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girlofpreyThe Following has a kink meme. That probably shouldn't have taken me by surprise, but somehow it did. I'm not going to look at it until the show's finished, unless it does something extremely kinky in the meantime, but also maybe not even then. But anyway, there we go.
I especially shouldn't have been suprised given that Common Law also has a kink meme, which is strange for me, just because I really don't associate the show with kink at all. Or not much. But it's nice that people care, obviously.
So, I said yesterday that I guess Mike isn't in the cult now. And it looks like he isn't, the other members don't know him and Joe didn't seem particularly bothered when Roderick was planning to maybe kill him. Except that I guess he always assumes Ryan is great enough to save people, which generally he is.
But a part of me is still thinking this could all just be a big double bluff. Well, a triple bluff I guess, since Mike got shot last week and stabbed today. And I think the thing that's bugging me is mainly this: we haven't seen any backstory for Mike. None. In a flashback-heavy show. I mean, we've seen flashbacks for pretty much everyone now. Claire, Emma, Jacob. Debra's had a few, and Roderick has only been in one episode, and he's already featured in one, at least. But for Mike, nothing. It really just feels like they're hiding stuff about him. I'm not convinced he is a cult member anymore, and maybe it's actually a set-up, so they can have some suspicion and Ryan not knowing if he can trust him later on. But I do think it's kind of obvious they're not going into his past much. And I'm still suspicious of the way Ryan is genuinely getting closer to him. Hmm.
Maybe he'll turn out to be a cult member who, over the course of the investigation and getting stabbed, will decide he likes Ryan more. And he'll go all "renounce the shoe, follow the gourd!" and try to set up a counter-cult. To Ryan's confusion, largely. Maybe THAT is the endgame. It would probably keep the show going for another couple of series at least. CULT WAR.
And I finished Mass Effect 2 today. So - I got through the ending. I was sure someone was definitely going to die, and that I would probably have to choose them, 'Kaiden or Ashley' style. I was pretty sure most of my team were going to die, like half of them, and I would have to be making 'either or' choices all the way. But I got through the last mission, making all the choices as best I could, and no-one died! Until the last cutscene, when I saw that Mordin had in fact died. For no apparent reason I could see. I assumed maybe someone had to die, and they just chose at random from the characters you didn't take with you into the last fight. But then I got to the end of the game (yay!), and I looked at the trophies, and I saw one for no-one dying during the last mission.
So obviously it seemed like there was a way to do it, but I couldn't think what. I'd done all the characters' background missions to make sure we bonded and they were focussed on the main mission, I talked to them. When I had to choose people for specific tasks in the last mission, I chose people who were suited to it, and they all lived. And Mordin literally just died in a cutscene, there didn't seem to be anything I could have done to save him.
So I decided to go on the internet and, VERY SPECIFICALLY, look up how to get through the last mission without anyone dying. And it turned out I did everything pretty much right, everything all the game guide people suggested, and all the characters were super-loyal. But apparently it's an issue that sometimes happens to people, Mordin specifically dying for no apparent reason, which you can sort of fix by giving him a particular task or taking him with you in the last fight.
Here's the thing: I don't particularly care for Mordin. He was very sweet, but I didn't love him or want to see what happened to him in Mass Effect 3 like I did with a lot of the other teammates. But - his research seemed to be the best chance anyone had of curing the Krogan genophage. Which is fucked up. Not just dealing with it, or 'ignoring it', curing it. And I assume he might have done that in Mass Effect 3. And - curing the genophage was very important to Wrex, and therefore to Shepard, because I LOVED WREX AND THEREFORE I IMAGINE SHEPARD DID TOO. I know it's a tricky issue in the game, but I would kind of like to see it cured, or see moves being made towards getting it cured.
So what I could do is play through the last mission again, and change things up a little to try to keep Mordin alive. Which feels kind of rub, since I basically did the same thing in my last game. Also for Wrex. I LOVE WREX. But I don't really replay things again, or not soon after I first play them, much less 3 entire games. So I don't know if I'll ever replay them and save Mordin and see what the storyline would have been if he was alive. A STORYLINE DEAR TO MY HEART. And y'know, it's not like I actually did anything WRONG, and I worked pretty hard to make him loyal and be friends with him. And also...I kind of killed most of the minor crew. Through no fault of my own! Sort of. I didn't know that was going to happen, and I didn't know the more missions you did before feeling ready to go save them the more of them DIED, and I didn't know you could finish off spare missions after the 'end' of the game. Although I still don't know if the results of that would carry over into the next game the way they would if you did them before the end. Enough minor characters from Mass Effect 1 turned up in Mass Effect 2, saying 'hi!' and carrying on with their lives, that I wanted to see how the other missions ended up in Mass Effect 3. I saved Dr Chakwas! Yay! In truth I wasn't that bothered about Kelly Chambers - I always assumed she was spying on me and sending secret psych reports to the Illusive Man - but I would have kept the engineering team if I could have. Sigh.
So there is my conundrum. Replay the ending to get the result I probably SHOULD have gotten, with the hope of fixing the galaxy a bit more in Mass Effect 3. And so I don't get spoilered for the full outcome of the plotline when I go look things up about Mass Effect, which I certainly will before replaying the whole trilogy again. Or stick with my choices and outcomes, so it feels more like an actual story. Sigh. It's probably not very important. It's just sort of bugging me. Mass Effect! Why u kill important characters for no apparent reason?
Blah.
I especially shouldn't have been suprised given that Common Law also has a kink meme, which is strange for me, just because I really don't associate the show with kink at all. Or not much. But it's nice that people care, obviously.
So, I said yesterday that I guess Mike isn't in the cult now. And it looks like he isn't, the other members don't know him and Joe didn't seem particularly bothered when Roderick was planning to maybe kill him. Except that I guess he always assumes Ryan is great enough to save people, which generally he is.
But a part of me is still thinking this could all just be a big double bluff. Well, a triple bluff I guess, since Mike got shot last week and stabbed today. And I think the thing that's bugging me is mainly this: we haven't seen any backstory for Mike. None. In a flashback-heavy show. I mean, we've seen flashbacks for pretty much everyone now. Claire, Emma, Jacob. Debra's had a few, and Roderick has only been in one episode, and he's already featured in one, at least. But for Mike, nothing. It really just feels like they're hiding stuff about him. I'm not convinced he is a cult member anymore, and maybe it's actually a set-up, so they can have some suspicion and Ryan not knowing if he can trust him later on. But I do think it's kind of obvious they're not going into his past much. And I'm still suspicious of the way Ryan is genuinely getting closer to him. Hmm.
Maybe he'll turn out to be a cult member who, over the course of the investigation and getting stabbed, will decide he likes Ryan more. And he'll go all "renounce the shoe, follow the gourd!" and try to set up a counter-cult. To Ryan's confusion, largely. Maybe THAT is the endgame. It would probably keep the show going for another couple of series at least. CULT WAR.
And I finished Mass Effect 2 today. So - I got through the ending. I was sure someone was definitely going to die, and that I would probably have to choose them, 'Kaiden or Ashley' style. I was pretty sure most of my team were going to die, like half of them, and I would have to be making 'either or' choices all the way. But I got through the last mission, making all the choices as best I could, and no-one died! Until the last cutscene, when I saw that Mordin had in fact died. For no apparent reason I could see. I assumed maybe someone had to die, and they just chose at random from the characters you didn't take with you into the last fight. But then I got to the end of the game (yay!), and I looked at the trophies, and I saw one for no-one dying during the last mission.
So obviously it seemed like there was a way to do it, but I couldn't think what. I'd done all the characters' background missions to make sure we bonded and they were focussed on the main mission, I talked to them. When I had to choose people for specific tasks in the last mission, I chose people who were suited to it, and they all lived. And Mordin literally just died in a cutscene, there didn't seem to be anything I could have done to save him.
So I decided to go on the internet and, VERY SPECIFICALLY, look up how to get through the last mission without anyone dying. And it turned out I did everything pretty much right, everything all the game guide people suggested, and all the characters were super-loyal. But apparently it's an issue that sometimes happens to people, Mordin specifically dying for no apparent reason, which you can sort of fix by giving him a particular task or taking him with you in the last fight.
Here's the thing: I don't particularly care for Mordin. He was very sweet, but I didn't love him or want to see what happened to him in Mass Effect 3 like I did with a lot of the other teammates. But - his research seemed to be the best chance anyone had of curing the Krogan genophage. Which is fucked up. Not just dealing with it, or 'ignoring it', curing it. And I assume he might have done that in Mass Effect 3. And - curing the genophage was very important to Wrex, and therefore to Shepard, because I LOVED WREX AND THEREFORE I IMAGINE SHEPARD DID TOO. I know it's a tricky issue in the game, but I would kind of like to see it cured, or see moves being made towards getting it cured.
So what I could do is play through the last mission again, and change things up a little to try to keep Mordin alive. Which feels kind of rub, since I basically did the same thing in my last game. Also for Wrex. I LOVE WREX. But I don't really replay things again, or not soon after I first play them, much less 3 entire games. So I don't know if I'll ever replay them and save Mordin and see what the storyline would have been if he was alive. A STORYLINE DEAR TO MY HEART. And y'know, it's not like I actually did anything WRONG, and I worked pretty hard to make him loyal and be friends with him. And also...I kind of killed most of the minor crew. Through no fault of my own! Sort of. I didn't know that was going to happen, and I didn't know the more missions you did before feeling ready to go save them the more of them DIED, and I didn't know you could finish off spare missions after the 'end' of the game. Although I still don't know if the results of that would carry over into the next game the way they would if you did them before the end. Enough minor characters from Mass Effect 1 turned up in Mass Effect 2, saying 'hi!' and carrying on with their lives, that I wanted to see how the other missions ended up in Mass Effect 3. I saved Dr Chakwas! Yay! In truth I wasn't that bothered about Kelly Chambers - I always assumed she was spying on me and sending secret psych reports to the Illusive Man - but I would have kept the engineering team if I could have. Sigh.
So there is my conundrum. Replay the ending to get the result I probably SHOULD have gotten, with the hope of fixing the galaxy a bit more in Mass Effect 3. And so I don't get spoilered for the full outcome of the plotline when I go look things up about Mass Effect, which I certainly will before replaying the whole trilogy again. Or stick with my choices and outcomes, so it feels more like an actual story. Sigh. It's probably not very important. It's just sort of bugging me. Mass Effect! Why u kill important characters for no apparent reason?
Blah.
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