User blog comment:Nintendogeek01/Regarding the ending... SHUT... UP.../@comment-75.207.4.43-20120827163552

Hmm...in my personal opinion I rather enjoyed the ending, though going through it a few times I do find the weapon not firing etc to be a bit discomfiting, but then think of this..the Citadel was built by the Reapers, or the Reapers built by it. It's a rogue AI whose creators created a failsafe system (the Crucible) to disable it, but it responded by creating the Reapers and wiping out its creators. It utilizes the Reapers to wipe out organic life in order to prevent itself from being deleted, but it was probably designed to preserve life, since the Citadel was a city long before any Reapers existed, and thus according to its programming must justify the creation and utilization of the Reapers...and it does so by claiming the Reapers are preserving life by harvesting it.

As for Joker being on the run, EDI is tied to Commander Shepard's com. Since it was working still, she learned at the same time as Shepard that the weapon was going to kill her and tried to run to save herself, or Joker was trying to save her by outrunning the blast. I don't have net access at my house, so I don't have the DLC, and honestly I don't give a damn about it. I enjoyed the game and that's all that mattered.