Mass Effect 3: Bookends of Destruction Part 3

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Published on April 14, 2012 8:09:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qa81mq3744

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Mass Effect 3 (2012)

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Mass Effect 3 has an ending. Before we get to that, we need some context, content, and a little bit of plot, on how we get to that ending.

The various questions I have had to be properly categorized:
Subject
-Questions
-Stupidity
-Plot Holes
-Contrived
-Lore
-ME Series
-Simple Fix

The list so far:
1. The Crucible
Question
1.1. Why allocate resources if it's always completed?
Stupid
1.1. No one knows what it does.
Contrived
1.1. It will always get done.
Simple Fix
1.1 Make the Crucible optional.

2. Shepard's Resurrection
Question
2.1. How was Shepard's brain preserved?
2.2. How did the scientist know about the helmet?
Stupid
2.1. Kaidan and brains
Series
2.1. ME2: How was Shepard's brain preserved by their helmet, if their helmet was removed?
Simple Fix
2.1 Plubotinum, a resurrection machine, explain how planetary re-entry didn't crush Shepard, etc.

3. The Human Reaper
Question
3.1. If Shepard destroyed the Collector Base in ME2, how the hell did anything not get vaporized?
3.2. How did Cerberus put anything back together?
Contrived
3.1. The Human Reaper is always recovered.
Series
3.1.What was the point of ME2?
Simple Fix
3.1 People who blew up the base get nothing.

4. TIM
Question
4.1. What exactly did Cerberus achieve?
4.2. What did Cerberus achieve that uplifted humanity above the Reapers?
4.3. How is controlling Reapers better than destroying them?
4.4. Why are we even talking to TIM? Why did he decide to talk to us?
4.5. What exactly is the "idea" of Cerberus?
4.6. Why is it necessary to control the Reapers?
4.7. Why can't we overstay our welcome?
Stupid
4.1. What was the point of this scene?
4.2. TIM doesn't make any sense.
Simple Fix
4.1 Get rid of this scene.

5. Reapers
Question
5.1. Why did the Reapers attack the Citadel at the behest of TIM, and not immediately?
5.2. Why did the Reapers move the Citadel to Sol?
5.3. Though the Reapers now control the relays, they kept the Charon relay open...why?
Stupid
5.1. Why wait?
Plot Hole
5.1. Why Wait?
Contrived
5.1. Why wait?
5.2. What a coincidence!  Earth is special again.
5.3. What a coincidence! Earth is special yet again.
Series
5.1. ME1: Why didn't the Reapers attack the Citadel first?
Simple Fix
5.1. ???

6. Killing Kai Leng
Question
6.1. Shepard sits back down in TIM's chair after defeating Kai Leng. Why?
6.2. How can no one hear Kai Leng staggering to kill Shepard?
6.3. How did Renegade Shepard break a sword with his wrist?
6.4. But if Shepard's a adept, where did the omni-blade come from?
Contrived
6.1. Why didn't adept Shepard use an omni-blade before?

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