I have assembled a crack team of writers for BioWare to hire for ME5

I highly 2nd the Reynolds "Revelation Space" Series. You want ancient scary threats done right? Hire him.

And while we're at it:

Martin Scorese to direct
Spielberg to be executive producer
Resurrect Jim Hensen to make the Elcor/Hanar puppets
Frank Oz to puppeteer
Andy Sirkis to do MoCap for All the CGI aliens
Michael Bay to be explosives supervisor
Chris Pratt to play Ryder
Jennifer Lawrence to play Ryder
De-Aged Robin Wright for Cora
Proud mystical African for Jaal
Another Game of Thrones actor for...whatever
and then John Williams to compose.

Now we're cooking with gas!

OSC wrote THE DIG, one of the best sci-fi games of all time, which delivered upon its promise of exploring a strange new world and first contact a million times better than ME:A did!

No Card... He's a crazy Morman.

No Sanderson either, also a crazy Morman.  Sanderson has no idea how to write believable romances because he avoids sexual content at all costs.  Romances in Mass Effect would consist of holding hands with someone of the opposite sex...

Neh! Let Drew do his Star Wars thing. I am Interested in what Cathleen can do as lead writer. The woman who wrote Drack works for Ubisoft by the way, so we already lost her.

Let's get a petition going to bring back Drew Karpyshyn as lead writer. It's the only way to save the series.

Drew K - Lead
Luke Kristjanson
Mac Walters
Patrick Weekes
Chris L'Etoile
Brian Kindregan

All games after ME1. Nothing more, nothing less. 10/10

Go back to ME1 writing team.

You mean this guy that came up with this ending?

www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-3-series-former-lead-writer-reveals-original-ending-ideas/

I went back to a half finished play through of the OT after the disappointment of ME:A, mainly to see if I was being unfair about the writing.
Just had Samara's loyalty mission. The dialogue between Samara and Shep before and after the mission is superb. Well written with genuine intelligence, regret, love, duty and honour all coming through due to the writing, direction and voice actress.
I can't think of anything comparable in ME:A. This isn't nostalgia.
So, get anybody to write the sequel. Just so long as I don't have to hear 'my face is tired' or 'Speedbump!' ever again.

Bad example. The scenes might be good (I never found them especially so but ok), but Samara's behaviour, her ideology as practiced, makes no sense. That's exactly what I would not like in another ME game. I want a world and cultures that make sense, not thrown together just for their capacity for drama with no regard for anything else.

 

I found Samara to make perfect sense as a character, both her motivations and actions.
Anyway, point is you will always be able to point out inconsistencies in anything. Good writing, acting and direction enable you to overlook them. Bad writing highlights them.