User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Council not helping in ME3/@comment-1221773-20110925175301/@comment-211.30.44.215-20110928062044

You're forgetting that if the Reapers had cut the Citadel off from the rest of the galaxy, they'd have attacked and taken the station over (remember the Reapers can't do it via Keepers anymore) thus rendering Shepard going there moot.