User blog comment:Cattlesquat/Let's discuss this glorious article!/@comment-1440333-20130506213720/@comment-1440333-20130507095117

As I said above I'm generally let down by endings anyway, although even the original ending accomplished what I wanted - The Reapers were defeated, Shepard sacrificed herself as expected and the galaxy came together - the main plots of the genophage and geth/quarian conflict were already resolved. As a result while the original ending had many flaws it also did what it had to do.

That's my last word on the ending until my retrospective.