User blog comment:The Milkman/End of the Line/@comment-2250460-20120701171453/@comment-2228120-20120702091815

"the Catalyst is very obviously an idiot, a broken computer." This. The damned machine devised and kept applying a totally faulty solution. Don't tell me that in those millions of years of harvesting, the situations repeated to a T, that there were no cooperations with synthetics, cycles where no synthetics existed... From what we can see from the last two known cycles, they are too short - we see synthetics created, we see a conflict - but we don't see the resolution of this conflict. Javik claims that the Protheans were already winning the Metacon wars when the Reapers arrived. The geth didn't even start any conflict before the Reapers arrived. EDI went from a killing machine to a complex being growing to understand and appreciate humanity, and I don't see her wanting to exterminate all organic life, ever. IMHO, the Catalyst's solution doesn't take into account quite a couple of variables, and therefore is necessarily faulty. - Oh, and BTW: the Reapers are NOT a pinnacle of evolution. They might be a pinnacle of technology, but liquidifying organic races and merging them with synthetic bodies can hardly be called evolution.