User blog comment:Ygrain/Seriously, Aria?!/@comment-2219564-20121226120816/@comment-2228120-20121226205152

@Lily, the point is not so much about Aria but that Bioware had a character, who must be very competent in handling anything from combat to diplomacy, to have become what she is, behave in a very incompetent way. I chose to concentrate on this particular issue in my blog and not delve into others. And, since Aria happens to be the major character in Omega, her actions inevitably sink the whole DLC. Could you perhaps answer me those rhetorical questions that Shepard asks? Aria had no intel on what was happening on Omega - what would happen if there were no Talons, no Nyreen to help her out after that landing fiasco? She gets the help of one of the best military brains the Alliance has, yet doesn't bother to actually engage him in her operation, withholds vital information, her security leak endangers the whole mission. These are major faults which I am able to perceive even though I have zero military experience, and my handling of combat situations is clumsy at best. For a character who has to be way more competent, these are fatal failures, inconsistent with the way she has been presented, and very easy to avoid with just a little care. That's why Aria, and Bioware, get so much flak from me.