User blog comment:Ygrain/EDI and the geth: their purpose in the story?/@comment-5337704-20120727095430/@comment-24.12.103.119-20120727200135

I see your point on control, even TIM did not want to put a control chip in Shepard. Control only places it on the reapers though, all you have is the greatest tech at the time (dont know if that too was control on the geth/edi or not, wasnt mentioned, -just destroy would kill all synthetics-, Id like to think I could release control on them if that was the case)

The reapers are as evil as the guns on your back, if you view them as inherently evil regardless how the tools were used for. The AI didnt think what he was doing was evil, just "trancesending the current superior races to the (his)idea of the next evolutionary step.

The game makes you play god a few times on a smallar scale; Rachni in ME1, geonophage on the krogans, it was a little disheartning not being able to even talk to Hackett about it, but due to people dieing, one really couldnt have a galaxy wide vote on it, and it is probably best no one knows that you are in control (although, may have been nice to let your love interest know).

The game should have told the player that Shepard is the new catalyst, as no one in previous civilizations did what Shephard achieved to do,( which is the only way I can accept the AI actually giving a choice), and that is the main reason I see synthesis being a major flaw, you can never really account for what diversified minds can accomplish.

They could of added a few more choices, or had the renegade, neutral, paragon have a complete opposite effects of each other on the four choices you could end the game with. Such as (Renegade) control, you are the one running the galaxy, as opposed to protecting the creatures (paragon) or keeping the status norm between the societies (neutral). And the like with the other two. The fourth one pretty much would end the same way regardless.

This is of course my opinion on the missing information from the game (one must use his/her imagination)