royceclemens wrote...
But going back to the loyalty fight, Jack's words were that Miranda wouldn't admit that what Cerberus did to her was wrong. She wasn't even necessarily asking for an apology, just an acknowledgement of her suffering. If Miranda could only muster a simple "that sucks," then she wouldn't have died at the end of my next playthrough.
I dunno... I'll play devil's advocate again, and say it's not beyond the realms of possibility that Jack went up there to pick a fight. She's just come back from incinerating the place that has dogged her for her entire (remembered) life, and come to understand that it wasn't just her that had a rough time of it, but a whole bunch of other kids too. Jack might talk big about dropping space stations on moons, but she's not so stony that she can't feel guilt, or even sadness for others. And regardless of how it ended, the program was started by Cerberus. It's something to focus the anger on; with no target, you're just left with blind rage that nibbles away at you day and night, and she's already got enough of that **** to deal with without taking more on... think about it from her point of view: Shepard's helped her, been honest with her so far, and the rest of the Normandy's crew are faceless, just following orders or keeping out of her way, knocking them about is no more satisfying than shanking a prison guard when it's the warden you want to off. You need someone high-up to take it out on, someone who means something within Cerberus... that only can take you to the Cheerleader's room. It's not right to attack her - she had nothing to do with what was done personally - but it'll make you feel better for five minutes at least, before you're back alone with your thoughts again...
On the other side of the coin, Miranda can't appreciate how someone can be so angry with Cerberus. She refuses to accept the mistrust of the Quarians; that was just business. Jack is one scrawny little ****up who doesn't respect authority or fill a valuable role in society. She's human waste, plain and simple. Her only redeeming defect is her biotic ability, and that's been rendered unusable because it was crammed inside a screwed-up convict as opposed to someone that could appreciate the gift they'd been given. Miranda truly believes that humanity's advancement is a worthy goal, so why wouldn't it be acceptable to allow a few to suffer so the whole can improve? Besides, Cerberus shut down the program, so the blame for what happened can't possibly be laid at her door - the fact they started it in the first place is meaningless; the ends would have justified the means, and when it was obvious that the project wasn't working, they pulled the plug. Not a Cerberus problem anymore. Someone ripped the A section out of Miranda's dictionary, because she doesn't know the meaning of accountability.
I don't read either of them as particularly innocent in that exchange; Jack's anger is understandable but misplaced, and Miranda's attitude is shortsighted and ignorant of reality. People cannot rationalise a hurt that big; it changes people in awful ways, irrational ways. Just because you got a nice bottle of shampoo out of the years of research dosn't make the test bunny's retinas burn any less. Any chance of a normal life Jack may or may not have had was taken away by the experiments and has led to a life of excess, crime and further abuse. Those two women are an accident waiting to happen. I can see both sides, but only one person is an actual victim, and thus requiring sympathetic handling. The other is just being pigheaded and blinkered.
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Well, for a woman so bloody smart she still falls back on schoolyard rules when another alpha female gets in her face. Might explain Jack's headshaving... means a distinct lack of hair-pulling 
), and some of the writers had tighter chops than others... Jack being a real highlight to me (and Mordin a close second). It seems almost a shame that some people will not have given her more than a cursory look-over because she's a selfish, whining, emo, bat**** crazy, evil ****... apparently. 
