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[Savanhi]

 So out of a sense of nostalgia I decided to startup a new ME1 play through, but got so excited for the conversation with Sovereign on Virmire that I couldn't wait and watched it on YouTube, it still gives me chills. Everything's Sovereign says is just so damn creepy and distant. He says that he is beyond human understanding and I believe him when he does. So then we go to ME3 EC and learn his unknowable plans were really just because an AI construct thought robots and peoples shouldn't fight no mores. Great. I thought the starchild was a silly character originally but I enjoyed the chance to question his motives and history in the EC. At least, I did enjoy it before I watched that beautiful conversation all the way back on Virmire and decided I didn't really need to know. I don't really think it matters what the reason is or why the reapers do what they do. I think any explanation as to the intention of the Reapers ultimately diminishes their unknowable, scary, and menacing nature. It doesn't matter if it's preventing war against synthetics or saving the galaxy from dark energy, I've decided that I would be fine not knowing why the reapers reaped.
But what I do want to know is, what about you? Would you have been satisfied with no explination? From the first introduction, the reapers are established as having mysterious and incomprehensible motives and that stays the same right up to your meeting with starchild. I think that it's the mystery that persists, not the answer. So would you have been ok finishing ME3 and still not knowing why the space monsters were so damn reapy?

[Village_Idiot]

No. In fact, my biggest gripe with the ending was, and still is, the villain decay that the Reapers suffer. They go from space-Cthulu to mere pawns.

As Vigil said on Illos when asked about the Reapers' motives (paraphrased): "In the end, what does it matter? Your goal is to stop them, not understanding them."