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[mhenders]

 So after beating ME2, I was really frustrated that there weren't more Paragon options for trying to keep the Council informed about what was going on with the Collectors and Reapers. Two huge omissions really stand out:

1. When the Illusive Man tells Shepherd about the derelict Reaper, Paragon Shepherd should demand that Cerberus share all data about the derelict Reaper with the Council  Paragon Shepherd's primary problem with the Council is that they don't believe her about the Reapers, so one of her secondary goals in dealing with the Collectors ought to be gathering evidence about the Reapers that will convince the Council that they're real. And what's better evidence than an actual Reaper ship? It's really, really out of character and inconsistent in terms of the story  for Paragon Shepherd not to insist that the derelict Reaper be revealed to the Council and the Alliance.

2. At the very end, when Shepherd has to decide whether to keep or destroy the Collector Base, there should have been a third option: keep the base, but insist that the Council be told of it and given the opportunity to join Cerberus in researching its secrets. At this point, Shepherd finally has the chance to put the Illusive Man and all of Cerberus to the test: is Cerberus really serious about fighting the Reapers for the sake of the whole galaxy or is it just a bunch of human-centric racists who have been snowing Shepherd the whole time?  This was the only time in the game when Shepherd had the upper hand in her relationship with the Illusive Man. If he doesn't agree to share with the rest of the galaxy, she had the ability to deprive him of his heart's desire by blowing up the Collector Base. To me, it's inconceivable that Paragon Shepherd wouldn't have tried to exploit this situation and force Cerberus to play nice with the Council.


The fact that these two options weren't in the game makes me worried for ME3's story. It implies that BioWare is going to continue with the improbable and sort of asinine contrivance that the Council refuses to believe in the Reapers. There's been plenty of evidence discovered by Shepherd over the course of ME1 and now ME2 for her to present a convincing case about the Reapers to the Council. If the writers continue to plot the story arc so that in ME3, the Council still doesn't take the Reapers seriously, then that will be a huge plot hole that will really sour the story for players with brains. 

[Series5Ranger]

Well the reason that the Council refuses the existence of the reapers is simple. It's Convenient. Sometimes the best way to deal with a problem is to ignore it. They refuse to believe that the reapers exist because if they make the knowledge public it'll cause a panic. Shepard and his crew are the only ones who have ever seen a Reaper. They thought Sovereign was another Geth Ship during the attack on the Citadel.

[Yantze]

Considering the derelict Reaper looked just like Sovreign they probably would just blow you off again claiming it as another Geth ship. And once you get the IFF you end up having to destroy it anyway to get off it. But your base idea is a good one.

[mhenders]

Yantze wrote...

Considering the derelict Reaper looked just like Sovreign they probably would just blow you off again claiming it as another Geth ship. And once you get the IFF you end up having to destroy it anyway to get off it. But your base idea is a good one.

Yes, but there had been an entire Cerberus research team on the derelict long before the Normandy arrived there. At the very least, Shepherd could have passed their findings on to Anderson. Shepherd probably can't expect to convince them in a single stroke. She'd have to keep gathering evidence and submitting it to them, until the accumulation of data can't be ignored.

[Hyper Cutter]

Series5Ranger wrote...
Shepard and his crew are the only ones who have ever seen a Reaper.

They're the only ones who spoke with one, Sovereign was seen by plenty of people even if he was handwaved as a geth ship. Hell, they even make models of him...

[cutthecameras]

Nice suggestions, but even paragon Shepard isn't perfect.



Even heroes just don't think of these things when they need to think of em sometimes.