Stupid Newbie Questions, The Prequel: Mass Effect 1

There are 3 different world states involving the council - saved; saved and replaced with a new mult-species council (default); and saved and replaced with an all human council.  It can affect Shepard's ability to keep his/her spectre status in ME2.  In ME3, a multi-species council returns regardless and Shepard gets reinstated as a specture regardless in ME3.  So, all even an all-human council in ME2 does is change the "tone" of things on the Citadel in ME2 (as in how much anti-human sentiment you can overhear being expressed during the game).  One of the biggest dialogue changes is the speech Joram Talid makes during Thane's loyalty mission.

Yeah, the final battle with Saren is pretty underwhelming.  Did you talk Saren into committing suicide or fight him while he was flying around on his little platform?  I usually don't talk him into suiciding just to get at least a little more out of the final battle... but it's still not that difficult a fight.

Congratulations on finishing ME1.  No more mako!