User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-30764484-20120608010903

1) What? Of course we don't kow the specifics of indoctrination. If it was reasonably possible to figure out you were being indoctrinated while playing, that would defeat the entire point. Look at Saren, he refused to see what was happening, and when he did, he used his mental energy to kill himself. If you were aware of indoctrination, it wouldn't work.

2) Actually what they said was they were planning a segment where you would physically lose control of Shepard, and they cut that, not anything about cutting indoctrination. Actually, that just proves it was something they were thinking of.

3) Well, as far as only getting destroy goes, if you only have destroy, then you don't get the breath scene, so basically, because you didn't rally everyone, and didn't prove yourself a useful leader for the galaxy, the Reapers have no intrest in indoctrinating you, so they just leave you to die. That's one that comes up a lot, and at first seems to be a good arguement, but isn't.

Also, Bioware have stated that all comics and novels, and the events in them, are canon. Doesn't matter if you don't like that, they are. Except Deception, because it sucked and they're rewriting it. Every other novel and comic is canon. Including the one that talks about Shep destroying the Alphas Relay. Bioware said it's canon, so it's canon.