User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-4835791-20120601081030/@comment-4826433-20120601152343

Shep's sacrifice didn't seem at all sensible. He took up the fight against the Reapers without hesitation, he put in his utmost efforts into the struggle for a sole purpose: saving the galaxy. Throughout ME1, ME2 and most of ME3, the stability of the galaxy was a testament to his success. Yet ultimately, he decided to listen to a child VI whose image he was seeing repeatedly in his nightmares. He took this "catalyst" brat at its word and gambled everything on the Crucible without a second thought at the end. No thoughts about the fates of entire civilizations? What about the krogan and the geth, for whom he found a place in the galaxy? About his friends who went through hell with him and with whom deep bonds of brotherhood were made? What about his LI who was there for him in the darkest hours? Didn't he want to see his little blue children? So much at stake and he walks into a doohickey device without doubts. In short, Shep's sacrifice was a failure and pointless.