User blog comment:Temporaryeditor78/justifiable ending issues? (gasp) heresy!/@comment-4933332-20120408063038

5) I wrote a late reply to you on the inquisitive with the starchild on my previous thread but I'll post it here.

Yes, shepard was injured and i don't expect lengthy inquisitive dialogue about irrelevent information about the reapers that doesn't involve stopping them

However, I do expect that Shepard has enough fight to show resistance to the main villain of the entire series. Shepard has always perceived to me as a character that fights to the end and to their last breath. Well whether you find it believable or not, the ending showed that Shepard just gave up.

This catalyst is the biggest genocidal monster in the history of the universe (they control the reapers), They are responsible for all the deaths that was haunting Shepard during the dream sequence. So even if Shepard was at death throes, it doesn't explain why shepard should trust or believe anything what the catalyst is saying. Shepard should at the very least demand evidence to any of the assertion made by the reapers, scrutinised the reapers on the ending choice they gave us (such as in the control ending, ask why do you need me to control the reapers, can't you do it yourself ) and even have the option to reject the catalyst. If Shepard had enough strength of will to walk or even run (as shown in the ending sequence) then shepard had enough strength to talk to the reapers.Why did Shepard trust the catalyst when they said the mass relay will be destroyed. The catalyst had no issues in committing genocide before why would shepard assume that the catalyst would just safely destroy the mass relay with no one suffering.

Even if it believable (such as shepard was sufffering from concusion or was bleeding to death which made shepard unable to think properly and form good argument and made shepard  more desperate to do the deal with the devil) how is that satisfying from a narrative perspective.

That a person who was portrayed as someone who was a stubborn fighter at the very last moment was beaten to submission, gave up and was desperate to do whatever the main villain of the tale wants just to end their suffering.

That's as nihilistic as you can get. I would have preferred an ending where everyone gets wiped out and the message was at least Commander Shepard and the fleet fought to the end and died with honour then what we got where Shepard died meekly.