Gamble's tweet was absolutely necessary if BioWare was to protect its "artistic integrity." You can't base an entire series on the God of the ME Universe using the Space Magic Wand to change the very fiber of existence across the entire galaxy--as the only possible, effective New Solution--and then have the next Cycle not use it.
Liara specifically says the Crucible did not work. She also warns the next Cycle not to make the same mistakes she and her allies did. She'd provide data on all the effort and resources the allied species devoted to the Crucible, to something that did not work. Would the next Cycle really reject that advice, that flat-out warning? No. Gamble's tweet is another classic example of fixing an oversight, a mistake, in the actual game content via external means.
Note the writers did something similar in the game content itself. When you run through the expanded Catalyst dialogue, the Catalyst changes its story: it says the Reapers harvest both organic -and- synthetic life. Someone realized that if the Reapers harvested only organics, they'd leave behind the synthetics, who'd have 50,000 years to work on eradicating -all- organics. Oops.
And Reject clearly=fail. Not a principled rejection of abhorrent choices, choices Shepard feels are flat-out wrong. Nope, we get no scene of Shepard viewing the battle with grim resolve, or cheering on the allies for fighting the good fight. Or perhaps Hackett rallying the fleet: "Dammit! The Crucible didn't work! Well, let's go down fighting! Let's show 'em we came together and gave our all! Give 'em Hell!", followed by a cutscene similar to the final Quarian-Geth battle if things go wrong on Rannoch. What we get is a distant camera shot of Shepard standing atop the Citadel alone, slouching, and forlorn.
Lots of people have mentioned what happens if you shoot Star-jar in his glowy litte brain, so I'm not going to describe it. But if you think that isn't a response to all the videos showing Shepard blasting the Catalyst in vain, then you're fooling yourself.
They could fix Reject by stretching ME lore without breaking it as they break it with Star-jar and Space Magic. But they won't. That'd mean they were wrong, and they've proven pretty conclusively they can't admit that. Boy, I wish I was the one who's wrong.
Modifié par Aquilas, 29 juin 2012 - 07:20 .
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