r/masseffect • u/jazz4717 • Jun 22 '25

NEWS Tv Series

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I guess they are going with the game script

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u/popileviz Jun 23 '25

being sent around online

Famously a reliable source

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u/SomewhatProvoking Jun 23 '25

Humorously the plot synopsis IS from a very reliable source, an actual casting site.

The problem is, all their cross over projects use a description of the franchise’s main entry (in this case ME1) it doesn’t at all mean that’s a summary of the project, but rather a light intro into why we know ME

This isn’t evidence for or against. Just telling us it’s got its blurbs going around the industry.

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u/popileviz Jun 23 '25

So it's basically a synopsis for the game series, essentially? They'll make an article out of anything nowadays, huh.

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u/SomewhatProvoking Jun 23 '25

Exactly. Mass Effect is a headline grabber no matter what state the fandom is in. They get clicks. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough to get sales for andromeda and that’s why we’ve been stuck like this but articles always do well

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u/AlsoIHaveAGroupon Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

The synopsis was posted here last week, and the consensus from the comments was that it might be for real, but it could easily be placeholder text that someone (with no knowledge of what the writers are planning) put together to describe what Mass Effect is.

Edit: relevant comment by /u/badfortheenvironment

As someone who used to have a Production Weekly subscription and trawl these weekly, the summary early on isn't always indicative of the plot. Sometimes it's a placeholder for whatever IP is being adapted. The fact that it doesn't make use of any specific gendered pronouns makes me think this might be a temporary placeholder (whether it does end up being about Shepard or not).

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u/SomewhatProvoking Jun 23 '25

Production Weekly, and I shouldn’t have said casting, they follow casting websites (multiple) and other sources (which I don’t know) but they have true information from official sources, just not always publicly revealed information!

I do think they’ve been wrong before, but it’s very rare.

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u/DeaconBrad42 Jun 23 '25

Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.

  • Abraham Lincoln

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u/BlueBicycle_ Jun 23 '25

My name is John Fitzgerald Kennedy and I approve this message.

-Plato

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u/DeaconBrad42 Jun 23 '25

My favorite quote from Plato’s mentor, Socrates is:

“I drank what?”

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u/HugeNavi Jun 23 '25

I thought it was "This ain't Jim Beam"

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u/SealTeamEH Jun 23 '25

Abe said that? So ahead of his time I swear!

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u/Super6698 Jun 23 '25

Source: They made it the fuck up

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u/discreetjoe2 Jun 23 '25

“I saw it on Reddit so it must be true!”

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u/Dizzy_Pop Jun 23 '25

“I read it on Reddit”

FTFY

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u/discreetjoe2 Jun 23 '25

Despite the name you can also post pictures and videos. I guess Watchit wasn’t available.

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u/Scrat_66 Jun 23 '25

TheGamer. Famously another reliable source. It's like a source-a-borg.

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u/Darth_Spa2021 Jun 23 '25

And in this case can be almost certainly dismissed even if it was reliable.

Because doing even the ME1 plot would require so much CGI for the aliens, costumes and locations. Nobody is throwing that much budget at a niche gaming franchise. Even the Halo series avoided the aliens as much as it could.

We are likely getting a story in pre-First Contact war that ends the season with the Turians showing up, if we are lucky. Maybe indoctrinated humans (from a randomly found Reaper artifact) running shenanigans.

Any Trilogy timeline story will be almost certainly either in the Solar System exclusively or in the human colonies.

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u/Zilch1979 Jun 23 '25

Yep, and "might" in the title?

Absolute facts up in here.

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u/ciphoenix Jun 23 '25

🤣🤣🤣 for real

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u/da_apz Charge Jun 23 '25

Not to talk about when some people are saying something about it on some forums. Then you know it's serious.

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u/LeglessN1nja Jun 23 '25

It's how I catch up on the latest news about my mother.