User blog comment:The Milkman/End of the Line/@comment-4947725-20120704164050/@comment-4950455-20120706233148

I'm with Zlartec on this one. The Catalyst is no longer as ridiculous as it was in the original endings, but having the Reapers go from incomprehensible Space-Mecha-Cthulhu to yet another bunch of loony robots - something that ME avoided so well with the geth - really does hurt them as antagonists.

Revealing their goals and origins could have worked in theory, I think, but the execution is definitely a failure.