Again, no, because Shepard knows nothing about the Collectors. He has no idea how many ships they have so if they have 1 or 100, it’s news to him. They could have other ships of different types, I suppose.
DS9 was my favorite. I thought it was a lot of people's favorite.
I'd love to see more ST, but done in that style.. Where it had more long running stories and such. TNG is cool, but self-contained episodes are kind of weak. Especially nowadays, where watching episodes back to back is more common.
It's not my favourite but it is my second favourite although it is the first of the Star Trek's I actually watched though if I remember rightly so I do remember it fondly for that as it got me interested in Star Trek as I expanded and watched the other series and found myself enjoying them too.
I was referring to Joker and EDI's dialogue, not Shepard's.
Joker doesn't know anything about anything beyond flying. EDI might well know, but she doesn't share any of that with Shepard.
Reading between the lines = Making stuff upLol
It's reading comprehension. Reading between the lines. People who got it were proven right. Ha
Reading between the lines = Making stuff up
Reading between the lines = Making stuff up
That's not true at all. Reading between the lines means there are lines there. Now, you can be wrong, as Addictress was until WoG made her right, but the idea didn't come out of whole cloth. In this very case, the idea that the Collectors have multiple ships is a reasonable assumption at the start. However, the rest of the story suggests otherwise.
The Collectors were able to build about half a working Reaper with the few colonies they raided in the Terminus Systems. That would suggest that, unless they've taken almost everybody in the Terminus Systems already, there isn't an actual need to hit Earth to finish the Human Reaper.
Half a working Reaper? A Reaper Dreadnaught is nearly two kilometers long- what we fought wasn't even 20 meters, and taken down by small arms fire.
No, the need to hit earth was another of ME2's points.
That would suggest that Shep was wrong about the speculation of them hitting Earth, or at least they weren't going to do it prior to the main Reaper force showing up or finishing their own Reaper.
Which comes back to- what's the point, then?
We know from WOG that the Reapers were already in transit, so the Reapers weren't building the human reaper to try a repeat of the Sovereign strategy. What's the value of a single Human Reaper before the main invasion, then? What is it actually supposed to do that's worth risking the Reaper's repeated emphasis on being a hidden force with a surprise attack?
No, she was always wrong, because the rightness of a conclusion is determined not by its accuracy, but by the validity of the reasoning that supported it.That's not true at all. Reading between the lines means there are lines there. Now, you can be wrong, as Addictress was until WoG made her right, but the idea didn't come out of whole cloth. In this very case, the idea that the Collectors have multiple ships is a reasonable assumption at the start. However, the rest of the story suggests otherwise.
The writer's intention is unknowable. I maintain that the entire field of study you describe is wrong-headed.They are close, sometimes readers make stuff up with their interpretations, but there are also times in which the writer put the message between the lines on purpose, specially if they want to get through censorship.
It is something we studied in primary school in Spain, and saw examples of many recent writers, some of them are still alive. Oh, in case you don't know, Spain was a dictatorship until 1975, thus why many writers and artists that disagreed with Franco and his rule had to use these type of methods to get the message they wanted across.
In other words, from the reader point of view it is the same process, interpretation. The big difference IMO is that you can read between lines when the writer actually had the intention for it. So I would avoid refering to it in such a derogatory way, seeing as it is a phenomenon that happens and is studied.
DS9 was my favorite. I thought it was a lot of people's favorite.
I'd love to see more ST, but done in that style.. Where it had more long running stories and such. TNG is cool, but self-contained episodes are kind of weak. Especially nowadays, where watching episodes back to back is more common.
With things like Netflix and Catch up TV and services like that that exist now yes. As you can always use that to catch up with any episodes you miss of a show. But when TOS and TNG were being made these services didn't exist. so having self contained episodes made more sense because if you missed one it didn't matter so much in the overall scheme of things because each episode was it's own unique story. In my opinion both ongoing stories and 1 episode stories are good in their own way though
They are close, sometimes readers make stuff up with their interpretations, but there are also times in which the writer put the message between the lines on purpose, specially if they want to get through censorship.
It is something we studied in primary school in Spain, and saw examples of many recent writers, some of them are still alive. Oh, in case you don't know, Spain was a dictatorship until 1975, thus why many writers and artists that disagreed with Franco and his rule had to use these type of methods to get the message they wanted across.
In other words, from the reader point of view it is the same process, interpretation. The big difference IMO is that you can read between lines when the writer actually had the intention for it. So I would avoid refering to it in such a derogatory way, seeing as it is a phenomenon that happens and is studied.
You'll have an easier time teaching a computer to love than you will trying to convince Sylvius that subtext exists.
All I'm getting from this is that you had the wrong impression at the beginning, and you're defending the impression.
More like pointing out ME2 was so badly written that such a conclusion was perfectly valid, given the facts as shown.
A bunch of dead storyless content?
You mean Mass Effect 2?
I'm expecting one dimensional characters (a character based entirely on their sexual orientation, for example), team diversity, and shallow choices for story and quest points (if you're given a choice).
The problem being I don't think this is a low bar nowadays. Sigh.
An account of a bunch of characters, interesting or not, does not to me consitute a story. It's just inert, "dead", in other words.
Especially when this "story" is the middle portion of an ostensible trilogy that already had a plot established one chapter earlier.
The main plot isn't the only thing that matters, but it's a prerequisite to a good story.
Really a good story should have a good plot, pacing, characters, setting, lore, etc. Why settle for less?
Because I don't think I am settling for less. Because I feel that the ME trilogy is something to be learned from. Because I felt a connection to the companions and even identified with them to some extent. I thought it was a great game and I don't feel it's any "lesser."The main plot isn't the only thing that matters, but it's a prerequisite to a good story.
Really a good story should have a good plot, pacing, characters, setting, lore, etc. Why settle for less?
Half a working Reaper? A Reaper Dreadnaught is nearly two kilometers long- what we fought wasn't even 20 meters, and taken down by small arms fire.
No, the need to hit earth was another of ME2's points.
What we fought was also literally half the Human form. Are the legs going to be 1.9 kilometers long?
Things like armour plating shouldn't be needing liquefied Humans to add.
Which comes back to- what's the point, then?
We know from WOG that the Reapers were already in transit, so the Reapers weren't building the human reaper to try a repeat of the Sovereign strategy. What's the value of a single Human Reaper before the main invasion, then? What is it actually supposed to do that's worth risking the Reaper's repeated emphasis on being a hidden force with a surprise attack?
What the purpose of the Human Reaper was, was never entirely explained. EDIs guess about "Human Reaper reproduction" doesn't make a whole lot of sense and it's the only thing we're given to go on.
Although when it comes to why risk being noticed the answer "Failure didn't even occur to them" fits with how the Reapers act in the rest of the story, and it's the Reapers controlling the Collectors.
Admittedly the Human Reaper seems more like they wanted a cool boss and then tried to make it fit the lore after designing it as best they could, even though it kind of doesn't.
ME2 is like "The dirty dozen in space". So ME2 gets the Charles Atlas seal of approval. "Stamped"
ME2 is like "The dirty dozen in space". So ME2 gets the Charles Atlas seal of approval. "Stamped"
Except the Dirty Dozen actually had a plan...
What we fought was also literally half the Human form. Are the legs going to be 1.9 kilometers long?
Things like armour plating shouldn't be needing liquefied Humans to add.
Why not? Where's the lore indication that there's a compositional difference?
Cause right now you're arguing the narrative doesn't imply what the narrative explicitly implies without ever implying otherwise on the basis of an assumption the narrative doesn't imply.
What the purpose of the Human Reaper was, was never entirely explained. EDIs guess about "Human Reaper reproduction" doesn't make a whole lot of sense and it's the only thing we're given to go on.
Although when it comes to why risk being noticed the answer "Failure didn't even occur to them" fits with how the Reapers act in the rest of the story, and it's the Reapers controlling the Collectors.
Admittedly the Human Reaper seems more like they wanted a cool boss and then tried to make it fit the lore after designing it as best they could, even though it kind of doesn't.
So the answer is there is no answer, with a helping of the impossibly intelligent machines aren't actually intelligent and just kinda stupider than they already were.
Can't say I'm surprised... because I'm not, and this was what I was criticizing in the first place.
Except the Dirty Dozen actually had a plan...
We fight or we die, that's the plan!
Except it's a suicide mission, so we should all be prepared to just die.
Cause planning.
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