User blog comment:Matthew Paul/What's wrong with wanting a happy ending for ME3?/@comment-1841436-20120411042140/@comment-1841436-20120411142647

He doesn't "give up". He realises his solution isn't going to work anymore. He's a machine. For millenia 2+2 equaled 4. Now the equation is 2+3, and they need t instruction. These are AIs, and who really knows how advanced, or limited, they are.

And saving all those lives, if not at the least securing the future for all, sometimes with the possible threat of said threat returning, made me feel pretty damn triumphant.