User blog comment:The Milkman/Everybody Shut Up./@comment-4933332-20120423072223

I'm not a believer that Bioware planned the indoctrination theory (although I support them adopting it and crediting the fan for their active imagination) I'll just state that the game can actually continue on if you are indoctrinated.

Think about the dramatic potential of your squad mates including your love interest (Liara comes to mine considering she was there when her mother was indoctrinated) meeting up with the indoctrinated shepard and trying to convince you to break the indoctrination.

The idea of your squad mates doing to you what you did to Saren and TIM