3DandBeyond wrote...
And the kid is really a little bit less than believable, his motives and his reality somewhat transparent.
I don't really see how the catalyst's motives are "transparent" and how it is not "believable", considering it just brought Shepard up into his chamber, when it could have simply left him to die in the lower Citadel area. "Refuse" only shows us that the catalyst can very well obliterate the combined forces of the species without Shepard needing to do anything, so the fact that the catalyst is not in a predicament at all, but speaks to Shepard out of its own will, is a big invitation for trusting it far enough (and – metagaming-wise – the EC only confirms it is not lying about anything it says).
Similarly, if you find the catalyst so untrustworthy, how is it that you don't complain about Shepard trusting, say, Vigil in ME1? After all, it claims to be a Prothean VI appearing conveniently in a location where Saren just went through after having been sealed off for thousands of years, yet you take its data and insert it into the Citadel main controls without any doubts? Or what about Vendetta, a VI that you just pulled out Cerberus' mainframe, that tells you to head straight for the Citadel, which is totally under Reaper control by now – I mean, how did you know that Cerberus wasn't messing with the VI (it's a VI, after all, not an AI). All these decisions were based on the fact that you didn't have any alternatives
and that said entities didn't give you any reason to doubt them, and the catalyst – speaking to you entirely out of its own will, not necessity - is no different.
TheBlackBaron wrote...
Going through the Omega-4 Relay, we were told it was -supposed- be a suicide mission, but there was no real evidence of why.
There's a gigantic difference here, compared to the war against the Reapers: Nobody knew what was beyond the Omega-4 relay – it was only assumed that the mission must be dangerous, because the Collectors are, in fact, dangerous. There has been talk about an entire Collector "planet" possibly lying beyond the relay, and that it was "just" a base with a single ship guarding it was actually a
much better proposition than had been anticipated.
With the Reapers, however, well, they are in the galaxy right now, obliterating the military of every single species, with no leader having the slightest idea how to beat them, apart from taking chances with the Crucible: Sovereign announced that the Reapers were powerful, and up to the beginning of ME3, well, yes, you could technically claim that maybe the Reaper wars will be like the attack on the Collectors: The dangers exaggerated greatly. However, the force with which they attacked only backed up your worst fears.
In short: The dangers of going beyond the Omega-4 relay were based on speculation. The dangers of the Reapers are evident, happening right there in front of everyone's eyes. They are proven. That's a huge difference.
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