So why does almost everyone wo supports a canon ending want Destroy to be canonized?

Tali ate levo-based food at the party in Anderson's apartment.  I can buy that quarians have more difficulty because of their immo-deficiency issues.  She took antibiotics (or something like that) and was just fine.  Also, just found someone refuting the levo-dextro thing saying that many of our processed foods are dextro.  We generally say that processed foods are not good for us but we can still survive on them.  So, yeah, maybe time to retcon the error.

Right... back on topic...

I agree the Destroy option is probably most popular because it follows the narrative of the trilogy the closest. If it weren't for the fact that it also destroys the geth and all functional AIs then I would argue that Destroy is by far the best option, hands down.

Not to derail the thread again, but I made an argument in another section about how "preserving" cycles is fruitless since every race essentially hits a plateau technologically; there is nothing new to be gained from the Reapers' vast knowledge (as presented by Synthesis). Furthermore, using the Reapers as a galactic peacekeeper (through Control) effectively sets up an Orwellian police state where the surviving races would fear any innovation because the Reapers might crush you.

This is how I see it as well.  The mission was to destroy the Reapers.  If you bring up TIM's control idea to Hackett he outright tells you that destroying them is what you're meant to do.  That's my job.  Like themikefest  said, BioWare put a gun in your hand for a reason on the Citadel, and that reason is to shoot the tubes.

Ultimately, I do have issues with other options.  I think we talked Synthesis to death so I'll ignore that.

I agree that Control is an Orwellian overlord style approach.  Fear of reprisals and we know damn well that Reapers can take us out.  The only way around that would be to adopt Reaper tech into ships and planetary defense cannons.  Imagine the Reaper beams coming from a ship or using the material from the Reaper shells to build ship hulls.  My main fear is indoctrination.  We know from ME2 that indoctrination happens with Reapers EVEN WHEN THEY'RE DEAD.  That means it's kind of an autonomic function rather than self-willed.  Therefore, this could take the Orwellian concept to a whole new level.  People around Reapers and Reaper tech could be indoctrinated to obey Shepard without it even being intentional.  Bye-bye to free will.

Now, I doubt that's what BioWare was going for but it's a possible way to extrapolate based on what we know about Reaper tech.  The one and only reason I find Control to be okay is because I think the Leviathan are definitely going to try to take control of the galaxy again.  Reapers would prevent that from happening.  If we ever do get a new MW-based ME game, I'd love to see the threat be the Leviathan.  I don't think Synthesis or Destroy would put an end to them.  Even if we were "immortal" in Synthesis, there are ways people can be coerced into obedience - like massive amounts of pain or locking someone away forever.  

So far, whoever those people are crying for making the Destroy ending canon haven't posted here. I choose Destroy but if BioWare showed up with a MEMW game and said the canon ending was refusal I'd deal with it. Then we cut to 50,000 years forward when the next cycle discovers the Citadel AND Liara's beacons. They immediately build the Crucible and wipe out the Reapers the minute the arrive. Happy ending.

To be honest, I'd imagine that after a brief period of peace we'd have much more pirate activity than ever before. The Council races would have had their fleets largely decimated and would have to spend a good chunk of their time rebuilding infrastructure. Arguments over who sits on the Council would surely be a major theme. Krogan (if the genophage is cured) would have a good argument why they deserved a seat. We'd probably have yagh in the mix since we know salarians have been uplifting them. Someone like Aria T'Loak might take advantage of the situation and start to consolidate power by taking over planets in the Terminus Systems. And, as anehforaneh said, there are lots of unexplored areas of the galaxy. Who knows what might crawl out of the woodwork once the major known races are preoccupied? Hell, even the rachni might be around and, while not be aggressive, could be seen as a threat if they opted to colonize a world that once housed a now-deceased colony from a Council race. This is all off the top of my head right now but there's plenty of interesting games that could be played based on any of the four possible endings.

Upside to Destroy? A Shepard that survived might reappear after recovering from the events on the Crucible. People would line up to follow Shepard to the gates of hell and to face any threat they encountered.

Control ending could lead to a Shepard-Reaper/Leviathan war.  Could be interesting.

The Leviathan are still out there and surely intending the conquer the galaxy.  I don't see how Synthesis would stop them from trying.

My main thing with Synthesis is that I want the Reapers dead.  I love that the Crucible wave conveniently turns the husks and stuff to dust.  Don't want to see them at all again.  It would be like if that zombie that just ate your kid's brain now wants to have a conversation with you.  No thanks.

Could refuse be canon?

Shortly after Shepard refuses, a shuttle shows up. Hackett sent it because he realized time wasn't on his side and he hasn't heard from Shepard. Back on the Normandy, Shepard tells holo-Hackett, not the truth, he/she couldn't find anything to get the crucible to fire. At that point, Hackett tells Shepard since the events of ME1, the Alliance and the council species have been restoring Ilos in secret. They have it up and running with plans to put x number of folks in stasis to warn the next cycle. He tells Shepard to head there.

Once on Ilos, the Normandy is powered down. The crew is put in pods to awaken at whatever time in the future.

One of the problems with the above is squadmates. The only squadmate that would/could be around, depending on the playthrough, is the edibot. So a sequel with just the platform as a squadmate wouldn't work. So why not have all the LI's, including Miranda and Jack, put in stasis to wake up whenever?

I'm not sure what story could be told doing this. Maybe encounter one of the younger species to explain to them about the reapers and what can be done to stop them. Maybe help them and other species with problems they have whether its dealing with mercenaries, pirates, slavers or whatever. 

Even traveling to Earth, Palaven and  Thessia could prove interesting to see what they look like. It would be interesting if, by luck, survivors are found.

I don't know.

Because in destroy, the ultimate goal of what you set out to do in ME1 (destroy the reapers and save the galaxy) is realized and without hooking all known organics into some tie in with synthetics.

It's not really a combo ending though.  It's just a destroy ending with some subsequent events... as predicted by the Catalyst.

Bah... some people just take their entertainment a little less seriously than others... and just don't develop grudges against individual writers as a result.

#writersarepeopletoo

Any singular ending, including destroy, can be made to create an interesting sequel from it.  Bioware, though, doesn't want to just carry forward a singular ending... at least at this point in time.