Hello, first and foremost I would like to apologise if any of this sounds as if I'm attacking you, that's not what I am trying to do and again, I'm sorry if it does, it's hard putting the right emotions in writen words.
vertigo72 wrote...
People pick the details but don't see the whole picture. So, there is how I understand the whole story and why I think the ending is very good:
You, Shepard, are here to solve a big problem that you don't even understand before the end. Which is this problem?
The main problem of the ME Universe is that organic life creates syntetic life then tries to destroy it. Always. It's like an axiom in this ME Universe, you have to trust Reapers (and Bioware writers) on that. Syntetic life is like organic life, but it is not limited by the body. Most important thing it is immortal. So any AI can evolve as much as they can, because they don't have time constraints. Because of that they are immensely superior. Also, they don't have emotions, at least not much. So we have this hopeless and very very ancient war, that's our problem.
And this was only presented in the last minutes of the game, yes it was also present in the previous ones and during this one but from a narrative and gameplay stand point this topic of synthetic vs organics had already been resolved and even before that it was a secondary topic never pointed out as a principal one, the union of species and individuals was always far more prevalent, and the idea of the singularity only really appears when speaking with the StarChild.
And the StarChild itself only introduced only in the last moments making everything even more jarring.
The Reapers are not BioWare, they are not all knowing, they are not always right, they are our enemy and we are forced take their logic and solution as correct no matter what.
(Don't say that you didn't see that coming because you fight syntetics in all 3 ME games. Reapers, Geth, husks, indoctrinated people, ...)
You know what else you also always saw in all three games? Comments on the lack of resources and mercenaries wrecking things, the fact that you fought synthetics in all games doesn't compensate the fact that the topic of the singularity is only brought up by the Leader/Will/something of your enemies on the last moments of the game.
You can look at this topic for a more careful analysis of the ending from a screenwriter's point of view:
Musings of a Screenwriter: The EndingAIs are like Legion, they don't really need to fight but they will protect their life. So some ancient AI found a solution: a way to unify synthetic and organic life. The problem with this solution is that AIs don't want to unify themselves with some retards (would you like to unify yourself with your pocket calculator?) Also, they don't want to make a choice themselves, maybe they don't have consensus or something. Also, they don't want to force organics.
So, they gave organics a test: evolve enogh and you will have a choice what to do. To pass the test you have to build a big stick, put it on the Citadel and press a button. That's all. Then you will have 3 choices. You have 50000 years to do it, now go and evolve. Every 50k years we (Reapers) will come and give you an exam. When you fail we will copy your software and some DNA into a new reaper then use you for some purpose.
The Citadel, the little boy, is like the examiner who will judge you. That's why it doesn't inferfere.
And Shepard was the first organic to do it, unify everybody to build the stick and arrive to the exam to press a button.
This is very much your headcanon more than anything else, none of this is truly said by the StarChild and I'd really prefer not to address most of this due to that.
Not that we can do much more than headcanon since BioWare decided that we didn't need any answers for the things they throw on us in the last minutes of the game... <_<
About 3 choices: it's a part of the exam, only one choice is correct.
If you choose to destroy or control the Reapers, then the problem will rise again sooner or later. Synthetics will always evolve into AI and the war will start again, eventually new Reapers will be created and so on.
If you choose to unify both races then there will be no war anymore and only one form of life that will inherit best parts of both forms. Something like immortal people with all their emotions.
So, to ensure that you really really gave the answer you have right to only one answer, after you die. (If you don't choose you die too, as every 50000 years)
That's my view of this story and that's why I believe the ending is perfect, despite some minor problems, like no helmets...
And why would somehow, magically, turn all organics and synthetics into a mix of both be a solution? What's stopping them from creating pure organics again?
Are they being controlled so not to do that?
How does this even affect other organics?
Will this also affect future organic species that weren't caught by the ray? And if yes, how?
How can synthetics be turned into part organic?
And even then you have to accept the logic of the Reapers which is heavily flawed and runs on absolutes.
One can also say that it is certain that organics themselves will create something that will destroy all organic life, it is not impossible, and yet this type of singularity is not even hinted on by the Reapers.
Anon-spacefarying race can very well create synthetics that will cause the singularity and the Reapers would never have seen it coming because they only erradicate spacefarying species and then there's the time they wait before doing so, 50k years, the singularity could occur before that time.
TL,DR: From a narrative point of view the singularity topic seems to come from left field and even then we have to accept the convoluted logic of the Reapers, even the destroy ending is given to us by the StarChild rather than Shepard's defiance.
If any of my points have already been addressed before I apologise and if you could copy your answer/address them again or point me to it I would appreciate it, I'm rocking a rather nasty cold right now and all this letters are making me sick.
*Edited for formatting. I think this forums hates me...
Modifié par SomethingSome, 17 mars 2012 - 06:33 .
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