Take all the things that annoyed you the most in Mass Effect like for example, Udina, ME ending or Kai Leng. And now imagine you being the author and taking out all your hate on one character - Jarun Tann.At the beginning I thought everybody hates him because... dunno. They are all stressed out, because of the dangerous situation they are in, and suddenly this Salarian takes over command from Jien Garson.Maybe that's it.
No. The writers didn't bother themselves with providing a good reason why am I suppose to dislike this Salarian. Meanwhile he is being treated like the worst person on Nexus from the moment he opened his eyes.
Everywhone (especially Sloane Kelly) blames him for everything (when it's not his fault). And if he wants to implement an idea they do not approve of they just block him outright. And of course when something goes wrong it is of course Jarun Tann's fault - no matter that he can't actually do anything. But it goes further than that. They have thoughts like "there is danger up a head - I bet Jarun Tann would shit himself with fear." Jarun Tann that, Jarun That this. And the worst thing about this is that within the 3 (4 if you add Kesh) people rulling over Nexus he is the only one with ideas based on actual logic. But no! Screw Tann. You are going to hate him and that is final.
1. Nexus is in danger?
Tann - "let's take one the shuttles and check out nearby planets. Maybe we can find some food and water there."
Sloane Kelly - "Are you insane? No! We have to sit here on our butts and fix the Nexus! And if the Nexus is in danger how will we escape?! Huh?!"
Tann - "..."
2.
Tann - "If I have to sacrifice ten people to save 10k I will.
Sloane Kelly - "Starts barking at him that he is nuts and all that stuff"
3.Nexus had a malfunction and only 2 people know the code that can defrost the remaining 19k colonists.
Tann - "Listen, there's only 2 of you, if someone happens to you we will lose the codes, it is wise to let more people know it. Share the code with me.
Kesh and Calix - "Are you nuts?! Are you ready for such responsibility!? Fine, we will compromise, we will encrypt the codes in Sloane Kelly's files so there will be 3 people with that knowledge and fuck off. She said she doesn't give a fuck, and she won't even look at them, but we are going to do it just to so you can have your shitty compromise."
Tann - "..."
4. Addision is going through a depression, because she is feeling useless on the Nexus.
Tann - "Sloane, listen. Addision is feeling down, as a Salarian that doesn't fully understand human females I could say something stupid. You are a human female too, can you talk to her? Cheer her up."
Sloane - "proceeds to bark at Tann (because she is cool and doesn't give a fuck yet again). You think I did not notice!? Blah, blah, blah I noticed like ages ago, geez, fine I'll do it."
Tann - "..."
(and yet Sloane still didn't talk to Addison)
No, seriously. I sometimes feel really sorry for him. Sloane is too cool for school, Addison is useless - if she wasn't in the book nothing in the plot would change. Tann wants to use logics but nobody really cares. And for some reason everyone idolizing Sloane... and Kesh who just keepks crying that nobody is thanking the Krogan for what they are doing and it's hard work (really, bitch? everyone loves your job).
Besides that, the writers seem to be tired or bored with going into Sloane's mind (but what can you do with someone who is always a badass and uncaring?) So they, are throwing in a plethora of random characters. That do nothing, disappear just fast as they appeared or just die. But hey, we get these flowery descriptions that this guy is like that, and this guy is like this. We even have a married gay couple, but their relationship is in troubled, but they still love each other! It adds nothing, but look! DIVERSITY!
There are also mini story arcs like those shitty 10 minute side-quests that Shepard did. Suddenly an evil Salarian appears! And he is very effective! Evil Salarian without any good explanation wakes up another 10 evil buddies! Sloane has to stop those 11 degenerates, or else they will get away with hostages on a shuttle! To where? How am I suppose to know? They just want to leave the Nexus! No matter that no one ever left it and they don't know what's outside. They are just escaping. So when the fightning starts and Kelly's men are fighting that evil Salarian. To me it looked like this:
Kelly is suddenly fighting against a female version of Dolph Lundgren. A walking wall of muscles and not much else. A behemoth! That's a huge bitch! And their flawless dialogue looks kinda like this:
Sloane Kelly - "Bitch, you're extra thicc! Tell me your secret!"
Extra Thicc Monstrostiy - "I was lifting heavy cargo for like 7 years".
Then Kelly defeats the thicc evil bitch.
Oh, and I almost forgot. 90% of men on the Nexus are acting like retarded cucks. They are entirely devoid of even the smallest trace of testosterone and their king is William Spender.
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