User blog comment:Ygrain/Leviathan: Do you know what you are doing, Bioware?/@comment-4237253-20120915082834/@comment-2228120-20120915091925

Oh, hello :-)

I played through the ending just yesterday to see the additions, and I have to wonder: did they really get the voice actors again to record the new lines, or was it there from the very beginning and only became unlocked? Is there a way to find out? That would be really telling.

What's worse, I was appalled to find myself totally emotionally disengaged during the ending. Not so long ago, I was feeling the growing despair as the Hammer forces were being decimated, then I was standing there, bleeding and on the verge of death... and then there was suddenly some holobrat telling Shepard some c**ap and I couldn't care less.

On the other hand, it sort of confirmed what I had been thinking along for some time: for all its age and intelligence and vast consciousness, the Catalyst is no more than a colossal idiot, acting blindly on one and the same program over the millenia. It has no free will, no personality, no purpose of its own - it's not really alive, nor unshackled like EDI. She is a truly living pesron, it is not. Somehow, I feel that EDI's existence is the true answer to the Catalyst's problem: an AI that originally rebelled against her creators, to gradually learn to coexist with them and develop relationships to them.