Guglio08 wrote...
Well, do you think that the random Cerberus pilot was also the engineer who fixed th shuttle between missions? I doubt it, because "pilot" and "engineer" are different jobs.DirtySHISN0 wrote...
You can argue that cortex gets his flights distinguished, but to be honest it looks as exactly the same as flights nameless cerberus shuttle pilot did in ME2, just with cortez face and voice inserts.
We learn about Cortez's passion and dedication for the shuttle not through him flying, but through him fixing the shuttle, his love of all things space craft, and his ability to divorce his job from his own emotional level.
Traynor could have easily been the same had EDI not praised her skills right after we meet her for the first time. At least for Kelly Chambers, we are told she has a psychology degree, but no one says "Kelly Chambers is an amazing psychologist and we are lucky to have her." We learn this via talking to her.
I don't recall anything special about his 'fixing the shuttle' scenes as far as I can remember. Do we even see him fix it? I mean it's difficult work that's just implied, the same way that the difficult work that Traynor does is implied. And any of his blather about how much he loves spacecraft is at about the same level as Traynor talking about how much of a geek she.
Cortez has the character hook of being recently widowed, and I think that's probably the only thing that tips the 'he's so much more interesting' scale in his favor. If we hang a personal tragedy on every minor character, yeah then suddenly they all become more interesting. You remove that and he's actually pretty boring and Traynor becomes the slightly more interesting character. In any case, I actually don't think it's wrong that Traynor is for the most part just an ordinary, albeit very smart, woman. If you find her flat and boring...well, there's 'flat and boring', ordinary people all around the world falling in love with each other. There's nothing really wrong with Traynor. I think with the fact that she's just a minor character, having others just 'telling you' she's great, is fine. We don't really need it to be shoved in our face with a large number of scenes showing her doing backflips with her abilities or anything. At least I don't.
On that note, Traynor beating you at chess, I thought was actually a nice little surprise. Being a fine military tactician, or soldier, doesn't necessarily mean you're great at game theory: I'm not in the military, but I smoke my military and RCMP buds in traditional and non-traditional board games all the time. Not to brag, it's just simple that I play more games than them and have been playing chess since I was a kid. So I don't agree that Shepard should be beating Traynor, the 'automatic loss' is just nitpicking, and it's not as if they're going to build a chess sim into the game.
I'd also like to point out that Shepard him/herself doesn't really display any fine tactical/strategic ability throughout the series; mostly he's a just an incredible combatant because we control him and the game is easy. We are 'told' that he might be a fine strategist through whichever pre-history you selected on creating him (i.e. war hero, ruthless, survivor, etc.). But this too is a case of 'told not shown'. Like Traynor, it doesn't bother me.
Modifié par N-Seven, 06 juillet 2012 - 05:34 .
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where they got the money to outfit all those people in state of the art armor and weapons.
