ShadowHalo17 posted...
From: TheRock1525 | #442
Never said that the Geth are going to destroy organics, only that synthetics will. Big difference. Just cause the geth eventually become peaceful towards the organic species doesn't mean that the next form of synthetic life won't revolt. Or the next. Or the next.
And organics will find a way to smack them down, just like they took care of the geth.
Synthetics were apparently created to kill all organics so that they wouldn't be killed by synthetics. The Reapers were never so heavily opposed before, Shepard prevailed in ways they couldn't have foreseen. Even the Catalyst admits that. If the magic space god couldn't believe that Shepard accomplished what he did, then he's also not going to believe that there's any way life can change. Even when there could be. Hope has always been a theme, as mentioned, and the ending just shuts us all down and says no. There's no hope, there's no way anything can be anything different from what I'm telling you right now. You absolutely have to accept that this is the truth and everything you have fought for is a lie.
How anyone can accept this is beyond me.
Which is why the Catalyst gives you a choice in the matter, rather than allowing the cycle to continue. You're allowed to give people hope in three different ways. Arguing that hope is gone would mean that Shepard didn't do anything and the cycle just continued. Your mere presence confirmed to the Catalyst that the current system had to change, and gave you the options.
That's not "no hope." That's the exact opposite, you gave them their own future in one of three different ways.
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