User blog comment:ZyLogic/Mass Effect fans deserve nothing more/@comment-4950455-20121010033309/@comment-4721065-20121012063049

@SolitaryReaper: Why have you suddenly brought this into discussion when no-one before you has commented on the mood of the ending? Anyway, the original endings don't really imply that the relays were damaged rather than destroyed: in all three of them, we see perfect round waves of the ending's spectrum rapidly spreading out from each relay in the line. Given that this is exactly how the explosions in space would work (minus the colour bit) and that we saw Normandy actively fleeing from this light before ultimately getting crashed by it, it all pointed to the complete destruction of the relays. It's like making a movie involving a fusion nuclear power plant and then briefly showing that plant in the end being completely obscured by smoke gushing out of it and people running away: you could assume that this is how it is supposed to work, but you would probably think there was another Chernobyl.

@LilyHeartsLiara: Sadly, once people decide to actively protest something that they dislike for whatever reason, they usually don't feel like reasoned discussions and skip details in favour of loud slogans. This is just the way human psychology seems to work. To give another example, only the minority of North Korean population (21%, to be precise) is suffering from malnourishment, which is less than in India (24%), yet no-one mentions it, largely because it is politically inconvinient to be seen as their supporter.