User blog comment:HELO/Indoctrination or Not, It's Problematic/@comment-4746180-20120403220112/@comment-3581090-20120404160454

Indeed. As I said, if Shepard was under some kind of mind control hallucination at the end...why not just tell us that's what it was? It still sucks, but I'd rather an ending that sucks instead of one that sucks and doesn't make sense.

But your movie analogies make me wonder...what if they revealed everything after Eden Prime in ME1 has been a dream/vision?

You know, that everything we've played has essentially been the Reapers trying indoctrinate Shepard and just finding it really, really hard to do. Which means that making the right choices in ME3 lead you to breaking free of that mind control (which has only taken a couple of hours) and allowing you to play ME4--the game in which you build an army of rebels and fly out to meet the reapers in dark space.