Things that don't make sense (v2)

😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄🎂😄, that part was just Bioware way of saying: f--- your questions.

I honestly didn't see Udina doing a 180; if anything, he was just further proving who he really was

A little curious what the Alliance did with the rest of the crew from the SR-2. We know what they did with Gabby and Ken, and thankfully we can correct that.

I feel like I can answer most of these, though formatting might be tricky.

1) SR1 crew escaped on escape pods over Alchera. We see it happen. Clearly, based upon the reunion, Wrex had left prior to the Collector attack.

2) Hackett wasn't keeping the Alliance from pursuing and attacking Shepard. He was running bureaucratic and political interference to buy Shepard time to wrap up any unfinished business.

3) I don't understand the Ashley/Kaidan question.

4) Who can say where all the Cerberus folks went? I wouldn't call this a "doesn't make sense". It's more of a "who really cares?"

5) Joker was brought aboard Normandy only under armed guard, and only when EDI refused to cooperate without him. I see no reason to assume he had more freedom to come and go than did Shepard.

Why would Chakwas "drag Ash/Kaidan into Shepard's presence"? Why would she be given access to Shepard at all? He was locked up and monitored, and Chakwas reaching out to Shep would've looked really sketchy. Such an attempt could've potentially ended with Chakwas under observation or restricted in some way.

Also, Chawkwas was on the Citadel, Shep was on Earth. Ash/Kaidan had Alliance duties that likely kept them too be busy to be "dragged about" by Karin Chakwas.

6) Udina was always the same. He was dedicated to humanity. That's it. He decided the other species weren't helping humanity, so he tried to seize power (and the resources such power brings) with Cerberus' help. Nothing inconsistent in that.

That's right, and the reason was time.
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It is curious though, why did Garrus and Wrex leave? You would believe both would remain since Shepard said at the end of ME1, he/she will find a way to stop the reapers. The player knows A/K, t'soni were on the ship as well as Tali according to Taylor. 

Since A/K/t'soni are the ones to tell Moreau won't leave, why didn't they force him to instead of wasting all that time to find Shepard to tell him/her that? Wait a minute. I forgot, this is the thread that doesn't make sense. What A/K/t'soni did made sense since Shepard had to die. 

This always bothered me. In fact, when TIM called Joker someone Shepard could trust, I wanted to say "you mean that guy who got me killed for being so obstinate?"

Headcanon makes a lot of things work. Yeah, I know Joker meant well, and I'm sure he thought he could somehow do something positive, I just felt like it was problematic. Maybe it's more the argument because those few moments were so crucial that it would have been enough to allow Shepard to get into the escape pod.

I think you're right. Right from the start, Udina was trying to do everything he could to get a seat on the Council - preferably for himself but definitely for Earth. Part of that was pushing for Shepard to become a Spectre. That would go a long way toward showing the Council what humans could do. That happened. Then Earth came through and put down Sovereign. That got the seat. When Shepard got uppity, Udina wanted them away from the Council because he didn't want to jeopardize Earth's standing. Everything Udina did was to advance Earth's interest. Joining Cerberus, especially when the Council seemed to have turned their backs on Earth, just made sense. Previously, he could have more or less ignored Cerberus. Not when he saw them as the only interested party, that's where he went.

So, yeah, he didn't do a 180. He just moved forward.

I think I mentioned this before but I just replayed Feros and it occurred to me again that the architecture of the place simply doesn't make sense.
You leave the Zhu's Hope building in the MAKO and go along a fairly straight highway until you reach Juliana and Jeong's hideout. At this point, you do a 180 while going up a ramp and then you go another straigt highway back.
Does this mean that the Exogeni building is actually the same building as Zhu's Hope and we just went up a few stories? Even if we assume that there was no direct connection, wouldn't the Exogeni building then also be right on top of the Thorian and thus should have been infected by the spores?

Also, when you are outside on the upper highway, you can actually see the lower highway, if you look down on the right side when you are driving back from Exogeni to the hideout building. However, when you come out of the hideout building on the lower side, you cannot see the upper highway anywhere.

So I am guessing this is just sloppy level design but it just keeps bothering me in every playthrough.

1) Many of the crew leave before the Collector attack. Remember that it happened one month after the attack on the Citadel, and Wrex himself asks how the Normandy was doing when meeting with him on Tuchanka. After Saren is stopped, there's no need for the crew to stay together, since the goal has been completed and they specifically told you that they would help you in the fight against Saren, and the Alliance was mostly doing some cleaning of the remaining Geth holdouts. Garrus went back to C-Sec, Wrex to Tuchanka, Tali to the Fleet. Ashley/Kaidan were still part of the Alliance and Liara didn't have anywhere to go, since she joined the crew not with the promise of fighting Saren and could be there to further "study" Shep and his/her visions.

2) The problem wasn't contacting Shepard, but the guy told Hackett that he would be placed under a somewhat-formal arrest for supposedly evading the Alliance for those 2 years that Shepard was dead.

3) This was a one-time only and they were never told that Cerberus used them as bait, only that Shepard was involved with Cerberus.

4) Remember that Cerberus were still the "good guys" from a certain point of view. See Star Wars for example, some people don't really know that the Empire does nefarious things, and serve them as ways of doing things right when no one does. Cerberus was just that. When the Collector Base was destroyed/saved and The Illusive Man studied ways of defeating the Reapers, he adopted harsher methods. Folks could be onboard, (un)knowingly.

"We can do whatever we want in the next ME game 'cause it's just another one of grandpas stories." That's the soft version of what you wrote.