Mass Effect Amazon series should be a prequel, not a sequel
It was announced on N7 day that the show being made for Amazon is gonna be taking place after Mass Effect 3. Does anyone else see this as a massive mistake and missed opportunity?
With how much we shape the galaxy throughout these games, creating what's effectively gonna be a hard-canon future with the TV show is doomed to a dark place in this series. If anything is gonna take place after ME3, then I want it to import my save and I will accept nothing less.
That doesn't mean I'm averse to having a Mass Effect series. In fact, if we got something taking place before ME1, such as the First Contact War and the conflicts with the Batarians, that would be **bleep** awesome. I imagine it mainly following Anderson's perspective (he is the guy that Shepard succeeds, both in role and reputation. As Pressly describes the man, "If he melted down all of his medals, he could build a life-sized gold statue of himself."), but possibly jumping between him and, say Chakwas and Hackett, maybe Jack Harper, and for the Batarian arc then throw Zaeed and Major Kyle into the mix.
With a prequel instead of a sequel, we would have an introduction for newcomers rather than an answer that could strongly upset just about everyone. And I mean the introduction thing, because this show is going to attract many non-Mass Effect fans, who may become interested in playing the games. So why in the hell would you spoil the whole **bleep** thing for them? Let the newcomers have their opportunity to go into the games blind, don't ruin it for them.
