User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-4950455-20120608035202

"I think that comes down to personal opinion. Would you rather be confused by utter nonsense and poppycock? Or fooled, without any real solid foreshadowing or evidence to guide you? "

I would honestly prefer an ending where everyone explicitly dies to what we got, because what I really care about is closure. The current ending doesn't provide any of that. We're left in confusion about literally everything. The indoctrination theory, on the other hand, is predicated on the assumption that there will be a 'follow-up' DLC with the real ending - one that, in other words, will tell us what happens.

I still think it would be an awful ending, mind you, and I agree with all of your arguments against it - but it still would be an improvement, because cheap trick or not, unfair or not, poorly foreshadowed or not, it would still (presumably) tell us what happened.