I finished.
Um. Yeah.
I was sort of hoping that the "ENDING IS BAD" references I'd seen (and then promptly skipped away from to avoid spoilers) was whining from people who wanted total-win-with-fluffy-bunnies or nothing. I loved how my choices were woven through the majority of Mass Effect 3. I really,
really loved Aki's longed-for rekindling of the relationship with her Kaidan (although felt bad for Thane/Jacob-mancers - ouch) and seeing all of my old squaddies in some capacity, even if minor. Mordin's death in particular choked me up, but worked for me - he went out with so much purpose that I couldn't interrupt him, it was his choice and it was right for him to do it. I would have loved something that even implied vaguely that Aki and Kaidan had a chance to finally have a life together (if I
can have fluffy bunnies, hey, why not?), but accepted in advance that could be something of a cheat given the stakes - Shepard was unlikely to make it out alive, some supreme sacrifice would be required.
The endings....just seem like Deus Ex got pasted over Mass Effect for the final ten minutes. I don't get it, at all. Where does this weird blue child with it's three arbitrary choices come from? After how beautifully the majority of the threads from the previous games wove together (I speak for myself, your mileage may vary) I found it to be completely bizarre. I ended up tabbing out, googling for what the possible choices were and completely meta-gaming, picking synthesis since it was the "best" I could get given my EMS (no MP yet). I expect at some point I'll go back and pick destroy when I have high enough numbers to "get the gasp" just because then I can discount the ending scenes as a shock induced dream (including jungle crash landing with teleported squadmates) and imagine that actually everyone is still on Earth. It was just...weird.
Worse yet, I have no new Aki screenshots to share - FRAPS evidently bugged out on me and I was so busy playing the last four days (off work) I didn't notice. Woe is me. Instead, please have this old manip, where Aki has been taking tips from Ashley's stylist:

Maybe it'll make more sense tomorrow morning...