"It's about the journey, not the destination"
>Wake up.
>What, where am I?
>The Citadel, it's my home.
>Who are you?
>I am the Catalyst.
>I thought the Citadel was the Catalyst?
>No, the Citadel is part of me.
>I need to stop the Reapers. Do you know how I can do that?
>Perhaps. I control the Reapers. They are my solution.
>Solution... to what?
>Chaos.
>The Created will always rebel against their Creators. But we've found a way to stop that from happening - a way to restore order, for the next cycle.
>By wiping out Organic Life?
>No. We harvest advanced civilizations, leaving the younger ones alone. Just as we left your people alive, the last time we were here.
>But you killed the rest.
>We helped them ascend, so they could make way for new life. Storing the old life in Reaper form.
>I think we'd rather keep our own form.
>No, you can't.
>Without us to stop it, Synthetics would destroy all Organics. We've created the cycle so that never happens. That's the solution.
It has been burned into my mind for 13 years. I try to remind myself that this part didn't matter, because it's ultimately about the memories, and the journey, not the thesis of the entire story, where it all was supposed to come together and amount to a higher sense of absolute cinema. I'll ignore that part, because everything else was so good. I'm glad I moved on.
>What, where am I?
>The Citadel, it's my home.
>Who are you?
>I am the Catalyst.
>I thought the Citadel was the Catalyst?
>No, the Citadel is part of me.
>I need to stop the Reapers. Do you know how I can do that?
>Perhaps. I control the Reapers. They are my solution.
>Solution... to what?
>Chaos.
>The Created will always rebel against their Creators. But we've found a way to stop that from happening - a way to restore order, for the next cycle.
>By wiping out Organic Life?
>No. We harvest advanced civilizations, leaving the younger ones alone. Just as we left your people alive, the last time we were here.
>But you killed the rest.
>We helped them ascend, so they could make way for new life. Storing the old life in Reaper form.
>I think we'd rather keep our own form.
>No, you can't.
>Without us to stop it, Synthetics would destroy all Organics. We've created the cycle so that never happens. That's the solution.
It has been burned into my mind for 13 years. I try to remind myself that this part didn't matter, because it's ultimately about the memories, and the journey, not the thesis of the entire story, where it all was supposed to come together and amount to a higher sense of absolute cinema. I'll ignore that part, because everything else was so good. I'm glad I moved on.