mythlover20 wrote...
No. Thane ALWAYS dies. If you don't talk to him you don't get any kind of message of notification that he has died. His name just appears on that bloody wall. I didn't even know that until I sat there an actually looked for it.
Either way he's doomed.
His death was just not handled well. NPCs and squadmates just wouldn't shut up about Mordin dying, and his was optional! (In my Garrus romance he lived). Yet not a single one commented on him. Garrus, Joker, Liara, and Tali all knew him. It does not make sense that they would forget him, unless they all got amnesia, in which case they shouldn't remember Shepard either.
The fight scene was awkward, not on Thane's part, but on Kai Leng's. Thane we all can understand, even sympathise with. Kai Leng however is the man who is supposed to take out the best assassin in the galaxy, and he just stands there showing off. It Thane was at his best, Kai Leng would have been dead with the first shot.
The prayer is beautiful, and imo was well written, but it shows up for EVERY Shepard, not just those who romanced him. And those who romanced him should have gotten something separate.
Thane only has one dialogue, which completely negates his character arc from ME2. Forgetting the romance arc, at the end of ME2 he has been reunited with his son, and has learnt of the Reaper threat. He cares, deeply, and tries to do something about it. Yet in ME3 he just sits there, uncaring, staring out of the hospital window. Don't mention that he came out to fight in the Coup; THAT does not count. In ME2 he fought to redeem himself, because he CARED. In ME3, he fights because he was forced out of his comfy hospital chair.
And to the cure, if you don't want Thane cured, don't cure him. But give those of us who do, who either romanced him or just found him a worthwhile character that deserved better, the OPTION to do so.
What don't you understand about that? We don't want to take away his death, we want to be given the CHOICE to let him live, to do his character justice.
His name is THANE KRIOS. NOT Mr. Kepr Al Syndrome, as someone else has said (sorry, I forget who). He is definied by his character, not his disease.
My mother is not defined by her own lung disease. My father was not defined by his lung cancer. My grandfather was not defined by his pancreatic cancer. My grandmother was not defined by her kidney failure. My aunt is not defined by her onset of alzheimers. They are individuals. Complex beings. Characters are no different. They are created to be a complex as any individual being and that's what the did with Thane.
You don't define a living being by his disease. Why are you so closed minded, callous, or inhumane to do the same thing to a character?
Because it's not a very big jump from fictional characters to real people, because those characters COME from real people.
After all, wasn't the inspiration for Thane's battle with Kepral's taken from one of the writer's friend's battle with cyctic fibrosis or something? Would you sideline that person just because you were told they were going to die. Would you sideline a friend because you were told they were going to die? Would you sideline a family member?
Would you like them to sideline you?
Think about that.
Quoted for truth. Last night I had a terrible exchange on Twitter:
Vi @Asenza
@masseffect Thane≠Keprals Syndrome. Thane=Drell,
living weapon, assassin, spiritual, husband, father, widower. Why did
ME3 forget that?
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@asenza He's certainly not defined by his sickness, but it does limit what he can do. No one will forget who Thane truly is.
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Vi @Asenza
@masseffect
EVERYONE forgot who Thane was. No one but Kai-Leng spoke his name in
game after the attack on the Salarian councilor.
Is it the same as the endings? They wanted to make Thane's death "memorable"? Well, like the endings, Thane's death is not just unforgetable, but unforgiveable.
I would have been able to deal with it if it had been done properly, but it wasn't.
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I think that he wouldn't of lived long enough to see the end of the game (lucky him) anyway, but remember he died a hero guys! 
Every time I walk past that memorial wall in the Normandy I think of his sacrifice, and I wouldn;t have been able to do it without him :')
