User blog comment:HELO/How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Catalyst/@comment-2228120-20120709183617/@comment-173.56.76.227-20120709204952

1. Hello! I hope you're having a nice...er, whatever time of day it is for you, right now.

2. Thank you, and I remember your Shepard-Hawke comparison post on the DA wiki (which, of course, I enjoyed very much), so I can only imagine how you might have reacted to a less defined hero trying to carry us through ME3. Also, I am glad you (and so many others, I know) were able to enjoy yourself, as you played through the game. I just couldn't get past how ME3 could give me the wonderful nuance of simple, plot-driving dialogue that implied Liara still has a schoolgirl crush on Shepard one minute, yet the next minute hand me something as clunky and careless as Shepard's recurring nightmare or Arya's "mission" or any of the supposedly important just-defend-the-objctive side quests.

3. Oh, you flatterer. And it would be fun to wipe the invisible smirk from that glowy space kid's face, wouldn't it.

4. So true about BioWare, of late. And also true that ME3 could have used the Catalyst as a legit villain, had they been giving us steadily growing reasons to suspect his existence as we went through the major plot points of the game.