User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-4950455-20130419212010/@comment-4721065-20130420042042

Ok, since my original comment has now spawned a huge discussion about ME2 alone, with no real hope of getting it back to its origins, I will elaborate here.

Firstly, I think you continue to misunderstand the Mu Relay info from ME1. All that was said is that it was displaced by a supernova. It doesn't mean that the supernova occured right next to the relay, or anywhere close enough to be able to destroy it; the relay was so far away that the supernova could only steadily push it back over time, with far less force concentrated in one spot than with the asteroid impact. It is perfectly scientific and doesn't really require additional elaboration.

Reapers don't really need to make their relays asteroid-proof either, because the Extended Cut clearly shows the Reapers repairing all heavily damaged relays within 20-50 years at most. With 50,000 years gap between each cycle and a single Reaper (i.e. Sovereign) always left for maintenance, they would be easily able to repair or rebuild any relays hit.

As to why the Citadel blog was bad, well I will say it plainly: having it set after the endings is pure, 100% idiotism that displays extreme bias against other endings, gives extremely large boost to Indoctrination theory and doesn't even do that much to address the "tonal shift" issue: all dialogue would have to revolve around the Reapers' destruction, why you had to destroy geth, lack your Normandy crew or the aliens due to the Relays being gone (unless you would be willing to have it set 20+ years after the game), be practically empty if you had low EMS and, well did I forget anything? Simply put, this automatically disqualified the rest of your blog, and I'm sure many people would agree.

And even now, it really seems that you're trying to have all praise tempered with at least even amount of critisism regardless of whether or not this matches with the games, in a false belief that this makes your blog more "balanced". For instance, you have said what, five sentences about the overall combat improvements in ME3? The blog practically takes the series' combat for granted; while it might not match the dedicated sci-fi shooters overall, I think it's fair to say that the trilogy has far more diverse combat mechanics and smarter enemies than GTA, Bioshock or Resident Evil, yet no-one ever seems to praise the series for that.