User blog comment:Suparockr/List of Plotholes throughout the series/@comment-5503561-20120718012533/@comment-4950455-20120718035948

I cheered when EA was voted worst company in America, but this is honestly starting to get ridiculous.

It does seem pretty clear that all Sovereign-class Reapers were retconned to be externally identical, but I don't mind that too much. The Reaper fleet at the end of ME2 was seen for something like 30 seconds, tops. The amount of time we see the Reapers of ME3 probably adds up to hours. It's understandable that saving resources might be a bit more of a priority under those circumstances, without invoking the "EA is the devil" thing again