User blog comment:HELO/Indoctrination or Not, It's Problematic/@comment-68.150.219.178-20120603225728

The indoctrination theory would give a satisfactory ending if certain condition were met with no further gameplay. Imagine, while Shepard was knocked out wrestling with his own mind, some unnamed soldier actually manages to enter the beam, activate the crucible and it work as intended wiping out all reaper forces.

Shepard either: dies at this point and we see his funeral (incomplete red ending) wakes up, indoctrinated to a force which no longer exists, and he slowly deteriorates from the effects of indoctrination over the following years. Allowing him to say his goodbyes and waste away (green and blue endings) wake up, not indoctrinated, golden ending, but Shepard has to share the credit with the guy that actually pushed the button that kills all the reapers. (complete red ending)

In all three endings Shepard's involvement isn't necessary to bring about a final resolution. All the reapers are dead, the galaxy is saved. The bullsh*t reasons behind the reaper's activities and the ghost-boy remain figments of a disturbed imagination. The only spacemagic required is to believe that the thing which off-screen people have spent the entire third game building actually works as it is supposed to. If Bioware released an epilogue DLC which elaborated on the ending in this way I would have no problem with it.