staindgrey wrote...
ME1 Liara was a cute character with a very, very forced romance. It went from, "Oh, this is asari culture," to, "I have a middleschool crush on you and I can have sex with my brain." I liked how Liara grew as a character, but the initial romance wasn't fluid at all. It just... happened.
Then she grew up, and so did the treatment of romance in the ME series.
Rolling around on a bed in your underwear is grown up? Talking to someone a couple of times then inviting them to shower with you is grown up? Getting dumped by your LI because he's about to become a baby-daddy to some random girl is grown up?

With a few exceptions I think the maturity of romance in ME has regressed, at least in ME1 the romances were treated equally and tastefully, even if the cut scenes were copy-pasted.
Back to the topic, I thought nerdy socially awkward Liara was cute, even though her voice acting in ME1 wasn't the best. It was interesting to see her get tougher over the years, which was inevitable with the change from being holed up in an archeological dig site, to being at the center of a galactic war. I liked the sweet moments like the time-capsule in ME3, because she still kept some of her original personality and it was also good you didn't have to romance her to get that extra interaction.