Two pages and not one mention of our favorite air quoting Turian Councillor? I am disappoint!
He was an anti-human ****** that I couldn't stand in ME1. He is always the most hostile and critical of Shepard out of the three Councillors, and of course was responsible for the "Ah yes, Reapers" quote. In ME3 however he sort of redeems himself. While not entirely likeable in ME3, he is at least somewhat sympathetic, and ends up becoming a huge help to Shepard in garnering Turian support. It is funny in a way how he ends up becoming an ally...war makes strange bedfellows I suppose.
As for Liara showing a more ruthless side...
While this is certainly a change, it is one that I liked. I also didn't find it to be unrealistic, as war does change people.
Dr. Eugene Sledge, the author of
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, wrote of his first time killing a man during the battle of Peleliu:
Even before the dust had settled I saw a Japanese soldier appear at the blasted opening. He was grim determination personified as he drew back his arm to throw a grenade at us. My carbine was already up. When he appeared, I lined up my sights on his chest and began squeezing off shots. As the first bullet hit him, his face contorted in agony. His knees buckled. The grenade slipped from his grasp. The soldier collapsed in the fusillade and the grenade went off at his feet.
I had just killed a man at close range. That I had seen clearly the pain on his face when my bullets hit him came as a jolt. It suddenly made the war a very personal affair. The expression on that man's face filled me with shame and disgust for the war, and all the misery it was causing.
The same man who wrote that tells of another incident during the Battle of Okinawa, where as a battle hardened veteran he joined some men on the line to have a bit of sport in gunning down a band of Japanese soldiers who were making a suicide charge against their position. Sledge was a mortarman and had been ordered to stay on the mortar, but with the mortar not carrying out fire missions at the moment he had decided to go and get a few shots in on the enemy with his carbine. Afterwards a Lieutenant came up to chew him our for it, and Sledge snapped, "They're Japs, a'int they?! What the hell difference does it make what weapon we use? I'd kill them with my goddamned bare hands if I had to!"
After the war when registering for college, Dr. Sledge was asked by a woman who worked for the university what he had learned in the Marine Corps that might be eligible for academic credits. Sledge started going through the list of various weapons he was trained on and all the skills that would make an infantryman proficient at his tasks. The clueless woman interrupted him and said, "I'm talking about things that would be eligible for academic credit. What is all that stuff? Didn't the Marine Corps teach you anything?" Sledge exploded and shouted at the poor woman, "Lady, they taught me how to kill Japs!"
The war had changed him.
Modifié par Han Shot First, 06 juin 2012 - 04:32 .
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