User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-5503561-20120531110346/@comment-5503561-20120531141336

Anderson was needed alive, if only to lead the resistance on Earth. But the kid should've been just blown up, and that's done, woosh, gone. Like I said before - nightmares could have very well shown all the dead companions among the oily shadows, instead of pedo-Shepard chasing a kid through a forest, and it would be a literal representation of guilt over those lost in the war. I'd be much more attached to seeing Mordin, Legion, Thane & others there, instead of some kid I saw three times at the start of the game.