Simon_Says wrote...
As if perfect understanding between humans is the norm. Oh wait.
But I think we're not being clear about what connection means. I'm thinking that it means that R!Shep will be disconnected from the relationships and emotional connections/sympathies that Shepard developed throughout the trilogy. This much is supported by R!Shep, who mentions ruling/protecting the galaxy but not... oh, the friends or loved ones Shepard had. Things may be nice for a while, but it's only a matter of time before R!Shep goes all God Emperor and becomes a monster even for good intentions.
Of course Shepard won't have emotions. That is what I meant (though AIShep does mentions that he will protect the people who remember him/her as the person he once was). So how is it that AIShep will turn into a god emperor if s/he doesn't care for things like that anymore, since s/he lost his/her emotions, AIShep wouldn't want to rule over anyone, wouldn't want to do anything past his/her codes?
I wrote...
Have any evidence to back that claim up? Are Shepard's motivations really strong enough if five minutes before being presented the option of Control Shepard was solely pursuing the reapers' destruction? Would Reaper!Shepard's methods really match up to what Shepard would do even if the motivations were transferred intact? Remember that the Catalyst said that the reapers were protecting organic life. Look how well that went.
And I answered you. Shepard's past motivations did match up to what AIShep is doing, because AIShep is telling you, Shepard's thoughts guide him/her. AIShep is acting based if you were paragon or renegade. So yes, it transferred successfully.
I wrote...
Face it. Control just can't be accepted as reliable with the information we got.
I'm not trying to say Control from a literalist perspective would be bad. But I'm not convinced that its more likely to be good than bad, becuase there are simply too many ways for it to go spectacularily wrong.
None of the endings can be accepted as reliable from a literalist view point. Control, a malfunction can happen. destroy, someone can rebuild the Reapers. synthesis, people might start growing super powers and a dark age will come of where everyone destroying planets and the univerese itself, since, well, everyone have super powers and can't die. Refuse... The bad already happened.
There are always risks and dangers. Control is not special in that aspect.