User blog comment:Phantomdasilva/Fan Entitlement and the sanctity of artistic vision/@comment-4043223-20120412192857/@comment-4933332-20120413104831

Thanks

I'm finally out of work so I can watch the video

That is a fantastic video and he got it spot on.

The ending can be redeem by adding cutscenes to differentiate between 3 vastly different choices. I love the idea of using Liara as the narrator for the epilogue and using her beacon as the means to keep it in game.

Now that I think about it, this kinds of waste an opportunity with the fact that the reapers winning ending didn't exist. That could have ended on a bittersweet notice even if Shepard lost by seeing a future galactic civilization discovering the beacon left by Liara with information on how to stop the reapers so that even if shepard loses, he/she gives hope to future civilization for the next cycle.

His solution for the starchild conversation is great as well as it leads to giving the players the option to rebel against the starchild and makes the starchild motivation seems more believable and makes it less stupid for shepard to trust the starchild because the starchild isn't controlling the reapers but merely a VI of the creator of the reaper and they never intended for the reapers to let loose like that.

Yes, synthesis is an abomination of an ending and should be retcon as it has nothing to do with the mass effect universe and is completely ridiculous

his suggestion would largely solve the major problems of the ending