Plot devices/Plot holes

I'll agree to the Cora and Sarissa scene being overkill, but remember when Jack broke out of cryo and killed those heavy mechs without any problem? Then later in the game it takes 3 of you to take one down, and on Insanity its even worse. Sometimes the cinematics are meant to be a bit overkill for visual awesomeness. Still they could have toned it back just a smidge.

Not sure on Sara/Scott and how they interacted with the Remnant. I guess we have to handwave that.

Seems like someone is obsessed with Mac. Got some hero worship going on? 

Isn't it weird that he hasn't tweeted about the game in a week or so, like not even retweeted the news from Flynn and so on. 

I didn't have the heart to tell them, I was a stronger biotic then both of them. I didn't want to ruin their moment.

One thing I'm curious about is the original pathfinder group. They travel for 600 years to a different galaxy, leaving everything and everyone behind in the Milky Way.
Then when they get there and have one screwed up mission they just quit. How dedicated were they, and are they even allowed to quit?

Four of them were Liam, Cora, you, and your sister.

So, a few are all in.

There were a few times while I was playing that I felt like the timeline of the original trilogy didn't match up with the information given about when the Initiative arks left the Milky Way. The arks left during the events of ME2, right? For example, how did the Initiative get geth surveillance data in time to plan the expedition when the geth didn't even reappear until just two years before departure? How did Knight get out of Overlord early enough to leave with the Initiative? How did Cora get her hands on a plant from Rannoch?

They broke down the elements of the series to basic science fantasy tropes at this point, that's why biotics and tech skills are just as much magic as the Force or Psychic powers in 40k.

Bolding mine.

They did that in the first game, what with the FTL, the Thorian gaining knowledge from eating things, the asari mind-meld, the violation of the laws of thermodynamics...and that was just the most blatant stuff. Then there was the stuff that they barely bothered to offer up a "lore" explanation for, like the race of blue space elf babes, and the stuff where they openly ignored their ostensible lore because it would be less fun, like how biotics are really exhausting and you can't do them that much and you still have to take in a massive amount of nutrients during combat to keep going.

This series has only ever been the softest of sci-fi and if anyone thought otherwise they were self-deluding.

Nah, psychic in Wh40k would not be so powerful enough to shield battlebarges from torpedos. Hence it is more believable to an extent. Of course primarchs and emperor himself do not count.

The short answer is that I don't know but I can make some guesses.  First, the geth may not have been out of the Perseus Veil prior to 2183, but we do know that ships went into their territory on occasion and were usually shot down.  It's not impossible that someone found their surveillance data and transmitted it.  Also, Saren first encountered Reaper tech in 2157.   That tech was located in geth space.  For all we know, he already had geth working for him pretty shortly after recovering the tech.  It could have filtered through that route.

Second, we don't know how long Project Overlord was in existence.  We only saw how it ended but there's no sense of a timeline.  Could have existed for years.

Third...well, you got me there.  Maybe the quarians have them on their liveships.  Not all that impossible.

It's entirely possible for a planet to be tidally locked so that one side always faces it's sun. The planet still technically rotates - if it didn't rotate at all then it would have a day/night cycle, just one that was determined by it's point in revolution around it's star - but it just rotates at a rate where that keeps one side of it facing the sun at all times.

He didn't tweet for ages after ME3, so I take it he primarily uses Twitter to promote his work anyway.