Rannoch: Carl

Okay, so. Our homie Sovereign got an entire entry to himself, probably we should let this reaper have his own entry.

You know what I realized? We never got to have this conversation with Harbinger. This was a big feature in Mass Effect 1, and they're bringing it back for ME3, but ... I dunno, I guess the most Harbinger gets is to perve on Shep?

Also, this reaper, while significant to the plot, has no name. I have named him Carl. Sovereign, Harbinger, Carl. Sounds legit.

Carl was the reaper put specificially in charge of the geth. Since Carl's on his last legs, the geth'll be free as soon as this motherfucker quits soliloquizing.

For the ease of our literary analysis, this is exactly what Carl says in game.

okay except for that

Hay gurl, is Carl busy telling us the reaper's final solution? It's very close.

Don't forget, Sovereign said that the reapers harvest folk at the "apex of their glory," so that matches up.

Wait, but why does Carl think we're all gonna die if we keep on living?

Shep's highlighted something important here: the reapers think they're the good guys, but they don't seem to want to say why.

I love this line, because it matches up so nicely with a line from Mass Effect 1:

I'm being a shit.

There's a weird ... I'm not sure it's a plot hole. Inconsistency? Inconsistency, I guess, anyway, it's in the story, and for whatever reason Bioware addresses it exactly Zero Times. The reapers are all like, "NOPE NOPE ORGANICS AND SYNTHETICS THAT'S NOT HAPPENING" and, you know, we just fixed that. We're about to, like, turbo fix it on Friday.

It'll pop up again, just keep that in your back pocket.

No it doesn't. It's over. We all cool. What the hell, Carl.

Yo, not to stomp all over Carl's dramatic exit, but it's worth mentioning that Carl said nothing of Harbinger's final solution, which was that reapers used organic life to make semen. What, you go back into that entry and you fact check me, that's what they're using us for!

... Harbinger was some kind of crazy off the rails pervert, real talk.