User blog comment:Temporaryeditor78/justifiable ending issues? (gasp) heresy!/@comment-4950455-20120408105357

As far as #2 goes: you know, it's really not that hard to come up with a reason why the mass relays exploding here doesn't have the same effect as the mass relays exploding in Arrival, because the circumstances are clearly very different. It's certainly a failure on Bioware's part not to establish the nature of that difference in-game, or even if it exists - but it's not really that hard to argue that it does.

Joker inexplicably taking a mid-battle coffee break? Yeah, that one's a bit harder.