Comments | stormwreath: (Fic) Memory

stormwreath

(Fic) Memory

Mar 19, 2012 22:20

This is another 'Mass Effect' fic, I'm afraid. I've now finished ME3, and wasn't nearly as outraged by the endings as I expected to be given the internet rage they've generated. Honestly, I'm a Joss Whedon fan: ME3 didn't have nearly enough deaths of beloved characters or dei ex machina plot twists to bother me. Even so, I felt the need for a fill- ( Read more... )

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erimthar March 20 2012, 14:57:57 UTC

Very nice. Makes me think I should look into these Mass Effect games. Is Liara/Shepard a canon pairing?

Wish I could find the inspiration to write non-PWP fanfic again.

I also need to look into getting an AO3 account. I guess it's more active than I thought it was. I've noticed a decline in LJ... not just the usual stuff like wonky interface and the constant DOS attacks. Activity in general seems to be down by quite a bit. I don't have a paid account so I can't see pageviews, but comments seem to be declining.

I'm not entirely sure how you attract viewers in AO3, though. I guess there's no friends-list system there?

stormwreath March 20 2012, 15:25:12 UTC

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Nice try phil_k_87 March 22 2012, 00:48:26 UTC

Yet fixing the ending while still assuming the ending to have took place, esp. the part of the Normandy crashing on a habitable planet, is futile ;P

And come on, destroy ending? Like killing the Geth and EDI along with it? Hell to the no!

And my Shepard never would accept an ending that destroys the means of long distance space travel. And that happens in all different colored versions.

I felt so cheated by the options.

In the end however, your fic is a nice bit of closure for anyone who romanced Liara. Which I didn't.

Do you might give Talimancers a chance at closure? ;)

Re: Nice try stormwreath March 22 2012, 09:22:25 UTC

Well ( ... )

Re: Nice try phil_k_87 March 25 2012, 13:52:24 UTC

Killling the geth and EDI - yes, it sucks. But it sucked when on Thessia, Shepard had to order the asari commandoes and gunships to certain death in order to cover her run to the temple. Casualties happen in war.

There is a difference between accepting necessary casualties and genocide. I rather doom whole mankind to die than to survive by sacrificing my friends. And I consider EDI and Geth to be equally worth of saving.

Just as I could not defend turning all the organics into some partial-cybernetics without the people's consent.

Which only left control, which meant Sheppard dying and become Space-Jesus. Meh.

Oh can I just say that I frakking hate the ending!? It's like re-imagined Battlestar Galactica kind of bad.

And we were told specifically that the Destroy option would not prevent more synthetic lifeforms being developed in the future,
Just because new synthetics can be built does not justify killing the ones living today. I don't care about hypothetical future beings, but those who are and have intent to continue living ( ... )