User blog comment:The Milkman/End of the Line/@comment-4947725-20120704164050/@comment-5267442-20120706215007

In my opinion the worst about the Catalyst is, that it destroys the "myth" of the reapers. It would have been better if the Catalyst wasn't the "guardian of the cycle", it could have been a construct of the crucible or one of the citadel, which explains to Shepard how the crucible works and which endings the player can choose, without having a connection to the reapers. (But it would have been the best if they had gotten rid of the Catalyst at all; but I'm happy they changed the mass relays destruction to a heavy damaging).

In addition, I think Bioware should have extended the "Refuse-Ending" a bit more; so we can see Shepard dieing and our troops doing a "last stand", but I would have liked a possibility to win in this ending (depending on Shepard's "EMS-Rating").