Not my fault Wynne sucks and/or is a bitch that needs to be pushed out to sea on an iceberg, which would actually get colder thanks to her utterly frigid personality.
The Council are fucking morons. They justified themselves pretty well for not taking action initially, then they do take action but do it half assed. GRAHHH! ¬_¬
Liara gave an awesome motivational speech to Shep though, and they were being all "Now kisssssss" and then Joker totally killed the romance. Damn you Seth Green! Damn you!
I have high hopes for ME2, still have to finish off this one o' course, but I'm very much looking forward to it as everyone who's ever played it has raved about it
Hopefully Kaiden does more, honestly I didn't find him boring during the entirety of this game, but I never used him after I got Liara and Tali and outside of giving his back story and commenting on missions he's fairly low key. But he's inactive more than he's boring I think, I like his character.
Ash was far more interesting just for being so...enthusiastic I suppose? I liked that her families history weighed on her mind so much, because it makes all her "Skipper" this and "LT" that and just trying too hard to sound like an action movie soldier justifiable and to be honest elicited a lot of sympathy from me. Ash was very flawed but I think she was trying to live up to this idealised image she had of what her predecessors were like before all the controversy and be this sort of larger than life soldier, basically trying to figure out who she is and who she wants to be and all that. Despite her flaws I did empathise with her to an extent.
The xenophobia thing bothered me quite a bit, but in fairness, if the human race did encounter another sentient species, the xenophobia would be rife and I think Ash reflected that sort of "the average Joe" (Incidentally, every Joe I've ever met has been anything but average) response to it. Human society, as open as we're trying to become now, would probably still need a solid block of time to re-educate itself and dispel that xenophobia.
I ranted a lot about Ash in this post, but I'm hoping in future Kaidan will make me rant the same way. If not...there's always the next playthrough?
. It's all action from here on out right into the glory that is Mass Effect 2.
