User blog comment:Crazywarfire/Indoctrination Theory is BS/@comment-4361160-20120615030619/@comment-118213-20120618223501

Not at all. By definition 'well-thought out' does not deal with the negatives or positives, just the quality of the argument. A well-thought out argument can quite easily be false, just as a poorly-thought out argument can be true. I'm not denying, nor have I ever denied, that the Indoctrination Theory is speculation; not least that video which is complete and utter speculation.

Being fooled at the end of a story can be an example of brilliant storytelling, making your reader (or in this case, player) wait months before they find out they were fooled however is a different thing. To do so is not only inexcusably poor story telling, but an unacceptable break in the consumer contract in which they (BioWare) promised it's customers a complete product.

I liked the Indoctrination Theory because I saw an easy way BioWare could fix the ending with the removal of the God Child etc. I never believed it was planned, and my hope and slight belief that it could be implemented was in retrospect, a fantasy.