User blog comment:Bluegear93/Your opinion on Arrival/@comment-1691295-20110405105302/@comment-730941-20110405113850

I just thought of one complaint I did have with the ending conversation with Hackett...

Shepard talks to Hackett about the Alliance preparations for the Reaper invasion as if s/he's asking for the time of day. In context it seemed like an odd way to prepare for almost certain doom, unless being unrealistically, suicidally confident is part of the mission briefing.

I did feel an odd sense of 'business as usual'; even the emphasis on the batarian reaction (as part of normal politics) seemed off when, y'know, the galaxy was just invaded by a race of million-years-old-sentient machines with unstoppable power.