Comments | lilith_morgana: "You've done well, child. I'm proud of you."

lilith_morgana

"You've done well, child. I'm proud of you."

Mar 18, 2012 13:42

In which I ramble about the ending of Mass Effect, themes and emotions and the difference between being a reader/spectator and actively participating in something.

( Give them hell, ma'am )

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lilith_morgana March 18 2012, 16:00:35 UTC

Thanks, I felt the need to ramble. I am a lot more positive towards the ending than most people, it seems. :)

I just didn't want that last Normandy-sized punch to my heart.

disalae March 19 2012, 21:40:04 UTC

(popping over from the ME comm!)

So I just finished the game last night, and I keep saying I'll make a post about how I feel about it, but it just seems exhausting. I really just need someone to sit and front of me and hear me spew word vomit. Maybe I should get voice to text?

Anyway, my point is that I almost feel like I don't have to because are you me? It's almost creepy how similar our views of the ending are, and you said it far more eloquently than I will be able to, I'm sure. Basically, if I were to distill my thoughts down to a sentence, it would be that it made me sad, I'm emotionally exhausted, but actually sort of okay with what happened - except for that damn Normandy scene.

Huh. Maybe I should just make my own post because obviously my feels are starting to come out. It was nice to read your thoughts though, and it's nice to not be the only one who thought like that.

lilith_morgana March 20 2012, 06:23:20 UTC

Yeah, I understand the need to talk about it but it's so much to talk about.

Glad you agree, it seems most people have more issues with the themes than I do. Don't get me wrong, if we could have some explanation for what we were actually doing during the endgame, I'd be very happy too. But I'm sort of okay as it is. We'll always have fanfic. And when it comes to events and consequences, I want open endings. Emotionally, not so much.

I'd be interested to read your thoughts, if you ever post them. :)

disalae March 20 2012, 17:13:17 UTC

I know. It's sort of overwhelming thinking of putting all my thoughts down in a coherent manner because I'm not sure I can. If I do I will link it for you for sure!

The ending, for me, I don't necessarily love it; I'll be honest, I would like something a bit more like the end of ME1 as an option (you know, victorious and uplifting), but I can DEAL with the destroy ending where she breathes at the end...until the Normandy gut punch. Then I just start raging. If my poor Shep has to wake up in rubble half dead, after committing genocide, killing her mentor, and going half mad, why can't her friends/lover be with her? Our poor space Jesus :/

Anyway I'll stop rambling on YOUR journal now, ha.

lilith_morgana March 22 2012, 11:28:50 UTC

You can ramble all you want in my journal, I like discussing this poor ending and our poor, poor Space Jesus.

If we could have had some different outcomes, the ending probably wouldn't annoy me so much. But the idea that regardless of how many sidequests I do or how much peace my Shepard brings to the galaxy, she will have the same ending as the dudebros playing action-mode and skipping everything but the combat? NO THANK YOU, BIOWARE.

(At least now my husband has finished and can rage with me. :))

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agreed hc_erika March 21 2012, 02:29:57 UTC

Destroying the catalyst was the best and most Shepard-like choice for sure. I'm not so keen on the synthesis line but tried it anyway to see how it turned out. Not much different there. Despite my misgivings for the game, too short, a bit rushed, Kai Leng as the worst ever character in the ME-verse (who in their right mind would wield a knife in a shooter game), Shepard dying/semi-dying was initially almost sorta, kinda, acceptable for me. Probably because throughout the game, it was hinted repeatedly that it's the only outcome of this war ( ... )

Re: agreed lilith_morgana March 22 2012, 11:25:38 UTC

I think what made it easy for me to destroy everything in sight (heh) was how foreshadowed that part was - war means monstrous losses, you can't walk away from war with your honour intact etc. etc. That didn't surprise me in the least.

The Normandy thing depressed the heck out of me because it's the exact opposite - nowhere in this game or the previous two did I ever get a single hint that my crew would abandon/seemingly abandon me. I thought the losses and the dire aftermath of this massive war would be dealt with by the crew and Shepard if she survived. Add to that my burning hatred for the Back to Nature trope and grrrrr.

Aw, Tywin/Joanna doesn't offer much comfort either no.