Where was Sovereign during your mission to Ilos? Since Ilos is apparently a super-important part of Saren's plan, why wasn't it there, shooting the Normandy's face off? (And don't tell me the Normandy's stealth system kept it hidden. Mass Effect 2 reveals that the Collectors - working for the Reapers - have no problems finding the Normandy.)
Why did the Normandy go from Ilos to the Arcturus Sector? How did Joker know that he wouldn't have to pick up Shepard from Ilos? How did Joker know Shepard was on the Citadel? Did he read the script?
Come to think of it, remember on Feros where one dinky geth energy field was blocking your signal from the Normandy, which was a kilometer or so away? At the end of Mass Effect 1, Sovereign itself is parked maybe 50 feet above your head, and yet Joker can reach you from the other side of the galaxy just fine. Did he upgrade the systems after what happened on Feros?
If the whole point of the Conduit was to get the Prothean survivors from Ilos to the Citadel, how was there a corresponding Mass Relay (the monument) already on the Citadel? If it wasn't there before the survivors arrived, how did the Prothean survivors get there, and why did they construct it after they'd already gotten there?
Why did the Protheans need the Conduit to get back to the Citadel if the Reapers had already left? (Or did they build the Conduit to get back and forth quickly between the Citadel and Ilos, and if so, why?)
If Sovereign’s whole plan was to use the Conduit to get to the Citadel, why didn't Saren just make up some Spectre-ey excuse to go poking through the Citadel's control panel while he was there? Barring that, since Sovereign is capable of blowing through the Citadel defense fleet, molesting the Citadel Tower, and disgorging a crapton of cannon fodder to slow Shepard down, why didn't Saren just ride in on Sovereign? Why did he need the Conduit at all?
You might think that an answer to the previous question is, "Sovereign needed Saren to be on the Citadel to keep the arms open long enough for Sovereign to dock during the attack." But then, why did Saren need to attack the Citadel? It's not like the Council thought Saren was a bad guy until Shepard revealed that he attacked Eden Prime, which he only did to find the Conduit, which I just established he never needed in the first place. Instead of that complicated half-assed plan, he could have just said "hey, this is my new ship. I need a vector and a berth." They'd have been like "okay, cool." I mean they're already cool with him having a geth arm, apparently no questions asked about that. Then just park Sovereign at the Citadel for a couple of months until everyone who matters is Indoctrinated, and then have them let the Reapers in. I guess Indoctrination really does make you more dumberer.
And finally: how did Sovereign find out about the Conduit? At some point, it had to have formulated something along the lines of the plan I just outlined above, because it didn't know of the Conduit's existence. But once it found out about the Conduit, it decided that using it would make more sense...? Huh? What?
In conclusion, anyone who thinks that the Mass Effect 3 ending is bad because it throws too much Stuff That Don't Make No Sense at you at the last minute clearly has not been paying attention to the previous games.
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