The Little Things 2.0

All that I'm reading into anything is that Bioware has inserted little things into the imagery that enable the player to interpret things inside the game in different ways.  People here are so driven towards making it so that there is only one "right way" to interpret the game, but what I see is a lot of vagueness and elusive hinting at things that can be viewed differently from several different angles.  The poetry in Mass Effect was intentionally selected.  The "post death" and rather religious inferences to ascension and afterlife were selected and put into the game every bit as intentionally as TIM's wonky eyes or references to the krogan nuking themselves and being nothing more than violent thugs and then showing us a krogan scientist.  Bioware creates differential "room" in their stories expressly so that people can "read" different things into them.  I never said Leviathan "should" provide a description.  I'm saying that because it didn't, it is possible to interpret the ending in multiple ways.

Interpetation is always head canon; and leaving possibilities open IS what I'm all about... and why I oppose bringing Shepard back.  In many of ME3's endings (the majority of them actually), Shepard is dead.  Bringing him/her back would declare all those playthroughs "not possible" within the "new" canon.  Bioware can make Ryder's personality as Shepard-like as they want going forward, but I'm against Bioware going back and changing anything that's already been written.  Bioware have clearly stated that they intended ME3 to be the end of Shepard's story.  If they do ever decide to do a remake of the Trilogy, I hope they'll have the good sense to change it so completely as to make nearly unrecognizable, essentially leaving the OT as is and unscathed and creating a totally new game just giving it the Mass Effect name only.

So after about two dozen playthroughs, I finally thought to speak to Detective Anaya and Samara before you take the elevator.

After the cutscene showing the freelancers fire at Archangel's location, the player will see Archangel kill one of the freelancers. If Miranda is on the squad, she will say 'Good shot'.

Yep. I've had that option pop up a few times. 

I honestly never noticed it.  Thanks for posting.

I had a hard time today on Archangel's mission. Remembered that I had ME2 on PS3 and decided to fire it up, starting an Insanity Playthrough. Gotta say, without the Firepower Pack weapons, the game does get challenging on early levels, lol.

So, about the mission, I heard Garrus say: "I love this rifle.", just after headshoting someone and the conversation you have before the Blue Suns attack/after killing Garm is different, based on how much damage he took.

He always say something like "They barely touched me, Shepard", but this time, having reached almost zero health, he said "Tough bunch. Had worse, though."

Just before activating the first hammer, to signal Kalros, I looked up to see the reaper had its leg up in the air waiting for me to move so it can try and crush me. At the same time it was making the noise it does when firing its beam of doom except there was no beam of doom. The player will also hear the sound of its leg smashing into the ground even though the leg is in the air.

The same happens with Harbinger except the leg part. He will look at the Normandy for a second before it flies away while the player hears the sound of his beam of doom being fired, but it's not seen firing.

When I saw this sign, I immediately thought of this:

Yeah, and it's sad when you have to tell that asari of his fate.

You can prompt Tali, which gives you two new line of dialogues, instead of going straight to Veetor after defeating the YMIR Mech.

I went through the mission again, but I chose the top right dialogue. This time Tali did say something. She mentioned that she was happy to see Legion.