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<blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 5863828" data-attributes="member: 12760"><p>Yes, if you examine any fictional creation enough, you'll find holes. And the more well thought through and sophisticated the fiction, the harder the holes will be to find. the problem with the ME3 ending is that the holes are OBVIOUS and GLARING, and that's why people have so many problems with them.</p><p></p><p>As for filling in with your imagination, that's a very generous take you have on the failure of the creators to come up with a satisfying conclusion. But the fact that you can imagine some marginally plausible reason for the ending to make sense is not the same thing as the ending making sense. It just means that you're willing to give the creators a very, very large chuck of the benefit of the doubt. </p><p></p><p>It shouldn't surprise you that a lot of others, who have invested just as much time (and money) in this game as you have, aren't as willing to give the creators that much of the benefit of the doubt, and would like it if the story had wrapped up in a narratively more satisfying and self-consistent way, rather than me having to imagine how it WOULD have wrapped up IF it had been narratively satisfying and consistent.</p><p></p><p>Again, I'm happy for you that you were satisfied by the ending. It doesn't make those of us who aren't wrong for not being so.</p><p></p><p>But hey, just as long as you feel like you "won" something ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remus Lupin, post: 5863828, member: 12760"] Yes, if you examine any fictional creation enough, you'll find holes. And the more well thought through and sophisticated the fiction, the harder the holes will be to find. the problem with the ME3 ending is that the holes are OBVIOUS and GLARING, and that's why people have so many problems with them. As for filling in with your imagination, that's a very generous take you have on the failure of the creators to come up with a satisfying conclusion. But the fact that you can imagine some marginally plausible reason for the ending to make sense is not the same thing as the ending making sense. It just means that you're willing to give the creators a very, very large chuck of the benefit of the doubt. It shouldn't surprise you that a lot of others, who have invested just as much time (and money) in this game as you have, aren't as willing to give the creators that much of the benefit of the doubt, and would like it if the story had wrapped up in a narratively more satisfying and self-consistent way, rather than me having to imagine how it WOULD have wrapped up IF it had been narratively satisfying and consistent. Again, I'm happy for you that you were satisfied by the ending. It doesn't make those of us who aren't wrong for not being so. But hey, just as long as you feel like you "won" something ... [/QUOTE]
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