I guess it's less what would make sense and more what would make siding with them halfway palatable
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Bioware is going to need to address the terminal case of Centrismitis that their plots have
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Like, I wish they'd realize their plots were more sophisticated back when they were good/evil
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Because back then they weren't twisting into contortions to make ALL SIDES!?! reasonable
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And this is even taking TOR into consideration, the game where one of the factions are Actually Nazis
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it's funny Martin Sheen himself said in an interview that he thought Illusive Man was completely irredeemable
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this was an interview about ME2, before ME3 came out with the indoctrination stuff
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I mean I can understand how nominally "good" characters could fall into siding w Cerberus bc people suck
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(my headcanon is that Illusive Man is Josiah Bartlett who somehow survived for centuries on cybernetics)
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(you either die a hero or bla bla bla)
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(this is partly abt how Sorkinism is itself a really chauvinistic Great Man style of politics/philosophy)
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and somewhat conscious of that, hence WW's more tolerable episodes
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I suspect many of Bartlett's flaws originate with Sheen adding complexity to the script tho
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