User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-4945364-20120405200733/@comment-4933332-20120406001338

You don't need the indoctrination theory to do rewrite the ending. However the indoctrination theory is used because it's such a spectacular twist.

imagine if we played the game, picked control and then immediately see ourselves afterwards working with the TIM trying to "control" the reapers clearly being indoctrinated (the game could actually play on from there as the indoctrinated shepard and we could have an awesome scene where your squad mates meet up with you and have a role reversal scene of the Shepard/Saren Shepard/TIM scene where the squad mates and Captain Anderson and your love interest tries to convince you, you are indoctrinated. Think of the deleted Carth Onasi dark side romance ending from KOTOR,). or picking synthesis and then seeing Shepard get harvested it turn into a husk. then pick destroy and then continue on leading to the final epic battle against the reapers.

We would have thought, well played Bioware, I was fool, you created a puzzle that I didn't pass or aren't I clever I saw it way beforehand.

It would have been a twist that rivalled the Revan reveal

It shows that to beat the reapers it not just the battle of military force but the battles of mind and strength of will

Of course, the surprise and the shock would have been more effective if we see the conclusion of our choice IMMEDIATELY after we make our decision and the game plays ouit as normal nor release 3 months later.

So we don't need the indoctrination theory to re-write the ending. It's just that the indoctrination is such a cool thing if it was real (and in game and not cut out and released later on)