User blog comment:B1littlehero/Speculation of the Origin of Species/@comment-24013204-20140611172200/@comment-160529-20140612012855

Peace is not something you can force, peace is not thrust upon people with an iron sword... forced to conform to a specific ideal, what is achieved by synthesis is not peace, its conformity and homogenization... Real peace, peace that matters... is the kind that is earned, the kind that comess from people looking inside of themselves and saying "I dont want to hate anymore, I dont want to fight" and that realization is important, more important than you can possibly imagine.

I actually give Beast Machines a pass on this, because BEast Machines handled the concept of Synthesis well (and it built its story around the idea). Beast Machines was about surpassing the limits you though you had and realizing that there is more to life, it used the symbiosis of organic and machine life as a metaphor for spirituality.

Megatron in the series was wrong because he rejected what he was, and what would make his people grow, and he forced others to be like how he wanted (you know, like the synthesis ending).

I am not even saying that the story of synthesis is bad, I may have my own moral and phylosophical disagreements with it, but it was undeniably the wrong turn for the story and its undeniable that the ending of mass effect 3 was an objective failure on every possible level. I am a professional writer dude, I am speaking from experience... its a crappy twist ending that only exists to be a crappy twist ending.