User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-24174486-20130418150425/@comment-4237253-20130418171739

1. I said it is the Reapers. Didn't say it was a Reaper. It's the collective embodiment of the Reapers.

2. You don't seem to either. You see, that's an absolute statement. Generally speaking, intelligent people tend to shy away from these. As a writer, if you're going to use very vague, absolute statements, you have to back it up. The writers failed to do this.

3. Wrong. It was about stopping the Reapers. It wasn't at the forefront of the series, and even if it was a theme, that doesn't make it okay to supersede the old conflict and introduce a new character.

4. And again, missing the point. The Reaper on Rannoch proves nothing. That conflict wasn't synthetics vs. organics. That was us vs. the Reapers. There is not a single shred of evidence that proves these absolute statements.