User blog comment:Ygrain/EDI and the geth: their purpose in the story?/@comment-2186773-20120724072419/@comment-2228120-20120724123715

Ugh. Making them likeable to give the player a hell of a time deciding whether to sacrifice them or not, is, of course, a correct move - or it would, if it weren't for the discrepancy I'm describing above. Doing that AND ignoring the discrepancy that originated is... lame, and feels even more heavy-handed than I thought. The question is, when the authors came up with the organic- synthetic conflict as the reason for the Reapers' existence - if it was before or after the geth story arc or EDI were already planned and tied to the rest of the narrative. IMHO, presenting the synthetics in a positive light, with the prospect of creating another Virmire dilemma towards the end, was something planned all along, the development of the geth seems really well prepared, and it is the idea of the organic-synthetic conflict that came much later and was possibly rushed, without taking into account all implications.