AD-Stu said:
I've always thought it was unfair to
just label Ashley as the "space racist" and leave it at that, there's definitely more to her character. But she
is kind of a space-racist when it boils down to it. Not as bad as Cerberus, but still kind of a space racist.
Actually as far as ME1 goes, I think it's the Council that gets shafted the most, both by the script and the fandom. If you think about it, and think in particular about what the Council
knows and has had proven to them, not just stuff that we know because we saw it happen on screen while we were playing the game, pretty much everything the Council does in ME1 is sensible and logical.
Udina asking them to send a fleet to find Saren? That was patently stupid, they were right to turn him down. Not taking immediate action based on Shepard's visions? Also 100% defensible - Saren was right, they can't allow dreams into evidence
The problem is, you have to boil away all context, all circumstances, all backstory of her character and family to reach that conclusion. It's like saying that Garrus is just a dirty cop in ME1 because he had no problems with going over the line or that Tali was completely racist against the Geth. She's not particularly liked by the Alliance because of her grandfather, and she's not particularly liked by aliens, more specifically the Turians, because of that same grandfather. And again, pretty much everything she said was 100% true.
She didn't hold any grudge about the Council not seeing humans as more important than their own races, just didn't trust them and saw them much the same. Hell, how many times did you send them a mission report and their first reaction was "Oh look, the human made a decision we didn't like without consulting us first". Even with Virmire, the one mission they actually send you on, the first thing they do is say "Why did you blow up the base and not kill Saren? How incompetent are you?"
Just saying, if Ash is the racist of the group, then the majority of the cast is incredibly racist for one reason or another.
Also, about the Council, all of what you're saying is sorta why I said it was understandable to a point that the Council didn't take it seriously. What isn't understandable is how they treated the Sovereign cleanup. Chalking it all up to "Geth things" is completely moronic considering they've talked about how different of a coding structure the Geth have and how much more advanced and entirely unique literally every Reaper is simply because of their construction incorporating so many characteristics of the current cycle's predominant race.
Like, about the only thing that's changed about the Geth since their uprising are their materials and creating a new frame in the Ghosts. They talk about these things alot between Tali's exposition and the scattered notepads. And we're talking about a ship that was bigger than the Destiny Ascension, something that is like 5 times the size of the largest Human dreadnought, ship class of which only like 60 exist in the entire galaxy between the Council races. These are ship classes that are so big they take years to launch the parts into orbit ot be assembled. Ship classes that have guns the size of large land masses. We're talking about a ship they classified as Geth being twice the size of a ship that is THE flagship of the Council fleets. And they chalk everything up to the whole of ME1 being a Geth attack. That's unreasonable. It's one thing if they just said it was Geth and they were done with it. But Andromeda has some hints and implications that they knew it wasn't Geth tech.
I can understand not allowing dreams into evidence(even if the Asari mindmeld thing is effectively nothing but a bunch of dreams and they have, again, history fluff about the Asari using that stuff as evidence). I can understand not wanting to send a fleet to find Saren, but they nearly send fleets after a dozen different sidequests that can be boiled down to a six compartment ship being lost somewhere near where Council space actually does end and not just scattered around Council space like Saren's stuff(Also Virmire, they were prepared to send an entire fleet after that bit). I can even understand turning down Udina, the guy was a sensationalist bastard more interested in power than doing his job(and I do think he got beaten to death with the short end of the writing stick in ME3). But it's all of them put together than make it unreasonable.
As for Star Wars...I'm just going to leave it at TFA being a movie that wasn't thought out enough for me to believe it was thought of as anything but a moneyprinter that they're hoping two more movies will iron out the plot holes and bullshit in it instead of being an actual self-contained story to launch off a new trilogy. I've had way too many arguments and been called all manner of names for considering Rey anything less than a wonderful female protagonist around here to want to even consider talking about the few things I enjoyed about it.