User blog comment:Mexican215/So who was satisfied with the last battle against the Reapers?/@comment-4967682-20130213023320/@comment-4967682-20130214015010

@Legionwrex:

1. Arrogant or no (I still say no), it's completely out of character for him to not double-tap when he spent years hunting for a corpse. And completely idiotic. Yes, it's a plothole.

2. What does that even mean? It's still a Reaper Destroyer with Reaper Destroyer armor that got destroyed by a hand-held weapon. Implying that you can one-shot them with Cains. Which begs the question of why everyone doesn't do this. Yes, it's a plothole.

3. No one's talking about travelling. The minute you start Cronos Station, it's there. The minute you end, it's back at Earth. And what does that even mean? Why would they need the Citadel to process people? That's what the processors are for. Saren shut down the relays in Mass Effect 1, and he didn't have control of the Keepers. This is a plothole.

4. Either the Reapers gave it to him or Cerberus somehow got it in ways that are never explained or hinted at. Both of those bring plotholes that I outlined earlier.

5. The Reapers didn't have a back-up plan, since Shepard took down that one Destroyer and got to the beam. Then when he got in the beam there was no one there to stop him. Yes, that's a plothole.

6. "We don't know" is a lame excuse. You act like not knowing something automatically makes it not a plothole. It's a plothole because we don't know and the story never bothers to explain it. The story goes against its own logic by having the Reapers bring the Citadel to Earth, point the beam at Earth, and never shut it down when we've received no indication that they don't have control of the beam. Both failing to explain such a major thing AND going against its own logic qualifies it as a plothole.

7. So their one guard was an unarmed old man. Their one weakness in their entire plan and they couldn't spare a single squad. Yes, that's a massive plothole.

8. Yes, it does. For reasons outlined above. The writers just say "this thing no one mentioned before exists, and it does something very specific and has very arbitrary rules on how it works, despite us giving no reason for why this is the case. Shut up and accept it."