#and how they both can be a source of horror. creative sterility vs. creation for the sake of creation but that good ol' frankenstein way | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

vaguely-concerned · 16 days ago

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I can't believe I have 100%ed mass effect andromeda multiple times and it just hit me that the jardaan are named that b/c. y'know. jardin. garden. because they're gardeners of life/their whole deal was to create the we are as space gods slash mad scientists sci-fi equivalent of the garden of eden. I may be a bit slow on the uptake in some ways

#looked at my gifted nice fancy tea packaging with some french on it and had a '...oh. yeah' moment just now fjsdk #mass effect #mass effect andromeda #what with everything I'm not... hugely optimistic about me5 as it is but I know for a fact it will not be what *I* want it to be #(direct me:a sequel that digs into the good stuff that IS in there beneath some of the messiness.#and also more reyes vidal. come back to me. lie to me some more baby no one does it like you. my ryder is also nuts beneath it all #they go together so well. and I would like. to have more of that pls. pls. I won't get it but I want it desperately)#I think there's some really interesting stuff in the contrast between the reapers and the jardaan -- death vs. life #and how they both can be a source of horror. creative sterility vs. creation for the sake of creation but that good ol' frankenstein way #the jardaan COULD create life so they DID create life. what does that mean. what is the morality of that etc.#I'm not big on their visual design but the poor angara really found out god designed them with a USB port huh #(their like not-biotic thing that's basically meant to interface with everything in their little enclosure of a galaxy to be clear)#there's a revelation I'd love to see someone have to grapple with the long-term implications of lol

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