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[Adon 9]

One thing that really struck me in ME2, even moreso than in ME1 is how the aliens at the end of the day are basically just everyday people.  Go around the Citadel or Illium, and listen to the conversations.  They have the same worries, same relationships, likes, dislikes, and such that humans do for the most part.  Just off the top of my head:

- That game dealer in the Citadel, a salarian, could be any game store clerk you've met dozens of times.
- The salarian and asari in Illium looking for a souvenir, with the asari casually calling the salarian 'dad' and the salarian's worries about how he's getting old and wants something for his wife to remember him by.
- The two asari talking disparagingly about purebloods, in a manner very reminiscent of plain old human bigotry.
- The turian desperately trying to get his quarian friend to notice him as more than a friend, and her obliviousness to that.

It goes on.  The point is that overall, the aliens in Mass Effect, while each have their cultural quirks, are more 'human' than not when it comes to their personalities.  The asari, for all the esteem they are held in, aren't all a bunch of wise mystics.  The turians aren't all militaristic sword rattlers.  It kind of drives home the counterpoint to Cerberus' human supremacist agenda -- at the end of the day, the aliens are a lot more like us than not.

As Alenko mentions in the first game, aliens are just people.  There are saints and jerks just like the rest of us.  And that to me is kind of cool.