User blog comment:SilencedSkies/The Illusive Man: Good, Evil or just bad writing?/@comment-4995373-20120424055952

It does seem like TIM from ME2 was compleatly different from ME3. If TIM was indoctrinated all along and was being manipulated by the Reapers, why would he bother resurrecting Commander Shepard, the greatest weapon the Reapers ever faced ? Further still, why would he help organize and support a direct assault on the collectors which prevents them from finishing their human Reaper? While I agree TIM's methods from ME2 may have been a bit extreem, he still had humanity's best interests in mind, after all he helped Shepard wipe out the entire collector force. Even more, TIM's main goal in ME 2 was finding a way to distroying the reapers, he says it many times over, he wants to help shepard find a way to distroy the reapers, he never once mentions anything about finding a way to control them, even at the end of ME 2 when he asks shepard to spare the collector base, he says not to destroy it so they can use the reapers tech against them and get an upper hand. With all this being said, it was so frustratimg to see TIM going from almost this anti-hero like character in ME2 to a compleate nemesis in ME3. I truly beleave this was a result of sloppy plot coordination and lack of effort.