User blog comment:Ygrain/EDI and the geth: their purpose in the story?/@comment-3581090-20120727155928/@comment-5337704-20120727201817

I agree, Normandy was too big to land on planets, hence the shuttle, yet it landed on earth to pick up the squad?, I agree it was a cheap move to being able to save them.

The dark matter problem, really was a bad writing story Arc, as really whats the solution to that? Find a different fuel than ezo? kill all biotics? etc, pretty much the same alternatives of the synthetic/organic fight really, that idea was also probably taken from the bad story arc in Star Trek when warp drives were "cutting" holes in the fabric of space. Just my opinion.

Playing through the game again, there was more of the organic synthetic/variable going on than the random codex entry in ME1 and Halestrom, of the black energy story arc.

Helo's quote -Specifics aside, you basically can choose if you want to sacrifice only yourself or you AND the geth/EDI as well. And that's about as far as the "dilemma" goes. -

I agree that is pretty much it in the nutshell. I see you want to sacrifice yourself, what will be your side? Adding your control over the current catalyst AI, or kill geth/edi, or destroy individulism, or geonicide everyone of this current generation. Those are your four choices.