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smokingotter1 wrote...
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Shepard: The goal of this ship is to wipe the Reapers from existence.
Javik: But how far are you willing to go to achieve that goal? I do not believe you commander. Lying is a biological marker. There is doubt behind your words.
This conversation always stands out to me. Why would there be doubt behind Shepard's words?
I think Bioware writes it where:
-Shepard consciously wants Destroy
-*Always wonders* about Control (but doesn't let himself believe it can/will happen, most of the time)
-Wishes for Synthesis, at least in many playthrough
When you read between the lines. That's why the Catalyst choices are both so jarring, yet not totally unexpected. We DO realize that Shepard does sometimes ask about how controlling the Reapers is possible, even as he consciously objects to and rejects the notion.
And his friendship and openness (in most playthroughs) to synthetics and AI is a sign that in some part of him, he wishes a form of synthesis (the kind in the Synthesis ending dream, ahem) would be possible.
To me female/male, renegade/paragon there is no way Commander Shepard would go for either control or synthesis, those decisions are merely player choices.
Choosing control or synthesis goes against who Shepard is deep down inside and by doing so you destroy who he is. Shepard's death in control and synthesis could be real is probably more symbolic. Again remember this is the same person who killed a crap load of Batarians just to slow the reapers down. Where are his nightmares about that?
You have to kill Shepard to make way for something new:
This dream is basically telling you that. A Shepard without armor or weapons. Defanged.That is why Shepard gains full mobility in both destroy and synthesis. Destroy he's fighting and overcoming the influence. In synthesis he's going full on board the reaper express, Shepard is going with the reapers and the reapers are not fighting his choice, only in control is Shepard limping all the way to th end. He's resisting but getting swept away anyway.
- That is why you drop the gun in both synthesis and control.
- That is why the same energy that goes through the synthesis beam goes through the control choice.
- That is why Shepard gets indoctrinated eyes and his burns are the same in control and synthesis.
- That is also why the synthesis beam remains intact in control and grows stronger in with the synthesis choice.
"You could have fought, you could have resisted. Instead you surrendered, you quit."
Well yeah, I agree. Just because a character is curious about Control, and works towards greater Synthesis, doesn't mean he should accept to change the entire galaxy based on that alone.
I'm only saying that it adds a layer of depth to the character of Shepard that maybe up to the majority of the playerbase didn't even realize.
I kinda see 4 layers of his onion:
1. Destroy - He presents this to pretty much everyone
2. Control - He wonders about it at times, even openly to close squadmates and allies (Hackett for example), but rejects it ultimately.
3. Synthesis - He doesn't even wonder about it, but his actions can reflect wishes for a greater understanding between organics and synthetics. "You're just a machine!" turns into much more peaceful sentiments about synthetics as the series progresses, and Shepard learns much more information over time about them. Also, the Lazerus Project having recreated Shepard into a semi-cyborg may have been the prompting in this (subtexual).
4. Yet in the end, his fight is ALWAYS about stopping the Reapers. And the story keeps telling us: "To stop you Reapers, you DESTROY them, and you BREAK the cycle of Control and Synthesis that the Reapers use to manipulate organics."
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