User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-24174486-20120726200543/@comment-5337704-20120824063450

Macguffin is a better term for it. Which is why Admiral Hackett surprised me when he seems to be the most realistic of any NPC. You want us to put reossources into something that we have no clue what it does? The only way that seems reasonable that he accepts it is that he trusts shepard, but the game was missing a variable. Showing proof to hackett, he does get a more aggreeable after some work is completed, just seemed a little wishy washy..

As for knowing the ending was an AI. I didn't expect it as such, but it also didn't surprise me if it was so supposed to be a twist. I've read/seen countless fiction that use the device.

I missed saying the literal or original term does exist. When shepard is raised on a mechanical device to meet the catalyst is DEM. However, the catalyst, cruibile are not DEM plot devices. But again simantics. Bad writing, well I was nor curious of what happened to his armour than really what followed as for me the game was over with.

My pet peeve are dream sequences, if I don't have a choice, I shouldn't have to physically move myself. If I have that ability, should give me choices, which honestly would of been a better time to forshadow the choices at the end. Kid burns, kid does what shepard tells him, shepard and the kid merge into one etc...as opposed to malign follow someone I really didn't care about. (Game wouldn't even let me run away...