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Post by Sifr on Dec 16, 2018 7:26:05 GMT
Solas may not think of the people of Thedas as being "real" and his long-term plan may potentially result in their eventual deaths, but as he tells the Inquisitor in Trespasser, he's not Corypheus. He tells himself that. It's not really true. After all, Corfishystix didn't go around causing "needless suffering" until his plan was ready for its masterstroke, either. Solas didn't infect countless people and Templars with Red Lyrium, effectively enslave the people of an entire town to mine the stuff, order his people to kill countless numbers of Tranquil to use their skulls used as macabre, magical telescopes, plan to unleash an army of Demons across southern Thedas or corrupt the Wardens and Templars to be his mindless, obedient servants.
Corypheus had already enacted most of these plans before his attack on the Conclave.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 16, 2018 7:13:07 GMT
What I most love about Lace Harding is that when you look at her character arc, it follows the basic hero's journey enough that she could easily have been the player protagonist of her own separate game, or fit seamlessly into one of the DAO style backgrounds. She started out as a local farm girl in the Hinterlands, who ended up running across Inquisition scouts and impressing everyone with her helpfulness and detailed local knowledge. A few days later, she returned and surprised everyone further by asking she could join their ranks, having already accepted the call to adventure before it had even been issued to her. From there her character progression included quickly rising to the position of Lead Scout, surviving the attack on Haven, travelling all across Ferelden and Orlais and witnessing the final battles against both Corypheus and Hakkon. Her completed sidequests included hanging out with the Avvar and members of the Legion of the Dead, having a potential workplace romance with the Inquisitor, inspiring a catchy-as-hell tavern song about her and even making an appearance in Varric's book. (She even loots dead bodies for gifts for people like a video-game protagonist!) Here's to Lace Harding, badass protagonist of the greatest (mostly offscreen) Dragon Age game so far!
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Post by Sifr on Dec 16, 2018 6:20:45 GMT
Oh, sorry! I went off on a bit of a tangent there, didn't I? Didn't mean to say you're making him out to be purely one or the other.
Onto the next point - there's that bit, when you first go to the Hinterlands. At the Crossroads when you meet with Mother Giselle, Solas fucks off in the background to go heal some injured refugees, without being ordered or asked, simply out of an inclination to help. Granted, it's not like he's sacrificing much to do it, and it can only be seen if you've got a flycam enabled (And I personally think that if you need a flycam to see it, the devs probably didn't want you to), but nonetheless, it's there.
And on the other hand, given that there's absolutely no dialogue from Solas or the affected refugees in that scene, I guess we can't be sure what he was doing. Maybe it wasn't healing at all. Maybe he walked up to them and was like "Hey, stupid human, look at my hands! I can make them glow! Anyway good luck with your thirty-seven fractured bones." Who can say.
Plus, regardless of the stage of the story he pretty much always approves of helping and caring about others. That's how we can build up our approval fairly easily, in fact. Also - The Masked Empire. I'm fairly certain that Felassan didn't just act all by himself when he rushed to Briala to inform her about riots in the Halamshiral in an attempt to prevent bloodshed. Solas may not think of the people of Thedas as being "real" and his long-term plan may potentially result in their eventual deaths, but as he tells the Inquisitor in Trespasser, he's not Corypheus. The thought of sitting back and letting people suffer needlessly if he has the power to help them, is simply not his way. Solas may be many things, but he's not cruel.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 16:33:32 GMT
I don't think this quite counts as hashtag DAT, but... 👭 Autumn Witch 🎄 @dragon_Age_FansBioware: here’s a 40 second clip and an image Fans for the next 3-5 years: (src - t.co/sbIaFtMyf2)edit: and the original source is hereAnyone else immediately think of the Swan Lockdown Map from Lost when they saw this?
Damn, I wish I had the photoshop skills or software to do that myself.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 16:07:05 GMT
Red Herring. There's no way for anyone to do this, juts like you can't go to the edge of space, therefore proof of nothing. "That's an assertion". No, that's a herring.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 16:00:06 GMT
How close is Orzammar to tevinter? Was our warden in Orzammar closer to tevinter or the location in the descent? Orzammar is located the the North West of Ferelden, under the Frostback Mountains and The Descent began under the Storm Coast to the North of Ferelden. So from the surface, Orzammar is closer to Tevinter, but we don't know in what direction the Inquisition went (or how far) to reach the Titan, so from underground, they could easily have been closer to Tevinter.
I don't think we've got any canonical distances between Tevinter and Orzammar. It's said that Weisshaupt Fortress in the Anderfels (west of Tevinter) lies roughly 1000 miles away from Ferelden, so assuming that isn't hyperbole, I'd suspect that the northernmost part of the Imperium likely falls around the same distance away.
(Has any bright spark tried to work out the exact distances or scale of Thedas at all, using the map and figures provided? I know some people have tried to do distance calculations between Orzammar and the Circle tower, based on Dagna's estimates of how long the trip would take, but I don't know if anyone has tried to work out the size of the map yet?)
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 15:19:31 GMT
I like for the rhyming Grand Oak to make a return. Only if the Grand Oak gets to partake in an intense rap battle / poetry slam with the Nexus Golem.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 15:13:11 GMT
so... he's going to have hair? He's always had hair... he simply doesn't choose to grow it, is all.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 15:01:45 GMT
I wonder if there are any fanfics where Isabela is interrogated by the Qunari through unusual methods. Well, she was in the comics... but it wasn't as nearly as "50 Shades of Grey-Ones" as we might have hoped.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 14:57:12 GMT
I'm not entirely sure why some people are treating this relatively minor mess up by a minor agent as some sort of major f*** up by Solas? Yeah, this seems confusing why people would think this would be his fault? From what we've seen, only the plans that have required his agents to act with some measure of autonomy (like Felassan and this Elven Agent) or relied on outside individuals to accomplish (like Corypheus) have ended up going off the rails. Every other plan that Solas has been involved with and/or overseen personally, typically seem to go off without any hitches whatsoever.
That's not to say that Solas is some genius mastermind who's incapable of screwing up, but he does seem far better at quickly being able to adapt to any complications that arise, so he can get things back on track and accomplish his goals via some other means. His agents however, don't seem to be nearly as good at improvising or thinking on their feet.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 14:23:26 GMT
She has a much less conservative view of sex, etc when she talks to the Warden about her time in the Chantry. I can’t remember the particular conversation off the top of my head anymore. But it’s always been an interesting counterpoint to what Alistair says about the Chantry. True, but unlike Alistair (or Cullen for that matter), she wasn't raised by the Chantry and only joined the faith after she'd spent many years as an Orlesian bard. So it's not surprising that Leliana's sexually liberated youth has left her with views on sex that are vastly different from individuals who grew up in the Chantry, who were instilled with it's values from an early age or during their formative years.
Another thing to consider is how Sebastian went from being extremely promiscuous in his youth to being completely chaste, after his religious awakening. His newfound dedication to the Chantry and it's beliefs lead him to adopt far more conservative views about sex than he had held before, which seems to support that as being more typical of Chantry rhetoric.
Perhaps Leliana's more liberal views on sexuality, in addition to her views on the Maker and the Chantry, were what put her at odds with the other Sisters? And this is why she found such a kindred spirit in Dorothea (Justinia) because she likewise was looked down upon by others in the Chantry for having a more "worldly" background and coming into the faith later in life.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 14:02:23 GMT
Was it ever explained why a crazy blood magic "lets make a hellmouth" attempt was made in Kirkwall? I mean, I got that the architecture was lending itself to all the bloodletting in the city literally being funneled to one spot for presumably magical purposes. And the slaves' suffering was thinning the veil. But I don't recall ever seeing a theory posited in-game on the "why" of it all. To quote Hawke;
"Summoned a horror... of course I did, why wouldn't I do that?"
If a magical ritual sounds like a bad idea, then you can bet your sovereigns that Tevinter will not only want to do it, but will do so with absolutely zero safety precautions in place for when things go catastrophically wrong. Then afterwards, they'll act like no-one could have predicted it would have happened whatosever.
Tevinter is that kid who never learned not to stick their tongue in a electrical sockets, even though they've been repeatedly shocked before.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 14, 2018 13:32:00 GMT
My take on what the murals are meant to depict;
This may depict the creation of the Veil. The wavy lines in the yellow and blue circles are shown to go horizontal to vertical, which may symbolise how the pre-Veil world has the Fade flow freely much like water (yellow circle), but the post-Veil world now has the the Fade separated behind a barrier curtain (blue circle), preventing movement to-and-fro between them. The eyes in the centre may represent the Spirits now trapped behind the Veil, now stuck only glimpsing the world from afar inside of the Fade. Solas on the right is holding what looks to be a representation of the Orb, which would fit with my interpretation that this depicts the creation of the Veil, as this is right underneath the blue circle with the vertical wavy lines (which could symbolise the Veil, as mentioned above).
Finally, we see the yellow line travel across the mural above Solas' head, the upper half filled with yellow triangles. I suspect that the upper half may be a representation of the Fade, with the Solas on the left looking up as if contemplating what he's about to do, before sealing off the Veil with the Orb, as depicted by the image of him on the right.
Another thing to support the upper half representing the Fade is that the Ancient Elven name for Skyhold (hinted as place where Solas created the Veil), translates to "The place where the Sky was held back". From this, we might infer that "the sky" was synonymous with the Fade to the Ancient Elves, which would make sense given that the Fade and the world were one and the same.
This mural may depict the creation of the Orb. On the left side of the mural, we see Solas with one glowing hand raised, indicating he may be about to strike down the Titan. The middle of the image shows the death of a Titan, being struck down from the heavens, with the centre of the image seeming to represent it's heart. On the right, we see Solas now carrying what looks to be like his Orb, which is shown to have the same star pattern as the heart of the Titan.
From this we can surmise that Solas may have acquired his Orb by killing a Titan and harvesting it's heart. This would explain how the Orb was created and how it came to hold so much power, as the Descent showed us that the Titans are ridiculously powerful beings. This would give a major reason why the Evanuris had gone to war with the Titans, as well as why the Veilfire runes warn they could unleash a power that might destroy them all.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 17:53:26 GMT
My main thing here is the why of it all? Why the global conspiracy? What does NASA or whoever else gain by doing this? What do you gain by attempting to refute it? Once you get here, you're more or less saying science is a lie. That's when we get into the idea of creationist theory. The bigger question is who was in charge of maintaining the conspiracy before NASA was formed in 1958?
And if you get into conspiracies about there being an "Ice Wall" that surrounds a Flat Earth, how exactly can we expect NASA, (who cannot even afford to run the Space Shuttle program anymore) to somehow be capable of maintaining the constant veil of secrecy and surveillance needed to keep the existence of a giant Ice Wall from leaking to the public?
Also wouldn't the Soviet's have debunked the US and NASA's claim to have sent men to the moon, by revealing definitive proof that the world was flat? What reason would they have had to keep the existence of a Flat Earth hidden from everyone, when they could have so easily discredited and humiliated the US by outing the conspiracy?
As cool as it would be to live on a Discworld, I have doubts that NASA, let alone any group, could maintain the masquerade for more than five minutes without it all coming tumbling down.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 17:34:59 GMT
At best, Corypheus would have only killed himself and perhaps some of his followers. Even if the explosion hadn't been so large at the Conclave, the lives that could have potentially been lost would have be a drop in the bucket compared to those lost when Solas tore down the Veil. Yeah, Solas wasn't just responsible for Corfishystix, Solas would have been Corfishystix. Heck, he basically still is. There's not much in the way of meaningful difference between their characterizations. Corypheus claims to want to help Tevinter, but we all know that he's really in it only for power and to become a God. Solas on the other hand, ultimately rejected power and the allure of (false) godhood and sought to free his people from the tyranny of the Evanuris. He genuinely does want to help his people, by undoing the mistake he made in creating the Veil that caused the world and Elves to become a shadow of what they once were.
The only similarity between them is that their plans were identical (mostly because Corypheus seems to have copied it), as well as their lack of regard for the collateral damage that may result from their plans, Solas in wanting to tear down the Veil and Corypheus in being fully prepared to destroy the world if it meant becoming a God.
Where they again differ is that by the end of the game, Solas has come to regard his plan as a necessary evil and something that he doesn't really want to do, but feels obligated to carry out for the sake of people, whereas Corypheus is acting entirely out of his own petty, selfish desires for godhood.
This is most obvious in the second Breach, as it was not part of some complicated plan to enter the Fade, but Corypheus acting out of pure impulse and spite. It was one last middle finger to both the Old Gods and the Inquisitor, because either he'd get what he wanted or destroy the world in the process.
Another key difference between the two is what when things done go according to plan, Solas remains calm and adapts his plans/strategies accordingly. Whereas Corypheus immediately throws a wobbly and proceeds to chuck all his toys out of his pram, before finally resorting to kicking and screaming for Mum Dumat.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 17:09:02 GMT
If I didn't watch tv or movies because of the politics of actors, I wouldn't watch much of anything. Same, I still enjoy Adam Baldwin as an actor, even if I find his conservatism and comments against same-sex marriage a tad problematic.
Doesn't make him any less the Hero of Gorram Canton, the man they call Jayne.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 16:59:34 GMT
Could the Forgotten Ones may have been part of Solas' rebellion?
Perhaps they were his lieutenants and the Evanuris decreed damnatio memoriae on them, hoping it would stir resentment in the ranks because unlike their leader, they weren't infamous enough that their names and legacy could survive the public erasure?
Or if they were instead the opposing side that the Evanuris fought against in their civil war, whether any of them survived and later took up with Solas' rebellion, since they now had a common enemy? That would have given rise to the legend that both the "Creators" and Forgotten Ones both considered the Dread Wolf to be one of them.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 16:45:28 GMT
Regarding the Cassandra example, what I find baffling is that he complains about it. Warriors get injured all the time, so a little bruising should be nothing. I think it's more because when Cassandra spars with someone, it's not for fun or keep up their training, she fully intends to win and hand your arse to you while she does. Maybe that's why Bull asks Cassandra to hit him with sticks, rather than Blackwall, because he knows that she won't go easy on him.
(Or getting hit with sticks by a hot chicks is one of Bull's fetishes, I'm not judging... who wouldn't be into that?)
But getting back to Blackwall and Cassandra...my guess is that Blackwall only spars and runs drills every day (which is mentioned in dialogue) to keep his skills sharp, whereas Cassandra is fully committed to maintaining and improving her training regimen, if being found destroying practice dummies in both Haven and Skyhold is anything to judge her typical workout routine by.
Or it's because Blackwall likes to hang out in the tavern and has a couple years on her, so he's not in as peak condition as she is.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 16:21:45 GMT
As we see and hear at the endgame it caused an explosion both times he used it to create the Breach, and the second time there was no interruption by the Inquisitor. The initial Breach was an accident, the second time was done intentionally.
Corypheus' initial plan was the same as Solas', to use the Orb to bestow upon him the Anchor and use that to enter the Fade. When that failed and Corypheus realised that the Anchor was permanently glued to the Inquisitor's hand, he may have attempted to use the Well of Sorrows to find another means to enter the Fade and/or use the Eluvians. When that failed, in both his anger and frustration he decided to use force instead and opened up another Breach, for one last ditch effort to get into the Fade.
Even the characters in the game were dumbfounded when Corypheus opened up the second Breach, seeming to realise that Corypheus was perfectly willing to let it swallow up the entire world if it meant allowing him to enter the Fade, because he simply didn't care anymore. He'd either succeed in getting into the Fade or would die trying.
(Which makes it rather fitting that the Inquisitor decides to oblige him with both)
As for Solas, he still gave essentially a nuke to a person he knew and even planned would activate it. He cared nothing about where it would be dome or who got caught up in it. As for what he should have done, he should have not given a weapon of that caliber to a madman. You realise that if Solas' plan had succeeded, he would have immediately ended the world, right?
At best, Corypheus would have only killed himself and perhaps some of his followers. Even if the explosion hadn't been so large at the Conclave, the lives that could have potentially been lost would have be a drop in the bucket compared to those lost when Solas tore down the Veil.
As Solas can say about his plan in Trespasser;
"I did not lead a rebellion against immortal mage-kings without getting my hands bloody".
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 15:44:47 GMT
I think the topic tends to keep coming up because of the impressions laid out in DA:O about templars being married to the Chantry, but a lot of those things that Alistair told us about the Order have since been retconned--including this fact specifically, with DA2 canon about templars not only being allowed to have sex but even being allowed to marry in certain circumstances, c.f., Aveline. Perhaps the easiest explanation to reconcile all these contradicting sources of information is that much like each Circle is different from another, the Chantry's rules surrounding what tenets their Templars must obey differ depending on what nation or post they have been assigned to. Some places may enforce the Chatnry's rules more rigidly, while others are more willing to bend them or make exceptions.
For example, the Kinloch Hold didn't seem to have been allowed the Templars stationed there to marry, but we know that Ser Wesley was allowed to be married after getting special dispensation from the Chantry. Perhaps the Chantry he served in was less stringent than Kinloch, or that the rule actually states that Templars cannot marry unless they gained permission from their commanding officer (which seems unlikely knowing both Greagoir and Meredith) and the Revered Mother.
Another possibility is that being allowed to marry is granted as a reward for exemplary service to the Order, similar to how similar privileges can be awarded to certain mages. A good example of the latter is Enchanter Wilhelm being allowed to live outside the Circle and raise a family in Honnleath, presumably for his years of service to the Arl of Redcliffe and as part of Maric's Rebellion.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 15:04:22 GMT
But Solas didn't give Corypheus a 'nuke' to 'wipe out the city' He gave an orb to Corypheus so Corypheus would blow himself up in an attempt to unlock it - and the fact that it ended how it ended was because Cory had a stupid idea to choose the Divine as his sacrifice, with no expectation that it'd end with an explosion (which, btw. was likely a result of our PC suddenly disrupting the ritual!). And now you are just straight up ignoring things in the game and making stuff up to defend your husbando. And you accuse me of letting my biases get in the way. But that's what the game told us actually happened.
Solas knew that the energy build-up inside the Orb would have to go somewhere and he believed that it would be fatal to whomever unlocked the Orb, which is why he couldn't do it himself. His plan was to allow Corypheus to unlock the Orb, let the resulting magical discharge kill him, then swoop in and grab it when no-one was looking.
He did not anticipate that Corypheus would chose the Conclave as the site where he'd attempt to unlock the Orb, that Corypheus would try to murder the Divine, have the ritual disrupted by a random stranger wandering in, have the already unstable magic go haywire, trigger a massive explosion that nearly levelled Mount Daverus and lead to a massive hole being torn in the Veil.
And even if Solas had anticipated the explosion would be as large as it ended up being, what should he have done?
I don't see an Elven Apostate rocking up to some Templars and telling them that an Ancient Darkspawn Magister is about to unlock an Elven Artefact that may result in a potentially large, deadly explosion and having that end at all well for him. At worst he'd be executed on the spot, or at best, arrested as an accomplice/conspirator and tortured for information, before being made Tranquil.
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 14:40:20 GMT
I can feel that; Solas is definitely an experienced individual and could see people wanting to try to match that but I don't think anyone could, except for another ancient elf. What I liked about having the young and innocent contrast is that Solas can possibly realize he's too wrapped up in himself and his past. He has forgotten about the new and the all the wonder it can bring, until my Lavellan shows up. He admits that he didn't see you as a person at first, but when he falls in love, it changes everything and he begins to open up to the world around him. Maybe he even thinks: "If someone so bright and elfy can still be created in the sundered world, what else can it bring?" Or at least that's the hope. Well said! That's what I like about having a younger Lavellan (early twenties), as her youthful, wide-eyed, perspective stands in stark contrast to Solas' ancient, world-weary, attitude.
Until joining the Inquisition, he'd only ever viewed modern Thedas as a mistake borne from carelessness when he created the Veil and it's denizens as mere shadows of what they were. But his time with Lavellan and the Inquisition allowed him to finally see and appreciate this strange new world (and the people who dwell within in) for the first time, as well as start to question whether he should sacrifice them to restore what was?
Before, he would have sacrifice the world without backwards glance, but that was when he was alone and had nothing to lose. Now he's developed close friendships and even relationships with people he's putting on the chopping block, he's finding that going through with his plans have become harder than he thought.
After all, in Trespasser it would have been easier to let the Qunari wipe out Exalted Council, the inquisition and any other political leader in southern who could still conceivably thwart his plans, but he couldn't help but get involved. Maybe his plans would have been harder to implement with the Qunari invading the South, maybe not, but even the Inquisitor questions why he even cares about stopping the Qunari when he's planning to end the world in a few years anyway?
I think that it was more about protecting his friends in the Inquisition and the Inquisitor, even if he pretends that it wasn't. And because on some level he's torn about what he must do, so he'd rather keep the Inquisition around because they are the only ones he'd be willing to let stop him (or convince him to find another way), since they've earned his respect.
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Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire
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Post by Sifr on Dec 12, 2018 12:59:25 GMT
I am wondering if the next game will feature a massive city hub, like minrathous, but have us complete more linear adventures elsewhere. Also I'm glad Epler and other devs can be communicated with on Twitter and listen to fans, but that can be bad if overdone. The old football saying that if you listen to the people in the stands too much, you will soon find yourself among them. They should make the game they think needs to be made. Also negativity Epler gets in replies, and BW in general, I think is from a fairly small crowd. They just cry the loudest. And most likely live in Russia. Throw in a few dumb Americans and Canadians for good measure of course. If only all criticism was as passive-aggressive and downright hilarious, as that coming from football fans;
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Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
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Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire
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Post by Sifr on Dec 11, 2018 6:43:02 GMT
I overall like Jodie and the Thirteenth Doctor.
However I do worry that the writers may have been playing it a little safe with her, which has resulted in her coming across as a little too nice for her own good. Being laid back and friendly is fine, but it needs to be balanced out with those little glimpses that beneath the surface, the Doctor is perfectly capable of bringing down a world of pain for all eternity on those who cross her.
Another issue is that I think they're going for her Doctor seeming a little scatterbrained (which I don't mind), but the writing sometimes instead makes it seem more like she's easily lost, confused or overwhelmed by the situation, which unfortunately can come across as ineptitude. They really need to write her more as being on top of things, even if she's flying by the seat of her pants.
Most of these problems seem more prevalent in Chibnall's scripts, so I don't know if it's bad writing or that they've still not really worked out how to write for Jodie yet? She's brilliant and I have zero complaints about her performance, but the writing is seriously letting her down at times.
(I had the same issue with the Twelfth Doctor. I loved the character and Capaldi's performance, but his run often suffered from iffy writing/stories, because it was clear that Moffat had run out of ideas by that point. Like Jodie now, he deserved better.)
Not sure if the rumours are true that Chibnall might be leaving after S12, but if so, I hope they aren't also true that Jodie may be leaving with him. If they need a new showrunner or headwriter, sobeit, but I'd prefer she remains because I'm really enjoying her as the Doctor.
Hopefully they'll iron out the kinks by S12, so none of that will be necessary anyway.
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Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire
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Post by Sifr on Dec 11, 2018 6:13:10 GMT
Because when 5 or more women gather under a single roof, one of them instantly becomes pregnant and a baby shower must ensue. The Breach was actually caused by too many women coming into close proximity of Varric's chesthair. The sheer amount of pregnancies and baby showers that resulted, eventually hit critical mass.
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