User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-1221773-20101031021231/@comment-1221773-20101101001906

I'm not denying there should be big space battles, but if the fate of the galaxy hinges on a single final battle of Reapers vs. good guys, that's where I draw the line. Fighting the Reapers on their own turf (i.e. with starships) and winning drips cliche. We should have to defeat them in an entirely different way.

The way I want ME3 to turn out is that only a few Reapers are able to enter the galaxy through whatever their back door is. Maybe they go out and gather allies (the Batarian Hegemony, some new hostile alien species, etc.) to fight their way to Citadel, but a galactic fleet stops them from getting there and wins. Or, the Reapers try sneaking to the Citadel and the battle happens somewhere along that line. Then, Shepard must either seal the Reapers' back door, thus trapping them in dark space for untold millennia, or travel to dark space and confront the Reapers in person to persuade them to leave the galaxy alone (which would entail a battle against a few Reaper-controlled avatars or some such). I think a story in this general direction would be far more satisfying than reliance on a final space battle.