User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/The Scrapped ME3 Ending, Detailed/@comment-1440333-20130620194023/@comment-4950455-20130622215508

What bothers me about this isn't any of the specific proposals. As Karpyshyn said, ideas that sound good out of context could have worked badly in practice, and the reverse is equally true. But it's saddening to see once and for all just how little of a long-term plan for Mass Effect there really was.

On that note, I agree that it does make the "actual" ending look a lot better: while the specifics may have come out of nowhere, the basic theme of organic-synthetic conflict was much better established in the series than some of these proposed ideas were or could have been.