[Mike F]

FWIW, I restarted from the save just before you enter the beam to return to the Citadel and got the new ending.

Agree to some degree with some of the comments above - i.e. that they expanded on the original endings giving you a more complete picture of the universe post crucible activation. However, in doing so, I think they destroyed (or made more illogical) the one truly good interpretation available the first time around - that the whole starchild / citadel sequence wasn't really about Shepard making a choice between 3 options that played out as advertised, but a battle by Shepard against indoctrination with only 2 possible outcomes: Shepard refused to succomb to indoctrination and chose to destroy the reapers, resulting in a future that played out as advertised, or Shepard succumbing to indoctrination and not destroying the reapers under the deluded belief that they could be controlled or synthesized, resulting in a future where the reapers weren't stopped (closer to the no choice ending). It was always tenuous given the brief scenes after the latter two choices, but now the extended scenes seem to indicate that there is a reality to the reapers either being controlled or synthesized.