Dorkiest dialogue in the series

Agree.  Benezia's death scene was reeeaaaallly bad - made worse by bringing the "little wing" bit up again in ME3 when Liara is talking with her father.

I'm pretty sure people with disagree with me... but I find one of the dorkiest lines to be the "How 'bout goodbye" line from ME2 combined with high-rise tower glass so fragile (in that century) that someone can just be rather easily pushed out a window... I thought we solved that issue here on Earth long ago.

I'd say the prize goes to "the priiiiize..."

"I'm just interested in talking for a bit."

Ashley - "Not sure I could tell if one was a Spectre anyway."

Oh, I loved this line, actually - it was meant to be comically awful and is one of the few I can categorically state Mark Meer delivered best

Nothing wrong with it in itself, but everytime FemShep says the word galaxy, I just remember Dark Side Bastilla and start laughing for no reason.

"You're just a machine! And machines can be broken!" I facepalm every time I hear Shepard say this to Sovereign. No wonder he thinks we're too dumb to understand the Reapers motivations.

That line was exactly what came to mind when i saw this thread. Other dorky lines from Shep are when he compares the genophage to the first contact war, acts surprised that Asari can reproduce with each other and asks if Tali is royalty.

Hmmmm, not dorky because it's so intentionally cheesy and one-liner esque. I really felt like Shepard became a die-hard action hero in that scene.

I heard a pretty good argument recently that the end scene with TIM was just as poorly written as everything else in the ending but people never paid attention to it because it was well designed and I agree with that. Of all the things that didn't go down well in the ending at least having 3-4 filled dialogue wheels and interrupts created an adequate sense of player-importance and a climax for the dialogue system. That said I agree. I always thought TIM was a raving madman and not in a good way, in ME3, in fact this is just one of many reasons why I've complained in the past and recently that ME3 had bad dialogue in general, particularly TIM who used to have smart enough points whenever what he did seemed questionable... until ME3 when you can barely make sense of what he's trying to do. Every dialogue with him can be boiled down to Shepard yelling "YES!" and TIM yelling "NO!" at each other. They disagree about what they should do and that's it. It's one-sided. Nobody has any clue how to destroy or control Reapers yet they keep arguing about whether one way or the other is the right way to go, so it just doesn't work, and even the finale has that problem too. They also made TIM repeat himself like 3 times over in the final conversation with him.

"Control of the Reapers and of you if necessary."
"Controlling me is a lot different than controlling a Reaper"
"Look at the power they wield, look at what they can do!"
"...He's wrong don't listen to him"
"And what if he's wrong? What if controlling the Reapers IS the answer?"
"Maybe you're just being controlled."
"No, NO! Listen you two, The Crucible will allow me to control them!"
"No we have to destroy them!"
"Then I'll have to force you to give me what I want!"

I know that's heavily paraphrased but god. We had the exact same conversation as we had on Mars. They revealed it too soon. They know right away that he might be indoctrinated, then on Thessia they just reaffirm the same thing, on Cerberus HQ he literally talks about nothing and in the ending he just repeats the same arguments as he did on Mars and Thessia and Shepard does too until one of them pulls the trigger. It's fucking stupid lol.

You know I still don't have a good answer as to why people think this line is so ridiculous.

Ok so Sovereign turns out to be some kind of artificial intelligence. Maybe it's super advanced, maybe not, but what's wrong with trash talking it? How many people on here ignore what the geth are/have achieved and just call them toasters?

I also get what they were going for with "this isn't about strategy or tactics". It's not saying those are useless/to be thrown out (though, from a certain point of view, they go on and say that ad nauseum anyway via "the Reapers can't be beaten conventionally"). It's supposed to evoke a more invested reaction. It's like, you can't just sitback and armchair quarterback this war. It's not a chess match, all our lives are on the line. It's supposed to be playing to the idea of the aloof detached general just moving pieces on the board and shooting that notion down. At least that's how I interpreted it. Same with "we fight or we die". After years of everyone dragging their feet and going "ah yes, Reapers", I'd be more than a little pissed at further shirking of duty too.

"Citadel? The fight's here!" on the other hand has zero excuse.