User blog comment:Matthew Paul/What's wrong with wanting a happy ending for ME3?/@comment-1841436-20120411042140/@comment-4933332-20120411045237

No one arguing that it isn't a bittersweet ending. Yes it is a bittersweet ending but is it a good bittersweet ending?

It's just an ending that left most people felt empty because although the reapers were stopped. We don't really see the consequences of the reaper being stop on the people you care about, the troops that you rally and the planets you try to save. All of that was left to your imagination

The idea of saving millions of lives in the future may make you feel triumphant if this was real life but in terms of fiction, it is really meaningless because it's the characters that make people suspend their disbelief in a fictional universe not saving anonymous people

Really I think people like the idea of Shepard stopping and defeating the reapers, what happen the catalyst who was controlling the reapers just said, ok we'll let you win and we let you destroy us/control us. It's hardly triumphant when the villain gave up instead of Shepard stopping the villain.