User blog comment:Crazywarfire/Indoctrination Theory is BS/@comment-108.71.127.96-20120819172648/@comment-2250460-20120819173247

They where clearly different circumstances between the two. TIM was a pro-human nut job who wanted to use the Reapers to ascend humanity, not to mention he was indoctrinated, to quote the Catalyst "He couldn't have controlled us, because we already controlled him."

Shepard was none of those things.