Seival wrote...
The Reapers are not war machines, they are harvesters.
The Catalyst is not a dictator, it is the avatar of evolution.
The Cycled Harvests were so rare, so specific, and so inevitable that they could be called a part of natural life-and-death circle. With each new Cycle the Catalyst was closer and closer to the ideal solution which it was created to find.
Nature itself consumes lives. For what? Just to create new ones. A lot of them. Better then the previous ones. The Cycled Harvests were not much different, and were only temporary. Once the ideal solution was found and proved to be valid, it was just a matter of time before the idea of that solution comes true.
The Reapers were never interested in war. They were created as keepers of Nature balance. Even Leviathans, who were the first target themselves admitted that. The Catalyst and the Reapers did a lot of horrible things, but eventually they made the ideal solution possible. Let's not forget about that.
...Also, let's not forget one obvious thing: there are only two main choices in the end - apply Synthesis now, or delay it for some time by different means.
...Yeah, I am not exactly sure where to begin, but trying to justify as holocaust as a natural thing and placing the blame on the people of the galaxy for having the tamarity to try and live. That's just WOW!
I mean seriously, that is like blaming the Jews for the holocaust, that because they had the tamarity to try and escape, resist and live, is why the holocaust took so long and got so bloody. If only they just laid down and died would it have been easier.
Sorry I don't support that view. The reapers are wrong, Why? Because they are executing the will of a being who seeks to control life for it's own purpose, and that by it's very definition is wrong, it doesn't matter the time scale or the physical scale.
Reapings are not natural by any means, they are precipiated by conscious, sapient beings, they in fact upset the natural order.
Nature takes no side, it is simply a force, it changes the environment and those that can, adapt those that can't, die. It does not pick and choose, which is EXACTLY what they do and by the OPs own addmission they do.
The fact that they pick and choose whom they reap is a indicator of premeditation. The Reapers are not the flood of Noah's Ark, they do not kill indiscriminately, they choose their targets, they choose WHEN to reap. They willfully engage in acts of killing, maiming and mutilation, this my friends is what many would define as evil.
the Catalyst at it's very core is insane, insane because it A) Feels that it's purpose is to decide what's best for the rest of us
Will go to extreme lengths to do so and C) Feels that it has the authority to take such actions.
the Catalyst's closest analogue in recent science fiction would be the same as the Vorlons and the Shadows from B5. Beings older then old, whom after so many eons felt it was their place to "guide" the children of the Galaxy. And one represented authooritarianism while the other represented guided chaos, or natural selection.
The Vorlons felt they had the right to change, modify and or genetically program the people of the galaxy to favor them. While the Shadows felt it was their right to kick over the "anthills" of the galaxy and watch the ants rebuild.
The reapers if anything represent a combination and bastardization of these two seperate concepts. and guess what.
NEITHER WAS RIGHT. What had happened was that both of these ancient races has lost their purpose and decided that guiding the younger races was their new purpose. Guiding along what they though was a "Natural" line.
But it wasn't, whatever natural progression was being hijacked by these two races, it wan't until they were forced to leave, that the people of the galaxy started to find their own footing, their own purpose, and more importantly their own destiny.
the Catalyst for all it's good intentions, at least from it's point of view, has perverted this "natural" progression and hijacked it for it's own aims. And ultimately denied us our destiny.
For children to reach their full potential, their parents must die.
the Catalyst is hanging on and quietly guiding things. Evolution is not being served by this guiding, becuase the advancement of the people was done not through their hands, but through 'his' and as such, is not true advancement. Because one must arrive at this new plataeu on your own, no one can or should hand it to you, and that is exactly what the synthesis ending was.
Whether or not we would natually arrive at synthesis, even if that was our ultimately destiny, it is wrong for the Catalyst to force that conclusion upon us, of it's own accord, to hijack our evolution and jump us to a final answer.
The catalyst decided to play God, and the Catalyst is NOT God, he is just another entity that exists in the universe, constructed of energy and possibly timeless, but not God.
Freedom, Self-determination and the abundance of Free Will is right course, it is the only right way. And the Synthesis ending hijacks all of those and forces an answer on all, indiscriminately, regardless of anyone persons say in the matter.
The reapers are themselves slaves to the Catalyst, they are to be pitied, because they are engaging in the circular logic and a self fulfilling prophecy of BS.
I was in fact hoping that the ending of ME3 would of been somehow Shepard "Freeing" the reapers from the Catalyst.
ME3 was about the breaking of cycles, ending distrust, discontent, hatred and bigotry. The bringing together of disparate peoples for a purpose. the ending of the Krogan/Salarian/Turian mistrust, the ending of the Geth/Quarian conflict, and getting EVERYONE to trust Humanity. That was unity brought on by the peoples backing of the Unity they wanted, embodied in one man, Shepard, he didn't force loyalty and unity, he inspired it and made people WANT to back him, and work together.
That is the natural order, the natural advancement, enlightenment, etc. It was arrived upon by the people who desired it so, of their own desire, will and determination.
the Catalyst for what ever it's intentions, even if they seemed to it as good ones, violated that natural order and hijacked that evolution, and sought to control and bring about it's "vision" of what should be.
And that is WHY the Catalyst is EVIL. And the Reapers the very least slaves, if not willing accomplices in the crime.
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