Sigilius wrote...
I'm sure they'll have extensive dialogue from Meer.
Anyway, on the topic of Liara's face, I'd just like to say that the strange expression is, once again, merely because she's expressing a painful emotion just then. The lips look fine, the contrast between them and her skin is just very high in that lighting. Her neck is like it always has been, she's just worn a high collar in ME1. As for her eyes, besides the slight clouding of her right eye in that screenshot, they look emotional and gorgeous.
I personally like her new look. I loved her when she was innocent and awkward, and now their relationship, and Liara herself, is maturing. She's gone from the cute sort of beautiful to the dangerous, achingly attractive sort. Either way, she's still Liara. Besides, who says she still can't be somewhat awkward still? Let's just talk to her when the mission is over, and she can think about something other than smearing the walls with the Shadow Broker.
This brings me back to a previous statement I made on this thread a while back. I think Liara is a good mirror of the overall spirit of the Mass Effect Trilogy. In the first game, there was a wide-eyed innocence to it all as you explored this brave new world for the first time. In ME2, things get shocked and turn upside down, you have to ally yourself with a shadow organization for the greater good, ignoring what your conscience may say and along the way, you pick up some scars, you see horrific things and do unpleasant deeds because they are necessary. In my eyes, Liara's own story and character mirror this, albeit in a different way.
In the screenshots we see, Liara looks
thin in a figurative sense, or worn. The lack of makeup makes for an overall feeling of being 'bare' in a character sense. She is entirely without veneer.
If visuals were tastes, then ME1 Liara would taste like an orange, and this new Liara, this phoenix rising from the ashes of the old self that burned with the Normandy, has a visual taste of a fine lime.