User blog comment:Raven Giordano/What would your ideal ending to Mass Effect 3 be?/@comment-24174486-20130312164718

"Doing nothing and letting the Reapers wipe everyone out shouldn't have been an option to begin with"

Everyone with half a brain knows that. Which is why a bunch of ending-bashers believed that BioWare should let them do that and why they believed that it would miraculously lead to a perfect ending.

Instead, they got exactly what they were told that they would get.

"First off, you already called the Illusive Man insane for wanting to control the Reapers, but now it's cool when you do it?"

Because there was no reason to believe that it was possible to control the Reapers, the Illusive Man was trying to sabotage the galaxy's efforts to fight the Reapers, and the whole "indoctrination" thing. It's only near the end of the game where Shepard finds proof of successful attempts to control Reaper forces and learns that controlling the Reapers would indeed be possible through the Crucible (potentially).

"And what about all the people the Reapers murdered? What about all the species they wiped out? The families they tore apart. So suddenly everyone's cool with the Reapers living so long as they aren't the enemy anymore?"

With that kind of "logic" (because not using those quotation marks would be an insult to actual logic), every single person who commits any sort of crime should be put to death.

In a way, the Reapers—the beings that wiped out galactic civilization countless times—are dead in Control, as they are no longer the same beings they were before Shepard takes control of them.

"Unless they're brainwashed! That must be it!"

So in other words, you assume something simply so you can complain about your assumption being true.

"why would any sane person chose letting the Reapers live after all they've done?"

I'm (fairly) sane, and my reasoning is that the Reapers under Shepard's control could assist in rebuilding the galaxy. It's also the option with the least collateral impact, as the only life it directly affects are the Reapers.

"All synthetics must DIE! Why? Because the freakin' ghost...hologram...Catalyst kid or whatever is a ______."

Or because Destroy specifically targets synthetic systems. That includes the Reapers, as they are organic/synthetic hybrids.

"Only EDI's body is obliterated, EDI is still 'alive', she just needs a new body."

So in other words, you just can't stand it that you're required to make a difficult choice in a Mass Effect game.

Incidentially, in the Extended Cut, EDI's name does appear on the Memorial Wall if you choose Destroy. Even if EDI's body is destroyed by Harbinger, her name does not appear if you choose Control or Synthesis.

"Well, while the Geth helped build the Crucible they discovered this problem so immediately began creating a sort of software that made them immune to the effects."

Again, more delusions in order to avoid having to make a difficult decision with an impact on the galaxy.