JPfanner wrote...
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Sure, but every character, up to and including Shepard, is at the whim of the writers. That is pretty much the theme of ME2 with the very narrow and shallow plot that every character in the game is forced to follow. And maybe it was that way in ME1 too, but we didn't notice it because everything was new. Then it is simply noticeable to us in ME2 because that game fails so utterly on so many levels as a continuation of what has been established before.
Nothing really changed with the ending of the comic. We were all hoping it'd provide some answers to what didn't make sense in the game. It didn't. And I mean EXACTLY that, there are no answers, whether positive or negative. The comics and Liara's presentation in the game each suck on their own, exclusive of the other. That isn't great and it sucks for us, but that's what we've got so far. I don't know about how comics are written, but I'd guess Mac wrote out a general script for the comics that only had a few specific lines of dialog and most of it was generalized stuff like stage directions. So examining the exact wording or facial expressions in each panel and comparing them to the game just isn't going to work. Like "Liara shows some concern over handing Shepard's body to Cerberus and regret for what happened to Feron" is then scripted by the comics writer into stuff that'll fit into those little bubbles.
Liara just can't come with you because of design decisions. They tried to come up with a reason why not. The romance was specifically excluded from as much screen time as possible. They didn't even bother to come up with a reason for that, everyone not mentioning it at all was good enough for some crazy assed reason. The romance is "rocky" because no one talks about it at all? How does that even work, that's like some freaking plot from an episode of the Twilight Zone. Any character reasons we try to come up for her not coming, not talking about the relationship, sitting there while you leave her office without saying, they aren't going to make sense. Shepard doesn't say things that they should. Why don't Miranda, Tali, or Garrus say hi to Liara? There's no reason for that except the only motivation that could affect all characters across the board which is just frankly laziness on Bioware's part.
Really the only things that changed for me with the ending of the comic is that now I think Dark Horse has some writers and design people of the same professional calibre as Bioware does. And I won't be buying that four comic compilation. Other than that, everything is pretty much the same as it was the day before the comic came out.
But you know all of this stuff, and you've posted much the same several times. Just don't let the stupid ass comic sucking get you down too much.
Comic writers usually write out the whole issue frame-by-frame, and technically, if Mac is the only credited writer, you'd assume he did that... but he's not a comic writer by trade, so I'm open to the artistic-interpretation interpretation. (Which gave us such gems as the Batmobile tearing a police car in half in
All Star Batman and Robin. That wasn't scripted by a long shot.)
I still see what's written as answers, though, but they're very subjective, because of the limitations of the media and Mac's inexperience in it. If it were a novel, he could've gone into Liara's head and used a page on what she's thinking when she says X. Instead, she says something, and we're reading into the words a million different interpretations based on what we're expecting. It's too subjective to be a satisfying answer.
Further, yet again, Schrodinger's Cat applies. The comic had to deal with a player character that may have yelled as many obscenities at LiLi that the game lets you, and then it had to deal with player characters that we have. (I presume we're all Liarasexuals of the 'faithful' kind in at least one of our saves? Though Anya's flirting up a storm.) It has to be vague by design, and that doesn't make for satisfying answers anyway. Heck, WCS and BCS both make a sort of sense, and neither are objectively valid, nor
can they be.
So, yeah, I think that we're still lacking for answers. I don't actively think that Mac didn't care about us, but I don't personally think he spent enough time on us, so my sig stays as is for now. I do think that the content coming out is likely to add more answers... but I don't know that they'll be satisfying ones.
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