User blog comment:The Milkman/End of the Line/@comment-899316-20120703133109

I voted a few days ago, but I never posted what I thought. Control seems like the ideal ending to me, for a multitude of reasons. For one, it leads to swift societal reconstruction. With the Shepard-controlled Reapers helping, the rebuilding of Mass Relays and colonies begins almost immediately, and, as we can see from the epilogue, it is quite swift. Second, Control minimizes casualties. There is no synthetic genocide, which would kill billions of geth, EDI, Shepard, and, we must remember, anyone else in the galaxy with vital synthetic organs similar to Shepard's (Imagine. You're walking along, having a lovely day, when your heart completely shuts down out of nowhere.). For a third reason, Shepbinger is protecting the galaxy, and would take out any crazy synthetics hell-bent on organic extinction. Also, note that Shepard survives in the Control ending. And no, the Catalyst doesn't override him, it's the other way around. Your Shepard is the new collective conscience of the Reapers. In the end, Control seems to me like the only way for things to go back to business as usual, and still have the problem of synthetic life destroying organic life solved.

Destroy is the second best choice. It offers reconstruction, but at a much slower pace than in Control. There are billions of unnecessary geth casualties. EDI, a wonderful character who you can essentially bring to life through your interactions with her, is also dead. In fact, chances are, Shepard is dead. And, worst of all, nothing exists to prevent the creation of extinction-causing synthetics. If we accept that the creation of these synthetics is inevitable, than Destroy effectively dooms all life to extinction.

Synthesis is by far the ending I support the least. One, everything is just a little too good. There is no conflict, nowhere left to advance, just a boring, stagnant galaxy, leaving no room for a sequel, or any post-ME3 media whatsoever. Second, it seems very out of place. The series has always been somewhat realistic in its portrayal of technology and science, yet suddenly there's this magical, largely unexplained beam that will shoot Shepard's DNA into every being near a Mass Relay? And what about races near inactive Relays, or life that developed outside the Mass Relay network? They wouldn't be hit with the magic Shep-beam, meaning some life will still create these supposedly life-ending synthetics, and the whole affair amounts to jack-frigging-squat. Third, and this is more of a personal thing, I am simply wierded out by by the concept of a crazy galactic psychic hive-mind. Everybody having one collective memory just doesn't seem good to me. If that's the pinnacle of evolution, I'd rather like to stop evolving.