User blog comment:The Milkman/No Love For Leviathan?/@comment-5038903-20120916134142/@comment-4237253-20120918222252

That's your problem. You take small instances, blow them up, and overgeneralise tens of thousands of people. Yes, there are a few mistakes made. No one is perfect. However, you can't use a couple of minor errors to simply handwave every single argument made. You have to recognise that the ending is flawed. It isn't perfect; it's a failure.

Again, you're not stating facts. You're just resorting to insults and over generalisations. Just because something is possible in the Mass Effect universe, doesn't mean it should be done. You cannot simply dismiss every criticism made by thousands of people. This isn't just about factual errors. That's what your misunderstanding. You always defend the ending on technicalities and semantics, but that's not what matters here. These are mistakes on the writer's part. Introducing a new character and a barely touched-on concept in the climax is never a good idea. The ending disappointed more than it satisfied.

Case in point: you've ignored every single criticism made about the ending without really addressing them, but you've never told us what the ending did right. What makes it a good ending? Even those who aren't ardently "retake" didn't enjoy it. It's confusing, contrived, abrupt, and jarring. In the end, we essentially got one video with minor variations, which is utterly ridiculous considering this game's funding compared to other games. This is of course, where you point out the different implications made by each ending, but that doesn't matter. In Synthesis, all we see is the Reapers flying away, a green blast of light, and Joker with greenish skin. This isn't much different than a blue blast of light and the Reapers flying away, but the implications are different right? Well sure, but who cares? The whole point of storytelling is to please the audience, not listen to yourself talk.

Seriously, you cannot ignore every single criticism made against the ending. I'm sorry, but BioWare screwed up. They've actaully been doing a lot of that lately. For all five "Bookends" video, you discounted hours of criticisms by mentioning two errors, but ignored the rest. The ending is flawed. Hell, it's broken. This isn't a case of us not getting what we want, or lying, or always ignoring facts, we're making legitimate criticisms to a poorly written ending. To ignore every single point and pretend BioWare didn't screw up is wilful ignorance.