Dorkiest dialogue in the series

You're insane. That reference in ME3 is the only thing that redeems that cringey Noveria 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.

Meh, I read it as dumb dialogue for dumb people (i.e. the committee). He went sensationalist so their little complacent minds could undestand. Clearly he couldn't sink entirely to their level because the response was still "cow looking at an oncoming train".

With none of the charm of those movies (at least the first Independence Day).

Playing the first game again and there's always a line that's stuck out to me...not because of the line itself, but the delivery is so off. Not sure how it is with MShep, but it's early on when you meet Ashley on Eden Prime and ask her about the get attack. Once the conversation is over–a calm, rational conversation–FShep *yells* "MOVE OUT!" way too loudly out of nowhere. Ashley just gives a nod and slowly walks away, no urgency whatsoever. It's just a directing/animating misfire, but in context Shepard comes off like a maniac.

Agreed, I've always hated Jennifer Hale's delivery of that line. And like you said I don't know if it was just directional problem or a sound problem or what. I'm thinking the former, though, because later if you romance Kaidan after the romance scene when Joker tells you they're at the mass relay you get the "JOKER IS WAITING FOR YOU ON THE BRIDGE!!!!" line from Kaidan, said in almost a yell, followed by him calmly saying "I swear though if anything happens to you... take care Shepard." two seconds afterward. It just sounds off.