What the heck guys!? Obviously it's... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, November 21, 2017, 10:31 (2560 days ago) @ Kahzgul

I think the cutscene accomplished a few specific things by design:

• It showed that the Light started with and expanded out from the Traveler.
  
• It showed the Light specifically affecting Mercury, the Reef, and perhaps Saturn / Oryx's ship.
  
• It showed the Light touching everything in our galaxy and beyond.
  
• It showed the Pyramid Ships waking up after sensing the light and had them move back towards the Light's origin.

Your three main options each have their strengths but each fails to meet at least one of these criteria.

• A universe wide flash fails to show origin and direction and would still need followups to show specific locations being affected.
  
• Having the Light return to individuals / Ghosts directly could look really cool but would fail to show the Light touching the galaxy and might not have a reason to pass to the Pyramid Ships so you'd lose their awakening / moving towards the origin.
  
• A blinking dot on a screen could be combined with the Pyramid ships wakening up and moving in a direction, but it loses out on pretty much everything else. We wouldn't see Mercury affected or get a good sense that the Light touched the rest of the solar system and galaxy, for instance. Plus, you'd have to design a UI for that radar screen and having the first introduction to an alien race be the crappy alien clip art chosen by the underpaid temp alien programmer doesn't feel right to me. :p

The expanding sphere of Light might not make complete logical sense, but visually, it accomplishes a whole lot in a way that is very easily understood by the viewer. Was the cutscene perfect? No... it did very much leave the question open as to whether the rest of the Guardians got their light back, for one. But to call it lazy or a mistake... nah. I don't buy that at all.

So... in infuriating conclusion... your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. :)