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[Ethan Hunt]

Just now, Lor San Tele said:

 

That these characters have (1) generally treated as product and (2) have DNA sequences in storage.

BUT BLUE

[Premium George]

51 minutes ago, RobrtmanAStarWarsReference said:

what the hell are Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro smoking

That was some good shit. Along with AoT and OPM latest epic chapters, this week is going good.

[That One Girl]

3 minutes ago, Lor San Tele said:

 

That these characters have (1) generally treated as product and (2) have DNA sequences in storage.

 

Dinosaurs.

[MrPink]

54 minutes ago, RobrtmanAStarWarsReference said:

what the hell are Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro smoking

 

I don't know but it does look gorgeous 

[MrGamer]

1 minute ago, MrPink said:

 

I don't know but it does look gorgeous 

 

[DAR]

A dinosaur with a microwave on its head could be dope

[filmlover]

@Lor San Tele check your PM box. 

[robertman2]

3 minutes ago, damnitgeorge08 said:

That was some good shit. Along with AoT and OPM latest epic chapters, this week is going good.

Second favorite trailer behind dat sweet Bayonetta 3 trailer

1 minute ago, MrPink said:

 

I don't know but it does look gorgeous 

It looks amazing. Finally a game to make the Pro worth it

[Dementeleus]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

@Lor San Tele check your PM box. 

 

Yeah... that's a new one.  

[Porthos]

51 minutes ago, ReyReyBattery said:

Every JonathanLB exchange is the same damn thing:

 

-He makes some absurdly hyperbolic blanket statement.

 

-People get all up in arms about it being dumb and wrong.

 

-JonathanLB doubles down on it.

 

-Queue 2 more pages of pointless arguing.

[Blankments]

My phone charger is missing

 

and my debit card

 

and tomorrow is my first final

 

and i need to get up at 6am for a 3 hour early rehearsal for said final

 

sometimes i really hate existing

[4815162342]

1 hour ago, ReyReyBattery said:

 

It truly is baffling.

 

That being said I just realised that this is the perfect gif to reply to him with:

 

 

I am partial to this one

 

[Dementeleus]

5 minutes ago, Poe Blankeron said:

My phone charger is missing

 

and my debit card

 

and tomorrow is my first final

 

and i need to get up at 6am for a 3 hour early rehearsal for said final

 

sometimes i really hate existing

 

Those are listed in reverse priority. 

 

Go to sleep!

[That One Girl]

6 minutes ago, Poe Blankeron said:

My phone charger is missing

 

and my debit card

 

and tomorrow is my first final

 

and i need to get up at 6am for a 3 hour early rehearsal for said final

 

sometimes i really hate existing

 

Put your phone in low power mode and only use it when necessary until you find your phone charger.  Go to sleep.

[Dementeleus]

So I just found out on twitter that square dancing was popularized in a racist effort to destroy jazz, and that quicksand porn is a thing. 

[DAR]

I glanced at that.  I'm thinking if the apes, zombies AI of some alien beings want to take over I'd be perfectly fine with it.

[DeeCee]

Traffic is really bad so I stopped at Maccas. 

 

I don’t think I should have. 

[Porthos]

3 hours ago, Lor San Tele said:

So I just found out on twitter that square dancing was popularized in a racist effort to destroy jazz, and that quicksand porn is a thing. 

Whoever had that monkey's paw and wished for the Cubs to win the World Series has a LOT to answer for.

[Premium George]

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— iGyaan (@igyaan) December 8, 2017

[MCKillswitch123]

8 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

 

Hmm...

 

Episode 10 is probably the dramatic climax of it all with the big Virmire revelation, battle, and sacrifice.

 

 

Just for counterpoint, here is the first half of my brief cliffnotes ME1 adaptation using my Post-it notes from like 3-4 years ago.  I've done a little tweaking. The notes don't delve into the character stuff really.

 

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Season 1

 

Episode 1.1 - The Beacon

 

Introduce the Normandy and its crew, The Mission to Eden Prime

 

Episode 1.2 - Citadel

 

Normandy arrives at the Citadel, introductions to Udina, the Council, and Saren proper (as well as Garrus), the heroes debate next steps and uncover leads to follow

 

Episode 1.3 - The Underbelly

 

Garrus enlists Shepard et al to deal with Fist the crimelord, who he suspects of collaborating with Saren in shady deals; introduction of Barla Von and who the Shadow Broker is; trail eventually leads them to a confrontation with Wrex, who is also hunting Fist. Assault on the nightclub and capture of Fist, with a cliffhanger reveal that the only evidence implicating Saren is held by a Quarian about to be assassinated

 

Episode 1.4 - Induction

 

The team races to save the Quarian, who is Tali. The evidence is reviewed and then presented to Anderson/Udina, and then the Council. Shepard is inducted into the Spectres and given the mission to track down Saren. Shepard is given command of the Normandy and has one lead to follow: the daughter of Matriarch Benezia

 

Episode 1.5- The Archeologist

 

Mission to Therum, recruiting of Liara, she melds with Shepard to unlock some of the Prothean vision. Unfortunately no leads are on the horizon at this time.

 

Episode 1.6 - The Missing

 

Shepard is recruited by Admiral Kahoku to look into the disappearance of a crack Alliance special forces unit. The team uncovers evidence that the unit was lured into a trap and slaughtered, and narrowly avoids a similar trap as well. Upon their return, Kahoku says he had his units looking into a cover black ops/science outfit called Cerberus and thinks they ambushed the unit to cover their tracks. Shepard makes him promise to alert him if the trail becomes hot.

 

Episode 1.7 - The Grudge

 

While on a routine survey and recover mission, Shepard and a couple others are ambushed and forced into hiding by a mercenary group. The Normandy and remaining crew/team scramble to locate and extract them. Shepard learns he is being hunted by Elanos Haliat, a Batarian pirate warlord who participated in the Skyllian Blitz. Shepard is able to turn the tables and defeat Haliat, who says that the Batarians have not forgotten their humiliation by humanity, and that someday they will be taught a lesson by a true warrior.

 

Episode 1.8 - Semper Fidelis

 

Shepard is contacted by Kahoku who has new data implicating a Cerberus science operation. The Normandy tracks down the operation and disables the facility and the twisted experiments going on there. This activity is noticed via remote by a major Cerberus operative known as Armistan Banes, who decides it is time to tie off the big loose end. Shepard returns to meet Kahoku only for it to be an ambush set up by Kahoku's adjutant, who is a Cerberus agent. Kahoku is missing, but Shepard finds a recording that gives a trail to follow.

 

Episode 1.9 - Guards of the Underworld

 

The Normandy tracks Kahoku to a remote system, which is the location of a Cerberus science outpost. It turns out that Kahoku deliberately allowed himself to be captured by Banes, who wanted to interrogate him for his knowledge about Cerberus operations. The team stages a rescue operation, but Kahoku in the end sacrifices himself to wound Banes and disable a key component of the facility. The team clears out the rest of the facility, but Banes escapes. A scrambled voice communication reprimands Banes, but Banes says now they know who they are truly up against. Data from the Cerberus outpost gives the Normandy intel on Geth operations in the area.

 

Episode 1.10 - Search and Destroy

 

The Normandy uses the acquired intel to track down and destroy the Geth outposts in the sector. Information acquired from the final outpost indicates a major concentration of Geth forces in the vicinity of Feros, which has just gone radio-silent in all communications.

 

Episode 1.11 - No Contact

 

The Normandy arrives at Feros and the team clears out the immediate threat to Zhu's Hope. After some ingratiating with the community, the team travels to the Exogeni facility and rescues the scientists there. The team learns that the Geth are truly after an ancient lifeform known as the Thorian, which somehow possesses key information that Saren is hoping to unlock.

 

Episode 1.12 - The Primeval

 

The team returns to Zhu's Hope and is forced to subdue many colonists who are now mind-controlled by the Thorian. The team battles Geth and husks deep in the colony's underbelly and confront the Thorian, forcing it to retreat from the vicinity. Doing so frees several captives, including Shiala, one of Matriarch Benezia's lieutenants and an acquaintance of Liara. Shiala informs the team about the Cipher, which was what Saren was after, and melds with Shepard to give him access to it as well. The visions provide dark and disturbing clues about the fate of the Protheans and the purpose of the beacons. The team begins to understand the weight of what they are up against. Elsewhere, Saren and Benezia discuss the next stage of his plans. He sends her to Noveria to look after their "investment," and the camera pans up and out to show they were overlooking a massive array of cloning tanks full of Krogan... 

 

 

 

 

Back in the day I definitely had time on my hands... 

Is that a good hmm or a bad hmm?

 

For your iteration, I'd say it's a good hmm from myself. Although, and take this as completely constructive and/or as different point of view, but the reason why I didn't include such side quests as Kahoku's missing marines and Cerberus and Batarians and stuff like that is because I feel like the search for Saren has too much urgency to get distracted with these side shows. He is a rogue ex-Spectre who murdered one of the Council's greatest agents, is on the loose and with Prothean technology on his hand. It's kind of a big deal, and I feel like it's best to get the Saren stuff out of the way and then take the unspecified bridge of time between ME1 and ME2 (according to the webz, they say ME2 starts one month after ME1; but honestly, you can push that number to more time than that and it barely makes a difference) to go after Cerberus and the Batarians and the like. I also think 3 episodes in the Citadel (at the beggining) might be a bit much. I know that the Citadel usually takes around an hour's worth of exploration, but again, I think that parts of that can be introduced more seamlessly in the plot later down the line. But still, I very much salute you for your different approach, and how you take your sweet time to present everything.

 

And for the record, even though we're not there yet, Mass Effect 3's story sooooooo needs a rework in pretty much every way. I say this because at 1st, I didn't think that high of your idea of having Arrival as the finale; but considering the stupidity of the whole "let's have every single race in the Milky Way resolve their girlfriend issues before they decide to take their heads out of their assholes and team up against this omnipotent entity that wants to wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy", it makes a hell of a lot more sense to make these things happen before the Reapers arrive. Also..... if they had Sovereign's "corpse" in the Citadel after it was destroyed in ME1, couldn't have scientists studied its shields and figured some kind of program that can corrupt a Reaper's signal and putting the shields down, thus leaving the Reapers vulnerable to actual damage, very much like what happened with Sovereign? I know Sovereign used Saren as an avatar and the avatar's destruction was what corrupted its signal, but again, with direct access to Reaper technology and months worth of time, one figures they could've found a way to do something similar. Yeah, granted, its own shields were down so they would be hard to study, and I imagine they had the risk of indoctrination in mind, but still, come on, you saw one of them almost destroy the Citadel, and you know that it's just a vanguard for all the other ones to come - why not get on it as soon as possible? This isn't really a plothole btw, it's just a far more sense making way of giving the Reapers a pay-off rather than Deus Ex Catalyst in ME3.

 

Anyway, I'll be doing my take on Season 2 soon enough. And trust me, the only reason I have so much time is because my college course isn't as challenging as I thought it would be... and because I'm too lazy to have a social life outside right now 

Edited December 8, 2017 by MCKillswitch123