You have the option to make your player character, Commander Shepard, either a man or a woman, so I should probably keep the character gender-neutral here.

_But before we start, let me explain something. _First of all, just for the sake of formality, I’d better give you a rundown of the theory itself – and the general setup of the ending. _So, for the rest of my fellow Mass Effect fans, let’s go. So if you haven’t played Mass Effect 3 (hell, the whole trilogy) yet, I highly recommend you do so before reading this. _Now, I’m sure this goes without saying, but this post will contain heavy spoilers. And I’m here today to list the ones that I believe most strongly.

Fans have come up with a whole suite of arguments to back it up, based on hints dropped throughout the game. The Indoctrination Theory is the most popular theory out there that attempts to make sense of the ending, and now it’s gained one more supporter in me, thanks mainly to CleverNoobs’ trilogy of documentaries on the subject. Yes, at first glance, the ending is a confusing mess littered with plot holes and offensive to everything the Mass Effect series stands for, but a certain fan theory that really caught on has found a deeper meaning in it that understandably went over most of our heads. _But I realise now that my intense hatred for the ending was simply because I took it at face value. Some of you may recall that I, like so many others, was so displeased and downright outraged by the ending of Mass Effect 3 that I posted a two-thousand-word rant about it on my blog before I reviewed the game itself. _Ever since I played through the whole trilogy last May, Mass Effect has pretty much become my obsession as of late.

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