I am actually in this whole series right know and started playing again, so i am quite new to it.
Picking Destroy is the reset to the solution and the cycles anyway .... and all can start over again, because it doesn't take long for living things to forget the past and do the same mistakes again.
If you pick control or synthesis, Shep is not turned into a husk, cause a husk is an organic/synthetic construct, intertwined maybe but not mixed.
Shep on behalf of that is beeing transformed by nanobots into pure energy, not goose. I think of the goose as a kind of blood for the reapers.
Sheps energyform is either used
-to create an AI (the new Controller of the Reapers) or
-is emmitted as an ernergy wave to alter organic and synthetic life on an molecular basis, so that there is only the orgthetic lifeform remaining.
Interesting, how the DNA of a human is enough to combine synthetic life with all organic life in the galaxy, which is different as the stars in it self. The crucible is in fact a hell of a genetic miracle machine.
Why it didn't work in the past, well no other cycle ever came that far, although there is no hint or proof, that there hasn't been a united galaxy in a previous cycle fighting for survival against the reapers. It was shepards credit to unite and rally the galaxy, making him/her the right and only choice for such a decission/sacrifice.
But any "good" ending you choose, is just an temporarily solution to the problem. Why?
Destroy = The Harvest Solution is gone, so the Synthetic Extinction Problem, which the Catalyst was created in the first place will come uo again, eventually. Why? Because we like to forget things. Hell there are wars and crimes going on on this World right now an many people intend to forget it, just because it isn't on the news anymore. Unlikely the Individuals in the MEU would've lost such an behaviour.
Control might trigger an xeno- or better synthopobic reaction within the organic society someday, if the evolution or technical advancements put them on a reaper similar level, which is likely to come sooner, now that they are our "friends" and protectors.
Even the synthetic Ending means no peace forever. Why? How do you want to combine logic and emotion? Synthetic are just logically calculating, organics on the other hand have a logical awareness but will mostly act through emotion. The greatest strength is also the greatest weakness. Now that the Reapers have got access to emotions, otherwise the synthesis wouldn't make sense, they not only understand organic life, but will surely life the same way. That means, someday the come to realize, that they are the strongest. If you look at it in a darwinistic kind of way, then evolution in life means progress through conflict, and there only the strong survive. So synthesis imho simply changes the threat of organic/synthetic war with a simple civil war of the greenish orgthethics.
So all 3 choices bear their pro's and con's.
And to counter the fact, why i spend 5 years in this game for such an ending, well thank BW it's not the first time.
Just look at KotOR 1, 2 Drew Karpyshyns Novel Revan, or SWtOR and the final Fate of the Heroes there. I loved these games (except the latter), but seeing or reading how Revan, Meetra Surik (the Exciled), T3-M4 or HK-47 ended up made me rethink of why i spend so much effort in it. OK, they all died for a greater good or to interest the masses to spend their credits into the next game of the series, but the all faded away seemingly unknown to the rest.
Here BW lets the Hero/Heroine have a final decission, which will never be forgotten and has an tremendous impact on the shaping of the comming galaxy.
I don't know if this has been mentioned before (not in this thread but maybe somewhere else), but if you choose the destroy option (enough EMS presumed) the breathing scene takes place in ruins and remains of concrete. I am not talkin primarily about the IT, but it is quite unlikely, that the detonation blast from the red tube threw him right away into the conduit again, so that he might be safe on earth, or was it even the catalyst maybe, the last good deed for the hero/heroine?
So to say, if it's unlikely that he flew right back to his buddy marauder shields, he's never left london at all. But who pulled the trigger then? Someone has to be physically on the citadel and make a decission. Otherwise non of the endings could have ever happend, except for the continuation of the harvest. Or it is just in shepards head and the trigger is executed telepathically.
And since when do the council or terminus guys know how to fix a mass relay? Where there blueprints next to the crucible patterns?
The relays are not destroys via overload or a kinetic impact, as seen in arrival DLC, but more likely a kind of self shut down. The reapers build them, right?
Well their security self shut down just reacts like this: "You were smart enough to beat us and end the cycles, well then you are surely advanced enough to build your own relays, have a nice day."
Apropos IT, i just finished ME 1 and came to realize, that there might have been some kind of first indoctrination attempt by Sovereign, right before the final fight, when he turns Saren's corpse. You can see the edge of the screen https://www.youtube....h?v=Ho5-LrQqqHE shivering, similar to the dream sequences or the encounter with TIM and Anderson on the Crucible.
Any Indoctrination before doesn't make sense, because on Ilos Vigil called his Bones algorhythm to scan Shep and the Crew, stating that, "well Virgil, they are not dead, but they aren't indoctrinated either." And i am pretty sure they're not just only looking into the eyes.
Harbingers red beam could never be a destructive one, because they slice through battleships like butter. Indoctrination is impeneted via energy fields, isn't it? Why not let this beam be of minininimal destructive power but maximized and concentrated brainwash power?
Looking foreward to any additions, complaints or enlightments.
A few pointers for you.
I won't preach like god as far as your spelling et al is concerned, I will only say here's some advice.
you should search out Prettz Zells stuff on you tube. Also..theres a vid called The problem of Choice by Jarrod L which is brilliant.
Open your mind. See you on the other side.
https://www.youtube....h?v=6_RGX1ujGUU
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I found it kinda neat that they used this guy in the game.
