ChuckieJ wrote...
ubermensch007 wrote...
Has anyone else noticed that Commander Shepard can walk through the Keepers on the Citadel like they are holograms at the end part.I do not believe that this is a design oversight.Shep can't walk through the keepers at any other part of the game.
So you have the Hand Canon having Infinite Ammo, Holographic Keepers, Admiral Anderson acting like an enthusiastic kid wanting to explore his enviroment.Going on ahead, instead of waiting for Shep to back him up. And the Illusive Man appearing out of nowhere.I don't know.Maybe he had an Infiltration Cloak on or something.But there are many things during the last ten or so minutes of the game, that indicate that things may not be as they appear.
I don't know if Shepard was being Indoctrinated or if he was having an hallucination.But even if you decide to take everything that happens at face value.There are many reasons to be very circumspect, when it comes to the starchild.
Consider what we have seen... Very early in the adventure, Shepard discovers that EDI can lie and has deceived organics on several occasions.Later on, we learn that even Legion wasn't all that honest with Shep, once or twice.Baring this all in mind-- why should any of us just take what the Citadel AI (or whatever Godboy is) says as truth and fact?
You don't have to agree with IT, but the Starchild is far from a trustworthy source of intel.Look at the sinster way he smiles if you chose the "Control" option.I wouldn't be surprised if BioWare reveals that Project Crucible was a Reaper Trojan Horse.All the signs are there.
Think about it.How is it remotely possible for the Reapers to have not known about a device designed to end them, that has been in development for multiple extinction cycles. Somehow, the next race in line for Reaperization, just happens to find these plans, and keep the Reapers in the dark about it.
For crying out loud.Weren't the Reapers landing on or near the Prothean Archives on Mars, right when Shep was leaving?
I could not agree more with this. I never understood that saying so...
I TOTALLY AGREE!!
I've never claimed that I figured it out or anything. But I know for sure that after getting to that point and listening to the StarChild I realized he had not done anything to earn my trust. 
And there's something else, that's been on my mind lately...
Remember what Legion says if you ask it about the Reapers Mind.It says that thier consciousness is orders of magnitude higher than its own.And Legion now understands how organics could veiw Nazarra as Godlike.
I don't know if Shep was being indoctrinated or not.In a way, I don't think that's all that important.What concerns me now.Is that I got played by the Starchild.I let that little bastard decieve me into thinking that my canon Shepard was capable of controlling the Reapers.Because I wanted to believe that what interested the Reapers so much in Shepard in ME2.Was that he was immune to indoctrination.I wanted to believe that this is so.And now I think that another great mystery about the plot of ME3 can be explained:
Why do the Reapers seem to all of a sudden show no interest in Shepard in 2186.After they were sort of obssessed with him in 2185? Did there focus change or are they actually taking a greater interest in Shep.If Indoctrination Theory turns out to be true, than the answer is yes.
Now back to the starchild.If you are like me and you orginally took the ME3 Ending Sequence at "face value".Here's what I have to say.
Do you truly believe that Commander Shepard's mind and will is powerful enough to control the Reapers? Does that even seem remotely possible? Hell no...

We all gave in to are hubris.Thinking since Shepard is the hero.He can do what the villian (TIM) could not.
I decided to "
Control" the Reapers because I figured that inspite of the fact that I am morally opposed to slavery. It was the best option on the table.For if I am in control of the Reapers.I will have them remake the Mass Relay Network and Citadel.And protect and police sapient organic life instead of destroying it.
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Synthesis' struck me as the equivalent of genetic rape.So there's no way I could endorse it.
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Destroy' struck me as taking something bad out of the world, but not adding anything good to it.As Thane Krios once said.
Okay, I'm done for right now.Just thought this was some interesting food for thought.
Modifié par ubermensch007, 04 avril 2012 - 07:37 .