User blog comment:James12708/What I expected The Reapers to be when I first started playing Mass Effect/@comment-4118072-20120719204819/@comment-899316-20120719210701

I really would've loved that option as well. I feel that a Renegade Shepard would most likely rub the Reapers' existence in the Council's collective face until the day they die. As for Sparatus, he's actually the only Councilor I kind of like. Think about things from his point of view. Nothing exists to really prove Shep's claims until ME3. When it turns out the Reapers are real, he's willing to do whatever it takes to help out, even when the other Councilors are all apprehensive and political. He simply needed some proof, and I can respect that. In all honesty, I'd think Shepard was insane myself.