LesEnfantsTerribles wrote...
Nope, I don't think there's a smile with the picture scene at all. I think that's just a rumour that's been perpetuated by the ME Wiki and such. It doesn't happen as far as I can see.
Well that's a relief, I always thought there something wrong with all my Femshep's faces.
The picture scene just makes me all melancholic because it makes me think back to all the things you couldn't say or do on Illium. Even just having Shepard whisper "Liara" wistfully and touch the picture with her hand would have mitigated that a lot and probably made me just burst into tears.
Kind of jarring too going from staring at the picture to talking to that freaking ass TIM. No reason Shepard couldn't have gotten on the FTL comm to talk with Liara instead of that bonehead. By that point I think you've pretty well proven that you're faithful and that you're coming back for her.
Same thing for the Ashley/Kaiden people, even if they couldn't get ahold of them directly, they could tell Anderson something all emotional to pass along.