Reading the OP's posts reminds me of those really over-the-top/obvious examples used to illustrate different logical fallacies. He's a big fan of circular logic and begging the question.
So were the Reapers going to kill the Geth too? The impression I was under was that they only targeted organic life, thus the Geth/Sovereign alliance, but what's the point of "pruning" the intelligent organic life if you're just going to leave behind the comparatively super-advanced Geth to dominate the galaxy after the Reapers go back to dark space?
Honestly, I'm not that worked up over the ending, since to me the real appealing part of the fiction was the interspecies stuff (genophage, geth v. quarians) and the characters (ugh, Tali knifing Legion was heartwrenching), and not so much the grand over arching plot about the Reapers, which always struck me as warmed-over Babylon 5, but without the Vorlons.
But I am bugged by the fact that, given what little information we were given at the end, it seems like Earth (and the entire solar system) was blown up in all 3 endings, since the destruction of a mass relay is supposed to trigger a supernova-level explosion. Is that really what we were supposed to take away from it? That sure didn't feel like the tone the endings were trying to strike, but that's what the fiction they laid out says.
And this isn't some tiny bit of trivia buried in the codex, the last major DLC for ME2 pretty much revolved around the whole "exploding relay=exploded solar system" thing.
People attribute the whole "overhearing conversations to pick up quests" to laziness, but I think it may be a way of avoiding the awkwardness of Shepard agreeing to run errands while the galaxy is being eaten by robots. Maybe they just could not think of Shepard dialogue that was even remotely credible, so they just made all the conversations private, and the artifacts stuff Shepard found on his own, rather than going out of his way to look for them.
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