Animositisomina wrote...
AvianCat wrote...
I do have to add that the Crucible was built over many cycles and species. I highly doubt that when they were building this they decided they would add 3 buttons to it. And if they planned on using the catalyst as it's power source, they wouldn't use the "god" that had originally created the thing they are trying to destroy.
For that matter, why would they ever add a single way (let alone 3) to stop them? It's like how the villain in a movie plants a bomb but always includes a way to defuse it. Doesn't really work that way in real life.
2 things to remember here.
1) Assuming bioware really *is* dumb enough to have this be a real ending, we have to accept the Catalyst's lame ass defense that Reapers really are our salvation through destruction (destroying advanced organic life now, so that primitive organic life can continue - until the next 50k years when it must be done again). In that case, the God Kid would be totally fine with the reapers being defeated if it meant the solution he sought was truly solved. Obviously this is weak, and its why I don't think any of it ever took place.
2) Assuming this is a hallucination, and this is Shepard's final test to see if he's indoctrinated or not, the Reapers would need 3 choices that *looked* like he won, but only 1 in which his resolve stayed true and he blew the **** out of the reapers. If he takes that 1 choice, it proves they have failed in their attempt. If he takes the other two, they've learned how to twist his mind into thinking he's doing the right thing when he isn't.
More and more I'm on board for the indoctrination theorey and not just a coma-fever-dream. The more I think about that stupid child and his "You can't save me" comment the less sense it makes. The kid was making noise trying to get *out* of the vent.....why would he all of a sudden stop this attempt when he saw an armed adult attempting to help him?.....and then shortly thereafter join a bunch of other armed humans on a random shuttle? Plus, did anyone else notice no one on the shuttle cared for him (i.e. family) - the kid obviously isn't that terrified of strangers.