User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination: You're Doing It Wrong/@comment-4085370-20120621035625/@comment-4237253-20120621185402

That's exactly the problem: the whole premise.

Without the IT, the ending essentially is finished. It's poorly written sure, but it's at least an ending.

The Indoctrination Theory on the other hand, needs DLC just to be complete. That's a huge flaw. No game should be sold incomplete. DLC should always, always, always, add-on to the game; it should never complete it.

Also, the whole thing seems convoluted an unnecessary. If Shepard makes the wrong choice in a dream, the Reapers win the whole war? How are those things even connected? Any why in the hell is Shepard being indoctrinated in the first place? If he's unconscious, how about just killing him?

And another huge thing: if Shepard got hit with the beam, they'd be dead. I'm not sure if that applies to both the actual ending and the theory, but I thought I should point that out. Heavily-Armoured Tanks were being decimated by one small slice of Harbinger's death ray. Don't tell me Shep can survive a direct hit. And another thing: since when do laser beams explode?