User blog comment:The Milkman/No Love For Leviathan?/@comment-5038903-20120916134142/@comment-4237253-20120920054741

1. Yes, you've said this already. What we're told is wildly different, which is good. What we're shown however, is largely the same footage. Showing is always more effective than telling, and BioWare didn't do a good job the first time around for the former.

Of course it was there. It just wasn't there enough. That's not was the series as a whole was about. The geth's involvement in the first game, for the most part, was due to the direct involvement of the Reapers. Rannoch did someone touch on it a bit, but we really didn't see that theme pervade throughout the trilogy the same way we did the main theme/goal. I think Leviathan did a good job of it, and it's something we should have seen more of in the game.

2. I liked the revelation at the end as well. However, they could have still made some interesting reveals without dropping an entirely new concept down on us. I'm not saying you shouldn't like it either. I liked my romance with Anders, and despite all the criticism I and others have made, I'm not about to let anyone tell me I can't enjoy it. All I'm saying here is that the ending is flawed, and if the reveal was handled a little differently, you would have still been able to enjoy it, and we wouldn't be dealing with all the backlash against BioWare right now. If they'd been a bit less vague in the ending, we wouldn't have to put up with all the ignorance that is the Indoctrination Theory.