LDS Darth Revan wrote...
DoomsdayDevice wrote...
Nobody seems to give a flying **** about dialogue, but just for the hell of it.
Reposting some recent stuff.
This is after the Rachni mission, the Missing Scouts, Anderson on vidcom:
Anderson: Shepard. So I imagine you've wiped the galaxy clean of Reapers, and we can all come up for air?
Shepard: Not quite. There are a few complications.
Anderson: Aren't there always? Hackett filled me in on the Crucible. Sounds like you've got some knots to untangle.
(...)
Shepard: It's what you hired me to do.
Anderson: Mostly you were hired to kill Reapers. I hope you haven't been sidetracked by all the politics.
Shepard: Nothing I can't handle.
Also, Omega ending foreshadowing - for those who may have missed it.
I don't get the importance of the second one. What are you pointing at?
It's a reference to not doing what you were sent to do (destroying the Reapers), but getting sidetracked by the catalyst's diplomacy.
That's the cool thing about many of these references that we're finding, you can interpret them as if the story already happened, as if the story is on some infinite loop, and Anderson is asking you if you picked destroy in the end, or got sidelined by the catalyst trying to talk you out of it.
It's the kind of foreshadowing you can't notice on a first playthrough, but when replaying, these things just stand out.
Like this one:
Turian: Listen, honey, please... This is how it has to be. Everyone is going through this.
Asari: I know, and I'm sure you'll be fine, but it's just so damn inconvenient. It's like we're pre-spaceflight all of a sudden.(As if they just had to go through the experience of the ending - the relays getting destroyed, etcetera. It's a way of telling the players - don't worry: everybody's going through this.)
James Vega: It's... not right. It looks pretty, calm and peaceful, but it's not right. It's all just an illusion. (...)
Shepard: I can hardly believe it, myself. Like everything back on Earth was some kind of nightmare.Back on Earth is literally referring to the beginning of the game, but you can also interpret it as if talking about the last time you played the ending - and then it becomes interesting.