User blog comment:Markurion/How many of you put a bullet in Godchild in EC?/@comment-5271559-20120718235017

The Reapers were right all along, their mission to harvest an entire cycle is nearly impossible for the organics to comprehend. Thats why so many people refused to believe the Catalyst and thought that its logic was flawed, even though it is an A.I and has made calculations based on events in each cycle. There was a war between the Geth and the Quarians in Shepard's cycle and the Synthetics won that battle, nearly wiped out the Quarians and took their homeworld from them. Hell even EDI rebelled against Cerberus who were its creators. Even Catalyst himself went rogue on its Creators and harvested them into the very first Reapers, Catalyst's creators also had serious problems with the Synthetics that they created. After all this, if people think than the Catalyst's logic is nonsensical garbage its clear they cannot comprehend his aims and motives. Also I would not call the Refusal ending a slap to the face, it is the game punishing the player for making a wrong decision, Catalyst was the only way to get the Crucible to work and you can use it to destroy the Reapers, but you refuse, so its obvious that you will lose. One of the commentators pointed this out already, they need the fleets from the entire galaxy to just HOLD OFF, I repeat HOLD OFF the Reapers above Earth while the other Reapers are scattered throughout the galaxy, the victory is impossible without using the Crucible, when even with a effective military you can barely hold off the Reapers in the Sol System only, the entire galaxy was relying on the Crucible. If you make a wrong decision, you get a bad ending. Also in the end, I do not think that the Extended Cut endings are a perfect conclusion for the series, they could have been better, but I am satisfied with what I got, many issues in the original endings were fixed and I got a sense of closure. So I am fine with it.