What are your too ***SPICY*** to handle hot takes of the trilogy?

EDI....SAM(Active before the events of ME3 see Cora's Novel)...humans were already on the road to developing AI that didn't turn into murderbots, and solving the supposed organic-synthetic problem. Everything the starchild tells Shepard is suspect, its a reaper. We didn't buy it when Sovereign was selling it, we didn't buy it when Harbringer was selling it, but now some reaper AI that was housed/dormant in the citadel is genuine?

You realize this goes both ways? If the galaxy supports Shepard in one ending, they support them in all endings. They all trust Shepard to save them from the Reapers, and all three choices do that. The only choice that doesn't is Refuse. 

if that is indeed the case then stop playing before that mission

DING DING DING!

I do recognize this. I made a choice to Destroy an entire race of creatures I had grown to love, arbitrated a truce with their creators that seemed unlikely at best just to finally wipe them out because I have to make a very hard choice. Oh and my friend Legion sacrificed himself to the Geth, for nothing. It still hurts, I hate it.

Joker will never speak to me again... I may never speak to myself again frankly.

I had to kill EDI, who was my friend and trusted me. I had to kill that AI race that you are concerned with (I didn't know about them, it doesn't make me happier with my choice). I didn't want any of them to die, and if I could have given them something of myself so that they could survive, my Shepard was ready and willing.

I chose to destroy. People will be mad, I made a choice, for them, to kill Geth EDI and a race of AI or two in some hidden corners of the galaxy. They had no choice in this decision.

I did not choose to be the Overlord, that at a Renegade whim (I did make Renegade decisions as a Paragade) I might decide to wipe out a planet because they made fun of the Shepard VI. People can choose their own God, but Shepard will mash the Renegade override anytime lol.

I did not choose to synthesize all organic life, invading their bodies and minds with whatever "Synthesis" entails. I believe you, like many people, seriously underestimate the implications of Synthesis. It is more than Geth working inside my Quarian's Soup, making it more cozy and aromatic - it is Quarth, or Gerian, but not Geth or Quarian.

Anyways, your turn

Nah you have to go to Cronos, if only to finally kill the plot armor discount Phantom boi. That mission is actually alright.

They clearly ran out of money making it though, and the game looks and sounds like a pre alpha indie thing once you get to Earth.

The goal is to stop the Reapers. Destroy is certainly a way to do that, but so are the other two. Some will complain in all three choices, but most will be completely fine with it in all three as well.

Hey at least you acknowledge that. I've had people argue for double standards, so it's nice when someone doesn't. 

I disagree on the last bit though, and there is no underestimating since I'm going with what Bioware showed and told us. 

That's what the former human named Shepard ends up being, if controlling the reapers. And like thing part 1, has no restrictions/shackles. So it could decide that thing part 1 was right by starting the harvest again.

Not mine but this take is extra spicy:

Putting aside the article overall stand in general, I don’t think it’s as easy as they make it sounds. The protagonist can be different, and have a different role then an ‘enforcer’ (which you generally didn’t in the OT, actually, if not for the endings of ME and ME3. One was basically retconetted, and the other ended up problematic), as it did happen with Andromeda, but it’s still difficult to handle the issue of a centralizing PC in an RPG, as Ryder was also, basically, ‘in charge’ even if he didn’t have nearly the galactic-wide power Shepard had in the final decision. 

So this person wants a Mass Effect game where you can't do anything. Great!

This is if you take the overly simplistic approach that the ending sets up for us. As a whole, the endings are total nonsense. 

Just think of all the messy details and implications inherent with each choice, like where do all the reaper zombie monsters go, or how would the galaxy even react to a continued, “friendly” reaper presence? Just imagine the rash of terrorist attacks from people who oppose anyone who welcome these reapers, or even outright assaults on any active reapers themselves for years to come, generations even. I guess it’s just full-frontal lobotomies for everyone, because they just accept it like good children, or perhaps the indoctrination effect was replaced by radiation that causes everyone to feel love. Each choice is just “it solves this particular problem” with little regard for how it’s even facilitated. Synthesis just works because the hologram says so, and we should just shut up and not think about it any deeper than that. 

At the very least, Destroy purges the peskiest elements of the setting, being the reapers and their various thralls. There’s no nagging questions about where they went or what they’re doing, because they’re just dead and leave no clutter beyond the occasional derelict. The synthetic vs organic “problem” isn’t even something that needs to be established as an absolute law of the setting either, especially since befriending them has already been established as being perfectly feasible without having to be augmented.