User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-4085370-20120611071739/@comment-72.20.83.191-20120615191618

Explain how the Reapers would benefit from controlling Shepard now. The final battle is underway, and even if Shepard WAS indocternated it wouldn't allow the Reapers to stop the battle for Earth. If this was Before the assult then it would make sense, but not in the middle of the final fight.