>>3795429No, you are just a dullard without much creativity. YOU can't imagine how to carry the plot forward, but that's a YOU problem. ME1 left open several important questions that a sequel could have explored. ME2 gets its nature as a sequel partly right; it focuses more on characters. That was, at its base, the right call. However they still needed to develop the universe and story beyond that, which they didn't do. The Collectors are also, at their core, a creative idea, however they aren't developed well or used well and ultimately nothing they are doing advances the plot.
ME2 should have answered the following in a constructive way:
1) How will Reapers return without the Citadel?
2) When will they return?
3) Are they even awake?
4) Why was Sovereign so focused on the Citadel if there was some other means of facilitating their invasion?
We can assume, with a little meta knowledge, that the Reapers do have some other back-up plan. It would be foolish of them not to and it isn't as if the series is going to move forward and forget that Reapers exist. Hell, the Galactic Core is a good place to hide another back-up Mass Relay. ME2 should have been a character focused story with a back-drop of galactic espionage, dirty politics, and discovery.
Consider that the Collectors are a known faction that barters in advanced technology for biological specimens. Their tech gives anyone who gets access to it a temporary technological edge. This suggests that many factions and species would compete for deals with the Collectors. This ought to include Cerberus, the STG, and the Spectres. Imagine if a sub-plot in ME2 was discovering that not only has Cerberus done deals with the Collectors, and hence why TIM is able to deduce the kind of team you need to defeat them, but so too have the STG and Spectres? Suddenly the dynamic is a lot more murky as they are all self interested.
