Mike Gamble is now Project Director at BioWare - What could he be in charge of?

I thought the plot line was perfectly fine. Having it all feed into a baby terminator reveal was extremely poor though. 

I’d argue delaying the reapers was a pretty reasonable middle chapter of trilogy concept.

I don't quite understand what you mean about threat reception, but background reveal, as we learned in ME3, was better left untouched. If you're an incomprehensible Eldritch horror from deep space that has come to end all life, you don't to reveal your motive, because it's supposed to be incomprehensible, regardless and in the end, it doesn't matter. Instead, Mac opted to make it incomprehensible in its stupidity. I mean, it works as intended, just for the wrong reasons, so can't complain, right?

I mean not going with "Reapers - we have dismissed these claims" when one huge one just tried having its way with Citadel. I never bought that waving away of stuff that already happened.

For 'public reception', yes. But not outright on all levels of government and special forces. 

It's not up to us to judge that. Like I said, Tevos, who has always spurred us a little, since ME1, would have been an ideal candidate to let us in the know, but humanity was definitely a bunch of dumb fucks that drank the council official sponsored cool-aid and sat twiddling their thumbs at the Reaper threat. At least Hackett, Anderson and Udina believed us. You'd think they'd have some pull with Alliance high command on the subject.

It's not up to us to judge that. Like I said, Tevos, who has always spurred us a little, since ME1, would have been an ideal candidate to let us in the know, but humanity was definitely a bunch of dumb fucks that drank the council official sponsored cool-aid and sat twiddling their thumbs at the Reaper threat. At least Hackett, Anderson and Udina believed us. You'd think they'd have some pull with Alliance high command on the subject.

What? I don't follow.

A good cast of characters can carry a bad plot. A good story, can't carry a bad cast of characters.

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I disagree. The Dirty Dozen, The Magnificent Seven and Seven Samurai are no lesser movies because their plots are simplistic. They are all masterworks for things like
- Characterization and character development
- Art direction and aesthetics
- Music
- Cinematography
- Performances
If you disliked these movies, I think that is subjective, but they are subjectively considered classics for the things they got right. Certainly there are better movies than those today, but those have been built on advances of the medium over the years. Not that there hadn't been movies with better plots then, but not many that combined that with the focus to characters and their development to such an extent. Granted, ME2 isn't hindered by the RL limitations of technology, space and time, so there's really no excuse not to build a good plot as well, but I think it was done so deliberately in this case in order to not draw the attention away from the characters.

I'm not going to say that ME2 is the perfect game, not at all and for quite a few reasons, I'd say it's quite far from it, but people give it increasingly too much flack for not being the game that they wanted. From its promotional material, though, ME2 never mislead its players about what it was going to be, or what you could expect. It delivered on people's expectations and while it could have handled many things better, sure, which is true for most all games, but it still remains the best received ME game this far. I can't say the same about ME3 or Andromeda.