lestatdark said:
Wait, so EDI has one in a costume that it's not even her standard one and that only a person with the DLC: From Ashes can obtain. Yeah...I still don't see why this should even be an issue You know, I always hated the Nietschezian way of looking into Deus Ex Machina plots in such an undermined and critical fashion, as I'm not bothered with them at all if they fit into the story's development. Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale" is a prime example of that. Deus Ex (in VGs) is too, and yet I hardly see it critiziced as well (I mean, the Helios AI doesn't really need JC Denton in order to fully understand humans, as both the canonical endings and the events in Hong Kong demostrate, so your choices are really pretty much invalid, which makes sense in the scope of Deus Ex, as Helios was actually the ultimate counter-part of Bob Page). As for your spoilers tag, i'll only answer to your first and second questions: You say there wasn't any kind of precedent between the merging of both Organics and Synthetics, I say to you that you haven't pay any attention to ME lore at all. What are the common links between the Illusive Man, Shepard and Saren? Both are trials of said mergings. |
Everything I've answered to you is based on the accounts of my knowledge of ME lore and the way I have figured things in my head as I played and replayed to exhaustion the previous games (and the comics and the books that I've read).I'll address your spoilers first. Also, you can read all my other spoilered points, they're from the ending you've seen.
Yeh I admit I forgot to mention the whole Shepard and Illusive man thing, so you're right about there being a precedent for a synthetic/organic merge. Except for the fact that that took years of intensive care if memory serves, or you had to hang on one of those husk thingies for god knows how long and in this ending the whole thing is done in one massive energy burst. So there is no link to any of the lore you described, as accurate as it may be. The same 'energy burst' takes out the relays as well, so it's not like it will be possible for the whole galaxy to be turned into one of these synthetic/organic hybrids with the Illusive Man's technology either, as there is no way of communicating. It is all just dumped into this idea that a 'massive green coloured explosion' solves everything. The grand explanation from the kid is...'Everything you are will be absorbed, and then sent out'. Great, that clarifies things.
Your information about the reapers does not contradict what I said. They incorporate organic DNA into whatever their 'hybrid' life form is. Part of the composition fo eahc reaper nation is organic DNA. And yes, their completely alien and transcedant form of life and technique of merging the synthetic and organic only serves to prove my point that this massive 'energy explosion' must be reaper technology, or some screwy solve-all technology that has never been mentioned, as opposed to anything we've seen or had explained to us before.
I don't like endings that use a blatant solve-all deus ex machina that conveniently allows shepard to choose between three endings without a thought, it's just too broken from everything else that has happened in the series. Not ony is the whole explantion that this tech can do basically anything introduced in the very last 20 minutes of the game, they do not explain after your decision how any of it actually works, except for the aforementioned, ridiculously simple, sentence. They just explain what it does. The kid might as well give Shephard a magic wand. I don't think that fits into the universe, at all, or the development of the story.
The EDI thing, it doesn't matter in the long run, just remember that they put more man hours and creative thought into modelling a robot's tits and cameltoe than they did into unveiling the face of one of the universe's major characters, or in the final copy pasted 'winter space' scene of their blockbuster multi million selling sci fi trilogy.
