User blog comment:Crazywarfire/Indoctrination Theory is BS/@comment-260745-20120612004811/@comment-4807396-20120612145812

I'm more inclined to believe that poor planning was the culprit behind the ending being what it was. I mean, according to Patrick Weekes (one of the writers) the entire writing staff was locked out of the ending's production except for the lead, which would mean that the ending was the brainchild of Casey Hudson and Mac Walters. And without the simple check and balance of peer review to pick out plot holes or other inconsistencies... well, you get what we got. And just to twist the knife, the cutscenes that were supposed to show the aftereffects of the ending e.g. showing Earth as a lifeless cinderblock if you picked the Destroy ending with a low EMS, were inexplicably cut from the final product.

Either that, or Weekes is just BSing to cover his back, some people believe...