byne wrote...
Turbo_J wrote...
RavenEyry wrote...
Turbo_J wrote...
You are stating fact that Mikes comments are counter to an Indoctrination perspective when he actually says no such thing.
In my opinion, you are grasping at straws this time... and I don't say that much because I hate the saying.
It's easy to interpret their comments in multiple ways. So the oily shadows represent people Shep's seen die. What's to say everyone undergoing indoctrination doesn't see oily shadows of dead friends?
That was my point. It can be interpreted any way the player chooses. Given I only lost 2.5 people I gave a crap about in my canon playthrough, seeing 30 oily shadows in the third dream still makes me question Mike's comment; that they simply (and 'only' by some peoples interpretations) represent fallen friends/comrades... I see them as oily shadows of indoctrination, and no other explanation fits; again 'in my own opinion'.
Who did you lose? And who was the half?
Kaiden, Mordin, and Legion... who is not dead, but disseminated into all Geth. He is a part of them all.
Little tangent of bothersome things coming...
My Canon Shep did not like Thane, so his death wouldn't have any impact on her, really. Just like the death of one no-name kid; it couldn't mean anything - not with millions dieing. Not when She just told Anderson; 'we fight for the ones that make it out alive'. Had she really been my avatar at the time, she would have question why a reaper with a primed main gun chose not to fire on the evac zone - and just honk at the kid instead. A kid to represent all of humanity? Ok, maybe. But Earth? Really? For a spacer vagabond? Did BW forget the background of two out of three Shepards here? Amy could give a damn about a cohesive ball of dirt and rock.
One of the very first things I said to myself on my first playthrough was that 'this is not my Shepard'. Too many OOC moments. I'd lost control. That should be a huge red flag for anyone with any understanding of the lore of Mass Effect.
"Home is recognised patterns, knows sapces. Familar thought processes of fellow sapients. It is belonging. Home is where
the creators you are." Legion - 2185.
Using shepard's own logic regarding the loss of a planet: "We may have lost
Thessia Earth, but we haven't lost the
Asari humans yet."