Wouldn't be my first choice, but I can deal with the "three flavors" ending so long as there's some closure and some questions answered. And you wouldn't need Shepard to do that. But there are some
huge things in
desperate need of tying up:
(I chose the Synthesis option for my first play-through, as the lesser of three evils - though a lot of this is probably going to be common to the other two endings.)
What is the Normandy doing, in the first place? I'd spoken directly to Admiral Hackett not five minutes ago, and last I'd seen him, he was on the Normandy, which was supposedly playing a crucial role in the battle in orbit around Earth.
- So, the Crucible starts
, because Space Magic. What makes Joker decide that now he must flee to the Mass Relay?
- They don't know I'm dead - this is not their first heroic rescue against all odds. Why are they not sticking around to even see if I make it out or not?
- Could the Normandy even have made it there in time? Isn't the only Mass Relay in Earth's system out on the edge of the system?
- I just turned everything into
, for
. What does that even mean, exactly? How does that break the cycle? Are humans now like, Mentats, or something? Because even if we're glowy-circuitry things - does that mean we won't have any further use for artificial intelligence of any sort? Or just that now they won't try and kill us, because of 
There are now the combined forces of the entire Galaxy massed around Earth's system. With the Mass Relays gone, they're effectively stranded with no way out. Earth's resources were already stressed before the Reapers were busy destroying it for the past
So... how does that work, exactly? Everyone starves?
(My personal theory is that the Krogan take over...)
And, oh yeah - so, are the squad-mates I took on my final mission dead, now? Because there was this giant Reaper laser beam and all...
And if they didn't die, what are they doing now? Miranda was my love interest in the game - I'm understandably a little curious to see how she deals with being magically (and without warning or even explanation) turned into... glowy-circuitry lady (presumably. Night light sales across the Galaxy are certainly going to suffer after the Synthesis ending.)
What about any of my crew? Okay - Joker and EDI are going to make really weird babies on some random planet, because I guess that's what you go and do when your Commander may or may not be dead (who knows? They don't - they didn't stick around to find out.)
What about any of the political ramifications of what I spent the entire game brokering? Do Wrex and Eve bring back a Golden Age of Krogan - who don't try and destroy the Galaxy now? Does it work out withe the Quarians and the Geth?
Lastly - Shepard is the only one in the Galaxy who knows what he did. And he ain't talking. Everyone just got glowy-circuitry stuff going on when Space Magic Day happened, because Crucible. I don't know about anyone else - that would freak me right out. I certainly wouldn't immediately think "Oh, that rascal Commander Shepard must have figured out how to save us from this "cycle" that I - as a civilian who has not had conversations with Reapers or even heard of them until they started killing us all - don't know anything about. Surely this is a good thing that has happened. I do not need to see a Doctor about my new skin condition - not that they'd know anything about it, either. Hooray Commander Shepard! I wanted the Reapers gone, and you not only did that, but this other thing! Which is... awesome! I have no reason to assume that I've suddenly become a monstrosity!"
Anyway - my point is that I don't need Hale or Meer to do voice-overs for any of that. I'd like someone to be doing some voice work, obviously - but Commander Shepard is the last person I'd expect to show up and explain all of this to me, at this point. I don't really expect them to completely re-write the last ten minutes of the game (though I wouldn't mind if they did.) But I would like some answers...