User blog comment:Ygrain/EDI and the geth: their purpose in the story?/@comment-4237253-20120723204253/@comment-2228120-20120723215115

@The Milkman: Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

@LilyheartsLiara: "I'm still puzzled as to why people insist that the reason the Reapers were created is meant to be the big conflict of the series, let alone one at all."

Probably because it is at the root of the galaxy's current problem - whether the conflict real or imaginary, it is the reason why the Reapers are here. Next, the Catalyst focuses on it as a problem to be solved by new solutions, since the old ones do not work any more, and because it does so at a particular spot of the story, i.e. the end of the trilogy where it is natural for people to expect the solution of a main problem, it quite inevitably receives the tag of a main problem, whether the authors intended it that way or not. Also, the lack of other options than those proposed by the Catalyst strengthens this narrative error - it's at the end, there is no way out of it, it must be important. Seeing the results of the choice, especially in Synthesis, where you get the "problem" solved, further supports the notion that yeah, organics versus synthetics is what it was all about.

- I hope that was coherent, it's almost midnight here and I'm off to bed or I fall asleep on the keyboard. Good night.