User blog comment:Garhdo/Extended Cut - opinions?/@comment-99.236.226.219-20120627231540

The new ending is not great, but it works. They did explain away a lot of the plot holes, removed the creepy image of Normandy's crew somehow repopulated the universe, Star child started to make sense (if not 100% logical), relay is only damaged, not destroyed, and finally, the multilayer requirement to obtain Shepard live condition is removed (woot!).

But still, there are things that they could do better: How can people start to repair the relay without even understanding it or and the massive resources required (do Bioware really have to blow up the inner sections of relays in the first place)? Why does Joker has to bring down the Normandy (coated in plot armor) to pick up the crew (why can't Steve do it in a small shuttle I wonder)? It's just those oversights that really ruins the suspension of disbelief.

Anyway, the DLC ending feels generic, but given that Bioware has to expand a completely broken ending to begin with, I have to say this is rather a huge accomplishment.