User blog comment:SpartHawg948/An Open Letter Regarding Mass Effect: Deception/@comment-25305799-20120202204524/@comment-1504310-20120206174215

Yea the characters themselves are completely different. Neither Anders nor Kahlee seem to care that Gillian left the safety of the migrant fleet, Anderson seems more unprofessional, Kahlee seems to care a lot more about her image then anytime before, and Hendel was a major hard ass so I highly doubt he'd let his own misery get in the way of finding her while on the way to look for her. It's like in the magic 3 months where 3 years have passed all the characters got an emotional reboot.