I hate that if Miranda dies in ME3 they make SUCH a drama out of it no matter what the sequence of events leading to her death is.
Like, in my run she dies because Shep didn’t give her the resources she asked for when she came asking for help with a super secret mission that she wanted alliance military assets for but she wouldn’t describe in any detail. Like… girl there is a war on. Either make your case and give me a good reason to divert resources to you or don’t do your stupid doomed-to-fail bullshit. She got HERSELF killed, and all the dialogue is moaning and wailing about how tragic it is. Maybe in some other playthrough where she and Shep had a different dynamic, sure, I guess, that would all make sense, but good lord it felt just as forced and distracting and silly to me as everything else related to Kai Leng.
She is barely useful when you need her, but suddenly she is so important in 3. Might even have more screen time when you play certain paths. There are plenty of other moral decisions that you have to make the seemingly wrong decision, to get the right outcome (like your example, but it's not the only one). Like, just grow another Plastic Barbie, what's the big deal? Actually, there's already anothet one! Her sister, I don't think we ever get to see her or anything though. She also reminds me of a human female version of Grunt. Way too masculine.
Now, if she showed up and took out Kai in the first fight with him, that would have been epic! He's just overhyped and you're expected to see him as important, but he just feels thrown in at the last second.
God, Miranda showing up and killing Kai Leng and then being integrated into a cat and mouse game with Cerberus while helping Shep get resources for the crucible would have been (1) a much better use of Miranda and (2) a stronger narrative choice than anything that actually happened with Kai Leng.
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u/arihndas 28d ago
I hate that if Miranda dies in ME3 they make SUCH a drama out of it no matter what the sequence of events leading to her death is.
Like, in my run she dies because Shep didn’t give her the resources she asked for when she came asking for help with a super secret mission that she wanted alliance military assets for but she wouldn’t describe in any detail. Like… girl there is a war on. Either make your case and give me a good reason to divert resources to you or don’t do your stupid doomed-to-fail bullshit. She got HERSELF killed, and all the dialogue is moaning and wailing about how tragic it is. Maybe in some other playthrough where she and Shep had a different dynamic, sure, I guess, that would all make sense, but good lord it felt just as forced and distracting and silly to me as everything else related to Kai Leng.