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I will list them in bullet form...
- Why is Joker seen abandoning the fleet during the final confrontation?
- How did the crew get aboard the Normandy while then subsequently fleeing?
- We have established lore dictating the destruction of a Mass Relay would annihilate entire systems. Were they retconned... again?
- With the Relays destroyed, the entire Galactic armada is now stranded on the Sol system.
- Even if millennial aged species like the Asari and Krogan could endure travel for centuries. All other races have no such future. In addition, none have the supplies to survive a journey of that length. Therefore, everyone supporting Earth dies.
- Shepard throughout the series has defined the odds. Sovereign spoke of how insignificant organics were, yet Shepard "found a way." Harbinger claimed organic 'processing' was humanity's destiny, yet once again Shepard "found a way." Now the Godchild provides three choices that ultimately have near identical outcomes and Shepard just... gives in? Two prior antagonists, he/she did everything to stop them however when the biggest threat of all was before him/her, Shepard resigns to acceptance?
- Your crew is marooned on a planet with no hope for rescue. These people fought with you, in the trenches, and the conclusion is a slow demise either through starvation or inevitable lack of procreation?
- The Synthesis ending blatantly dictates we must become one with synthetics otherwise our hope is lost. In essence, we merge with the Reapers. This contradictions the entire series theme of unity and perseverance. Organics were destined to lose and must merge with machine for a future.
- Your choices spanning over three games amount to absolutely nothing. In fact, the War Assets you acquire accomplish little because you inevitably receive the same three choices with minimal variation.
- In the "Good" Destroy ending. We supposedly see Shepard take a gasping breath, despite earlier having witnessed him/her incinerated.
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1. Nobody could say for sure what the Crucible would do once it fired. It was possible that it would fry the entire system once it went off. The big battle for Earth was a fient, so sticking around once it powered up was unneccessary. Why would Joker (or anybody else) think that standing between the Death Star and its targets was a good idea?
My guess is that Normandy, being the fastest ship out there, made it through the Charon relay first.
2. Time elapsed between Harbinger decimating Hammer and the Crucible firing. Maybe somebody managed a quick search and rescue. Again, once the Citadel had been borded and the Crucible was in place, staying on Earth was no longer strategically required, and may have been a very bad idea. You evac who you can.
3. We don't have "established lore", we have a single data point. Overloading a relay with the Crucible may not have the same effect as crashing an asteroid into one. There's also relative distance between the relay and earth to consider.
Or maybe Earth was fried regardless. That would be a downer, but not a plot hole.
4. Assuming there was much of said armada left after the fight and the Crucible, yeah. So what? Not elaborated, but that doesn't make it a plot hole.
5. Yes, it's very sad, but so what? People were gonna die in this thing. You can't save everyone, remember? Not a plot hole.
6. Is this along the lines of "Paragon Shepard wouldn't have blown the relay in Arrival"? Its not giving in, its making due with the options available. We've been there before.
7. That's quite a supposition, given that we don't have any info on where that planet was, and the condition of Normandy's communication setup (QECs don't need comm buoys to make calls). Conventional FTL is still possible. And obviously somebody got there eventually.
8. So, you don't like the logic of a billion year old omnicidal AI? Then don't take synthesis. Trash the Reapers, or tell them to go back to hell.
IMO, its the weakest ending of the three, but so what? You don't have to take it if you don't agree with it.
9. Your choices meant everything in terms of getting the armada to that point, and how you put it together. I don't think that the lack of "here's the fate of X" epilogue slides invalidates that. YMMV.
So yeah, a lot of those people that you helped or saved along the way probably wound up killed offscreen. The Reapers are serious business. If the issue is that you want a happy ending where everyone lives, fair enough. Your preferance. But the lack of a happy ending for everyone doesn't consititute a plot hole.
10. Shepard's hard to kill. Ask anyone.
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