User blog comment:RS Kossery/Your thoughts on the Illusive Man/@comment-4579012-20111105230323/@comment-4579012-20111108065246

@Captainhu: that's - well, tricky - for me to agree with, but I see your point. In fact, I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't, what with destroying an entire system and thousands of Batarians in order to defeat the Reaper threat (for the moment, anyway).

I do agree with your point about his 'timing' - his purist policy of xenophobia is very dangerous at a time the galaxy needs to be united against a common enemy. Maybe he should use his formidable powers and resources to prove the Reaper threat to the council? But no - he isn't interested in that. He only seems interested in the Reapers in terms of what technology he can get out of it, in fact.

I like him in the sense that he's a fully three dimensional character - which is quite rare in games, I think - and a compelling antagonist; I can't agree that the ends justify the means, though. That's a really dangerous way of thinking and the ultimate irony is the inhumanity of humanity's self-appointed saviour.