User blog comment:Markurion/Extended Cut or Prolonged torture?/@comment-4269923-20120406224926/@comment-4933332-20120407042757

The indoctrination theory is reliant on the fact that there is a future ending where shepard wakes up and finish his/her job in stopping the reapers

If the extended cut didn't do that then it may as well be debunk.

Sure you can still interpret the ending as Shepard waking up from indoctrination but what's the point if the game ends on Shepard laying in the rubble on earth whilst the reapers are destroying it.