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[LenabotSE]

I think almost everyone agrees that the endings were bad.  But unless they somehow fix things, we're pretty much stuck with the three options. Reacting to the endings is like dealing with tragedy.  Denial, anger, acceptance -- that whole cycle.   I re-analyzed the "Destroy" ending like this, and it makes me sleep a little better at night.

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- The Catalyst is convinced that synthetics will eventually revolt against and destroy organic life.  However, the peace treaty you brokered with the quarians and geth disprove this.  EDI disproves this.  The Catalyst is an unreliable narrator.  It appears to be a VI or AI.  It's entirely possible that it made a "miscalculation" based upon circumstances in an earlier era and has convinced itself of its absolute truth (as all good rogue AIs tend to do).  

- The Crucible will destroy the Reapers and all synthetic life - including the enlightened geth and EDI.

- However, data files are not purged.  All you need to restore synthetic life is the data ("I have your brain scanned, and permanently backed up in case something bad happens to you.... which it's just about to").  Because we've entered an era where organics have learned to get along with artificial intelligences, all you've got to do is a big ol' system restore.   Or, even if you don't bring the geth or EDI back as they were, you can still build new synthetics in an era where there's significantly less prejudice.  And no Reaper influence to potentially mess with them.  Life on their own terms, as Legion had originally intended before convenient plot twists happened.

- Ignoring the improbabilty of Joker's planet even existing and the crew magically getting on board, he's probably used FTL to head further out in the local cluster somewhere (which, canonically, is relatively unexplored due to the opening of the Arcturus relay).  He crash lands, the crew lives.

- Shepard technically lives in this ending.


- In an inferred epilogue, one can assume that Shepard heals and hops on the first Alliance frigate he/she can in order to go rescue the Normandy's crew.  Dramatic lens flare shot of Shepard stepping out of a Kodiak on the new planet with crew rejoicing.  Especially Garrus and Tali because, you know, they're allergic

- On Earth, they reunite with the ME2 crew, who remained in London during the fight.  Partying and blue baby makin' follow.

- Reconstruction begins.

- There's still FTL, so exploration and colonization is still
possible, and without traveling along the paths that the scary
people-eater machines wanted you to.  Yes, this means our alien crew
never gets to see their homes again, but, hey, if life on the Normandy
has taught you anything, home is "people" not a place.  I cared more
about the Normandy than I cared about Earth.  I had expected that the
relays would go up in flames by the end of all this.  One can assume that a new relay network will be created.

- No advanced Reaper tech left behind to use as a weapon of mass
destruction against other races, which is a potential risk with the
Control and Synergy endings.  Just because they've been ordered to ceasefire by Shepard-ghost-in-shell, or just because we're now all post-organics, doesn't mean there won't be war involving all those Reapers that are still floating around.

- Synthetics can be restored in an era with less prejudice.  Harmony and unity and flowers in our hair/tentacles/fringe/helmets in an age of aquarius. 

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I wrestled a happy ending out of crazytime.