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[SandTrout]

First off, I can barely believe that I'm doing this, and my arguments here in no way alter my possition that the ending and the Catalyst are fundamentally flawed in terms of story-telling and plot.

However, regarding the Catalyst's stated motivation, there is some merit to his stance, even though his premises are flawed.

The Catalyst's stated goal is to preserve organic life as a general principal. It is not dedicated to preserving any instance of organic life.

Basically, his premises are that 1) Once a singularity occures, synthetic life will necessarily destroy all organic life after it has finished destroying its creators in order to protect itself from future threats. 2) By archiving near-singularity civilizations, lesser developed organic life can continue.

For example, the Catalyst believes that the Geth will eventually come to the conclusion that organic life is necessarily a threat to the Geth collective, and begin a galaxy-wide extermination of all organic life, no matter how simple or benign.

In this way, the Catalyst believes that it is doing a favor to all organic life for at least allowing it to not be wiped out by a Geth analogue created by the previous generation of organic life.

In this way, the Catalyst's logic is only as flawed as the basic premises on which it is based. It is wiping out the Humans, asari, turians, ect. in order to prevent our creations from wiping out species like the Yhag prematurely.

All that said, I have no particular compunction to believe the Catalyst's premises are necessarily true because 1) we have examples of both cooperative and competative synthetic life, and 2) we have examples of organics triumphing over 'rogue' synthetic life, and a cultural awareness of the threat that it could potentially pose so that we are relatively quick to stamp it out if it proves to be a threat.

[Nu-Nu]

I wouldn't mind the cataylst so much, if it wasn't the only way to finish the series. The cataylst was the easy way out, so they didn't have to give us endings based on our decisions.

[DXLelouch15]

he doesnt exist anyways it was a friken dream/indoctrination effect kinda thing because NOTHING during it adds up(Illusive Man popping up out of nowhere,the Keeper looking at you even though they dont look at anyone,the Crucible being blown up but not shown to blow up around you during the choices segment )it had the vague hint of the dream sequences