User blog comment:Legionwrex/Another Plot Hole in Mass Effect 2./@comment-1221773-20120108202252

If it isn't really a plot hole, why say it is one in your title?

The area with the charges is pretty big, so I assume it was designed by BioWare with this diversion in mind. BioWare just made the pillar too small. If ME were real life, then yeah, maybe Shepard and the gang could just climb over it. But it's a game, and so it follows game logic: the possibly climb-able pillar can only be defeated by blowing it up.