I never mentioned the Collectors so I don't know what you are talking about. The reaper variants are the Banshees, Brutes, Husks, and so on and they were people and are on Earth and all the other planets. Perhaps they should be rounded up and moved or destroyed, but then they all were someone's relative ONCE. Of course there is something personalized in them to hate and be disgusted with. They turned people into goo. FACELESS enemies, the reapers? Seriously? Uh, the whole known galaxy that we care about has been seeing what they did and been faced with them. They decimated whole planets and destroyed countless colonies. That alone would make me not want them living amongst us. And they are not exactly small. And there are lots of them and the variants. There's a lot to hate in the reapers because even an impersonal killing is personal to the person that lost someone. It's also very personal in that they all but destroyed whole planets. I have no idea what game you were playing but in my story and in real life, mass killings are always personal to people who care.
I'm saying that I wouldn't use the Reaper ground forces again, because of that exact problem. However, did anyone actually see the harvesting process?
Your statement is head canon-there is nothing within control that says that Shepard's persona, nervous system (what?), emotional responses, and etc. are uploaded. The Catalyst says specifically thoughts and memories. Again, what game were you playing? Mine comes from the knowledge of the infrastructure such as we are shown in which the kid AI exists which is what Shepard's date will be uploaded into. The kid is so lacking in his knowledge of any emotional nuance (or he's lying, pick one of these two) because he doesn't even seem to think or understand he is causing harm AT ALL. He specifically says he's not killing people. That is either a lie because he knows he is or he is lacking the ability to understand just what he is doing. And, make no mistake separating people from their bodies and turning that part into goo and then apparently uploading their consciousness into reapers is killing them. What is certain is that Shepard knows he's killing and at least hurting people but he is not capable of understanding or caring about any of that. And in control, Shepard's essence in bits and bytes will be uploaded into the thing in which the kid resides. Again, it is like putting some brand new over-powered CPU into a really old computer and expecting it to be able to do all the new things the new CPU allows for. The kid's infrastructure does not allow for emotions.
The Catalyst does display emotion a time or two, it's just extremely hardwired into one direction and one purpose. Shepard doesn't share either one, and does display emotion in a few ways in the ending, it's just understated.
And that's only one thing, but it's the biggest thing that forms why and how someone cares for and about others or doesn't. In fact, brain issues have caused very caring people who were completely docile to attack others violently. Just take a gander at what Alzheimer's or other degenerative brain disorders, dementia can do and cause people to do-violence in fact is often the main reason people with such disorders are institutionalized at some point. People with dementia lose their relationship with the outside world. They lose their sense of self, but still at the core may be who they always were. But peaceful people can become very violent and some of that can happen even early in the disease.
This might even be relevant if we were referring to a damaged organic brain, which we're not.
The whole understanding within ME games of what is and is not possible as it even just relates to synthetics is that you can't substitute one structure (body, housing, physical terminal) for another and expect to have the same individual. That is within the story itself. My understanding also comes from the knowledge of real world studies being done even now where some of what is theorized and even known is that our minds (not our brains) and perhaps even what we loosely think of as our souls exist within our own physical structure. It is believed that part of what forms us into individuals is due to the differences within what we physically are-in part the different contours of our brains. It's what makes us different from all others. What is believed is that our experiences may well form the different neural connections and even the convolutions within our brains may contribute to what we are. In short, we are who we are because of what we are. It is also a truth that our persona is in part formed by our connection to what we physically are. Even on a minor scale this is true. People gain weight and sometimes even nice people turn angry or bitter, because their self view has changed. But you don't have to go that far even because the change for Shepard is more drastic. I don't think you understand the real nuanced meaning that was written into Control and yes, what we are shown and what we hear. It's not head canon-it was by design. It's why synthesis' music sounds more techno and destroy's sounds more emotional.
It's down to individual interpretation. However, given that Shepard's mind/soul/whatever is heavily implied to have transferred over to her resurrected body, I see no reason why the same shouldn't apply here.
Shepard in control says she had to become something greater-that is so at odds with what a Shepard, especially a paragon would say or think.
Not at all. I had to become something greater to fix the dilemma I was thrust into.
And yes, music is used to create feeling. In fact, in ME3 people have often stated BW used music far more than the dialogue and story itself to create or attempt to create emotion. Comparing control's music to synthesis' or destroy's and it is extremely obvious it is more ominous, somber, dark. But I didn't even need to do that-it felt that way and that was what it was supposed to do. Also, Shepard in control is not alone when she speaks. There are many voices there and it does not sound all that friendly. This part is head canon-it may be a real question of which many she is there to protect because in assuming control it isn't just that she is stopping reapers from killing people (for now) but she is supposedly stopping people from killing reapers (something that is really unreasonable to assume-almost everyone Shepard fought with at least would want to kill them still, especially since for all they know the reapers killed Shepard).
Opinion. I never saw the music or Shepard's echo as being ominous at all. Somber, maybe, but it's a somber situation, and if Destroy's music doesn't reflect that, it's lying.
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