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So named to avoid accidental spoilers, since this folder should be
titled "The Catalyst," mainly because this thing is one huge head
scratcher by itself. We won't go into the Ass Pull vibe this entire ending gives off since that's subjective, so lets just simplify this to its most basic elements.
- First, where did this thing come from? Mass Effect is known for
having a game changing plot twist about halfway through the game, but
this guy shows up right at the end, and we're just expected to accept
it. When they revealed the Reapers in ME 1, we could go along with that
because these guys were Robot Space Old Ones right out of Lovecraft, and
when you replayed the game it actually subtly built up to that
unveiling in a way you only notice the second time around. In ME 2 the
Collectors being genetically modified Protheans also made since because
it was a possibly Red Herring
for what galactic civilizations fate at the hands of the Reapers might
be, and it solved the problem of the Collectors being this new race that
was never spoken of before; because they were spoken of
before, we just didn't know they and the Protheans weren't one in the
same. The Catalyst? Literally comes out of no where with no build up or
explanation. Some might argue that's the point of a plot twist, but to
paraphrase a certain internet reviewer: "Yeah but that's like saying Mrs. Brisby was broccoli the whole time. Yeah you didn't see it coming, that doesn't mean it makes sense." - Two, who the hell made this thing? The civilization
of the first cycle? Apparently this thing wants to end war between
organics and synthetics, but isn't he synthetic himself? Is he the
natural evolution of the first cycles version of the Geth? This is
different from the first point because it is clear something had to create this computer program, but who did it and to what end? Is this just an example of the worst kind of A.I. Is a Crapshoot mixed with the most ridiculous Freudian Excuse
ever? And a side point of this: who the hell made the Reapers? This
thing doesn't have fingers, so what did it possess some ship abandoned
ship making factory without anyone noticing, tricked the first organic
civilization into melting themselves down and letting that power the
first Reaper? This thing said it created the Reapers, well I'd like to
know bloody HOW he managed to do that! - Three, his motivation makes no sense. We're lead to believe
every cycle has had its version of the Geth being created and inevitably
realizing they are superior to their creators, or something along the
lines of what happened to the Quarians happens and they attack, whatever
the case: war breaks out. Lets put aside the fact that this thing is,
by definition, a synthetic itself, so is it just a maverick defector
from decadence who wants to save organic life from his own kin? I might
buy that, sure, but it still doesn't make any sense. Lets say the first
time this happened in the first cycle he considers it a fluke, and just
puts his Reapers on reserve juuuuust in case. Once bitten, twice shy,
I'll give him that. Then it happens again and well now he's justified,
in his mindset, to enact his plan of preserving organic life once more.
Then we're lead to believe this exact case of organic civilization
threatening war with synthetics happened OVER SEVEN HUNDRED TIMES!? And THIS was the one time it didn't go the way it always had? THAT is a statistical IMPOSSIBILITY! Writers Cannot Do Math on an unforgivable scale! - Four, where did the 700+ synthetic races go? It melts organic
life down into Reaper goo to preserve them because synthetic life is
inevitably going to win, or something, ok. So where the hell did the
synthetic life go? They didn't melt the Prothean's version of Geth down
into Reaper goo, so where did they all go? Did they just genocide the
synthetic life as soon as they made the new Reaper and go back to sleep
waiting for the next 100% assured organic v.s. synthetic life war to
break out? Doesn't that make this thing a hypocrite? Not saying we wont
buy the genocidal villain being a hypocrite, but it still seems
rather... logicless? Anti-logic?.... Stupid, that's the word I'm looking
for. - Five, at what point do they consider organic life a lost cause
and start the harvesting process? Because if we are supposed to believe
this is all to preserve organic life because they'll lose against their
own synthetic creation, then when do they start the invasion? This is
asked because for this current cycle, that war is with the Geth. So, was
it as soon as the Geth were made they started their plans for genocidal
reproduction? (heh, Reaperoduction)
or did they wait till the war with the Geth vs the Quarians to break
out, or wait for the Quarians to get kicked off their home planet? Well,
we know for a fact they didn't wait until the Geth actually started a
war against all organic life to emerge the superior life forms, because
the Geth DIDN'T START A WAR AND JUST STAYED IN GETH SPACE AND LEFT
EVERYONE ALONE! The ONLY antagonist Geth in the series were controlled
by the Reapers! Oh hello there, giant contradiction: the Reapers invade
because synthetic life threatens organic life, and yet the only reason
the Geth threatened organics was because the Reapers were starting their
invasion. Whaaaaa? - Six, Wrong, wrong, wrong!
The Catalyst is WRONG. Synthetic life WASN'T threatening Organic life,
at least not during this cycle, at least not yet. We saw evidence of
that in, again, the friggen Geth minding their own damn business unless
someone screwed with/indoctrinated them, and in EDI being pretty cool
and nice and stuff to say the least. I'll forgive the fact they jumped
the gun a little considering they're Well Intentioned Extremists to the max long since gone off the Moral Event Horizon,
but the fact you can't use this argument against it at the end is just
dumb. You can't use LOGIC and RATIONAL and PHYSICAL EVIDENCE against an
emotionless machine? Really? You have no choice but to go along with the
DeusExMachinas
BS brigade and presented with the Endingtron 9000 to make a completely
binary choice to decide the ending of the game that completely rips off Deus Ex: Human Revolution
and yet somehow manages to be even more disappointing? How the endings
are pretty weak for various reasons is better detailed in the folder
above this one, but EVEN if you wanna argue that was the point, that the
writers wanted this jerk to come off as hopelessly and pointlessly
wrong and so stuck in its own ways it has completely ignored the fact
his own stated motivations don't apply anymore, the fact they expect you
to just go along with it instead of being allowed to call him on it
is just awful, and makes it come across from a narrative standpoint as
if we are meant to take everything he says at face value.
Not a very good copypasta but I just wanted to put this up since it seems to bring up every point that we've been griping about in a rather...well colorful form.
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before selecting another awful ending.
