Jimmy Fury wrote...
hmmm... looks like I'm still in the minority of preferring a new character to an existing one. I would only want an existing one if it was from day 1 and there's just no way they're going to patch ME1. Without that they would have to come up with some explanation as to why it wasn't there from the beginning and that leaves waaaaaay too much room for it to just be tacked on and feel like an afterthought.
I wouldn't mind a new character either. I'd take anything

I don't mind them adding it to a pre-existing character though. Again, they added romance to Tali and Garrus that was not even hinted at in ME1. You can't even flirt with them in that game.
To add a different perspective, Shepard can flirt with Samara in ME2 but it doesn't lead to anything. Now, if they add a Samara romance in ME3, they would have set it up nicely in the previous game (like they didn't for Garrus/Tali). Does the Garrus/Tali ME2 romance from out of the blue bother me? No. I'ts good to add more options, IMO.