re: #212 kirkspencer

There was a fan interpretation with some excellent youtube explanations made that had me totally accepting the ending as good. Then the developers yielded and made the DLC endings which broke them.

The explanations, by the way? It’s all a game in the mind head as they try one last time to suborn Shepard. Notice that the paragon and renegade options are reversed, just as an example. Notice that two of the choices are rephrasings of choices offered previously: Saren’s “we can merge with them and be more than we were” synthesis, and the Illusive Man’s “we can control them” offer. Only the third, destruction, ends with Shepard still at the base of the tower, suddenly taking a breath - defeating the reapers in all their subtlety.

Yeah, the Indoctrination theory.