Forum:Can someone please explain what just happened and what the hubbub is all about?

Before I start, know that there are spoilers ahead. I just finished ME3. I know there's a ton of controversey about the ending. After the kid in the Citadel explained everything, I still didn't really get it. I was suddenly faced with a choice that I had very little information about. Do I pick the blue ending and control the Reapers or something like that, or the red ending and kill all technology (I didn't even know at the time that there was a green ending). I walked up to the blue ending to try and see if I could get any more information about it. When I saw that I would be told nothing more, I turned around and tried to walk away to ponder which choice I should make, but the game prevented me from moving. I was forced to choose the blue ending. Shepard died (or disentegrated), and a big explosion blast shot out from the Crucible. The Reapers stopped attacking and left Earth. The relays stopped working. Joker and the Normandy crew crashed on some jungle planet. If the Reapers were put under my control or something, then why did the relays stop working and the Normandy stop working. After reading up a little, I believe that the red ending destroys all technology, and that the green ending merges synthetics and organics together. Can someone explain what happened? If you need this information, I saved the Collector base in ME2, (regretably) let Anderson get killed, had an active military rating of just under 2700 (I'm not sure what my total military rating was), and had a galactic readiness rating of 50%. I was not upset with the ending, but I just want to know what happened. Also, before I finished the game, I heard talk of the game abruptly ending mid-sentence, which didn't happen. Did it happen in another ending? I'm going to go watch the red and green endings on youtube. I don't care about any indoctrination theories or anything, I just want to know what happened. Thank you, Makatak7 16:40, March 31, 2012 (UTC)