User blog comment:Legionwrex/Why Destroy is the worst ending (besides refusal)./@comment-4237253-20120707170543/@comment-899316-20120708181959

LilyheartsLiara, it's simply a matter of in-universe vs out-of universe perspective. Nothing in-game points at the Catalyst being correct, so, from a Watsonian perspective, the Catalyst very well could be a liar and can be ignored. In the real world, however, BioWare has repeatedly stood by every facet of the ending, inevitable syntho-organic war included. The devs wrote the story and created the fictional universe, so what they say goes. From a Doylist perspective, the Catalyst's logic, unfortunately, is fact, until the devs write or say something that proves otherwise. Neither perspective is necessarily any better than the other.

I admit to reading your initial comment in haste (If I remember correctly, I was preparing food at the time.), so I shall now address the other point you made. The way I see it, there is not a lack of choice in the last ten minutes, just limited choice. We are presented the problem of inevitable, extinction-causing syntho-organic war, and four choices that will impact it. Destroy wipes out all synthetics. Synthesis essentially does the opposite, getting rid of organics by making everything partially synthetic (Obviously what the Catalyst, a synthetics, advocates.) Control allows Shepard to live on as an immortal guardian against the threat of syntho-organic war, allowing both synthetics and organics to live in peace, or at least give it a few tries. Or, we can refuse the Catalyst's logic, and everybody dies.