User blog comment:Ygrain/EDI and the geth: their purpose in the story?/@comment-3581090-20120727155928/@comment-3581090-20120727173107

"This is it, people. Most of us will probably die, but we have to just keep heading to that beam! Unless one of my friends gets hurt--because then I will call in the fleet's most important ship to hover directly in the line of fire while I put them aboard and give a tearful goodbye! But the rest of you just keep running and dying and stuff! Because I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite way of justifying Ashley being in that scene on the jungle planet!!!"

"Um, sir? Oddly selfish sentiments aside, isn't that kind of dangerous for the Normandy?"

"Not if Harbinger has a soft spot for tearful goodbyes! Move out!"

(Oh, BioWhere-did-it-all-go-wrong?) But, yes, I'd have loved a final choice that was an actual dilemma, as well. Like...I dunno, having to choose whether all of Earth or all of the Allied Fleet would die when you activated the anti-Reaper doomsday device.