After watching another playthrough of ME3 I can't help but feel like some of the writers have a hate boner for Ash.
Throughout the game Ash is written as "naggy", rude, and incompetent. Hell even in the Citadel DLC she's blatantly insulted by both Joker and Traynor. Hell its been established that Ashley has NEVER trusted Udina but she's willing to trust Udina over Shepard in that critical moment?
This is made worse by the fact that Traynor is just a complete newbie and has no right to criticize Ashley after everything she's been through. Like I'm not a big fan of Ash and I love Traynor but IRL I honestly would have been tempted to tell Traynor to shut up during that exchange.
Not to mention that Ash barely has any interactions on the Normandy and he most notable moment on the ship is her passed out on the floor drunk. Like Writers was the supposed to be endearing? It COULD be endearing if Ash wasn't portrayed as not doing much of anything during her entire time on the ME3 Normandy.
Like.. I'm glad Kaiden was a lot better written in ME3 but it feels like it was a monkey's paw situation.
Player: "Dear Bioware, I wish Kaiden was a lot more interesting and likable!"
Bioware: "Deal, but in exchange, we're going to completely shit on Ashley and diminish her likability. KAYTHANXBYEEEEE!!"
As someone who isn't an Ashley fan even from ME1, I believe they did Ash dirty.
What makes it worse for me is because I absolutely love her voice actress (Kimberly Brooks).
Has anyone else noticed sheβll primarily only refer to it as her βmedicineβ? I get in a technical term it is βself-medicating.β Even people who smoke weed just to feel good will still refer to it as medicine in a way like, βI medicate with weed/cannabis/marijuana.β Itβs like she refuses to acknowledge itβs just weed. It has great purposes medicinally, but come on, Ash. Itβs weed.
For quite some time ive been Searching for an Ash williams avatar. But I legit have no luck, so if anyone has an Ashley J Williams skin from Evil dead please let me know. Thank you!
Seriously though. Why does she have so little dialogue? Kaidan's character was so fleshed out in the game but Ashley got one drunk scene? It's the exact opposite of ME1. I can think of a few reasons as to why but does anybody actually know what happened?
Good evening all! Tomorrow we have a double feature planned. Bill Oberst Jr, Pappa Corn himself will be joining us along with Michelle C Williams. Michelle was in the human centipede and more recently the revenge thriller Julia.
We will take questions from here and from the Youtube chat. Feel free to ask your questions here and I will ask them live on air to the guests and relay their answers here along with the time in the show you can see it.
Tune in here LIVE starting at 8pm Eastern
I want to thank you all for participating as we grow, we're making more contacts and getting larger guests. We will continue to bring those guests here for you. The horror community has shown us much love. For all of you that we meet at the cons and talk offline I thank you.
Bill will join us first at 8pm, Ashley will be on at 9pm EST.
Robin's voice was familiar to me, so I looked her up and didn't realize how prolific her work was! Kimberly Brooks has been in a litany of things that I've watched and played, dating all the way back to one of my childhood favorite games, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds. Her most impactful role for me was as Ashley in Mass Effect; I'm thrilled for the devs that they got her to perform as Robin!
Are there any other big VA's in Subnautica/Below Zero that I haven't picked up on yet? Voice actors are my favorite performers and I always love learning about their other roles.
