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live commentary this time still ill from La Rona so if you are wondering why the voice is still a
little bit nasally that is why this is going to be a super quick bit of commentary and also a little
bit of analysis of the launch trailer which just arrived for lightfall and uh this is your opening
spoiler warning because oh my god um yeah if you were not looking for Bombshells to be dropped this
was definitely the thing to avoid so click off now if you are one of those people and maybe turn off
your phone and kill your router and throw rocks at all your technology I don't know what you do
you you do you self-sort I don't know figure it out either way let's begin the trailer starts with
a shot of a barricade wall to the helm opening something which would have been a blast shield
for the glass which is now all cracked you see some of our major characters and protagonists
behind that glass and they are clearly observed being the battle between the dark Fleet and the
traveler but more importantly than all of that they are seeing the advance of the witness
the witness is here and for the first time our characters actually get a glimpse of it something
that we forget because we always see it in cut scenes something that they most definitely won't
because of the fact that this is their first time actually seeing this being this entity from Beyond
and it's appropriately fearsome for some you can see the doubt on Mara's face you get this quick
shot here of the witness's eyes and they show what I think is genuine anger or frustration which is
unusual because normally it's not a very emotive face whatsoever moving forward more shots of the
space battle than we've seen before you have the witness floating through the debris field and the
pyramid Fleet of the background however new things start to come up as far as the trailer footage is
concerned you've got Osiris and Rohan one of the two Cloud Striders here looking over certain views
of neomuna that we probably won't see until later in the campaign I'm sure something distressing is
going on forcing them to turn that way you have other shots that we've definitely seen before
both our Guardian here and the witness reaching out to what we can now clearly tell is the
traveler however we also see afterwards this shot where the pyramids reorient themselves
this is a very small angular thing but it's clear that that's what they do and the pulse
which is around them takes out a bunch of Guardian vehicles and it seems like it kills Amanda but I
have to imagine that she's a skilled enough pilot to have dodged all of this aside from
anything else she appears in vidock cutscenes after the fact so I imagine if nothing else
this merely clipped her wings for a little bit this is not something where I think Amanda has
died I know that will be a question for some of you don't worry I really don't think for even
a second that that's something you guys need to worry about furthermore As you move through again
it's more of the repeating shot space battle more shots we've seen before of neomuna being invaded
by the shadow Legion with all of the cabal drop pods dropping down onto the city we've seen this
clip again of nimbus as they fall out of the sky and start to challenge some Kabul Shadow Legion
however as we move a little bit further on and get past these initial shots again of Rohan and Nimbus
continuing their fight against the Tormentor we start to see something totally new this is the
witness in their kind of Hyper Speed Corridor I don't know quite what you call it but this
is the point at which shots of everything start to get a little bit wild it appears that this
hyperspace Corridor whatever this is the beam of light causes some really terrifying effects
take a look at this Titan take a look at this ghost not only does the ghost suddenly start
to segment take a look in the top right so does the Titan you can see the Titan's face splitting
into three this thing Cuts them apart I don't understand how it does that there is no recorded
power in destiny that does all of this but it even cleanly segments their ships look at this three
different jump ships all of them cut cleanly into pieces perfectly straight lines also worth noting
that Titan yeah that's a OG Titan you remember how ages ago I was talking about the Titan Warlock
and Hunter that were the fire team in the season finale for season of the serif it's clearly them
again this is clearly a throwback to the idea that we lose because this fire team is an OG set of
Guardians that's just apparently been around since D1 if everything continuity wise sticks so yeah
this isn't us but these Guardians just dying like this clearly is an indication of the fact that the
witness is here and it's not here to play this is a problem moving on you have yet more shorts
of Carlos the tormentors the witness talking to kallus some things that really are not that
new in comparison but still they fit the theme and mood of the trailer for certain you have a
Tormentor dropping down behind some Guardians and using that I think it's called the dark Harvest
move where they just grab a single guardian and restrain them before dealing an enormous amount
of damage so terrifying still I don't know how that works out I imagine in law that's actually
a pretty terrifying thing to happen next up we have this shot here this is what I want to pay
real attention to yes all of the Guardians using their different strand abilities are excellent
that doesn't really teach us anything new about the story we have this shot here we have you a
guardian this is your player character's model most certainly because it's using the new armor
they're wielding a kavoshtov which is interesting there are some implications that we probably go
ahead and grab this weapon from somewhere in the edz and this may be something that's part of the
season of Defiance I don't know quite why we have it but we do it's just a cost of you can also see
some Minor Details here top right you can see some black and blue in all of the different bits and
pieces and you can see an incredibly large foot that is kital and on the left hand side in the
more nanite shape something that's a lot more slim something that is still huge as far as shoes are
concerned but clearly a lot more slender I want to say that's probably Nimbus so whatever's going
on here on this pyramid looking floor it looks like both kital and Nimbus will be joining us
whatever we're looking up at I have to resume is callus I'm not sure though we see some more
shots again of different Fleet things and then there is this last medley of shots this is what
I really want everyone to pay attention to I'm gonna freeze this frame by frame and talk about
each one because what happens here is the witness reaches out and touches the traveler I believe
there is this massive building Crescendo of energy that just detonates the traveler unleashes a beam
or perhaps a beam is Unleashed upon the traveler but you can see on this first paused shot here
that you can actually see plant life growing on this pyramid that it faces immediately which
makes me think this is the traveler fighting back somehow but I'm not sure I haven't got a clue this
is something we've clearly seen before I mean we saw it in the opening trailer for lightfall where
we saw the witness reaching out to this particular point so clearly something is going on here
I have some thoughts about the plants but I'm going to leave those until the end as
this happens it interspersed you have a little shot here of nimbus punching a cabal of Osiris
raising up to see something you have kital lifting up the hammer of proving this is something which
is a very important cabal artifact culturally and it's definitely something we'll see her
using from now on particularly as she makes her challenge against the emperor this is a rather
remarkable final shot here from the perspective of the helm is these pyramids surrounding the
traveler in a kind of star-like formation which I can only imagine means bad things
and then there's this shot here now I actually want to try and go through this frame by frame
if possible because as you go into the witness's eye you can see a bunch of different things if
you move forward you can see that each individual planet in our solar system and some of the moons
too is actually shown off here you can actually hear my clicking of my mouse as I go through this
frame by frame in the background I'm sure but at very least you can see Mars Earth the moon Jupiter
and Saturn in some of these early shots as you move forward however something strange happens
it's just this I don't know what this is looks like Roots looks like a tree system I haven't
got a clue what's going on in this particular one but I can't imagine that it's been included in
this trailer for no reason whatsoever whatever it is maybe it's from inside the depths of the
traveler itself moving further on you get a closer look at some of those planets see Mars
over on the right hand side I believe you have it behind another large celestial object if that's a
moon I want to say that's probably something like Ganymede you have the Moon and Earth on
the Left Jupiter in the background still as this continues to move forward it pushes through the
planets to the point where you're also seeing Saturn's rings and then at the very background
in the back you can see suddenly there is a focus on Neptune this single Blue Planet between all of
them at the very end of the solar system and that makes a great degree of sense as a result
moving forward you have that final shot there of the witness reaching out as it is clearly moving
to take the traveler there is of course the note in the prophecy wall that has been given over and
over again about how the witness will commune with the traveler and drink the light I think that is
exactly what we're seeing play out here this may well have been its plan for the longest time and
whether or not that's the case is something that's a little hard to discern so yeah maybe we'll
figure out what's going on there as the time goes on in the campaign it could just be that the scene
is nothing but spectacle but I have to imagine that's the case now one last thing I do want to
go back and refer yet again to the plants because I said I would and it's actually a very important
scene as best I can see because this is the first time we've seen the traveler actively do something
uh yeah this point at which the traveler is firing its beam we have seen this again from earlier
trailer footage that these kind of white and red roots and the system of plants here starts growing
I think it is worth simply remembering that the traveler as it is related to in Old mythology from
the unveiling law book is sometimes related to or referred to as the gardener now it's not clear if
this is actually the traveler or if this is some deeper entity of the light but regardless I think
it's fair to say that the gardener is an image that is conjured quite handily by these plants
it's something which makes us Fair degree of sense with regards to the light the growth that
Sprouts up here is wild and uncontrolled and it's something that seems fairly unpredictable
and does not seem to fit with a pattern that most definitely fits with the ideas set forth by The
Gardener in the unveiling Lord book if that is to be taken as Canon I don't know if it's one
of those things where this is the witness lying to us in that law book so it's entirely possible that
this is a narrator's inaccuracy and a perspective of someone who is biased regardless this seems to
fit that bill and again I don't know if this is the traveler attacking or whether it's the
traveler being attacked regardless this is also an important shot because it's our first look but
what might potentially be inside The Traveler we've never seen this before this is genuinely
something new and it's a greater manifestation of light than we've seen ever in Destiny I think the
closest it comes to is Gaul being rebuked by The Traveler at the very end of vanilla Destiny 2.
so yeah all of this is a really big deal let me know what you think of the trailer let me know
what you believe is going to happen in lightfall and uh from here on out let's all make a pact just
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