User blog comment:Matthew Paul/BioWare never made a case?/@comment-3046679-20130110160425/@comment-98.21.229.149-20130111033526

I was talking about how the OvS is presented in the vanilla game is very mixed, you only have the Catalyst's word that Synthetics are very violent and will destroy all Organic life, while throughout most of the trilogy Organics are shown to be the violent ones, and that while it may be a major theme it was not at the center stage, it taking the center is very jarring, like instead at the end of the game the focus all of a sudden is on the problem that after uniting all races of the galaxy will inevitably be homogenized, it may have been a major theme, but it should not be at the center.

The Dark Energy plot was only foreshadowed in ME2, but I can't recall the OvS really being foreshadowed as much as it just being a theme.

The logic of the Catalyst is circular because inevitably all major Organic races will be killed by the Reapers, his objective was to save Organic life, and he ends up killing most of it, if it is like pruning a bush like you said I don't see how the Dark Energy plot is much different. They were regulating it and trying to keep it to a minimum by making Mass Relays so they could keep track of it much easier. Like how the Catalyst kills the advanced organic races so they don't make Synthetics that end up killing them, in the Dark Energy Plot the Reapers made the Mass Relays as a sort of highway pre made so the races would only use them and not build their own, keeping travel to a minimum.