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[MadCat221]

For context... Remember those stupid contrived ethical "dilemmas" that get posed to you in tests and stuff?  Like the minecart dilemma: Mine is careening down track, you can either let it hit a group of people or so or switch it and let it hit one person or somesuch...  I don't remember details, I guess it was so nonsensical that my mind blocks it.  Why were there no safeties or alarms?  Why can't you yell at people down the hall to get out of the way?  Why not toss something on the track before the switch to derail it?  Are the miners so deaf that they can't hear a minecart careening down the track?  Yaknow... theoretical dilemmas that fall apart once you apply the fridge logic to it.

That's what the endings felt like to me.  After all the build up, you get some ethical dilemma with arbitrary restrictions and consequences slapped on you, which everything you've done in the trilogy only indlrectly (and barely at that) having bearing on the ending.

Some people yell "But Virmire!"

Yeah?  The circumstances were not arbitrary and out of the blue.  As the mission progresses, the circumstances that land you in the position of having to make a sadistic choice of which becomes the Virmire Survivor are laid out.  No "Choose Red/Blue/Green Space Magic because I said so".  You see the situation change around you to land you in that dilemma.

... To say nothing about the complete lack of closure to such a long story, and the myriad inferred holocausts that the destruction of the relay network caused.  Will purple space magic come out and miraculously restore the relay network or make mass effect drives magically have the speed and endurance to handle the distances the relays handled?  Otherwise, the franchise universe is dead and buried; so many worlds (including pretty much every homeworld) will be permanently devastated without the infrastructure to move resources and people to them for restoration... and also many externally dependent colonies who got spared Reapage will meet their demise or be severely hampered.