetic implants in his/her body, which might alter the "detection method" or capabilities of the Prothean A.I. But MORE IMPORTANTLY, Shepard is able to "think like" a Prothean (as mentioned in M1 by Liara, thanks to touching the Beacon on Eden Prime and not only that, being able, over time, with help from Liara's mind melding sessions, to figure out what it means, partially). And in ME3's Eden Prime mission (Prothean DLC) Shepard is the ONLY ONE able to actually see and understand all the "footage" of events that happened to a specific group of Protheans as they were being killed by Reapers and escaping to stasis pods, which indeed demonstrates that Shepard is able to think like and understand Protheans and might just happen to be developing a Prothean psychology. And BECAUSE of that, it might be possible that the Prothean A.I.'s detection methods on Thessia was not able to detect Shepard's potential indoctrination since the A.I. might have considered Shepard as a Prothean (without necessarily mentioning just that out loud and word-by-word).
Either way, the indoctrination theory has more in its favor than not. Anything that "can disprove" the theory, while possibly existing (at least in-game) is still quite difficult to find.
Modifié par Lyrandori, 15 mars 2012 - 06:53 .
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