User blog comment:Garhdo/Extended Cut - opinions?/@comment-4947725-20120627113911/@comment-92.39.163.132-20120627225534

How is destroy a deus ex machina ending? The whole point of the crucible was being able to destroy the reapers with it's (at the time unknown) power. So firing the crucible in the destroy ending does exactly what it said on the tin. Well that plus destroying all other synthetics too but that's the side effect I suppose.

Control looks a lot like deus ex machina, but seeing as it was all the time hinted at with TIM I can accept it as possible though I can see the argument for rejecting it as DEM.

Now Synthesis though is deus ex machine at it's best. That's also why it's the worst ending IMHO. For me destroy will always be the best, especially now that the relays aren't completely destroyed and Hackett tells us that everything can and will be rebuilt (and the Citadel is even shown to be functional again). Aether