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"In ME3 the IT says Shepard has been indoctrinated. This is never hinted at across all three games. Shepard is never near Reaper tech long enough to be indoctrinated without causing him to become a gibbering wreck, which the codex basically says that rapid and forced indoctrination does. The whole idea cannot possibly work.

Shepard either dies, ascends, breathes or merges with all life - four options that follow brilliantly from the themes and plots already in the series and expanding on them. The IT spits in the face of all those themes."

and if you are happy with that theory or should i say "your" theory, then fine. good for you mate. I wish i could ignore the plot holes that this "ending" creates. but i cant. i also think its a passable ending, not as far as to say terrible, but passable. i enjoyed the little cutscenes etc - (i didnt like the lack of back story to team mates etc).

but the whole of the actual ending, london, citadel, the choices, shepard taking a breath on earth? (lots more), none of it makes sense, or its so badly oversighted by bioware that it makes a mockary of the ending.

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"In ME3 the IT says Shepard has been indoctrinated. This is never hinted at across all three games. Shepard is never near Reaper tech long enough to be indoctrinated without causing him to become a gibbering wreck, which the codex basically says that rapid and forced indoctrination does. The whole idea cannot possibly work"

well i assume you havent read all the comics and all the novels and played all three games then? - i dont mean to offend if i am, i love nothing more then talking to a fellow mass effect fan about my fave game of all time.

but the illusive man. is indoctrinated, through first touching a beacon. its how he knows about the reapers. he doesnt come into contact with direct reaper tech per say - maybe the beacon was?. shepard has touched and been around more reaper tech then most, how do you know that his implants which brought him to life are not reaper tech? thats the experiments Cerberus were working on, which is linked through all three mass effects. maybe hes already there. but disregarding that alltogether...

you dont need direct reaper contact for indoctrination.

however shepard was in contact with two beacons / three beacons. one of them was shortly taken over by soverign after touching it.

in terms of creating more plot holes? i cant see how? it closes most of the plot holes i can think of if it isnt indoc,

and i personally think it would make a better ending if that last 10 minutes didnt actually happen. its all interpreted by shepards brain. its the final stages. fully indoctrinated accepting indoc, - synthesis green - becoming one with the machines - accepting the indoc - like Grayson in the novels. the rest of the videos are just a metaphor of indoc. - destroy (red - bad choice for the reapers! dont choose it!) you resist indoc. and wake up back on earth, under rubble. the best ending control - blue - (yeah choose that one shepard!! blue is paragon remember?) - you die, you are fully indoctrinated and are now nothing but a husk.

the endings we see are just a metaphor depending on what you choose, almost a heaven like imagry for shepard.

the colours are what the reapers are showing you through indoc - they WANT you to choose control. bye bye shepard.

anyway, i wont go on, we are all entitle to our opinions. you make valid points. and your theory about the ending is as justified as mine is. and we are both entitled to them.

i cant wait for citadel dlc! should be amazing.