NorDee65 wrote...
I agree only partially with your assessment that Bioware wrote the EC for everyone. Directly after many people, including myself, finished the game, the discussion on these forums and elsewhere on the internet began. Many people from all over the world analysed the game/endings and pointed out where the faults, plotholes etc lay. They asked pointed questions and made their desires/disappointments known. Employees of Bioware have stated that they read and listened. And yet the EC came out, where some problems were addressed but certainly not all. And then there is "reject". Maybe this was a nod towards those who were extemely unhappy, and maybe it was meant as a peace offering. Maybe. Or not. I am undecided.
I do not know if the EC could have been better had even more time been invested. However it came about, the EC was created ignoring most of what the "disappointed" people had defined as problematic.
This end sentence very nicely sums it all up. The EC actually seems to have been created of speculation that said, "I hope this is not what this all means, but it probably is." I know that because the "Listening" thread contained a lot of speculation that is now contained in the EC and the devs ignored the most often repeated request for closure-Shepard lives with one small scene of a reunion. In fact, no one in that thread repeatedly asked for closure for Synthesis or Control. In fact, the most often stated things were that the ending could not be happy because the galaxy was or should have been destroyed, based on what happened-so a win was out of the question. And, people repeatedly said just how stupid control and synthesis were and then "correctly" interpreted what was meant by them. I believe fully that what people speculated was what was incorporated into the EC. But, they got it so wrong.
People hoped that it might somehow all be erased (knew that it wouldn't). What it came down to then for most is the wish, along with almost outright begging, that BW would include a hard to get Shepard lives, we win, geth and EDI can live ending. I will go so far as to say the majority here asked for that as a bottom line of what they wanted. They did not care for clarity and closure for control and synthesis because they didn't see those as anything Shepard would choose-not because Shepard would die, but because neither of those were things Shepard ever wanted to do.
And I will say that that was a majority desire-not that it would be easy for Shepard to live, but that it would be possible and that Shepard could also truly sacrifice so that people in the galaxy could live on unencumbered by the reapers, externally or internally. Beyond that they also expressed a desire to refuse what the kid said and have it lead to a possible victory as well as a possible total defeat-but they wanted it to have the possibility to do both. That was an off the chart, impossible wish but a wish nonetheless. And I know this because I read almost every single one of the posts in over 900 pages of requests.
So, the wish was repeatedly expressed there in over 900 pages and in various support threads almost constantly. It was ignored and yet people still like to assert that the EC contains closure. No, it doesn't. Closure was always there for anyone that liked the definitive Shepard dies endings. I knew what they meant because they still mean what they always did-fantasy can look cool. Destroy didn't get much attention at all. It's got almost word for word the same explanation from the kid as the original ending. It has a psychic LI scene with the nameplate. It has Hackett patting himself on the back for uniting the galaxy. And it shows the Charon relay and the Citadel in pieces (which should mean everything is totally screwed in the Sol system). And it has a gasping torso. Wow, the closure.
Don't get me wrong-Destroy is for me the only "real" ending I can wrap head canon around. I see EDI and the geth having some sort of shielding to protect them from the full effects of the "pulse". I see Shepard being picked up from the rubble by some stragglers of say Csec (maybe Bailey) and Miranda and EDI reconstructing the Lazarus Project and "fixing" Shepard. I can see any one of a thousand ways to end it in my mind. But I played a video game-with full emphasis on both words, video and game. That means you see the fun. I don't see the fun at the end of this game right now. I can imagine it, but this wasn't called an imagine it game and while I like to use my imagination, it's free. Video games cost money.
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