For the first time in my life, ever, I finished a game before my good friend. I stayed "mum" about the endings until, finally, last night he finished it at 2:30ish in the morning. We got talking about it, and he experienced numbness, too. But after getting ready for work this morning, I find this on my Facebook messages (and it's well worth a read of one person theory-crafting):
"Ok so as I dwell on this, I have come to some conclusions. The Catalyst says it is in the nature of the created to always destroy their creators. Basically that Synthetics will always end up trying to kill Organics. So they harvest the advanced civilizations after they have had their "reign" at the top, and allow the newer species to become advanced. However, each cycle of organics always creates an AI that will try to kill them off in the end, so if the reapers dont intervene, synthetics would eventually wipe out Organics. So basically organics were here first, we create synthetics, and eventually synthetics are all thats left, and organics cease to exist for eternity. So in fact, the reapers are not the bad guys. Sure, their methods are horrific and they slaughter trillions of organics per 50k years, but they are in fact preserving organic life as a whole by keeping them from creating something that will eventually wipe them all our for good.
So yeah, the destruction way would be the worst. Sure, you save organics for the time being, but you slaughter all the Geth, and wipe all high advanced technology from the galaxy. Eventually the cycle will lead to synthetics taking over and wiping organics from the galaxy. You live, but you won't ever see your friends again, and eventually everyone will be killed in the long run. No bueno.
Control, I find is somewhat good because you take the reapers away and end the war, but you still have the possible threat of Geth or another type of AI starting the cycle and causing the synthetic takeover that will wipe organics. However, it does not specify if Shepard can control ALL of synthetics, or just the reapers, and it does not specify how LONG he would be able to control them. It says he will die, and be able to control them, but it doesnt specify for how long or what his extent of AI he can control. So I don't think I like the thought of Sheperd being consumed and stuck being in control of the reapers for eternity. He would never truly "die," and so therefore I wouldnt like it, because I happen to believe in heaven and like the thought of him meeting up with all of his friends in heaven someday instead of being in charge of reapers forever. It gives me that idea of pirates of the carribean when Will has to take over for Davy Jones, so he never gets to die, so therefore he would never get to be with his woman because he would never die. No bueno again. I dont like the thought of that. However if he is in charge of the reapers forever, he may be able to use them to reconstruct the mass effect relays, and get everything back together again. The question would be does Catalyst still exist, and does he have the knowledge to build them, or is he just a synthetic being that was created by a cycle that grew aware of the innevitable wars between synthetics and organics every cycle, and wanted to start his plan to stop it.
Then of course there is the Synthesis ending, which I honestly think I will prefer as my choice of ending in the long run. It says that if people merge as organic and synthesis, there would be peace. Both AI and Organics are always trying to evolve to become perfect. However, if the two merge, the need for evolution is gone, and everything can live in peace because there is no organic or synthetic anymore. Everything in the galaxy would be both. And the benefits would probably be extremely rewarding to be both, so the fact that organics and synthetics dont have a say in the matter doesnt seem to be extremely bad. Joker could probably walk normally, diseases would see like they would be nonexistant, etc. Not to mention they may be able to someday rebuild the relays way down the road and reunite all the galaxy again. And Sheperd would be completely dead, so therefor he would be in heaven waiting and watching over his friends until they could all meet up again in heaven.
Of course in all endings, your friends will mourn you, and your romance will be heartbroken, but that seems to be innevitable. Taking comfort in the fact that they could all be reunited after death is my only slight comfort in the matter.
And the more I think about it, I can see why they would strand your closest friends on another world. It shows they can still flourish and survive in the new place, and start another civilization from scratch. Not to mention pretty much glorify Shepard into a sort of godlike, legendary hero. And if you think about it, it kinda puts an interesting spin on mythology and lore. We usually think of mythology as being ancient. Certain beings doing things in the far, ancient past, that result in our world today, however we usually think of past like ancient egypt or ancient greece, and we usually associate those beings as being on ancient earth.
However, this puts the speculation that what if these myths are true people, but from extremely long ago, from a more advanced time than what we are today. Such as in mass effect. It is obviously in the future, however, the planet the crew is on will start from scratch, so naturally the myth of Sheperd would be thought of as being a ancient person from that planet in a less advanced time then what they are. Such as how we think of mythology on earth as taking place back in less advanced times, such as ancient greece.
But what if the myths WE hear on earth were really of actual persons from a LONG LONG time ago, but they came from a more advanced civilization that lived on a different planet, that did something extrordinary, and afterwards civilization deteriorated, and planets were cut off, so people on earth made the myths about them, and through time, they were turned into ancient legends rather than actual people.
Example would be what if humans were extremely more advanced 4000+ years ago, living on multiple planets throughout the galaxy, being advanced, just as mass effect was. However something happened, and some humans found and landed on Earth, and uninhabited planet, and had to start from scratch, which their decendants would have been what we know of as the ancient egyptians other beginning sources of humanity on earth. Doesnt mean the rest of the galaxy isnt still advanced. Just means we had to start over here on Earth, and the myths and legends we talk about on earth may have been popular people that did amazing things on other planets. Who knows, maybe God was just a person that did something amazing like Sheperd, and after a while he was glorified so much in our legends, that he started being regarded as a divine entity to people on earth.
Just kind of an intersting perspective on the whole thing, and if you look at it at that perspective when you see how mass effect ends with the crew being stranded on a new planet, having to start from scratch, it makes it seem a slight bit possible that maybe earth was the same way and we just dont know it. I wish I could kinda explain more clearly my way of thinking, but I dont think I would be able to do that."
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