[quote]IanPolaris wrote...
No, I am not working on that assuption. [/quote]You are.
[quote]I am pointing out that it's a huge difference. If the Reapers were that invincible they wouldn't bother to try to cripple the C3I of the enemy, but they do. Thus the Reapers are far from invincible and they know it. [/quote]Not being invincible doesn't mean they aren't unstoppable. Avoiding needless casualties within your own victory is cause enough.
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It also is the first cycle that apparently solved the "Tech SIngularity" issue (at least if you made peace with the Geth).[/quote]That doesn't solve the tech singularity issue.
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This is the first cycle ever (assuming you made peace with the Geth...needed for the best EMS) that fully aware AI civilizations fought WITH organics against the Reapers. From the PoV of the Reapers, this is entirely new and very troubling. From a war-fare PoV, that does constitute "solving" the tech-singularity issue...whether star-kid wants to admit it or not.[/quote]It doesn't solve the tech-singularity issue, because it doesn't guarantee continued and perpetual good relations with all synthetics going into the future. The Singularity issue is a position based that, eventually, some hostile synthetic will reach singularity. It does not claim that every synthetic will be hostile.
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Shepard beat the collectors that had more firepower than most minor races with a single light cruiser[/quote]...no, not really. It took a frigate with the firepower of a cruiser to take out the Collector Cruiser.
The Collectors punched above their weight, but they weren't unstoppable by any means.
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and what amounts to a reinforced spec-ops Squad. This is what Shepard does: The impossible.[/quote]Shepard's special ops squad didn't destroy the Collector Cruiser. Shepards special ops squad didn't cross the relay on their own.
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WRONG. Vigil's datafile was a McGuffin. Nothing more. It wasn't the main theme at all. The main theme was Shepard doing the impossible. Same with ME2. Finding a way...any way is what Shepard does. That IS the basic underlying theme of Mass Effect. Always has been...until Starbrat.[/quote]You are ignorring the obvious. Shepard's means of achieving the impossible have always been through a macguffin of some sort. The Macguffin, not Shepard, is what makes the seemingly impossible possible: it's the macguffin that thwards Sovereign long enough for a fleet to take it down, it's the macguffin that allows reliable passage to the far side of the Omega Relay.
Shepard does not make the impossible possible. The MacGuffin makes the impossible possible.
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Charming. You never once thought that maybe just maybe, that Hackett and all those others were WRONG?[/quote]I entertained the possibility up to the point that the game repeatedly demonstrated that the galaxy's conventional strength was being systematically curbstomped, and that it's most notable victories were incredibly situational and non-catastrophic for Shepard.
[quote] The reject ending sure seems to say that the Reapers can be beaten conventionally[/quote]The Reject ending is the conventional defeat of the galaxy.
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(and will be by the next cycle).[/quote]It implies nothing of the sort. It only implies the Liara's message got through, but that's happened before: the Prothean beacons. In the next cycle, however, the traditional Reaper advantages will be re-asserted with the repair of the Prothean sabotage allowing the Citadel-invasion and relay-blockade strategy.
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