User blog comment:Markurion/How many of you put a bullet in Godchild in EC?/@comment-4832447-20120718142031/@comment-2079715-20120719050144

No, the endings suck because project director and lead storywriter didn't give a f... about their own game.

One of the solutions was ofc, The Indoctrination theory. But seeing as that's not one OF the Starchild's solutions, but a whole different approach, let's put it aside. The other solution was that Shepard use his tremendous power of persuasion, the same one he used to persuade Saren AND Illusive man to commit suicide. The one with which he united the galaxy, and force/presuade the kid to chill out and leave the Milky Way and give them all a chance, for the kid itself said: We tried Synthesis before, but it didn't work. Races were not ready. You are ready.

That's exactly the point( or one of them) of the series. UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITIES! Shepard did what Starchild couldn't without reaching for extreme solutions. The kid itself said the Cycle solution won't work anymore. So go away! We saved ourselves! We don't need you and your solutions anymore. GO! Leave this galaxy and never again return!

Was that not possible? Was that so complicated?

If they wanted to add a certain desperation at the point, they could've implement a final Harbinger fight, in which one of your friends would die, or several of them, depending on choices. And AFTER you kill Harbinger, you go to the Starchild. And instead of choosing between Red,Blue and Green explosions, you could've choose whos gonna live, whos gonna die. It worked pretty well in ME2. There are thousands of things that could've been improved based on that single solution I just gave.