User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Bioware HAS Written Themselves into a Corner/@comment-1503545-20121112224821/@comment-1786741-20121113154441

If you put it that way I can say Reapers are just evil robot cuttlefish, they're far more complex than that. That's not even mentioning the very intimidating new threat of the Forerunners (or just the Didact, it depends where they go with the sequel). If you watch the Vid-docs you would see he's a somewhat complex villain. The only villain I can say that I ever found truly compelling would be Saren. Save for his occasional lines as a possessed Collector, Harby rarely interacted with Shepard and was virtually non-existent in ME3. Despite how cool his character was in ME2, TIM was little more than a cheap Saren knock-off in ME3.