Goaliebot wrote...
I fear the EC will be 12 minutes of cinematics designed solely to beat us in the head with the endings until we're unconscious.
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As for the Joker/Normandy fleeing thing, I can only come up with one plausible theory. And no, the endings don't nearly point to this, it's 99% fan writing, 1% what they provided. But I *think* it could work. Let's just say if I were in charge of the EC, it's what I'd do.
Joker/EDI can't stand not knowing how Shep and the ground crew are faring in the charge at the beam and so as soon as Harbinger lifts off, Joker zooms in in the Normandy. As he arrives, the Reapers shut off the beam to the Citadel, now realizing humans might actually get through it.
Joker finds your two knocked down squadmates and gets them up in the other shuttle (we see 2 shuttles in the bay).
They quickly confer, deciding that they need to get into the Citadel... but the beam is now off. EDI proposes that perhaps the Alliance Forces attack at Earth has drawn the Reapers that were guarding Ilos to Earth to join the battle. She proposes they race to Ilos and see if the Conduit still functions so that Ash/Garrus/whoever might use it to get to the Citadel and both search for Anderson & Shep.
So they weren't running away, they were racing to Ilos in the desperate hope that the Reapers who had been guarding it (thus why they didn't think they could use it before) had come to Earth to join the battle. They knew it was a long shot (could be the Reapers still guarding it, could be the Conduit destroyed, etc) but it's the only chance they have.
... then the space magic hits and stupidity ensues of course. But still - maybe a plausible fan-explanation of why Joker had your squadmates and they were racing away (maybe through a relay, maybe just in FTL)?
Conduit was completely inactive after the events of ME1, IIRC(and really if it wasn't, and was in control of the Reapers, why wouldn't they use it to flood shock troops into the Citadel).
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