dublin omega 223 wrote...
The only other problems is all the missions where she is a forced squadmate and how she has to be on the Normandy, can't see why she cant do her Shadow Broker business elsewhere or you can't have her not on the Normandy like with Kadian/Ashley after the coup attempt.
Liara is the
secondary protagonist of the series though. It'd be like not having Gandalf in Lord of the Rings.
It seems like people want to get rid of Liara without really understanding her place in the story. No, her role couldn't be filled by someone else, because it's
her role, written with her in mind. She's really too important to the relevant themes and story points throughout Mass Effect that her absence would utterly harpoon the story - hell, LotSB is great and all that, but Liara's role should have been greater in ME2 to begin with.
It's really messed up that when you're essentially "unifying the races" for your suicide mission, the only asari you get is the introverted religious semi-hermit.