User blog comment:HELO/How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Catalyst/@comment-2228120-20120709183617/@comment-3581090-20120710152121

@Ygrain – That’s precisely the (highly enjoyable)post I meant; you are so right that a slow unravel of a mystery would have helped the game greatly (resisting the urge to spend 50,000 words going on about this); and I suspect that the unverified events surrounding the hurried and piecemeal manner in which the game was produced is to blame for the slapdash insert of the starbrat and most other flaws in ME3 (and, incidentally, in DA2).

@Zxjkl – Ygrain has been kind enough to provide the link to the post I referred to (thankfully, because I can barely figure out how to italicize, so I hate to think what would happen if I tried to link something); and good point about the writing: I'm pretty sure the sort of patchwork quilt process they used to write ME3 is what lead to many of the problems I had with the game, overall.

@Legionwrex – Heh, so very true. I was having breakfast this morning and suddenly thought, “Oh, dammit, I misspelled Aria again in that thing I posted on Friday.” Which is baffling, because I like Aria T’Loak waaaaaaaaaay more than Arya Stark. (Though, interestingly enough, I think both are somewhat underserved in their respective series.)