Things that don't make sense (v2)

On the Ardat Yakshi monestary why is Shepard grabbing Falere to prevent her from staying on the room that is about to explode instead of Samara? Samara just walked away without taking care of her daughter. She doesn't even comfort Falere after the bomb explode, only Shepard is doing it.

In ME3 when Dr. Chakwas and Engineer Adams are in the mess arguing about whether or not synthetics are alive and if Shepard sides with Engineer Adams (indicating that he/she feels that they are alive)... Dr. Chakwas responds with "You would say that, you two are practically machines anyways." It makes some sense that she could consider Shepard to be a machine because of his/her implants... but her including Engineer Adams in that assessment just makes no sense. He doesn't have any implants.

I agree - I don't think it's a slip up.  There has to be a different "underlying" meaning here... Still, the entire context of the conversation is about organic vs. synthetic life forms; and the question is whether or not they are alive.  The argument that Shepard supports by supporting Adams is that we have to open up our minds to consider forms of life not at all like our own... something that we seem to do more easily in the reverse... discounting organics who are undoubtedly alive as being "practically machines."

I assumed that Dr C was joking and was referring to the fact that Adams, being an engineer tends to be methodical, logical, uses a lot of maths and works on machines a lot. Adams is virtually the Normandy's answer to her, when hardware gets broken, Adams fixes it, like Chakwas would a wound or a broken bone of the "organic" part of the crew. It's a bit like "Why Greg, you spend so much time with your head stuck in machinery you're practically one yourself."She's expected to be a "people person", she'd probably think it a huge insult if someone accused her of being robot-like.

Chakwas is very fond of Shepard and Adams, I think she's just teasing, she'd never set out to offend Shepard.

I think this is more a matter of game design/budget. It seems to me that they only created the scene once, under the assumption that Samara would NOT be in the scene. It plays out the same if she's there or she isn't - it just doesn't make as much sense when she's there but doesn't help.

ME1 - Shepard recruiting squad members on the Citadel as though he/she is in command of a ship... before being given a ship to command and, in most cases, even before he/she is actually even made a spectre.

That's Garrus, Tali and Wrex, yes?  I think he was technically only recruiting them to expose Saren.  Tali was necessary, the other two less so.  All three were already seeking Saren (or had info about him) so it seems like they would logically cross paths anyway.  Also, none of those three set foot on the Normandy until Shepard has command.  Ashley, of course, was technically recruited by Anderson.  Even on Eden Prime she was just with them for the extra firepower they lost when Jenkins died.  Anderson transferred her to the Normandy crew.

Leviathan has been on that planet for however long. Why didn't they make any attempt to warn the cycle of the reapers? They were able to control the folks in the mining facility for 10 years. So why not use them to warn of the reapers?

Why didn't Wrex ask Shepard about the audio file he has that mentions sabotaging the cure? He does if the cure is sabotaged, but how would he know it was sabotaged? How would he know it was cured? Did Wreav receive the same audio file? If so, why didn't he mention it to Shepard?

Shepard didn't just show up at the Council meeting with Tali.  Tali went to the human embassy.  Udina then brought her to the Council meeting.  As far as what information Tali chooses to reveal, that's entirely her business.  It doesn't mean they're hanging together forever.

I can't comment on this Ashley/Kaidan conversation because it's never been triggered in any ME1 PT I've had.

You're arguing against your own previous point now.  If now you acknowledge that Udina is the one who brings her into the Council meeting, then her asking to come along with Shepard (and moving to stand next to him) has to be about coming aboard the ship.  Combined with all the talk about Shepard knowing what she can do and Shepard's responses about her still being on her pilgrimage (which are optional)... that conversation cannot be about just recruiting her to look for evidence to bring Saren down on the Citadel anymore.  It has to involve recruiting her (or at least allowing her) to come aboard the Normandy... and Shepard does not, at that point in time, have command of the Normandy.  It still makes no sense that Shepard would just assume he could be the one to give permission to Tali to come aboard the ship.  He should have at least asked Anderson for permission on her behalf.

The Elevator Conversation goes like this:  Kaidan - "Are you happy you signed on with Commander Shepard?"  Ashley - "I'm not sure Lieutenant.  Every time I think I have a handle on things, the universe banks hard to port."

The conversation can make some sense if triggered after leaving the Citadel and coming back again; although I think both Kaidan and Ashley should think that they signed onto the Normandy with Anderson, not Shepard regardless and serving under Shepard would just be a continuation of that post, not a re-signing.  However, the conversation is quite easy to trigger it before Shepard becomes a spectre.  I usually get it when using the elevator from the ward's access right after the first meeting in the Citadel Tower, since I usually take the elevator up the tower the first time rather than using the rapid transit and I also take the elevator back down the tower after that first meeting and then go through the wards access and take the elevator there, walking through the wards access to come out near where Emily Wong is standing.  As i said, I usually get the above conversation in that elevator.

I just don't think Bioware gave much thought to the issue.

No, he has not become a spectre yet when he recruits Tali.  He's just acquired the evidence from her, but they haven't yet gone to present that evidence to the Council.  It's after they present the evidence that Shepard becomes a spectre.

Yeah, a lot of those conversations can make no sense either depending on who Shepard took on the squad.  I often can't remember who I took on individual missions so it took me awhile to notice that they said the same thing regardless of whether or not they had actually been taken on those mission.

I still think though that "joined up with Shepard" implies something different.  I do think the conversation in the elevator is a writing error... or maybe a coding one.  They might have intended to prevent that line from triggering during the first visit to the Citadel and just overlooked it when coding it.  There are other lines that trigger only after certain events... like the news report on Kohoku's death.

Another thing that doesn't make sense though... Shepard can ask Anderson about Kohoku after Kohoku's dead - Shepard will still just ask if Anderson knows where he can find him and Anderson will still say that he thinks he's in the tower asking about his men.  The first time I activated that option after just hearing about Kohoku's death in the elevator was rather confusing since I was expecting Shepard to tell Anderson about Kohoku's death instead of asking where he could find him.