User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-30764484-20120608064625

IT isn't an ending, it's hit by Harby's beam, time passes, Shep wakes up.

I'm not to sure where you're going with the tricking the player stuff, that's kind of the entire point of being indoctrinated, if you had any chance of seeing it coming, or knowing what was going on, it wouldn't work. In IT BW isn't indoctrinating Shepard, they're indoctrinating the player. They're trying to see if after 2.9 games of trying to destroy the Reapers, while fighting people who want to control them or join with them, people would fall for the ideas they've been fighting against all along. It's just like romancing Morinth, but on a much larger scale. You've been told and shown all game that she kills everyone she mates with, and has killed at least hundreds, but she suggests that you're "special" and have a "really strong mind" so you will be okay. Same scenario.

Even without IT the choices still represent the same thing; Destroy is you and your allies, Control is TIM and Cerberus, Synthesis is Saren and the Reapers.