User blog comment:Ygrain/The ending: there MUST be something more to it/@comment-69.125.110.61-20120618193213

The mass effect 3 endings are terrible and im going to say why. Whether or not the ending was or wasnt indoctrination leaves to many questions unanswered for many of the fans

control How are we supposed to believe shepard had the power to control the reapers? He just spent the previous ten minutes explaining to the illusive man why he cant control the reapers and how they werent ready, but all of a sudden as soon as the "the catalyst" shows up, he changes his mind. Bull$***. What in this game makes shepard believe he has what it takes to control the reapers. The control ending is a trick by the reapers. The same one they used in the illusive man. The reapers switched the colors of the 'paragon'(contol) ending and 'renegade'(destroy) endings to make shepard percieve the destroy ending as evil and the control ending as good. (red is what shepard associates bad choices with and blue is what he identifies good choices with, as shown in the dialouge chooser everytime shepard says something. Whenever you make a choice of words, in the game, it's really occuring in shepards mind) this theory kind of goes with indoctrination but its still relevant. After all this time of hating the reapers he would never just side with them out of trust with the very thing that was controlling them the entire time. At times in this game he shepard wasnt sure if he could trust squad members like miranda, how does he start trusting the star kid which he not only just met, but is responsible for alot of the destruction of the galaxy.

synthesis Combining organics and synthetics. Believe it or not but this has been seen several times throughout this game. We saw it with the illusive man, we saw it with the husks, we saw it with the collectors, even the reapers. Combining synthetics and organics just equals indoctrinated husks, not happy space magic. So as before this ending is bull$***. This is another trick by the reapers to make shepard feel like he is doing the right thing for everyone

destroy While this ending makes the most sense it leaves some questions unanswered. The reapers are destroyed but all synthetics are destroyed. So does the entire galactic armada get screwed and starve to death on the war raveged earth? Also, the extra scene at the end of the game makes no sense either. Shepard would have died when he crashed back onto earth and he's obviously not on the citadel based on his surroundings.Theres also an indoctrination theory there but i'll talk about that soon.

mass relays destruction it has already been established that destruction of mass relays can destroy entire systems. So in most of the ending all of the mass relays are destroyed. Dosent that mean all life synthetics and everything in the galaxy has been destroyed? Just saying. And even if that didnt happen for some miraculous reason, everyone would be trapped on earth and starve to death.

indoctrination while the endings being indoctrination make sense, it leaves one question to be answered, especially in the destroy ending. What happens next. If shepard is indoctrinated or he wakes up and fights it off, what happens next. Does he betray his friends, do the good guys lose. And if he fights it off, is he able to go to the citadel and open the arms after all. Just to many unanswered questions.