User blog comment:Garhdo/Extended Cut - opinions?/@comment-4947725-20120627113911/@comment-60.242.219.179-20120627143044

What's wrong with being able to make an informed decision? Refusal might be the only choice you truly own, but whether you go with Destroy, Control or Synthesis instead is entirely up to you; the Catalyst just tells you what your options are as far as the Crucible goes. Up to that point, no one has any real idea what the Crucible is going to do once it fires. Sure, it's satisfying to tell the Catalyst where to go, but then you have to own the consequences of not using the MacGuffin the whole galaxy's banking on to beat the Reapers; it's pretty well established by that point that the Reapers can't be beaten in a straight-up fight. About the whole DEM thing, since the true nature of both the Catalyst and Crucible seem to come out of nowhere, I get why the DEM label gets thrown around...not totally sure I agree with it, but I get it.