User blog comment:Damous/Why Bioware has NOT betrayed us/@comment-4888821-20120316101120

To be honest I think Shepard becomes knocked out and or indocrinated after Harbinger's beam hits. After that everything seems to enter a dream sequence. The dream sequences throughout the game have a very similar play style, for example the blurred vision, fuzzy background, you can even see miniature versions of the trees you see in the dreams. Also if anyone goes back listen to the Illusive Man and Anderson's conversation in the end, if you listen the Illusive Man ask Shepard, "And who will you listen to, an old soldier stuck in his ways, only able to see the world down the barrel of a gun..." Why would he need to ask that, why should he ask who you will listen to, from what we know in the ending why would TIM need Shepard, shouldn't he just kill them both and get what he wants. Instead however he takes the time to try to convince Shepard, present a choice to him, perhaps the Reapers making the final push in order to get a hold of Shep's mind. Particularly enforced by the amount of time Shepard gropes his head in pain each time the idea is presented. Also why does the Illusive Man even have power to control Shepard's mind at all, he may have studied a lot of Reaper tech but even the reapers do not have a full fledged indocrination technique that would be able to give almost complete control instantaneously, it is a subtle process. I would think that Shepard is knocked out and Harbinger is trying to press the idea into Shepard's head, either he is quick at indocrinating or Shepard in his weakened state can be quickly indocrinated. There is no reason however that TIM should be able to control Shepards mind even if he was hurt, he was still fully concious.