User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-4937645-20120510220059

I haven't seen this particular video posted yet, and it looks like the upload date is May 8, 2012. It's an 80 minute video outlining why the Indoctrination Theory is the best logical conclusion, even in light of the EC DLC. It's called "The Indoctrination Theory - A Documentary," and it's easy to find on YouTube if the link below doesn't work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAqFFhBn2U&list=UUDWRGUs_jy1nESYT-BlnP8A&index=3&feature=plcp

I like that the narrator breaks the "evidence" down into unsubstantiated, unclear, and affirmative.

Watching the video, I gotta say I'm onboard with Indoctrination Theory again.

A lot of the evidence that the narrator presents is solid is stuff that seems more circumstantial to me. For example, Anderson's claim that he came up after Shepard (but is ahead of him) doesn't make much sense - but it doesn't point directly to IT, either. It could be developer laziness, it could be artistic license, it could be something else entirely. Granted, it makes more sense in the context of IT, but it isn't definitive.

However, the video does pull out some evidence that, in my opinion, IS definitive - stuff that MUST have been put in for a reason.

Most notably:

1) Shepard's eyes change in Control or Synthesis endings - not just change, but become the same as both Saren's and the Illusive Man's eyes, complete with glowing blue and extra circles 2) Shepard can only survive in the Control Ending 3) The StarChild first says he's the Catalyst and not a reaper, but then says "I know you've thought about destroying *us*" (my emphasis)

Color me a believer in IT again.