User blog comment:AdmiralPedro1stFleet/Goodbye Indoctrination and Hello Beings of Light/@comment-65.87.105.3-20120727160544

Ok, first let's get this cleared up:

Presumed: To suppose to be true without proof.

We have no proof that the Star Child IS indeed a Being of Light, and first off, what the hell is he even doing in the Crucible? The Crucible was built by humans using Prothean schematics (if i remember correctly) and in this wiki, there is even an entry that says this:

Design It is unknown who initially began the development of the Crucible. Countless different species obtained and made contributions to the design over the course of millions of years, but none successfully deployed it before being wiped out by the Reapers. The latest species to try, the Protheans, were able to construct the Crucible, but before they could deploy it, infighting broke out between those who wanted to use it to destroy the Reapers and a faction that believed they could use it to control the Reapers; these separatists were later discovered to be indoctrinated. While the Protheans never had the chance to activate the Crucible, its schematics survived in a Prothean archive on Mars for the next 50,000 years.

See anything particular? Those that wanted to control the Reapers were INDCTRINATED!

Therefore a Being of Light has no business showing up and explaining to you how to use a human constructed device, which supposedly Shepard should already know how to activate, and telling you: "Hey guess what? While you were working your way up here, I conveniently installed these three options!" Also, it's been confirmed that the Citadel is Reaper tech, so shouldn't it make sense that if the Reapers are indoctrinating Shepard, that the Citadel could also be used for this purpose? (All speculation of course).

Also, indoctrination is a HUGE theme in Mass Effect throughout the series, and it's also said in all entries about indoctrination that should the Reapers indoctrinate an important leader, the effects could be CATASTROPHIC! And Shepard is........... no... he couldn't be.... an important leader and icon to those around him? Nah! Not Shepard. (I'm sorry, that sounds a bit sarcastic but I couldn't help myself :P I apologize).

Also, the "Being of Light" lied right in your face telling you that if you destroy the Reapers, you die too, yet if you choose destroy... Shepard lives? I'd say this is a bit too coincidental.

Also, the Being of Light is the child that Shepard has been seeing throughout the game, getting blasted by Reaper lasers and running into buildings that them become decimated by Reaper lasers, Christ almighty I wanna be this kid! I'd never die! It's also stated in countless entries that the child is a manifestation and represents all the lives Shepard has been unable to save, which means he's plagued by guilt.

There's also the dreams which suspiciously resemble the descriptions the Rachni queen told Shepard is what they experienced when they were indoctrinated, or being indoctrinated.

There's just so much other evidence pointing to indoctrination that I could go on and on, but I'll stop here. Did BioWare leave us with an open ended game and countless questions? Yes, is IT true? I don't, but a lot of evidence seems to support it, and honestly I think the Extended Cut was just an attempted crowd pleaser. Also, was it a good idea for BioWare to leave us with an open ended game? Prooooobably not, but who knows, maybe they have another game in the works, maybe not, maybe they intended for us to interpret the ending however we wanted, maybe not, I guess only time will tell.