User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-200.42.175.126-20101031023401/@comment-1900300-20101031032547

Exactly, Shepard's actions at best weakened it and at worst distracted Soverign while the fleet destroyed it. I never really got why so many people we're happy with Shepard when it was the fleet that did the work. I guest it was all because of the "offical" story that Shepard killed Saren.