Quote Originally Posted by Anarion View Post
No, it wouldn't have. You got onto the Citadel to destroy the reapers and it gives you that option. No amount of dialogue or recasting of meaning or any other BS would possibly stop Shepard from taking that option and destroying the reapers because he doesn't want to be part of Starkid's schemes.
But that's not how the ending presents it. Shepard isn't given the option to Renegade interrupt and destroy the Reapers the moment it's revealed how. You've got to sit and listen to the Starkid and accept the premise that you've got to take one of the three options the Starkid allows you to, accept death, and like it. It's all on the Starkid's terms.

It's these elements of presentation that really kills it. It would still be bad providing those options right at the end without proper foreshadowing, but the way it's presented as forcing them down the throat of Shepard makes it so much worse.