All The Witness Cinematic Cutscenes Destiny 2 Lightfall

That scene where the Witness shows his wrath to Calus was absolutely the BEST cutscene in the entire campaign. I also love the fact that you can tell that most of the conversations with Calus are in a sort of dream state which is really cool.

Say what you want about the campaign itself, but the Witness is Destiny’s best villain.

8:43 Interesting touch, here. The Witness says "You will see the Veil destroyed.", but as we learn from the ending of Lightfall and later, Asha's cutscene, the Witness never wanted to destroy the Veil, it wanted to link it with the Traveler. The Witness intentionally used Calus as a pawn to get the Young Wolf and their Ghost to go to the Veil, so the Witness could use Ghost to establish the link.

Fun fact, the witness is over 100 feet tall in his physical form!

Biggest problem with this campaign is pacing. Forget how confusing it is, we jump into this thinking we have one shot at this and we have to hurry up, but then the Witness shows up and just looks at the traveler. Then, we need to get to the Veil before Calus, and then we head to watch tower and just talk. Then Calus finds the Veil, but he doesn’t actually have it. Then we need to destroy the radial mast before he uses it and we do… and that’s it. Then we have to go back to the veil and then we kill Calus and that’s it. Then our ghost does the Witness’ dirty work for it.

12:45 - you know you're old when you recognize this head bleeding as a call back to the Fifth Element.

The Witness is both 🥺 and 😈, at all times, all at once, and I love it

“Infinite apologies” 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

The witness is actually voiced by Bret Dalton. Admittedly there’s a few other people mixed in there….but I can still hear Bret in there….and he’s doing an amazing job! The Witness is easily destiny’s best villain

One thing is made clear though with the campaign, even for the pacing--- the Witness, even for its god-like powers, is afraid, because it seems to want the Final Shape to occur to end death itself by allowing only the strongest who overcome all obstacles in their lives to live forever, because it just has this nihilistic belief that life is nothing but pain, and yet it only keeps spreading pain and destruction in its ambitions. And it's abused the Darkness for that goal, not having proper balance like our Guardians have since we wield both Light and Darkness without any ill effects besides the power of our will. And we've seen too how the Witness has had to lie, manipulate, abuse, and threaten those to serve it or those that defy it, because for all its power, it is just a coward who can't work past pain. As Rohan told Osiris, pain isn't a hinderance. It just reminds us we're still alive. Still fighting. But the way the Witness acts, whatever pain it suffered before its metamorphosis into the monster it is now broke it, and now it is just a dangerous being threatening the natural order of the universe.

1:30 kinda sounds like a bionicle commercial if anyone remembers those

What's really eerie about the witness is... For some reason i Don get the uncanny valley feel from it (maybe it's just me). It's alien enough not to feel like it's human even though it's face, and its figure is really close to that of a human. It just looks like a weird entity...

It was right in front of us this whole time. From the depiction of multiple hands at 0:16 to the faces of the race that sacrificed themselves to become The Witness at 1:14. I was trashing Lightfall's story because of how much certain things didn't make sense or was explained so I am really looking forward to Final Shape cs gawd damn, it was more planned than I thought.

After looking at what little expression The Witness was making after watching the 6:55 scene on my Warlock (I watched it on my Titan and Hunter but never went further) I relayed to my other two brothers that The Witness almost looked disappointed at Calus for not taking this Disciple stuff somewhat seriously. I then said “I get the feeling Calus is going to do something stupid and The Witness isn’t going to be too happy about it”. Then 12:30 happens and the second The Witness snapped I thought to myself “Calus, there are strings that you are not meant to pull. That was one of them”. I then relayed to my brothers saying “Yup, I called it”.

anyone realize that calus' outfit is actually heavily inspired by Baron Vladimir in Jodorowsky's Dune?

Fun little detail, you can actually see where bungie inserted lightfall into the cutscene. The opening attack of the witness has the helm bring up a blast shield which is only shown to go back down after the ENTIRE dlc. They’d have us believe that the helm was just sitting there the entire time with the shield up not doing anything while we trounced around on Neptune. Logically, it would’ve made more sense for them to only put the shield up then drop it after the attack, where the witness would then go through the portal, kicking off final shape. However, due to their poor planning, they had to somehow insert an entire dlc story into that tiny cutscene

11:22, after seeing this part again, I feel as if the emperor was spitting a little bit of fact to the witness that made him lash out, so whatever that last sentence the emperor could have said, I'm sure the witness would have killed him on the spot

13:28 hearing the theme we heard at the very beginning now at the very end

Angry witness is scary

The witness is such a cool enemy!