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While I'd love to believe the Indoctrination Theory ...


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FamilyManFirst

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 I'm afraid I don't.  I'm going for incompetence over conspiracy.

Here's my hypothesis, based on very little.  We already know from dev comments that they had originally planned for a section of the game where Shepard was fully Indoctrinated, however it turned out that the gameplay elements didn't work out well.  I think that, by the time they got to that point, a great deal of work had already been done: cutscenes had been made, voice-acting had been done, elements had already been woven into the earlier parts of the game (the appearances of the child, etc.).  Moreover, I'm betting that the final report of failure by the gameplay people didn't come until near the end of the game development.

At that point, BioWare just didn't have the time (or weren't given the time by EA) to completely redo all of that work.  So they filed to fit and painted to cover: they took what they had, originally slated to be the Indoctrination session, and shoehorned it into an ending sequence, rather than an Indoctrination sequence.  Remember that Martin Sheen's TIM lines for the final confrontation with Shepard were delayed until November; I speculate that they had to rewrite them from an Indoctrination-based conversation to the confrontation-based conversation they went with.

That would explain all of the things, little and big, that make people think that the ending sequence is just Indoctrination; originally, it was.  Sadly, however, I don't think that they ever intended to come out with some "real ending."  What you saw is what they went with.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Robert J. Hanlon