User blog comment:Garhdo/Extended Cut - opinions?/@comment-77.8.58.113-20120627044144/@comment-3399608-20120627095614

I agree with point 2. The rogue VI was a side-quest and is only brought up again once (oh, EDI), so that's not much. Not only that, but the conflict is seemingly resolved in the Rannoch arc. To me, the game's ending should've happened right after the Crucible docked. It should've killed the Reapers, and then they find Shepard.

The EC kinda opens its own plot holes anyway. First, why didn't Joker just drop off troops in front of the beam, since he had time to do an evac? We could've avoided the failed zerg rush. Secondly, the synthesis option is said to not be able to be forced upon organics, yet Shepard is doing this. I don't think everyone would agree to synthesis, but are they now just supposed to go along wth it? Shepard has now inflicted this upon every being in the galaxy.

This was never supposed to the centrail conflict, but once the dark energy plot was of the table, I guess BioWare needed something, although reintroducing a conflict which players ended (with extremely positive results, most likely) in the same game is not a smart thing to do. In my mind, I've made up my own ending, and I'm sticking to that.