User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-4043223-20120408050714/@comment-4933332-20120408061154

I think the mass relay destroy and everyone is dead is still a reasonable complaint. Sure the writers didn't intend it but they couldn't demonstrate their intention on screen which is what is important.

We had no idea what the crucible could do, the only thing we know was that it was a powerful weapon and any details were speculation. They were just as afraid that it could easily cause a catastrophic event as well by Hackett mentioning the nuclear weapon analogy and how people were afraid that the nuclear bomb could ignite the atmosphere and wiped out life on earth. A cynic could say that "analogy" could well have forshadowed the destruction of the mass relay and cause massive destruction

We then have the catalyst who was controlling the reaper. suggesting the plan Maybe this was a reaper trap in wiping out advance civilization in a single stroke

Of course is it possible for the relay to be destroyed and not wiped out hte solar system. Of course because we don't know enough about how the mass relay work, they may well be a controlled explosion that could achieve it but when the only precedent of mass relay exploding before the ending finale was Arrival.

They should have explicitly mention that this wouldn't destroy cause destruction of solar system. Shepard should have immediately question the starchild when they mention that the mass relay would be destroyed, after all why should Shepard trust the being that controlled the reapers that already killed billions of life that the mass relay would be deactivate in a peaceful manner.

It doesn't help when you see the explosion, if it was just a controlled explosion that doesn't destroy solar system, shouldn't the explosion just be something like a space station exploding. Instead with the destroy ending we see this red explosion that is as large as the entire solar system. So if we see this massive red explosion that spreads to the entire solar system, what else should the audience expected what happen especially when it was shown in Arrival that this could wiped out solar system?

Of course we see the mass relay destroyed and earth survive so obviously it didn't wiped out the solar system with Earth so yeah obviously the explosion didn't wipe out the solar system at least with Earth but it's still a plot hole because there wasn't sufficient explanation. Let's remember that plot holes by definition are gaps in the narrative, they are not things that are impossible to explain. I hope the ending DLC just resolves this once and for all.