Candidate 88766 wrote...
The Catalyst was an (admittedly rather poor) avatar through which Bioware could explain the Reapers' motivations. You might not want to believe what it says (the Reaper motive does fly in the face of a lot of what the past three games have taught us), but from a storytelling point of view it makes no sense for Bioware to lie to the player in the endgame. It would be like making Vigil lie - while interesting to speculate about, it doesn't make much sense from a narrative point of view.
From a narrative point of view, it makes no sense to devote a third of the game's main sequence and the story arc of one of three new squadmates to showing in great detail how great synthetics and organics can get along if the end message was in diametric opposition, but there you have it.
I see no reason to believe anything the Catalyst says, he's the enemy remember? Narrative cohesion generally has the protagonist acting against the interest of the antagonist unless there is solid reason given otherwise - 14 lines of deux ex-position from the machina ain't cuttin' it from my point of view. In any event, I find it interesting that he describes the Control ending as a question: "Do you think you can Control us?"
However, people that say it turns everyone into husks or stuff like that are clearly wrong as you retain your individuality (Joker and EDI still clearly show affection for each other in the ending, so your personality - what makes you 'you' - can be assumed to be intact).
Why? We never see husks interacting with one another, perhaps they have fully realized social lives. Sovereign claimed to be a 'nation unto himself', and Legion confirms the Reapers are a multiplicity of minds. Perhaps they have vast, vibrant operatic interactions within the sea of grey goop splashing around inside their shells. We just don't know. Perhaps we've just misjudged the husks, like we misjudged Sovereign. He just wanted to protect us from the evil Geth...I mean, the other Geth, not the ones he led in the attack on the Citadel. Some other Geth. Like the ones the Rannoch Reaper upgraded so they could kill Quarians. Those evil Geth. Or perhaps from EDI? Joker's pelvis might need protection, but he may not thank you for it in the morning.
Shepard certainly looks huskified falling into the green beam. But then I've never seen a non-huskified person covered in electrical circuitry in odd mockery of software based synthetic intelligence, so who knows?
It's simple wish fulfillment to believe everyone remains the same, and wish fulfillment that runs contrary to the purpose of the change: if they are the same before and after Synthesis it does not accomplish its goal of eliminating the differences between synthetic and organic life. Our humanity is not based on GATA composition - that is merely what we're made of; just as the Geth aren't Geth because of silicon and gallium and whatever rarified elements that go into building quantum blue boxes. If those underlying identities remain it doesn't matter how many circuit boards Joker has on his hat.
Modifié par Ariq, 05 mai 2012 - 09:48 .
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