NewMessageN00b wrote...
Why not, it took time to figure what planet was it in ME1 and what is it about in general. Perhaps now he starts getting other memories.
Shepard didn't quite break the cycle. It was the Protheans, who gave him means to delay it. They fear whatever Prothean knowledge, and since Shepard has those memories, he may remember something that Reapers can't quite change easily... perhaps not without turning everyone into goo first, getting them cornered in a sense.
It's different words for same thing.
Indubitably, it was the last surviving Protheans who discovered a way to sabotage the ability for the Reapers to activate the Keepers into starting the process for the Reapers to return to the Galaxy from Dark Space.
Kasumi’s mission helps us discover that Data can be integrated into memory, which might shed a light on why everyone is so interested in what might have been put into Shepard’s memory from the encounters with the Beacons.
From Mordin we also learn that humans are the most Ideal subjects for Genetic mutation and experimentation, more so than any of the other races. It may be that the Reapers don’t want to wipe out humanity, since the process of eliminating a whole species like the Protheans (who apparently were alone in the Galaxy) took a long time. Perhaps the Galaxy has never had such a large, diverse population of organics for the Reapers to deal with.
It seemed to me, even more so now that I’ve gone through ME1, that ME2 revolved around the discovery of the origin of the Collectors, with the new weapon upgrade there to underline the significance of that event, although it seems the anticipation of getting a new weapon choice might have diminished the impact.

The Reapers appear to be harvesting the organics, not just trying to wipe out all life. It may be that they are seeking to use Humanity as a weapon against the other races.