Synthesis ending
anonymous
July 3 2012, 08:00:40 UTC
Just a warning: If you like Synthesis stop reading, because this prompt is pretty blatantly bashing it. I make no apologies though, the green ending is offensive on so many levels
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Re: Synthesis ending
anonymous
July 3 2012, 08:19:34 UTC
YES YES YES YES YES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!
Omfg! I wrote out a mini-rant on someones prompt - twas a goodun, about EDI's reaction to the choices if you could take her with you - and I totally agree with you on all counts, dear prompter.
Destroy or bust for me =P
I'm totally seconding this and if I was any kind of writer, I'd totally take this up
Re: Synthesis ending
anonymous
July 3 2012, 14:46:45 UTC
No, it's definitely not just you. I thought the whole idea was quite moronic even before the EC, but now, after watching the extended ending, I was just stunned by how wrong it felt on every possible level. I mean I just... I don't even... blah.
Re: Synthesis ending
anonymous
July 3 2012, 16:15:50 UTC
I agree on so many levels, including everything OP wrote. What bothers me the most is the idea of forcing this change upon every being in the galaxy... I can never choose that. Please someone(s) do this!
Re: Synthesis ending
anonymous
July 3 2012, 17:04:53 UTC
God, I agree with everything you said.
All I could think of during the ending was that Javik would never ever accept being half-synthetic anything or living side-by-side with the Reapers without some serious brainwashing going on.
And then I thought of Jack. Because it's not like Jack had her bodily autonomy violated enough already before.
The fact that it's not played as some dystopian nightmare but the ideal perfect, happy ending is making me side-eye the devs so hard.
Re: Synthesis ending
anonymous
July 3 2012, 19:27:58 UTC
Agreed. Completely absolutely agree with all of that.
Also, anyone with even the slightest bit of genre savvy-ness should have alarms going off in their head at the portrayal of the "perfect utopia" cuz we all know that those go over soooo well. And, after thinking about it for a while, I realized that it would not, in fact, solve the problem. Just because we are all a synthetic/organic freak would not mean that warring stops. Eventually, we would end up warring again over who killed who's emperor and slept with whoever's mother, and then the catalyst would see that there is still chaos. And the reapers are still around, and they would have to do something about this chaos (since that's what they do), and the cycle starts back up again
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Re: Synthesis ending
anonymous
July 4 2012, 02:54:19 UTC
I want to see this too. Synthesis is really gross to me. I mean, every other time you see something being billed as "the final stage in evolution" in a sci-fi work, it's a good sign that no some bad shit is going to go down. (It was Morinth's reasoning for her actions after all.)
Re: Synthesis ending
anonymous
July 4 2012, 23:18:40 UTC
By profanity, I indirectly referred to the incendiary nature of the post in general. I understand where OP is coming from, but if I wanted to see a fic detailing the emotional impact on Garrus' family when he left his C-Sec job, for example, I would not begin by calling Garrus a glorified space chicken if I had any wish of Garrus fans taking up a fill.
Similarly, had this been posed sans invectives as a simple request for a much darker and more developed portrayal, synthesis fans might be more amenable to trying their hand at it. (Unless OP desired no such fills at all. OP stated in the first sentence that OP did not wish for synthesis fans to read the prompt, but there was no corresponding statement about filling.)
That is all I want to say; I do not mean to offend or criticise OP.
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Omfg! I wrote out a mini-rant on someones prompt - twas a goodun, about EDI's reaction to the choices if you could take her with you - and I totally agree with you on all counts, dear prompter.
Destroy or bust for me =P
I'm totally seconding this and if I was any kind of writer, I'd totally take this up
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You only have to abandon all common sense, knowledge of science and ethics.
All in all, not a bad track record for Bioware. 15 minutes of forced ending have killed my desire to play the game ever again. Or buy from then again.
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All I could think of during the ending was that Javik would never ever accept being half-synthetic anything or living side-by-side with the Reapers without some serious brainwashing going on.
And then I thought of Jack. Because it's not like Jack had her bodily autonomy violated enough already before.
The fact that it's not played as some dystopian nightmare but the ideal perfect, happy ending is making me side-eye the devs so hard.
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Also, anyone with even the slightest bit of genre savvy-ness should have alarms going off in their head at the portrayal of the "perfect utopia" cuz we all know that those go over soooo well. And, after thinking about it for a while, I realized that it would not, in fact, solve the problem. Just because we are all a synthetic/organic freak would not mean that warring stops. Eventually, we would end up warring again over who killed who's emperor and slept with whoever's mother, and then the catalyst would see that there is still chaos. And the reapers are still around, and they would have to do something about this chaos (since that's what they do), and the cycle starts back up again ( ... )
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To me, Synthesis was what Saren was doing. TIM was control. I saw no other choice but destroy.
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So yes, want very much.
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(I only wish OP could have simply stated as such, sans expletives.)
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Similarly, had this been posed sans invectives as a simple request for a much darker and more developed portrayal, synthesis fans might be more amenable to trying their hand at it. (Unless OP desired no such fills at all. OP stated in the first sentence that OP did not wish for synthesis fans to read the prompt, but there was no corresponding statement about filling.)
That is all I want to say; I do not mean to offend or criticise OP.
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