Captain McBuck wrote...
So Open question, given that most of us at least seem to agree on the faults of the EC to some greater or lesser degree in essence we see what went wrong - What would you like to see in an ending, specifically? If you could tear up the old ending entirely or rework most of the "original footage" or drop things to the cutting room floor, or,Assume Direct Control of Casey Hudsons Harbinger style and make him write any ending you wanted...what would you have in it?
I would have had Shepard realise that she needed to defeat the Catalyst. If it was telling the truth, then it was the one who created the Reapers and gave them purpose. If it was lying, then it was trying to deceive and manipulate her at the moment when she was the only one in a position to take one last vital step to stop the Reapers. In either case, the Catalyst is her final enemy and must be stopped.
Whether Shepard is able to totally defeat the Catalyst would depend on past decisions. If it was up to me, I would set the ME1 Keeper research as the hugest contributor. If you didn't screw up other factors badly, then having done the Keeper research would be an automatic win against the Catalyst. The way I see it, the Keepers get into secret areas of the Citadel, such as where the Catalyst is housed. Maybe Shepard could use their protocols to sabotage its hardware. This would require a bit more of a callback from Chorban than we actually got in order to set it up properly, but if it was done correctly then I feel it wouldn't be a total asspull.
The defeat of the Catalyst would have a range of consequences, vs. just one effect applied to all Reapers. Many Reapers would simply stop functioning. Some would go berserk, causing huge destruction before their lack of attention to their own defences either enabled them to be brought down by technically inferior forces or resulted in them crashing into huge buildings, mountains, the moon, etc. Some would withdraw and depart; of these, some might broadcast a message of regret, but others would remain silent, leaving their purpose a mystery. I'm sure people could think of some other effects that the defeat of the Catalyst would have! Ultimately, this ending would result in quite a bit more loss of life than the number of geth killed in Destroy, but it would be fairly random and all would suffer to some extent or another - it wouldn't just be the geth.
Shepard might survive, depending on military strength and some past choices, but I think it would be fitting if defeating the Catalyst fried her Cerberus cybernetics and made it impossible for them to be replaced. She would be looking at a long time recovering, without the possibility of any magical Lazarus Project to simply return her to square one. For my Shepard, at least, who loved Kaidan, it would provide a nice mirror of her care for him while he was convalescing, if he was the one who looked after her during the year or so I think it would take her to recover.
As an alternative, Shepard could make a willing self-sacrifice in an attempt to be sure that the Catalyst is destroyed. This would result in less loss of life in the military and civilian populations, as the ferocity of her attack on the Catalyst would lead to more Reapers just shutting down. However, from her point of view when trying to decide, it will be a choice between giving it everything in order to be sure (self-sacrifice) and trying to stay alive in case some other obstacle would arise that would need someone to still be alive in the Citadel to overcome it (pragmatism).
Just my thoughts!
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