Canadian Delicacy - The Kaidan Alenko Thread

Nowadays, I don't mind Horizon one bit and actually look forward to seeing Kaidan for those few precious minutes in ME2 but boy how angry I was when I played the game for the first time. Mind you, I was mostly angry at Bioware and not even about the conflict between Shepard and Kaidan but the way it was handled. At that point I thought it was a cheap way to get rid of his character from the picture and there was no certainty that he'd come back/in what role in ME3.

As for his objections for joining Shepard, no gripe in there since my first ever (in both me1&2) Shep had Sole Survivor background. There was no chance she'd work with Cerberus without trying every other option available. I wish Shepard could put up more fight before settling on working with TIM out of sheer desperation. I know the time was precious but hey, she had time for recruitment missions and other filler. I love the characters in ME2, their recruitment/loyalty missions and the suicide mission, just the overarching plot is bleh imo, so pointless and disjointed.

And I am going on a tangent here so bringing this back on topic again, conflict with Kaidan changed my Shep, she was majorly conflicted throughout the game. It added extra opportunity to rethink her character and her loyalties. It also gave me Mars reunion and, since my love for this mission is unparalleled (the music, the setting, the story buildup and of course smoothing things with Kaidan), I accept that Horizon exists. I still cringe at the lines though...