User blog comment:The Milkman/Extended Expectations/@comment-1786741-20120625080910/@comment-4237253-20120625143220

Completely agree on all accounts. My thoughts on 'em:

Control: There should have at least been some support, or at least some options to support it in dialogue. Maybe just a renegade option where you off-handily say "Oh, maybe that could work."

Destroy: This is one of the more viable options, but if this is guaranteed to kill the quarians (Tali survived in my ending but everything about the Crucible is iffy so) then they just screwed me over. Why isn't there a way to get a "golden ending" for players who did everything right?

Synthesis: Do synthetics even have Deoxyribonucleic acids to alter? Furthermore, turning everybody half robot just sounds really silly. That doesn't even sounds physically possibly, let alone feasible as an ending. The worst part? This is the exact opposite of what Mass Effect series is about. ME has always been about unity whilst maintaining diversity, not homogenisation, and that's exactly what this ending is. You just force everything in the universe to change.

Also, I think Shepard should be able to survive in at least 2 endings. The main problem right now is that the Crucible is completely unexplained. I can buy that it can destroy all the Reapers, because they are one type of machine. Maybe it tunes into their signal? That could work, maybe. But a machine that can transform or even add matter at the molecular level? That's just too preposterous to believe in. The Ghost child didn't go into great detail about the ramifications of the Crucible activating, and it actaully turned out to be wrong on some things. Some clarification on the most pivotal moments to the story would be nice.