Ah the Garrus thread, glad to see it's still around, kinda jealous over the hundred-page Tali monstrosity though. We Garrus fans are just too mellow.
Prolefeed wrote...
Oh, and on the question about music: I doubt that was Garrus' preferred choice. I take the motion he makes after he starts it (the arm-spread thing) to be him nonverbally asking, "Is that right?" It's just filtered through his ****iness and general lack of vulnerability. (WHICH IS ONE OF THE THINGS I TOTALLY LOVE ABOUT GARRUSMANCE, BTW. Thane opens up to you whether or not you romance him; he's just uber-tragic. Jacob's baggage is rather small, and dealt with easily on his loyalty mission. But Garrus, after all his bravado, finally shows you how much pain he's been through during the romance scene. You can see it during his loyalty mission, too, but he's still trying to hide it with anger until you Paragon him out of killing Sidonis.)
I think Garrus is just operating off of what he knows about human sexuality, which would mostly be sleazy sex in nightclubs and stuff. He wouldn't know about the human conception of (and obsession with) love and long term relationships, or that those encounters are supposed to have a distinctly different emotion to them than random casual sex. So he just picks club music because he knows humans get busy to it.
I really need to write a fanfic; I have all these crazy conversations between Shepard and Garrus bubbling around in my head. One of them revolves around bits and pieces Garrus has picked up about human sexuality during his work in C-Sec and his time on Omega. ("There's a joke that a recruit isn't truly a C-Sec officer until the first time he walks in on someone having sex. You'd be surprised how much it happens. Sometimes exhibitionists purposefully call in an incident right before they get started. We aren't allowed to arrest them for indecent exposure and goddamn wasting our time until the third instance, since they're technically on private property."
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Personally, I loved Garrus' attempt at seducing Shepard using the Flux song, it just underscores how unsure he is, but also shows that he's trying really hard to make it special for her (I can just imagine him preparing a list: Wine, check. Clothes, check. Music, check). I agree with you that he probably doesn't think that it's especially good music, and I even recall him making a disparaging comment about it when you talk to him in Flux in ME1.
On the whole I really loved the scene, and I wasn't disappointed at the lack of footage of the actual mechanics of the encounter (would probably be a b*tch to animate), though I did find that there was less actual dialogue with Garrus. Not even the romance stuff, just general "hey I want to talk to you about stuff etc. etc.". His conversations started repeating fairly early on, and I was hoping for a bit more. Though this is probably because the writing had to be spread out between 10 characters verses 6 in ME1, I'm still kind of disappointed about that.
I've also probably said this before but for ME3 we need more reactions to a Garrus romance. Even though inter-species "relations" are probably not as revolutionary in the ME-verse than was once thought, a Turian-Human couple should still raise a few eyebrows, especially when that Human is Commander Shepard. I was hoping for inter-squad conversations a la DAO, where the squadmates would periodically discuss the Grey Warden's love life (which were hilarious imo). Even though the Mordin thing was awesome, it left me wanting more. The only other offhand comment that I heard regarding romance was Aria's "you should find a nice boy and loosen up a bit", and I wish my Shep had responded. Lost opportunity I think, especially seeing as she's in a relationship with "Archangel", the vigilante that Aria helped her locate. Shepard could've said something like "I'm a sucker for a man who can take out a target's knees from 120 kilometers away using only an M-92 Mantis Sniper Rifle".

Addendum: Prolefeed please write that fanfiction, it sounds awesome.