What's up yall? That "what I don't like about Samara" thread has incensed me a little bit today. Mainly because I think the OP is using Samara's obligations to the Code as a crutch to simply discard her moral intuitions. I agree that the Code itself is mysterious and startlingly absolute, but I think the point of the Samara character is to press what we see in her virtuosity (which takes actual
effort *shocking*) against the standards of the Code and look at ourselves. What would you do when pushed to your very limits and be placed in a situation such as hers? People are forgetting Samara's personal link to the Code and instead judging her based on what she is compelled to do unequivocally. Isn't the situation she was given absolute? Your daughters are going to be born with a genetic defect that will force them to live incomplete lives. And one of them will embrace that defect and become a runaway bringing her terrors to unsuspecting people across the galaxy. How is she not justified in adopting a doctrine that allows her to deal with the mess in an absolute way too? I think at this point Samara started seeing the world as less gray as well. All Asari respect and honor the Code, but part of the sacrifice you must make to be its agent is to disregard all gray areas as well as giving up all worldly possessions, that's probably the reason most don't do it. In a world that moves farther away from line by line interpretations of traditional and even holy scriptures, I thought it was good thinking on Bioware's part to throw in a character that showed "what if there were still individuals who believed in serving the people in a moral absolutist type of way?". The result is a character who is responsibly benevolent in spurts, yet still necessarily impartial. Isn't that lesson enough?
Oh, and Renegade Shepard should put a sock in it if he doesn't like Samara threatening him/her, got a death wish anyway
I dunno did dat make any sense?
Modifié par 7Makaveli, 25 mai 2010 - 07:03 .
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