After seeing how Amazon fucked up Wheel of Time, I'm not holding my breath for a good interpretation of Mass Effect.
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They've adapted other works like The Boys, Fallout, and Invincible very well.
They better write it for non gamers.
I have been a gamer for about 50 years and as a group we are never happy.
Amazon made Fallout with gamers in mind and it’s great.
Maybe the non-gamers angle was always the idea? Gamers are not on your side if you’re making anything Mass Effect that isn’t about Commander Shepard, and even then you run into a different issue. A lot of players choose the female character, but selling a female lead on TV if it’s got action is hard. So making Shepard male will be too obviously appealing to non-gamers. Therefore, it’s lose-lose. But what if they do do FemShep? Then it’s “woke.”
Do both. Have both be canon and cut back and forth between them. You can explore exclusive storylines that way too.
you know what would be neat? Turn Shepard into a sort of mythos character. Make it about stories of other people/aliens having interactions on the citadel or something with Shepard or characters telling stories of Shepard from third party accounts of things they've heard. Then you could have both male and femshep because you have stories from unreliable narrators. This way you could also portray shepard with both paragon and renegade aspects depending on whose telling the stories. Like literally make a show about the citadel reporter going around getting interviews about shepard post ME3 building up this character known as Commander Shepard and at the end it's up to the viewer to determine who they feel the real Shepard was. I'd watch that.
"And then the bastard went and endorsed a different store on the promenade!"
Make it about that reporter that gets KO'd, make the whole show lead up to that moment. Reapers shmeapers, punch her in the face and roll credits, series finale in the bag.