User blog comment:Ironreaper/Retcons and Contradictions in the Reapers/@comment-2250460-20120415175600/@comment-1900300-20120416020504

Which means we have to accept Bioware not applying the principle of "Show, Don't Tell". If Bioware expected us to believe this war could have been won at all then they might have wanted to balence the imagary they gave us. Instead it is up to us to read codex entries full of missed moments of awesome or speculate that things are not as bad as they seem. When the audience has to fill in the blanks in order for the plot to work there are issues.

And to say that Reaper was about to go down is speculation at its highest. It lost an arm and was still fighting and killing. I dont think it was going down soon and even if it was, the fleets took down one Reaper. over 400~ to go. Yay i can feel the optimism.