Poll: mass effect: The council

[Dr Jones]

Kept em alive with Anderson for 2 reasons:
1. Would be good PR to save their asses (though the bitches respond by not helping me in ME2, dissapointing )
2. Proving their asses wrong, when the reapers show up, i'll go renegade in that convo, just that convo..

 

[Grell Sutcliff]

I saved the council because it will be easier to get the help of their races later on (hopefully) and I choose Anderson because like everyone else says Udina is a douche and Anderson is awesome.

 

[TheCommanders]

I think this has been brought up, but personally, I thought a few replaceable ships to save the best ship in the entire fleet was worth it. Honestly, I didn't find the council that annoying in the first game, because to be fair... there was no evidence that this was anything more than a large geth uprising. It's only in the second game that they start being really stupid. Udina on the other hand, always an idiot, always annoying, Anderson punching him out made my day.

 

[Storm Dragon]

I picked Anderson for the council because Udina is an asshole. So by choosing Anderson for the council, I give the job to someone who actually understands the threat, and I get to piss off Udina. It's win-win!

I saved the council because if I can save someone, then dammit, I'm going to save them regardless of my personal feelings. But there's also another reason.

Lots of people say "I hate to say I told you so", but not me. I love saying "I told you so", and come ME3, I am going to be rubbing the council's faces in it.

 

[Burntpopcarn]

I killed the council and let Capt. Anderson in charge of the new one. Yes, yes, I know. "Hurp derp lol fag in mass effect 3 reapers will eat you because now everyone hates you trlolololololol hurp derp" I didn't care, okay? In mass effect 1 I didn't play a single side mission to gain paragon and so I had to kill wrex and i'm pretty sure I skipped right through the conversation where the council's fate is decided. I played mass effect 1 like a regular shooter like Gears of war, whereas I played mass effect 2 like I would fallout 3- I took my sweet time to complete the game, and it really paid off in the end when nobody died on the so-called (fingerquotes) "suicide mission". However, killing the council and wrex were my only ever bad decisions. The rachni are on my side (yay for giant bugs!), the quarians aren't going to war with the geth (a large majority of which are now good thanks to me and Legion), Doctor Solus has research data on a genophage cure (the krogans'll love that!), Anderson is the council leader, Samara and I killed the Ardat-Yakshi (the asari might like that), I discovered that wreav is actually HAPPY that wrex is dead (so the krogans and I are on good terms, I hope >:I) and I can't remember the rest of good decisions. I am not replaying mass effect 1 because then I'd have to replay mass effect 2 as well, and I worked my ass of to get full paragon, gain everyone's loyalty, etc. To reapers: COME AT ME BRO!

 

[fix-the-spade]

letting them die only proves to them that humanity isn't worth having a position in the galactic council.

I believe that it will be a huge boon to have them all alive during ME3, a united galaxy should not be lead by just humans.

Alternate interpretation!

I let the council die (in one iteration of Shepard), because they are killed by their own hubris. Over the course of the game they are told repeatedly that Saren is planning to attack the Citadel and that he has the equipment and numbers behind him to do it.

Their response is to ignore and later actively impede efforts to stop Saren, despite the rapidly mounting evidence against him. They do this primarily to preserve their political positions and because they believe their position to be invincible. When the attack comes they're totally unprepared and they die like the inept commanders they are. No need to sacrifice others to put them right back in charge.

Then a new Human led council is put in place, since not only did the humans predict the attack, they also defeated it where the combined Turian-Asari fleet failed. Lead by example and all that.