LesEnfantsTerribles wrote...
I really don't see where people were getting the "Liara is the next SB" idea from, even with the audio files that have turned out to be trash.
To me, it looks like the original plot device is that Liara would use the data gathered by the recently destroyed SB to try to discover any information that would be any help in the upcoming battle against the Collectors, due to the fact that the SB obviously dealt with them and had contect with them. Meaning that, once the suicide mission is over, Liara is back on the team again.
Also, Liara says in that cut dialogue that most of the SB agents report to her now. What's not to say that she has the SB's despicable agents arrested, but keeps the harmless ones? I'd imagine that she wouldn't want to work with someone like Fist or Nyxeris, but would be happy to have someone like Barla Von report to her. As I said, the original (retarded and stupid, I may add) reason that Liara wouldn't have joined you on the SM is because she wanted to discover any way in which she could help Shep in fighter the Collectors. Once the Collectors have gone, Liara abandons her info broker job and is back with Shepard.
As we've all said though, I'm glad they scrapped it as it was stupid beyond belief. It conveniently ignored the fact that Liara's sole reason for working as an information broker, a job she clearly hates, is to stop the SB and that she desperately wants to go with Shepard, as she says in the game. Plus, it had Liara stay off the Normandy to read said data, when she could have just as easily read it on the ship and would have had the assistance of an AI.
But really, there's no point discussing it. We're never going to see those audio files in the game, they've been scrapped. Liara's current character arc has been greatly expanded and revised, and we won't get a stupid and contrived reason for her not joining the mission.
I didn't mean that that's what I thought was going to happen, I was just using it as an example of BioWare's weird state of mind back then. It would make absolutely no sense, but they were thinking along those lines.
I was saying that it was my fear if the DLC was developed at the same time as ME2, that the Liara story might end in a bad way.
But of course, even just with ME2 coming out before it, they would have had to make changes to the story.
There is pretty much no reason Liara would not come and stay on the Normandy with Shepard anymore, since the Collectors are defeated.
BioWare couldn't have gone with the "I am going to stay here and read" ending no matter what, it would have gotten a lot of people very, very upset.
I was trying to state that I have absolutely no fear about the DLC having a bad ending even if it was created a while ago and we will get what we want, an emotion, substantial, and romantic story.
Go Beautiful Blue Goddess DLC!

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