Recent content by flipthepool

Eh, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I can understand wanting a completely happy ending. On the other hand, I don't think fans in any way "deserve" a happy ending. They deserve an ending that fulfills the story in a logical manner, that is consistent with the themes of the...

Aarg, yes, this is another reason why the endings are so frustrating. The Reapers were the Dark Elder Gods of the ME universe. They had tremendous, unknowable power. They had no morals, absolutely no humanity, and they only existed to further their own existence. They were able to drive people...

Hey, I'm not saying that I would be ~happy~ with it, just that I would like it better than what we have now. I could come to accept a cliffhanger, or a Bolivian Army Ending. THESE endings? I just can't accept them. I know some people have ~made their peace with them,~ in a manner of speaking...

Is it bad that I would actually rather ~not~ have an ending, than the one we have now? I mean, at least if there wasn't one I could just make up what I wanted to have happen. I've dealt with things being left on cliffhangers before, or Bolivian Army Endings, and I could deal with it now...

Not...when everything you are forced to do is based on listening to him and doing what he says? If what he says isn't true (ie, synthetics WON'T rise up and kill organics) then there is absolutely NO reason to a) synthesize organics and synthetics, or b) keep the Reapers as "back up." That...

And the REASON is that Shepard listened to the Guardian is because Shepard, and we, were forced to believe what the Guardian said. There is literally nothing that indicates that we shouldn't believe the Explainer. Shepard, the character who we essentially "are," clearly believed him, at least...

Because you are forced to take what he says at face value in the ending? The fact that there isn't any option to say "screw you, you're full of crap," to the Catalyst/AI/VI/Whatever-the-crap-he-is pretty much implies that you're meant to take what he says as truth. Also, if he's lying, that...

Dude, that is not an opinion. People have talked about, and made excellent points about how the Catalyst's reasoning is faulty and directly contradicted by the game itself. Nobody is saying, "the Catalyst is a stupidhead!" and that's it. People are bringing up the contradictions in the...

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying before, thought you were trying to defend the endings. Oops! Anyways, I have yet to see anyone explain the discrepancies in The Catalyst's logic in a satisfying way. Hearing, "All synthetic life will ALWAYS destroy ALL organics!" Is a bit rich...

I think this is pretty much the worst argument ~for~ the endings, ever. I find even the asinine "The people who think the endings are terrible just don't get it!" reasoning more satisfying than this. Because, sure, there are people who would probably be upset at whatever ending existed. There...

This is embarrassing. Please, don't feel like you need to stick around for little ol' me. How about you "explain" the endings to everyone again? You know, for old times' sake. I could use a laugh.

I thought you were done arguing? So. You know, unless you're going to start agreeing with everyone there's...not really much point in you continuing to post.

Err...you're not really explaining anything though? You're getting fanwanky with "Well maybe the Guardian was lying and that's why what he says goes completely against the themes of the series," and "Well the Reaper are aliens and so we can never really ~understand~ their motives!" Despite the...

But their "motives and reasoning" aren't "inherently alien to us." They are inherently ~stupid~ to us, because there are much more obvious ways of solving the (apparent) problem of "Synthetics will kill all organics!!!!" that aren't "we shall save the organics by killing organics! And then when...

I think one of the biggest problem with the endings, and why they are so unsatisfying, is because they seriously break the rule of "show, don't tell." You have this Guardian come out of nowhere, and tell you that organic life is (for some reason) destined to kill synthetic life. The issue with...