User blog comment:Suparockr/List of Plotholes throughout the series/@comment-166.82.245.89-20120719070005/@comment-24174486-20130301030515

"its the only plausible story and ending to the game, nothing else makes sense, at all"

And no, we're not going to get an explanation as to why acknowledging what actually happens makes no sense.

"The boy is randomly running towards that building, which then gets destroyed by a reaper. don't worry, the kid miraculously survived."

Between a) a child hiding in a vent or b) a grown person standing directly outside of that building, I think the latter would be in much greater danger.

"and is hiding inside an electrified vent? (note the electric warning)."

I believe we have someone who genuinely believes that people would make electrified vents. Forget wires, just have an electric current flowing through a vent.

"He also mentions nothing to anderson about an 8 year old boy, who is all alone stuck in a vent?"

Because Anderson clearly has Rank 6 Pull and can arc it down the vent to pull the child out. The child has refused their help and has scurried off; what good does telling Anderson about him do?

"shepard doesn't mention him..."

Oh wait, Shepard does mention the child in a conversation early in the game! Funny about that.

"the boy, is standing there with numerous reapers attacking, NO-ONE goes to help him, no one sees him"

Which is why the shuttle only closes its door and takes off once the child has climbed inside.

"also... shepard spots him several hundred meters away, amongst all the collapsing buildings and firing?"

Shepard was watching the evacuation shuttles. The child came running into Shepard's field of view. Shepard did not specifically look for the child.

"the rest of the game, especially me3 makes no sense. the endings make no sense. and it becomes i scripted failure of a game."

Again, no explanation whatsoever.

"if it was made more apparent for the people with such closed minds or lack of intelligence..."

Because the people who don't believe a theory called the Indoctrination Theory that revolves around not knowing how indoctrination works are the stupid and closed-minded ones.

"In ME3 the IT says Shepard has been indoctrinated. This is never hinted at across all three games."

In addition to this, there are several scenes which offer undeniable proof that Shepard is not indoctrinated: their conversations with Vendetta (who shuts down in the presence of indoctrinated individuals such as Kai Leng) and their ability to take control of the Reapers (which, as the Catalyst points out, is only possible because the Reapers do not control Shepard). So of course, Indoctrination Theory simply says, "Oh, it's an illusion, like everything else inconvenient to IT!"

"I wish i could ignore the plot holes that this 'ending' creates. but i cant."

And those "plot holes" are so glaring that, again, you will not bother to explain what they are.

"but the illusive man. is indoctrinated, through first touching a beacon."

And what proof is there that he was instantly indoctrinated then and there? His indoctrination could have came from the Reaper tech that Cerberus studied in an attempt to control the Reapers. We do not know for how long the Illusive Man was indoctrinated or to what degree he was indoctrinated at various points throughout the trilogy.