>I just stumbled out of bed at like 6:30 in the morning and I'm still
>feeling kind of... meta, I guess.
>
>The Miranda reveal was kind of surprising, but made everything else
>make a lot more sense in retrospective. Nicely done.
>
>> "You assholes
>>assassinated a Salusian admiral, experimented on children, tried to
>>poison a whole goddamn turian colony... do I need to go on?"
>
>Kind of automatically trying to match up the plot points from the
>source here. That'll be Admiral Kahoku, stuff from the second game,
>and... that poisoning attempt done by Earthborn Shepards's old gang?
>
>Also, Gryph and Zoner took out TIM? Wow.

Going back to Mass Effect 2 for a bit, I can't do the final leg of the suicide mission without Miranda in my squad, simply because at the end, she lays a burn upon TIM so epic that it should've been written in purple type.

>> "Now shut up. The adults are talking."
>
>"We're the important characters, you didn't even have a name until one
>scene ago."
>
>(I tend to do many fourth-wall breaking comments like that while
>playing Mass Effect. Just my last playthrough, on Virmire when Shepard
>said "Stay sharp and do your best work and we'll all get through this
>alive", I felt compelled to add, "Except you, Kaiden.")

"Yeah, one of you is pretty much fucked."

I keep flashing back to that one scene in Hot Shots! where the writer practically clubs the audience over the head with the fact that one of the pilots (callsign "Dead Meat", and it goes downhill from there) is about to die.

-- Slider Da Feral