User blog comment:Matthew Paul/What's wrong with wanting a happy ending for ME3?/@comment-1841436-20120411042140/@comment-1900300-20120411151627

Um. . . . he never said the child gave up. Nor does it really matter. The important thing is that this victory is not a victory earned for through blood, sweat and tears. It is a victory given to us out of charity and is a conditional one, as he ultimatly is the one making the choices here, not Shepard. He is the one who is deciding what paths are open and closing all other paths, essentailly taking the idea of choice away from, "you write the story", and putting in more in the sense of "you can only have what we want you to choose". He is essentially doing more to driving the story here then Shepard and that is not right