User blog comment:Celtic505/Destroy Ending- Is it possible to repair EDI & the Geth?/@comment-4939034-20120911183230/@comment-4022378-20120912104156

Well 9/10 times I do pick the destroy option. That way Harbinger gets his come-up-ins and the rest of the Reapers, husks and other abominations are 100% destroyed and no longer a worry. But to lose EDI and the geth after theyve both come so far. Besides synthesis also gives the galaxy the collective intelligence of every advanced species from the previous cycles. People and organics are made so much better through synthesis, they could download information and as EDI says immortality may be a possibility and evolution towards such great heights even she, a quantum computer w/ reaper tech, cannot even fathom. That is why I linger on the issue. Destroy does sound amazing, but to lose the geth and EDI is something I really have to wrestle with before a true decision can be made. Although, Shepherds dies via synthesis and lives through destroy so you have to weigh all of the pros & cons. I suppose the one that is technically the best of all endings (though I don't like it) is the control ending, you keep everybody, synthetic & organic alike alive, without changing them, and Shepherd technically remains, er...rather his mind and personality remain but in a somewhat god-like status. I suppose that is why it is paragon blue and destroy is renegade red because you kill your own squadmate & friend as well as the Geth, and only to save yourself, which could be seen as selfish. Still I don't like the control ending. And I do think its noble of Shepherd to sacrifice himself to give synthetics true life but I also think the galaxy NEEDS Commander Shepherd. They need him to protect them, to be their hero of worship and bringer of unity. They need him as much as a symbol as an actual shepherd to the herd of the galaxy. Eh, I guess the control ending does that better though, Shepherd takes over all Reapers and can truly protect the galaxy against anything and everything, he truly becomes the galaxy's shepherd. But....I'd rather keep his physical corporeal form.