User blog comment:The Milkman/Madness and Genius/@comment-2228120-20121208125451/@comment-2228120-20121209065518

You're seriously listing sighting Sovereign in the Eden Prime sky as a basis for indoctrination event, and you want me to take this theory seriously? Please, read my post again and check the meaning of the words PROLONGED EXPOSURE, which really doesn't equal to "a couple of hours" or "sighting from distance". Also, please, don't try to draw analogies from the movement of three adult persons, out of which two are heavily built and heavily armored, in the vent of a science facility on Mars, and the movements of a child in the vent of a residential structure on Earth. The amount of sound produced by a person moving in the vent depends not just on the person's size, weight, clothes and way of moving but also on the way the vent is constructed, insulated, attached to the structure etc. You're drawing conclusions frlom comparing the uncomparable.

Yes, oily shadows and whispers are effects associated with indoctrination, and are present for Shepard only during that scene when he and Anderson are being controlled by TIM. It is also perfectly clear there that whatever control he exercises over them, it is something that 1) we haven't seen previously, therefore we cannot establish what side effects it is supposed to have or not, and 2) affects only the body, not the mind, and even the body control is not complete - neither Shepard nor Anderson are fully paralyzed and neither changes his mind about what needs be done. If you build basis for Shepard's indoctrination from fleeting meeetings and sightings, Anderson, who had spent months fighting way more Reapers than Shepard had ever seen, should have been indoctrinated long ago, yet he apparently isn't, and never mentions losing soldiers due to some fast-happening indoctrination in the fight, even though this would be a vital clue for the player to realize what might be going on with Shepard.

As for Shepard's dreams, I hope that it didn't escape your attention that the voices he is hearing there are actually pieces of real in-game convos - in other words, reflections of his past, and not voices telling him what to do or messing with him.

Unless you can provide something more convincing, I can't really be bothered to waste my time over your link, you're not even catching at straws but microfibres.