Ryder is definitely less stupid than Shepard

I played intelligent Sara first and now I'm starting a dumb Scott playthrough. 

It would be smart. Unfortunately it wouldn't be as entertaining and it would take power away from the player. Rule of Cool is a big thing in MET...

Maybe so, but I agree that I would have left the decision up to the council. I would also remove the decision for who to make as councilor and if the council dies or not.

Well if they had listened, Citadel Space would have been at war with ME1 Terminus systems. Which at that point were a series of empires and planetwide criminal havens run by mercs, gangs, pirates and the Batarian Hegemony.

Imagine if Sloane and Aria lived nextdoor to each other and had their own warships and neighbours in the same boat who were itching for a fight.

And all the Krogan you could afford to hire to fight for you.

At that point in the series it made sense not to start a war you might lose.

In terms of writing a story that allowed you to end the Reaper threat without starting a galactic wide war in the process was a good thing.

The only part that was especially badly written was Saren needing the conduit.

Sovereign could have just attacked from the beginning of the game.

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Ok...
I'm not sure exactly how telling the council that the Rachni Queen was still alive on Noveria, and letting them make a call on how to deal with the situation could have gotten us into a war with the Terminus systems....

Or how "I tell you what you need to know, you tell me what to do but I'm a Spectre and black ops, so any and all activities could be disavowed..." starts a war with the Terminus systems...

But whatever dude.  You do you.

oh you meant the queen. I thought I'd addressed that.

I go back to my earlier comment theres no point in being a SPECTRE if you won't make the call.

The first SPECTRE was a salarian who held civilians hostage and put them in danger to draw out a criminal and kill him.

The council rewarded him by starting the SPECTREs tp continue in that tradition.

So a paragon SPECTRE actually makes less sense.

He/she were not close with his/her dad but...you mess with their sibling  it's clear you better run.

some one did not finish the game...

Ryder, is one of the few things I like about this game. Male Ryder that is. I think I might prefer Femshep over FemRyder though. I've heard some of FemRyders dialogue is really corny compared to MaleRyder.

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And again you've missed my point.

Never did I say that Shepard was a do gooder grunt taking orders from the council and deferring to their judgement.  Nor did I say that's the way it should be.

I said the way it was presented in the original game was stupid and I gave reasons why I thought that.  Many of the paragon AND renegade choices were either completely dumb from a realistic idea of what a Spec Ops type of character should be, or were just over the top.  Either TOO idealistic and rainbows-and-sunshine or TOO much like a homicidal maniac.

Which is why I didn't like the P/R system in the MET.  Please note, I'm quibbling over details here, and those games were very good games, and definitely within my top 5 or 10 all time.  ME:A has it's issues.  I'm not gonna pretend otherwise.  It's got issues even with the things I prefer over the MET.  The conversational system we have in ME:A is an improvement, in my opinion, since Ryder can choose different options without sounding like a schizophrenic idiot at times, which is what happened to Shepard if you chose Paragon one choice and Renegade another.  

BOTH extremes were stupid in many places.  The system in ME:A needs work in my opinion, we should have some tougher, in your face kinda dialogue that still fits within the current system, but it's quite a ways ahead of the P/R system in the MET, in my opinion.

And just to clarify my stance on ME1 a little bit more, since you still don't seem to get it.

Situations like on Noveria with the Queen were dumb from BOTH paragon AND renegade sides.  That's the kind of decision that SHOULD have been handed off to the council.  Dealing with Anoleis to leave and go search the rest of Noveria ISN'T the kind of decision you foist off on the council.   I'm not going to go through and point out every conceivable situation where a Spectre should defer to the council's judgement, because Spectres DO have very broad leeway to do things without the council's involvement.  But a Spectre shouldn't be able to do ANYTHING (edit:  anything they want) without council oversight.  That's just a disaster waiting to happen.

The OP's been criticizing Shep since long before Andromeda existed.

If I remember correctly neither council nor specters were respected as an authority on Noveria. If Shepard would leave Rachni alive he would risk someone else will take her, including Saren.  But yeah, "the rool of cool" is certainly a factor too.