User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-4237253-20120608043458

How does Shepard not being indoctrinated go against the lore? It's been said that he has the willpower to resist it, end of story. That's just wrong.

The argument "there is no Deus Ex in IT, because the kid is Harbinger." makes the plot ten times worse, do you even realise that? A dues ex machina is a bad plot device sure, but at least it resolves the conflict. Not resolving the conflict is always worse.

The " the idea that where you are isn't real was made pretty clear in the Geth Consensus, where, just like the ending, everything around you is created from your memories." comment was the most ludicrous non sequitur I've ever seen. So because Shepard has been in a non-real place before, it suddenly makes sense that the whole ending takes place in his mind? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Also, it isn't even created from your memories! It's made up from the Geth's gestalt memories. There is no foreshadowing, only subjective speculation and completely equivocal guesswork.