Control and Synthesis both allow the Reapers to live.
And? Do I need to remind you that it was the Catalyst who ordered the Reapers to harvest civilizations? In Control, the Catalyst is gone. Shepard becomes the new Reaper master consciousness. In Synthesis, the Catalyst has no reason to start the cycles again because it's purpose has been fulfilled.
And really, you expect the Catalyst,-an eons old AI that has been committing xenocide for the majority of its existence like clockwork,-to be upfront and honest about those two options?
Why would it not? The Crucible choices all offer a solution (tho some are temporary) to the Catalyst's purpose. And why would it be honest about Destroy, but not about Control and Synthesis? The Catalyst is not lying about anything.
Control basically makes Shepard the Catalyst. I'm paraphrasing, but the Catalyst says: "You will die. You will be reborn with the same values and morals, but without organic emotions."
Shepard becomes immortal, without any company. Eventually, he'll live to see organics continue making mistakes after his friends are long dead and who's to say he doesn't decide to step in and basically become a benevolent, immortal tyrant, or just become the Catalyst 2.0?
The Catalyst is destroyed, Shepard replaces it. Shepard can do whatever he wants with the Reapers.
I actually think that maybe at some point in time, Shepard could start feeling apathy towards the civilizations of the Milky Way and he would leave them.
Synthesis basically Reaperises every organic in the galaxy capable of calculus, but nothing is said about what it does to the Reapers. They already are organic and synthetic hybrids. Basically, it makes the fighting stop...and it infers it doesn't do a damn thing to the Reapers, so this is basically Bad End, because it can be assumed the Reapers could still harvest everyone at some point.
Why would they harvest everyone again? Give me one reason.
Their purpose has been fulfilled. Organic/Synthetic peace has been achieved.
Destroy suffers from the same uncertainty as to the trustworthiness of the Catalyst and proves it outright lied, because Shepard survives firing the Crucible in this ending, taking the post credit shot of Shepard breathing into account.
Uhm, who ever said it lied? You think it lied. For all we know, it could have assumed Shepard would die. Plus, Shepad only survives in the High EMS Destroy, he dies if you have Low or Medium EMS. I wouldn't call that lying.
And the Stargazers?
It never states what became of all the races. Even for the destroy ending. It's the same during the refuse ending as well.
The Stargazer scene is different if you choose Refuse. Stargazer is a woman in this one and the dialogues are different. She explains that the past cycle (our cycle) was harvested but we gave them enough info to get rid of the Reaper threat.
Hence, to my mind, Destroy is the one ending that doesn't play into the Catalyst's hands. It has the most negative consequences, but it doesn't directly destroy Shepard the way Control and Synthesis do, which both disintegrate them, to start with.
Again, Shepard only survives in High EMS Destroy. Also, only Shepard's corporeal form is dissolved in Control, his mind becomes the new Reaper master consciousness.
How does Control play into the Catalyst's hands? Because the Reapers are still there? Wow, great argument. The Reapers are only tools, without the Catalyst they wouldn't do the harverst cycles.
And insofar as the casualties, Garrus, EDI, Javik and Anderson all in their own ways back the Destroy ending, whereas who backs Control and Synthesis? TIM and Saren, and they were both compromised by the Reapers while they were advocating.
TIM was indoctrinated. The Reapers were manipulating him to make us fail so that they could harvest us. They made him believe he could control the Reapers, but he couldn't because they already controlled him. Shepard can, as proved in the Control ending.
Saren was indoctrinated. The Reapers also manipulated him to open the Citadel Relay (which failed) and guess what happened? They took full control of his body and tried to kill Shepard. Clearly, they were not really achieving Synthesis (probably because they can't achieve it that way).
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I'm kinda worn on the "Must become the savior" plot.
