@Romaka:
Other than organics having biochemical brains and synthetics having artificial brains there is no fundamental difference. Both are self-aware and capable of creative and independent thought. That makes them alive.
However, I agree that everyone lost when the differences are taken away. What really happens is that both the involved organics and synthetics have ceased to exist. They are extinct. Synthesis implicates the denial of the right of organics and synthetics to exist, because it is invoked upon them without their consent. It's genocide without bodies.
Somehow synthesis should be able to force peace among organics, synthetics, and according to the EC, reapers and husks, because that peace cannot drop from thin air. It is not enough to force the removal of physical changes. Humans, for an example, are perfectly able to fight each other for ages. Uprisings and war have more to do with power and distribution of wealth than their racial origin.
So if the forced removal of the physical differences is not enough then there must be something that also changes their mind. From the epilogue it is clear that this peace is forced the moment synthesis hits their victims:
If you compare the reactions in destroy and synthesis of humans and husks then you'll notice that in destroy the husks and humans fight until the husks are either shot or killed by the wave, whereas in synthesis both stop fighting each other. The latter reaction is odd, to say the least, especially when hordes of husks were trying to kill those same soldiers a second ago. A natural reaction would be to finish them off and not quit in the middle of a fight. The idea that husks are seen as abominations which should be killed as soon as possible to save your skin, does not change when only your body changes. In fact, everyone infected by synthesis should have felt pain, because of the sudden physical changes. Or maybe panic, shock or fear invoked by that completely new mysterious body and the bodies of everyone around you. Instead we see an instant apathy: It is as if they were forced to stop fighting and the humans just gaze at the leaving reapers.
Although their bodies completely changed, their minds still think that their old bodies exist and they protect their wounds from the fight as if that is more painful than their complete physiological change. The turians and krogan just look at their own new body for a second and nobody seem to think it is a problem that everyone looks completely different and husk-like.
If there is no mind control whatsoever then the above reactions are odd. Especially the krogan victims behave strange, because they already have been victims of eugenics before and hated, for obvious reasons, the turians and salarians for it. If their thought processes were not effected by synthesis then they would have been angry that they were once again victims of racial identity mutilation.
The krogan responded to the synthesis infection much like they responded to the genophage cure. There was a difference between the two events: The genophage cure was a planned action and synthesis could not be predicted. The amazement of the genophage cure, when we see the krogan responding to the cloud, had to do with that the plan succeeded. So obviously they were overjoyed. In synthesis this was unannounced. It was like thunder at a blue sky. Nobody new what was about to happen and when it happened one could not predict it was a positive event the moment it happened. The other races responded in much the same way: Either apathy or amazement struck them. Including the husks.
That can only mean one thing: Synthesis not only completely changes the physiology, it also infects the races mentally and forces them to believe that their society has reached peace. The cinamatics of synthesis then paint a Disney-like utopian pipe dream in which everyone lives happily ever after.
The problem with all this is a 180 degrees course change to what Shepard has fought for and what Shepard's allies agreed upon: They fought for their own continued existence and for the destruction or defeat of the reapers. With synthesis that existence is the only thing barely left. An existence where the reapers still exist and are not defeated was forced upon the races by an elitist Shepard who believes that a superior race must be the future. The only ones who share that view is the brat and the indoctrinated and now dead Saren. These allies are forced into submission to those reapers. It's an unconditional surrender forced by mind control. It's much like the Matrix, but this time the bodies are not kept alive in pods and everyone keeps walking instead. Who you are and what you are is replaced by Shepard's "essence of who [he/is] and what [he/she] is" with no room for diversity and free will, because whatever the end point of synthesis is, it's again developed along the paths the brat and the boys desire. The kind of traps that brought the cyclical genocide of the reapers that now also brought their victims mind control are just variations of the reaper's theme, woven into the galaxy for aeons.
The theme of the reapers, the violation of the right of self-determination, continues in synthesis. Everywhere they went the reapers felt they had the right to determine what to do with the races they encountered. They treated organic and synthetic life much like cattle they could feed on. Their cyclical genocide served one purpose: Their own reproduction. Much like predators, it also made sure they stayed on top of the food chain. At least in our galaxy. That violation still continues because of the forced utopia. If synthesis is no utopia then it shouldn't act like one.
If the reapers didn't dream up synthesis, but the ones that dreamed up the Crucible, then they are just as guilty. They didn't learn a lesson from being victims from that violation. It is all easy to understand: If a race decides that hybrid organics/synthetics should be their future then they should make that decision. And its members should have an opt-in choice. Such a radical change should be the result of free will, because forced utopia is an oxymoron.
Modifié par AngryFrozenWater, 10 juillet 2012 - 12:13 .
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