AlanC9 wrote...
N7 Lisbeth wrote...
Even supposing she somehow, inexplicably isn't trapped under the concrete (clearly she is), let's examine other ways in which we're trapped: No ship, no food, no water, limited air since the Crucible/Citadel's hull was visibly breached in the explosion (and it's safe to say the systems recycling it were damaged in the explosions that we *saw* tear up the Crucible/Citadel).
No ship? There are plenty of ships flying around outside the Citadel. Plus ships docked at the Citadel, unless the Reapers destroyed every single one.
Actually; if I remember correctly, there shouldn’t be any. If they obeyed Hackett, most fleet ships must have escaped. I’m sure the Normandy must have been one of the last to bail out. Whatever ships remains on the battlefield are likely crippled (and busy with their problems) or they would have escaped.
In the citadel, whatever operational ships there were, likely were used to escape by the residents, or where destroyed, or crippled. There could be some left, sure; but I don’t expect it would be easy to find any.
Do we even need to mention Shepard was heavily bleeding, perhaps fatally wounded, and will probably die in short order without medical attention?
Look, if you want Shepard to die, go ahead and feel that she does. But you can't just drop a "perhaps" in there and then assume the truth of it.
Let me see, we have a seriously wounded soldier, in an apparently empty, ruined base. Debris surrounding her; and she is bleeding heavily. A deserted battlefield and the nearby planet is itself a ruined, chaotic battleground. All operational ships must have all bailed out of system, (as per Hackett’s order), and any still there must be dealing with problems of their own.
What is the most logical assumption? That Shepard lives or that she dies?
Now, let’s think about this:
It would have been easy to show Shepard’s face.
It would have been easy to show a team of rescuers finding Shepard.
It would have been easy to show a few seconds scene of her standing near the memorial wall, instead of the LI scene we got. So, why they didn’t?
My guess is precisely because the scene we got implies much more strongly that Shepard is going to die, (anyway), that it implies she can live through it.<_<