User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-24174486-20130418150425/@comment-4237253-20130418185630

Which would make sense in-universe. The problem you are missing is that this is a story, and it matters a great deal just how it is presented. The narrative's focus shifted. It doesn't matter if your choices are tangentially related to your original goal. That doesn't matter. The fact that they brought this up at all and made it so important at the last second is the problem itself. The narrative lost focus, and went off-course. Everything the Catalyst is saying is extremely out of place. They just ripped parts of Babylon 5 and Deus Ex and applied it to a different game with different themes. They were trying to imitate better stories with more well-executed themes, and failed.