EDIT2: I'll try to address some of the common arguments for brainwashing, and will try to offer my counter-arguments, although both are speculations. Your mileage may vary with these, of course.
People accepted the Reapers as friendly!
The same can be said about control. It was never stated that people instantly accepted the reapers.
It has been mentioned that there might've been one version of synthesis where EDI mentions that it took time for people to accept the reapers, but I haven't found it yet. If anyone can prove or disprove this, let me know.
Fellow BSN user Endorlf gave his thoughts on this. It was never stated that people happily accepted the Reapers. How they were received is a matter of speculation, but why not see it as people begrudgingly accepting the Reaper's help? History has shown that people are willing to make allies with people they don't like to overcome an obstacle.
In addition, if synthesis does brainwash everyone, then why are the Reapers helping to rebuild? We're not seeing concentration camps or barracks that you would build for slaves and servants; instead, buildings are being built such that the architectural culture is preserved. How does this forward the Reapers' agenda at all if they brainwashed everyone?
No one was going WTF at how they changed!
On the contrary, if you compare the scenes where the reapers leave/die, only in synthesis do the soldiers not cheer; instead, they look surprised at what just happened to them and were looking at themselves and each other.
They look brainwashed!
This is one argument I can't stand. The slideshow for synthesis looks almost identical to those of destroy and control.
The husk is alive!
I have a theory in another thread that addresses this. Link is below. The gist of it is that the husks are simply extensions of a reaper's mind, and it is looking at the human soldiers and at itself, surprised at the change, and maybe surprised that it's no longer under the will of the Catalyst (this part is my speculation).
http://social.biowar.../index/12881793
On an unrelated note, synthesis makes everyone the same!
The turians are still turian, the krogan are still krogan. Hell, ironically, it's the ending slides across all three endings that are largely the same. I see the stagnation argument a lot, and while it has merit, the synthesis narration seems to counter this by stating that the races will "recover the greatness that as lost and surpass it." How? I don't know. Considering how much of a space magic nonsense synthesis is, anything is possible.
For the record, this is my opinion on synthesis. I despise it because it is theme and lore breaking. It is contradictory and jumps into fairy tale fantasy that transcends all realistic norms. It imposes major change on every individual with unknown effects. This is ethically wrong. However, there isn't any irrefutable in-game evidence that proves it brainwashes people. Arguments against brainwashing also has merit.
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