Mordin is explaining how the (SPOILARS) Protheans/Collectors are empty shells of a species and have no art or culture. Which leads him to bust into song.
It is kind of a distracting thing to mention off-handedly, especially given how normally clinical and humorless he is. Not to mention the Salarian verbal tick he has which seems on the face of it incompatible with human songs.
He's more than just a scientist. He's a scientist, a doctor, a philosopher, ex special forces, and the best wingman in the galaxy. He's basically the Christopher Lee of the Mass Effect universe.
Look at his smile and how he _immediately_ broke out into song, I like to think he's been bringing out that hook about Gilbert and Sullivan all day hoping someone would bite and ask him about it and *finally* had an excuse to show off when Shepard inquires more lol
Funfact: If you dont choose any option after mording singing, you can see and hear him coughing. It's like he's wanting you to respond to his performance.
@@PuppetierMaster to save him wrex must be dead and you must destroy malens data. Then you can convince mordin that now is not the time to cure the genophage.
I didn't either, Mass effect 2 is free right now on Origin so I finally played it, Husband had played it and was waiting to greet me with mass effect 3's final rendition of that song......messed up
I bawled my eyes out at his death and then went to this immediately. Best conversation I've ever had, fictional or otherwise. Very amusing. I must leave, I'm starting to talk like him, oh no.
Nightcore Noelle Seriously, he's amazing. Best conversation, though, it's really close but I'd say that has to go to Tali getting drunk in 3 (especially when you've romanced her).
Mordin is the science teacher we all wanted in school. A genuinely smart, yet humble and funny guy who doesn't let his intelligence weigh down his head
I am the very model of a scientist salarian - I've studied species Turian, Asari and Batarian - I'm quite good at genetics as a subset of biology - because I am an expert which I know is a tautology! My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian - I am the very model of a scientist salarian!
The feels... One of my favorite BioWare companions of all time. Made the ultimate sacrifice in order to undo an evil he committed long ago. What a great character. He will be missed.
I actually, I found it kinda funny and nice, how aliens in ME seem to have so much interest in human culture. Mordin taking part in Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as Hamlet productions (see the Shadow Broker's dossier on him), everyone you meet trying to quote "human expressions" , Samara referencing knight errands and samurai... Quite flattering.
i know the type. One time at a science conference we were doing karaoke and one of the scientists types was like wtf is this? it's pointless and stupid. I was like um no it's play and its fun and singing together is an amazing feeling. She stormed off.
@@toreyarnold Some people are like slinkies, Utterly unimaginative and useless in every way imaginable but will still make you smile to watch them fall down some stairs.
Canonically all the languages in the game are automatically translated to each character through software. So, either Mordin has an impressive knowledge of English(which would be in character) or the translator is working flawlessly to convert Salarian rhymes to English rhymes while keeping the meaning and meter the same. Either way there’s a lot behind this fun scene
Given what the translator usually does to Salarian, it's definitely Mordin being his usual polymath self. Hard to study Earth music without learning the language to hear it for yourself, I'd bet, given that translators are good for regular speech but not really perfect at getting the subtle poetry you often find in stuff like lyrics.
@@ThePCguy17akes sense. Wordplay is VERY difficult to translate, given how different languages can be, and that’s just for human ones. Plus, this guy knowing Modern Major General well enough to improvise a quick version of it centered around him feels very on brand.
When I found his message in the Citadel DLC, after the party, I dropped my controller when I heard his voice. I didnt pick it up, I crouched to press the button to play the messages time and time again. I laughed and cried and hugged a pillow close to my hearth. You know, when I first met Mordin, I would have never imagined it, but the comedic relief crazy scientist made me cry more than anyone else in this trilogy...
It's almost crazy that one game made me cry for an assassin, a mad scientist, and a robot. Shows that Bioware when they build a game right don't make hollow characters.
The writing is soooo good on this game, especially the more scientific side of things. One of the reasons Mordin is my favorite, the sci fi writing is great.
THIS is why I adore Mordin and so many other Mass Effect characters. He's not a caricature. SO many "mad scientist" characters are twitching, gimmicky, one-note characters who try to do everything based of logic and science. Mordin, however, shows how dynamic and complex he is. He's a scientist, but a connesiuer of arts. He's logic driven man, but connected to his family and aware of his mortality. He's a doctor, but a spec ops killer. He defends his science, but is tormented by his guilt. Mordin was in the background, but was a scene stealer every time.
Well said, Mordin is a very well made character with the depth he has. It'd be amusing if he ever met one of those one note mad scientist characters who typically believe that the arts are a waste of time and "facts and logic" are the only things that matter.
Homer: "Oh, that's nothing. Watch this: There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man. And as for the bucket, Nantucket."
I don't think that it's "cheap" that they kill him off. I mean Mordin is one of my favourite characters in the ME series and it broke my heart that I had to send him to his doom, but he did indeed played a pretty huge part in the "genocide" of an entire species. Whether it was the "right" course of action or not at that time, he later regretted his involvement/decision and was pledge by guilt for years (i.e. before and during ME2). This feels like redemption and an end to his story.
