User blog comment:AdmiralPedro1stFleet/FANS PLEASE READ. Drew Karpyshyn's ORIGINALLY INTENDED ENDING/@comment-1440333-20130525133723/@comment-1786741-20130525152916

But the benefit the Dark Energy plot is that it deals with ALL THE MASS EFFECT TECHNOLOGY. Sure, all you get is a mysterious tease in ME2 but I'm willing to overlook that kind of thing for two reasons. One, mass effect technology is used by pretty much everyone in that universe. It's a fundamental aspect of it and is even in the title. You don't really need to drop more than a few hints (but let's be honest, Haestrom was some moderately good foreshadowing for something like that). Two, it's different from most of what I've seen. One of the reasons I wasn't a big fan of the "synthetics vs. organics" thing because it was incredibly cliched and done thousands of times before. It always felt like something relegated to the sidelines, not one of the big overarching themes of the series. Sure, you got the Rouge AI, Signal Tracking, and partly the Geth but I always felt those were kind of countered by EDI and... the Geth again? Sure, there was conflict but we also got exceptions, which kind of undermines that theme. I just wanted to see more of the Dark Energy thing because it seemed more refreshing.