Lizardviking wrote...
Robhuzz wrote...
I meant it is always the same since Shepard always dies (except for when you pick destroy and have 4k+ EMS, then he somehow survives the citadel explosion, the reentry into the atmosphere and the crash landing on the ground), Liara is always stranded on that planet and the relays always blow up. Plot holes and downright bad writing aside, these are the 3 things that bother me most about the actual outcome. You have no way to change any of these 3 variables, no matter what you do:crying:
That is what is bothering me the most about the ending (ignoring the plotholes). Those two things just makes Shepard's sacrifice seem like it was done in vain.
Let us save civilization and let Liara be able to have a good life after the war bioware! 
Yeah I guess your last part falls under 'closure'. Really I think I could get over some of the plot holes, even the 'revelation' that Reapers are just pawns (does not sit well for me, Sovereign talked too superior for that) is one I could live with, since when the Reapers are no more, who cares exactly what they were there for. The things that I just cannot get over are the severe lack of choices and the inability to change the ending to your personal wishes.
If we could get this BS ending only without Liara being stuck on a weird planet, with Shepard taking the beam down to Earth and surviving and with the relays intact, then I'd be far less dissapointed. It'd be an ending I could at least live with.
So in my headcanon ending, the aforementioned never happened. Liara and Garrus were injured by the beam but alive, Shepard hit the console, having the Crucible destroy the Reapers but not the relays, went down, nursed Liara (and Garrus later) back to health with some medi gel (awesome moment in my mind) and stayed at her side until a shuttle came to pick them up to take them to hospital. Small victory celebration with all party members followed in a hospital with a private 'conversation' with Liara in another room later on.
The rest... I guess all of you can imagine just as well as I can.