User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination: You're Doing It Wrong/@comment-5008642-20120623204717/@comment-4237253-20120624013434

That's not telling us. That's subjective, retroactive thinking. Those things never seemed like indoctrination until you heard of the Indoctrination Theory.

1. No, a game should just be entertaining. Period. If it's creativity makes the game more fun, then fine. However, don't be creative just for the sake of being creative.

2. London does in fact have trees. Please, don't try and tell me that trees are an obvious sign of brainwashing.

3. Those are plot holes. Simply because there are plot holes doesn't make the IT any better or more true.

4. Harbinger left before you got up, probably because it thought Shepard was dead. With the IT, it actaully makes less sense, because it has to know Shepard is right there, but...Harby decides to brainwash Shepard instead of killing him/her? That makes zero sense.

5. So slow motion sequences are always a dream now? It's called shell shock.

6. How would indoctrinating Shepard be demoralising, and why would that even matter at this point? How would the Reapers even spread the news of his indoctrination? Wouldn't killing Shep have the same effect?

7. So because everyone isn't preoccupied with some random kid, he's automatically a hallucination? He has to be the result of brainwashing? Consider the fact that there is a full-scale galactic invasion going on. A sentient race of god-like machines are trying to completely annihilation humanity. Alien robots exceeding 1-2 kilometres in height are landing down and destroying entire buildings like Swiss cheese. There are deformed versions of alien species shooting at these people. Yes, one very short person might go unnoticed. There is extreme panic and fear unlike ever before in these people. When people are afraid, they do stupid things. Maybe they didn't care about the little kid. Maybe they care more about themselves. You can't except everyone to be a hero in a crisis.

8. Well you aren't Anderson. He was in the next room, and a soft-spoken child hiding in a vent isn't always discernible to really old people.

9. Like Xaero said, oily shadows.

To end this all up, those are very weak points. It's a bunch of maybes and what ifs. They didn't tell us, and having Shepard indoctrinated has nothing to do with this story. Seriously, what would the point of that be? It carries no bearing on the rest of the plot.