ShepardTheHopeful wrote...
Everyone keeps talking about the secret ending that you can only get with destroy the reapers option....did anyone think it was just simple enough because it's the only option that doesn't require him to sacrifice his body? It couldn't just be that simple? Man gets killed, destroyed beyond repair, rebuilt after a time dead that shouldn't be possible to revive. No one questions that? But Shepard lands in London and suddenly "INDOCTRINATION!" sorry it doesn't fit I have a much more viable reason as to why Indoctrination wouldn't work. Saren talks about synthesis but Shepard already achieved synthesis even the little brat AI says it. He's part man part machine he works with nanobots and implants directly in his brain. Indoctrination works through rewriting the neurological patterns of the brain through differing waves of radio, etc. So no one can assume instead of the reapers indoctrinating him maybe his achievement to synthesis evolution through Cerberus couldn't have blocked the indoctrination? Maybe it was attempted or tried as shown with the Illusive Man but that his implants stopped it.
Thanks for taking the time to write down your points ! I have a few counter arguments to them.
First, synthesis isn't about implanting people with cybernetics, it is about creating a new DNA form that makes both life synthetic and organic at the same time. It isn't the case with Shepard, so I don't think we can say he has acheived Synthesis.
Second, one can argue whether the rubble in the "Shepard lives" cutscene is indeed in London, but one cannot argue that it clearly isn't the Citadel. Besides, if "Destroy" was chosen and the endings were true, Shepard would have been on the Citadel by the time it exploded. So, this is not the Citadel. And if he fell to Earth from it and survived... well, no, he can't have, really.