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[ModernAcademic]

Remember that short scene when everybody is in that vehicle heading to the fight zone on Tuchanka, where the Reaper is and Wrex starts talking about how the Krogan will rebuild after the genophage is cured?

 

Once he mentions trying to recapture the glory of the ancients, Mordin reprimands him with a warning, stating that it was that very ideal which made the galaxy see the Krogan as a threat. A fact which later lead both turians and salarians to develop and deploy the genophage on Tuchanka.

 

And then...the scene changes to something else. Wrex doesn't answer his comment. Even when it was very pertinent to Wrex's plans, since he does confront the Council later on about possibilities for krogan expansion. But also because it was a salarian who criticized him, a former STG and the very scientist who developed the modified genophage no less!

 

 

I felt there was a lost opportunity there. Wrex and Mordin are two of the cleverest and most shrewd characters of ME that I know. One is a humanitarian scientist that developed the modified genophage to preserve the balance of the galaxy and avoid the undesired extinction of a people. The other is an old krogan with quite a rational mind (for a krogan), a mind-over-matter philosophy who sees the idiocy of the current way of life of his people and how they must stop being a threat to the galaxy in order to have a better future. 

 

So these two have a VERY similar mindset, in the sense that they are both very down-to-earth people, quite rational, with a pragmatic view of the world and quite a few years of experience behind them to guide their decisions. I just wish we had witnessed an exclusive dialog between them: the eccentric krogan who understands how his people "deserved" the genophage and the doctor who understands how the krogan, for all their faults, had to be controlled, but didn't deserve to go extinct. 

 

It would have been interesting to see a salarian and a krogan sharing their thoughts on this. Especially because Wrex has a silver tongue and defends his ideas quite stubbornly, whereas Mordin has such certainty of his knowledge he is not the kind to back off so easily.

 

 

 

 

'We'll need room to expand - recapture the glory of the ancients.'

 

 

 

'"Glory of ancients" lead to Krogan Rebellions. Countless deaths. Creation of genophage. Expansion plan...problematic.'

 

 

 

Just imagine the full dialog that could've spawned from those unique two lines...

[Gaaxure]

  That episode contains even more egregious "sin". Right after that, if you inquire what were the ancients like, Eve says that Tuchanka wasn't always a nuclear wasteland, then describes their glorious past that was full of hope for future. And then Mordin chimes in "Until Salarian interference" with a full blown pathos and fervor of a White-guilt-ridden leftist. Eve then says that he's wrong and it was indeed the Krogan who doomed their own planet. What makes this absolutely godawful is that Mordin knows full well that Tuchanka's current state isn't the doing of the Salarians. And it's not an "implied knowledge" as in "he would have to know". On his loyalty mission in ME2 you have that same exact discussion, except Mordin is the one doing the explaining. You tell him, that Salarian meddling in Krogan affairs led to the destruction of their civilization and the current appalling state of the planet, and he throws it right back in your face saying that Krogan waged nuclear war on Tuchanka way before Salarians showed up.

  It's one thing to have a character reevaluate their actions and choices in life, and the other to have them ignore their characterisation altogether. Sure, Mordin pondered his actions while serving in STG and concluded that upgrading the Genophage was wrong. I can see how it makes sense. But what Mordin does here is just out of the blue.