Just watched the Shepard Indoctrination video.
I can safely say I completely disagree with it and there's a lot of stuff that's explained away rather easily. And especially don't like the theory because it basically makes ME3 a complete non-ending. You didn't defeat the Reapers, you didn't save the galaxy, you didn't do any of that. All you did was assemble a giant space armada and nothing got accomplished.
See, the reason why the "destroy" option was red and you lived was because it was, in my opinion, the most selfish option. There's many reasons why I believe this:
1. You destroy all "current" synthetic life. No where do they state that synthetic life can never exist again, simply that all synthetics that exist now are destroyed.
2. You doomed the universe. You may have saved it from the threat of the Reapers, but the Catalyst states that synthetic life will wipe out all organic life. And this isn't just bulls*** from the Catalyst, either. The Prothean VI also observed that the galaxy following a set mathematical pattern in terms of the rise and fall of the galaxy, and as he stated himself, it wasn't the Reapers creating this pattern. It is a pattern that can and always will happen, and the Reapers are actually the slaves to it. You may have given yourself a temporary stay of execution, but eventually you will create more synthetic life, it will rebel against the organics, and it will wipe them out.
3. The reapers contain the genetic material of previous races, cultures, species, etc. The Catalyst even says it's the way to preserve them. If you destroy them, then they're gone forever, with no way of ever restoring them.
So if you pick the destroy option, you've temporarily saved organics from the Reapers, but you've doomed all organics to complete and utter destruction by synthetics, you've wiped out ancient civilizations that might have been brought back to life, and you've killed off all the current active synthetics like EDI and the Geth. That doesn't seem heroic, at best it seems short-sighted.
There's also the fact that IF the Reapers were trying to trick Shepard into picking the "control" option by making it blue, why the bloody hell would you allow a vision of the Illusive f***ing Man to appear when looking at that option, while allowing the heroic Anderson appearance for the "destroy" option. That makes no sense and completely undermines the Reapers trying to trick Shepard into a decision. At the very least, it should have no visions.
Now, is "control" the paragon option? It's up for debate, but part of me argues yes. Why? Because, if the Shepard you're playing as is a paragon of virtue, that would be a reflection of how the Reapers would behave from now on. Reapers are only horrifying because of what they did in the name of preserving the universe. If you replace that Catalyst's cold logic with Shepard's humanity, you're going to get a completely different Reaper force. They become peace-keepers and protectors of the galaxy. They represent something Shepard could never achieve on his own: complete galactic peace. He could stop them from indoctrinating species, stop them from harvesting, all the while maintaining their military might. He also represents something that the Catalyst could never do: preserve life without destroying it. Shepard's humanity allows him to ignore the mathematics, and with the Reaper force behind him he could prevent synthetics from actually wiping out organics, unlike the "destroy" ending where, without the Reapers organics could be right f***ed.
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TheRock ~ Slow dramatic zoom-pan. Doesn't phase the hooded man.
"You have issues." - MWC. Pot. Kettle.