RShara wrote...
Versidious wrote...
Also, I'm not sure what point you were trying to make with the Shepard analogy? There was never an in-game calendar for his death, and at no point is anyone romancing Shepard under the belief he's terminally ill.
The Jacobmancers were definitely cheated though. Quite literally.
My analogy was to make the point that Shepard can be brought back from being dead, but Thane can't be cured from a disease? (Hint: One is much more space magicky than the other)
Directly after being recruited, during the first conversation on the Normandy, Thane mentioned that the Hanar were working on a cure; he just didn't expect that he would live long enough to benefit from it. In Lair of the Shadow Broker, Thane's dossier showed that he was an eligible transplant candidate, but he refused; it is unclear when it
occurred, so it is unknown whether or not he refused pre- or post meeting Shepard. But the important information here is that it was possible for Thane to receive a transplant that would extend his life. There would not need to be a miracle cure because there was already one in the works by the Hanar. In addition, the CDN mentioned a new medigel for the lungs that would revolutionize internal medicine; I hope I need not explain how this could immediately benefit Thane.
And yet, all that foreshadowing, dismissed. There was hope; not hope from desperate fans reaching for any half-baked scrap of information to support their claim, but hope born of game-provided evidence. This was a slap in the face. If Thane was always slated to die, why give any of it at all? Why have Thane mention that the Hanar were working on a cure?
Why put in Thane's Shadow Broker Dossier that he was an eligible transplant candidate? Why release on the CDN information about a medigel for the lungs, when that information would only be of interest to a select group of the fan base? Why recognize the "Cure Thane in ME3" banner, giving more hope to fans? If this isn't trolling, I don't know any other name for it.
In the Mass Effect universe, Shepard was been brought back to life from unquestionable death. Mordin threw
together a Genophage cure. Making those two things happen while stating that extending Thane's life wasn't possible despite all this information is simply contradictory and nonsensical.
Hmmmm... Well, I have always assumed that the discussion about the Hanar cure was a literary device meant to address us going 'Hang on, in this universe, they can bring me back to life, and they have medigel to heal grievous wounds, but there isn't a cure for a fairly common disease? Ohhhhh! There will be one in a few years, but it'll be too late for him. Well, damn.', not 'There's a cure! He just has to hang on...' Though, as for Project Lazarus, that itself was a sheer level of resources, piled onto one man, and took two years, with its success a long shot in the first place. It's the Mass Effect equivalent of the Six Million Dollar Man, 'The 60 Billion Credit Symbol of Human Badassery'. Thane does not have a Drell supremacist organisation trying to ensure he survives to further the Drell agenda.
Most of the 'foreboding' was probably (Mmmm, taste that! That's the taste of SPECULATIONS!) because Bioware was still undecided whether or not to have Thane die yet (wishing to avoid an out-of-the-blue cure), and *certainly* wasn't present when you first chose to romance him, especially not the one in the Shadow Broker's Dossier. It may be that they felt they couldn't do a cure for Thane very well, and so scrapped the idea, or that, like me, they thought it was a better ending. They clearly rank 'what dedicated fans want' quite low on their major story decision-making considerations, and happily abandon storylines with foreboding (Dark energy, anyone?)! Not Trolling, just indecision. There's all sorts of things vaguely foreboded on CDN which came to nothing.
Or maybe they will come to something, only in DLC? Maybe you'll therefore get a Thane resurrection in a DLC. I wouldn't be completely surprised, but then I wouldn't be surprised if you don't, either. I think that it's a good story, it just needs fleshing out. Thanemancers definitely do not get true emotional closure.
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It was all from Liara. Which is great and all, but she's not who I wanted to hear it from.
