Graceyn wrote...
Never. If you do the side missions in ME1 it's virtually impossible to believe that they were good, or even misguided, or even using extreme methods in pursuit of a noble goal.
Which is why one thing that really bugs me in ME3 is that at several points you are forced into saying that TIM was once kind of okay. Whenever that happens I am yelling at the screen, "No, my Shepard never, ever thought that, dammit!"
I don't know if I believe this - I think TIM always had "nobler" intentions as it pertained to humanity, and the organization probably had good people in it (and not just on the Normandy for the purposes of placating Shepard) - but whenever you create a species-centric organization, it is always liable to attract the wrong sort of people, as does the kind of money that TIM can move around to the cells.
In ME1 they were definitely portrayed as the darker version of the Alliance, and it would have suited the writers better to take what they were doing and associate them with positive outcomes (for example, the experiments with the thorian creepers could have produced data that was helpful to the the surviving colonists of Zhu's Hope). In ME2 we see part of the organization is made of good people, hard working people with families who want to make a difference. They don't mistreat the aliens on board - they in fact respect them. Most importantly, every under-handed thing that TIM does pays off.
In ME3, however, they are reduced to mustache-twirling victims - all we are missing is the fair maiden tied to the railroad tracks. Anybody with half-a brain left the organization, and are being hunted down for it. Everyone left gets reduced to a "mindless" husk, just there to do TIM's bidding. TIM ends up falling prey to the Reaper's mind-altering powers, as well. They took characters that they had spent an entire third of the franchise painting as morally grey, and then either pushed them to black or white.
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