Oh great. The trolls are out again. Don't you people have anything better to do than pull the "he was dying" card. Sheez. You know what happens when you date someone who's alive? They die.
Still don't get that most of us don't care that he died (or at least don't care much), but that we care that his character was butchered while he was alive? That the portrayal of a dignified, spiritual, philosophical man was turned into the sweaty pool boy from some b-grad porn movie that hepler watched one night? That the woman he was supposed to be in love with was shoved into the arms of someone who, by using that "cheating" allegation, basically admitted that he saw her as nothing but property. That we care that those of us who have actually experienced death as an adult, had to look after our loved one's every basic need, from bathing to wiping their asses because they were too ill to do so themselves, can see that Thane in is NOT a dying man. That he's FAKING it? That we are intelligent enough to know that a bacterial lung infection can not, IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM, turn into a genetic blood disorder?
This fandom has gone from being something I loved dearly, to something that makes me want to kill off the human species myself. At least at the moment. Because if you can't respect someone else's decision based simply on gender, AND THAT"S WHAT THIS WAS, then frankly I'm not sure that humans deserve to exist at all.
It may seem like an overreaction, and truthfully it is, but this is not only an issue, it is a symptom of a larger issue, that you trolls are continuing to enforce.
I'm angry, I'm sad, but most of all, I'm tired. This "it's complicated, spoilerific" comment from Jessica simply says that Thane is being shot in the back yet again, in favour of the idiots jerking off to their Liara blow up dolls, or that comic where Tali takes viagra and instead of dying, her breasts and vagina burst out of her suit. Yes that unfortunately exists. Makes me sad that THESE people are the ones that BioWare, or rather EA, have decided to accommodate. Instead of those who are capable of thinking themselves through an open door.
I think I will soon be officially abandoning this fandom. I'm just so tired...
And I'll be back after the suspension, on the off chance that a moderator actually deins to come into a Thane thread.