grey_wind wrote...
Mordin is irritatingly inconsistent with his stance on the genophage.
I have to adress this, because it's a bit of a peeve for me;
Mordin is not inconsistent. He has a
character arc.In ME2 he justifies his work to fix the genophage not just to Shepard, but to himself. His arc is about him going back to confront the guilt he has tried to leave behind, culminating in Maelon - Maelon who, unlike Mordin, never put the guilt away, letting it gnaw on him until it drove him nearly mad and he took to desperate measures to try and undo his sins.
After dealing with Maelon and seeing the horrors that the genophage inflict on the krogan first-hand - especially with the surviving test-subjects the STG picks up - Mordin has grown to understand that he
is responsible for many, many deaths and years of suffering for others, despite whatever he says to justify it.
He appears to be a spiritual person in some regards, hinted during conversations on Tuchanka in ME2, so perhaps he wants redemption, or perhaps, like Padok Wiks, he wants to leave the universe a better place when he dies than what it was when he was born.
Mordin believed in the genophage. Then he saw what it did, and he wasn't so sure anymore. Doubt wore him down. And finally, he did what so few people, even real people, can do, and admits the truth:
He made a mistake.