Mass Effect 3!

[K0rN_b4LL]

Wtf is the indoctrination theory?

 

[Alexandra]

Wtf is the indoctrination theory?

How the Reapers control organics. It's like the Illusive Man. He was being controlled by them. But the "Indoctrination Theory" is the Blue/Paragon Ending. Where you take control of the Reapers as the new Catalyst, or so it seems.

 

[Destinizish]

How the Reapers control organics. It's like the Illusive Man. He was being controlled by them. But the "Indoctrination Theory" is the Blue/Paragon Ending. Where you take control of the Reapers as the new Catalyst, or so it seems.

Not quite:

Spoiler

The indoctrination theory is the theory that BioWare wrote ME3 as the story of Shepard's indoctrination. In ME2 there's an entry that goes over the indoctrination process and explains what happens to victims. Long story short - they see ghostly figures, hear humming noises, get headaches and hallucinate. All these things happen in Shep's dream, and he also seems to have hallucinated the child on earth. (After all he's the only one who ever saw the kid, it seemed [nobody helped him into the shuttle])

So people are proposing that everything after the laser hits you before the conduit is reaper induced reality - none of it is actually happening, but it's all strong suggestions and hallucinations given to shep by the reapers. Catalyst is actually harbinger, and this is the reason the "destroy" ending is proposed as the worst ending, while the synthesis and control ends (which save the reapers) are shown as the good endings. After all, if you get the perfect ending after choosing destroy, shep wakes up on London - which means he could be waking up right after that laser hit.

There's also a bunch of stretching to make this theory fit, too. Such as the set of the final choice looking suspiciously similar to your walk to the conduit. (There's some broken reaper parts to your left as you walk to the conduit with symbols on it. When you get to the final choice, 3 path part, you can look to your left to see those same symbols on the wall.) etc.

 

[Alexandra]

Not quite:

Spoiler

The indoctrination theory is the theory that BioWare wrote ME3 as the story of Shepard's indoctrination. In ME2 there's an entry that goes over the indoctrination process and explains what happens to victims. Long story short - they see ghostly figures, hear humming noises, get headaches and hallucinate. All these things happen in Shep's dream, and he also seems to have hallucinated the child on earth. (After all he's the only one who ever saw the kid, it seemed [nobody helped him into the shuttle])

So people are proposing that everything after the laser hits you before the conduit is reaper induced reality - none of it is actually happening, but it's all strong suggestions and hallucinations given to shep by the reapers. Catalyst is actually harbinger, and this is the reason the "destroy" ending is proposed as the worst ending, while the synthesis and control ends (which save the reapers) are shown as the good endings. After all, if you get the perfect ending after choosing destroy, shep wakes up on London - which means he could be waking up right after that laser hit.

There's also a bunch of stretching to make this theory fit, too. Such as the set of the final choice looking suspiciously similar to your walk to the conduit. (There's some broken reaper parts to your left as you walk to the conduit with symbols on it. When you get to the final choice, 3 path part, you can look to your left to see those same symbols on the wall.) etc.

How do I get the perfect ending?

 

[Alexandra]

Spoiler

Did anyone else think that if symbiosis is chosen, that EDI and Joker (as new beings of a new race) reproduced, or possibly could? Maybe the old man at the end is Joker and his child, or one of his descendants on the planet they crash landed on?