@Curious_George said:
@HistoryInRust said:
Also, I think it's a stupid inconsistency that the Starchild literally says, about the evolution that comes as a result of Synthesis, "It can't be forced." And then he has Shepard walk into a beam of light that, well, forces it.
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tl;dr -- I'd rather have an ending where Shepard sacrifices himself to implant his consciousness in the Reaper Hivemind and allows the civilizations of the galaxy to unfold and grow naturally than an ending that sucks the entirety of life in the universe through a straw against their will or consent and homogenizes every living thing.
But it's not being forced, at least not on Shepard. In that situation, as the first organic to ever to be given the choice, Shepard is basically the representative of all organic life. So Shepard makes the choice for everyone, but as a leader sometimes that's what they must do, they make a choice for thousands or millions of people because they're the only one in that position of power to make that choice. So, weighing the consequences, I don't think forcing synthesis on organics is all that terrible of a choice for Shepard to make, since as it epilogue mentions it could be the beginning of immortality for all life.
Exactly. When he says it "can't be forced", he means it can't be forced on a galaxy that is not ready for it. By the mere act of being there, Shepard had demonstrated that organic life was ready. As the representative of all life, he chose to have all life ascend to a higher plane of existence, rather than have one form of life live, and another die.
I thought the Synthesis ending was fantastic.
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