User blog comment:Markurion/How many of you put a bullet in Godchild in EC?/@comment-4672495-20120721205909/@comment-4950455-20120721215048

The Extended Cut was never going to be a perfect ending, or even a particularly good one, given the fact that Bioware intended to stick with their original endings. Within that constraint, though, and with one or two exceptions, it was about as good as it could have been.

There's now room for a legitimate debate over which option was best (which is clearly what Bioware wanted) instead of choosing what palette you want for the death of galactic civilization, it's possible to see your choices making an impact, Joker no longer looks like an out-of-character coward, and ME3 is replayable. It's nothing like what the ending could have been, but it's satisfactory.