User blog comment:Martolives/What is the dialectic?/@comment-4953843-20120907021606

tl;dr we want master chief vs shepard blogs

reading the statement above with elcor sarcasm in mind, onward to the meat. interesting way at looking at things, dialectics. nice attempt at framing the story through a lens of a human sociocultural filter:

destroy = conventional option, destruction of antithesis

synthesis = third option best option, destruction of underlying conflict

control = enemy mine option, subversion of antithesis

what i saw, however, is that of a for-profit company trying to bring us a richly crafted universe that faltered in its finishing touches because while they may have had a general idea on what to do they haven't really paid much attention on properly conceptualizing beginning-middle-end: they the last part instead of encompassing all three at once. can't blame them, it's a steep challenge they set for themselves. i can easily see bioware making sh*t up along then trying to justify its existence by at least making that sh*t as internally consistent as possible.