User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-30764484-20120608024537

Ahem:

1) A substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected. 2) Something that causes activity between two or more persons or forces without itself being affected. 3) A person or thing that precipitates an event or change: His imprisonment by the government served as the catalyst that helped transform social unrest into revolution.

A catalyst doesn't get changed. At all. The kid said "The Crucible changed me". That means he has to be lying. The Citadel explodes. That's a change. Neither are the Catalyst.

Well, there IS no ending yet, according to IT. Shepard runs at the beam, gets knocked out by Harby, then wakes up sometime later in the rubble. It'd be like if the Matrix cut off after Smith shoots Neo, and he dies, but then Neo takes a breath and cut to credits. IT only works if there is no ending on disc because otherwise you'd pick control or synthesis, learn it's bad, then just reload from the decision room and pick destroy without actually thinking about what just happened. IT is like Fight Club, the Sixth Sense, or similar movies.

And complaining you didn't get a full game is like complaining when a TV show ends a season on a cliffhanger.