Also, about the literal interpretation of the endings. Let's assume, that they are what they are. And take high EMS Destroy. Bear we me. This has a point.
Shepard shoots the tube.
Tube explodes, explosion engulfs shepard.
The crucible starts to charge.
Hackett gives the retreat order.
Joker doesn't want to go, but he is told, there is no other choice.
The fleet flees.
Crucible produces a pulse
Pulse destroys reapers in orbit.
Pulse reaches earth and kills reapers and reaper ground forces there.
Citadel produces a concentraded beam and the BLOWS up.
Beam reaches the mass relay and is retranslated. Relay is falling apart.
Reapers are destroyed by the retranslated beam all across the galaxy.
The beam is retranslated across the galaxy.
Normandy tries to outrun the beam, but fails.
Normandy is crashed on the jungle planet. Joker and some teammates come out.
Slide show starts, Hackett is narrating.
We are shown fleet flying past an inactive and dameged mass relay.
Slide show starts - we see london being rebuild.
we see citadel in pieces.
we see some more places, like tuchanka in dfifferent stages of being rebuilt and repopulated
We see london completely rebuilt and the beam operational.
We see citadel completely rebuilt in orbit of earth and connected to earth by the beam.
We see momarial scene on the normandy. It end before shepards name is placed on the wall - the LI is just holding it.
We see Nornandy, completely repaired, take off and fly away into sunset (sunrise),
Fade to black.
Music stops.
We see some rubble, pan to a body with N7 dogtags and in burned N7 armor - a person which we assume is shepard takes a breath.
Snap-cut to black, roll credits.
Now. My questions are.
1 - If what we see is whgat is really happenning, How can shepard take a breath ofter all this time (presomably it took from years to decades to rebuild everything.)
2 - If everything in the ending is literal, and shepard is on the citadel, how did he survive the explosion that tore the station to pieces, and originated from his exact location?
3 - If everything is literal, and shepard is on the citadel, how is he not discovered when the citadel is being rebuilt?
And also not related to the above, but interesting non the less:
4 - If everything is literal, how can shepard see the exact things that are going to happen, before making a choice, when he ask the catalyst to firther explain what each choice will do?
By the power of the method, called Proof of Contradiction
I declare, that at least everything, that is happening between the making of the choice and the breath scene is a dream in every ending.
If that is a dream - then everything else in the ending is also a dream. The exact point where the dream starts is very difficult to deternine, but it is somewhere after you kill the reaper destroyer with the missiles (tha last traditional gameplay segment).
Modifié par demersel, 26 août 2012 - 12:04 .