Things that don't make sense (v2)

No one really shocked at Shepard's resurrection in ME2

He was with Cerberus.  Plenty of people, including the VS, think maybe Shepard didn't actually die, instead disappearing to work with Cerberus.  Even Conrad Verner doesn't understand the distinction based on his appearance in ME3.  If he didn't, a lot of people wouldn't get it.  So, no, people aren't that shocked.

That's where the missiles were.  They were heading toward the beam in this instance.  It's not like they had a lot of say in this.

- How is Miranda a biotic when she was born before the discovery of biotic potential in humans?

- Why does Samara believe her daughters are the only Ardat-Yakshi in existence when she sent them to live in a giant Ardat-Yakshi monastery?

James landing the shuttle where he did on Mars instead of by the front door

Kai Leng on Thessia. Why didn't he just tell the gunship to fire at the supports instead of wasting time fighting Shepard and squad?

Vendetta. On Chronos it says it wasn't able to reveal what the catalyst was till the crucible was finished. It was programmed that way to avoid the reapers having to take the Citadel. Ok. But what's to stop them from taking it even if the Crucible is built. We still have to get the crucible to the Citadel. The reapers could still take the Citadel during that time. In the Prothean cycle they knew what the catalyst was before the crucible was built, so why not have Vendetta say what the catalyst is for us instead of waiting till the crucible was built? 

Before arriving on Eden Prime, Ashley is seen in the vid and then a moment later it shows Sovereign. When we finally see Sovereign leaving, Ashley acts like she never seen the ship before by saying look at the size of it. If she did, why didn't she mention it before we see Sovereign?

When talking with Joker in purgatory and Shepard tell's him just to be friends with edi, Shepard will still say I'll protect your girlfriend, depending on what dialogue is chosen, just before Chronos. Why have that dialogue in Purgatory if they still end up together?

EMS
Before the extended cut was released, the player needed 4000 ems if Anderson is"saved", and 5000 ems if TIM kills Anderson. I guess that means Anderson was worth 1000 ems.
With the extended cut requiring only 3100 ems to get the breath scene, Anderson is only worth 200 war assets if "saved", and If TIM kills him, the player loses 100 war assets.
So before only 4 Andersons could defeat the reapers, now 15.5 Andersons are needed to defeat the reapers.
I get Anderson is an important character, but he's not worth more than a fleet
Galactic readiness is at 50% unless the player plays multiplayer to raise that readiness. So with readiness at 50%, that means only half of a fleet or person will be available. For example, Jack is worth 25 war assets, but at 50% she is really worth 12.5. For her to be at her best, the player has to get the readiness to 100%.

Jack becoming an instructor.

Well, you have to tie it in to what Barla Von was saying. He had hopes that if humanity rises, then maybe his own people would. But it never happened.. and I think maybe Korlack thought if he just hitched his wagon to the current humans who seemed powerful, things would improve for him.

I think it's supposed to be sorta pathetic and illustrate how left out the Volus feel.

I've thought about that since launch as well. It's one of many things in the ending that only makes sense with dream-logic. So it could be symbolic. Otherwise, it's really beyond stupid.

As for wanting an excuse for Shepard to die, well, they didn't need to add debris or anything like that, since they already had this:

...Which Shepard apparently survives as well.

I dunno, Anderson is pretty awesome But if you take "EMS" to mean "Effective Mental Strength" instead, it makes a helluva lot more sense. Anderson is Shep's mentor, and the prime advocate for destroy besides Shep themselves. It's a huge loss to their resolve. This would also apply to characters like Grunt giving as more or more EMS as the entire rest of Aralakh Company, who are elite krogan. Anyway, you're probably bored of my IT stuff, so...

Once you start wondering why the Reapers didn't do X, you'll keep on wondering for a long time. Why didn't the Reapers concentrate fire on the Crucible while it was docking? It might be tough, but it can't withstand that kind of assault. Not only that, but they aren't shown even trying to destroy it. Why doesn't Harbinger or any other capital Reaper just fire one round at the London FOB or Beam area instead of landing? One MAC would have leveled the place. Did he just want to be his own tower defense game? I get it, cycles get boring after a while, gotta spice things up.

Oh, and to answer your earlier question about why Harbinger's beam fries Shepard's armour but not the other soldiers, I seem to remember the other bodies being there from before Harby showed up. But here's a better question: Why does it completely vapourize everyone but Shepard? I actually have an answer for that though. Harby has 3 extra beam weapons where the other Reapers have a 5th leg. However, he only uses the 2 outer ones on the beam run to kill soldiers and vehicles, while the only time he ever uses his center beam is to incapacitate Shepard at the end of the run.

"Preserve Shepard's body if possible."

Why are the Krogan needed in ME3? Victus says (paraphrase): 'The only way we can win this war is if we get the Krogan.' How are a load of foot soldiers, however strong they are, supposed to defeat a fleet of a thousand or more massive sentient ships which required an entire Alliance fleet to defeat just one? Not even a million Krogan headbutting one reaper at once for a month would do any damage at all.

And why do the reapers have such an ineffective strategy? They don't use any WMDs of any description, instead opting to laser beam people one at a time, and they can't even do that. Several times, reaper beams just so happen to miss Shepard by a couple of inches every time.

In ME1, Ashley can tell Shepard that during the first contact war, the Turians would stay in orbit, "dropping rocks on anything that moved. They would wipe out an entire block to destroy one fire team." It's official: The Turians are more effective than the reapers at defeating resistance on planets below.

Hanging out for days (weeks) and throwing a big party on the Citadel while the reapers are probably killing thousands by the minute. Tic toc, motherfucker.

Wrex yelling "Uncle Urdnot's got a present for you" when shooting someone in the Citadel DLC. Urdnot is his clan name, not his given name.

The entire weapon technology and thermal clip/ammo issue. "Press 8 to expend an ammo pack"... when you forgot to visit the ammo crates. Heh.

I was thinking that once they knew the Citadel was the Crucible and that the Reapers have been transporting people up through the beam, they should have immediately tried infiltration. It takes time to align the Allied fleet to launch from their individual staging area so they could all arrive at the approximate same time in Earth space. The Reapers would have known an attack fleet was coming (no thanks to TIM) but if they moved fast enough, they could tell Anderson to prepare an infiltration team and try to get to the beam using the enemy's own land / flying transport on Earth. The secondary fall back plan (distraction / feints) would be Anderson's resistance and the forces arriving with the Allied fleet.

Nothing symbolic about walking towards the tube while shooting it. Anyone who's been trained to use a weapon would know the effective range of that weapon and realize if the target can be hit from a distance, getting closer won't make the results any better
Not that awesome
 My Shepard never considered him to be a mentor

The reapers were made stupid so that Shepard and the galaxy can defeat them

A better question is why did Harbinger fly off and not vaporize Anderson?

It's because of the gunship. You know, that thing that Garrus was able to disable with a sniper rifle and Shepard is able to destroy without problems in Mass Effect 2. 

That's the problem with Kai Leng. It's not just the stupid design. He also makes everyone around him look stupid.