User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination: You're Doing It Wrong/@comment-4085370-20120621035625

I said this somewhere else, but just thought I'd reiterate it here.

If the ending is in fact a dream, how do the Reapers actually get destroyed? Shepard never made it to the Conduit, and we know that Hackett told Shepard that his mission was to get the arms open. If the arms were never opened, how could the Crucible have been docked?

Additionally, if you only had a one in three shot in surviving, does that mean Shepard had a two in three chance in dying in his dream? If that is so, does that mean that Earth was possibly destroyed 66% of the time because Shepard never survived?

For a while, IT seemed to make me less upset, (if it was in there from the beginning, I wouldn't have minded, but the fact that the game wasn't complete p- me right off), but I had insight seeing the inherent flaw of the dream: it doesn't answer if the Reapers were destroyed or not. IT'S AN EFFING DREAM THAT SHEPARD CAN WAKE UP FROM. Nothing in IT explains what actually happened to the Reapers; it only explains the battle within Shepard's mind, (which to me, seems semi-plausible).