User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination Theorists Say the Darndest Things/@comment-4220180-20121024022116/@comment-4950455-20121026051004

Honestly, that sentiment comes seems to be coming from the same part of your Marauder Shields review I thought was absurd in the first place: the idea that because we learn the Reapers' goals in the ending, those ideas have always been their goals, even if the ending is thrown out, and even when they certainly weren't always their goals while the story was being written. That just seems to be a very strange take on "canon".

In fact, as much as I despise the IT, I think that what Marauder Shields did with - essentially, using it pretty much solely as an excuse to start its new ending - is the best possible way it can be used. It doesn't make sense when thought about in detail, but it can be a good handwave.