User blog comment:Legionwrex/These conversations between NPCs are annoying./@comment-899316-20120808063526

Well, as for the conversations themselves, I rather liked them. They add this sense that more is going on than just Shepard's mission, that people are actually interacting independent of the player's actions. As for the old lady and the asari, I can help you there. This old lady's son is in the military, and she's worried. The letters have stopped coming in, blah blah blah. She is bugging this asari to help her find out what happened. The asari, at first annoyed, comes to care for the old lady, and works very hard to help her out. The old lady, however, goes crazy from the stress of it all, and forgets about her son, and the asari with whom she has developed a bond of friendship. Kind of sad, really. The ambient conversations often are.