User blog comment:GodzillaMaster/Final Thoughts on the Citadel DLC/@comment-4707281-20130306161559/@comment-1440333-20130306174708

The main saving grace of the Clone as an idea was twofold. On one side it became very obvious that Maya was his puppetmaster, and that she was responsible for the whole idea. But the most interesting thing was it raised a nature Vs nurture debate. After all the Clone was Shepard, but lacked Shepard's memories or life experiences, and so was a very different person - harsher, more ruthless, less compassionate. THAT was what added the extra dimension to prevent it being as completely awful as I feared it would be.