(more theory/ending spoilers)
What is the point of having an indoctrinated character if the person directing them knows they are indoctrinated? Shepard isn’t the only person that has been indoctrinated. We have. We didn’t see the subtle hints. Shepard didn’t notice the signs, and so we didn’t notice them. We were too caught up in saving Earth, just like Shepard. If Shepard had said, “Something’s wrong”, we would have noticed. We might have guessed. We would have gone straight for the ‘right’ option, regardless of what Bioware may have intended for the end. But because we were left with the idea that the control and synthesis options were the best options, we blindly moved towards them. Directed Shepard toward them.
And the Reapers win.
We, the players, were indoctrinated right alongside Shepard. And by sitting here and demanding that we have a different ending, we acknowledging that something is wrong. Something is broken. Something is not right. But instead of thinking that Bioware has done this deliberately to us, we swung immediately into rage and hate and slammed them for the decision.
I need this theory to be correct. It's amazingly well done and I don't even want a DLC that hand holds people through it if that's the case. What really seals it for me is Shepard's dreams being full of the 'oily black shadows' the Rachni Queen talks about, and those same oily shadows swirling around Shepard/Anderson when TIM is controlling them.
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If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE]
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