[synaesthetic]

Ending was whacked. Spoilers below.

Spoiler for ME3 ending:

For starters I'll definitely say that I'm happy Shepard died. I didn't want them to keep her alive and have EA make a half-million crappy spinoff games (which they'll probably end up doing anyway, sigh). I was hoping she'd get to make a heroic sacrifice of supreme badassery and save everybody--which she did, and for that I was quite pleased!

What's whacked about the ending is this:

I chose synthesis. I chose to bring peace through mutual understanding between the synthetics and organics. To preserve the Reapers, their technology, the mass relays, everything--and repurpose it all through the next stage of galactic life's evolution.

AND YET THE CUTSCENE STILL SHOWS MASS RELAYS BLOWING UP.

*facedesk*

*facedesk*

*facedesk*

What the actual fuck Bioware? I specifically chose NOT to destroy the Reapers (and all their technology and all everyone else's tech based on their tech) so specifically to AVOID plunging all galactic life back into a technological dark age that'd cause war and strife almost as bad as what the Reapers put the galaxy through.

Really? How the hell is this saving the galaxy? The geth would simply go extinct immediately if all the Reaper-derived tech was rendered inert--it is them. The quarians would quickly die of infections if all their suits shut down.

The remains of the fleet above Earth would all either crash into the planet, killing everyone on board and anyone in the immediate vicinity of the impact when the drive cores exploded.

Also what the hell Inconsistency City--if the Reaper tech died when synthesis took place and the mass relays were destroyed, WHY IS EDI STILL WALKING? WHY WERE THE REAPERS ABLE TO SIMPLY LEAVE?

The ending--or rather, what I extrapolated from the ending, makes sense and is actually a quite interesting ending. But the exploding mass relays is a HUGE GLARING INCONSISTENCY.

And very likely born from laziness, the unwillingness to create a second cutscene showing the Crucible's energy cascading from relay to relay without destroying it. They pulled this same shit in ME2 as well--if you choose to follow the Illusive Man's advice and save the Collector Base, the end cinematic shows it BLOWING TO PIECES ANYWAY.

Anyway, as far as I can tell, from the synthesis ending, the Reapers' intelligence is infused with Shepard's consciousness--they all turn green, lol--and leave in a hurry to who knows where. The Crucible's activation pulse spreads from the Charon relay throughout the galaxy, completing the synthesis of synthetic and organic life. The Normandy was traveling along the mass relay path as this happens which forces Joker to crash-land on a nearby garden world with two moons. With the threat of the Reapers gone and the potential for all the species of the galaxy--including the Reapers--to work together, a new era of peace is ushered in.

But because Bioware was too fucking lazy to make another cutscene we get this huge glaring inconsistency of the mass relays EXPLODING when they absolutely SHOULD NOT BE. The entire point of Shepard sacrificing herself and choosing synthesis was to prevent the loss of that, to prevent a technological dark age that would result in the deaths of trillions.

I blame EA for this. :|