An endless cycle of growth, death, rebirth, and growth again, curated by the unfathomably powerful synthetics, who have become very efficient at it and control vast resources to make it a near-certainty, with the cycle only broken by that one – unlikely – instance where a human got a little further than the others, made a different choice. You’ve gotta wonder at why people don’t appreciate the absolutely reasonable logic of that scenario. It pretty much it seems that criticism comes from the same place as criticism of The Matrix movies’ ‘Architect’, who fulfilled a nearly-identical role for nearly-identical reasons. The existence of ‘the starchild’ cops a lot of unreasonable flak, too. What the fuck did they THINK that meant other than the death/unrecognizable-evolution of the character?) Near as I can figure, the only people who didn’t like it are the ones in the ‘our choices didn’t matter!’ crowd who seemed to not realize that the entire game was an ending referencing those choices… There were of course those who didn’t like it because they wanted Shepard to ride off into the sunset as space emperor to sire litters of turian/quarian-human hybrids, or defeat the reapers in an utterly unwinnable conventional war, because… yay, biological organism pluck? (Despite being told publicly, early, repeatedly, that this was a definitive end to Shep’s story, and Shep would not be coming back. 3 was the best of the series, so it’ll get 2 movies.
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