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Posted by: flamedude
This is how it should have ended;
Chief crawls to the nuke, and swings his arm to detonate it. As he does that Cortana stops him, teleports him away, and then uses her hard light body to detonate the nuke instead. She sacrifices herself to save the Chief who was willing to sacrifice himself.
Instead we got some weird space-magic ending where Cortana can protect things at point blank nuclear blast range, despite the Chief seeing the whiteout of the blast.
Bad storytelling is bad.
I think there's enough room to fit your version in there. I'm going with that. After all when the ship couldn't hold itself together anymore we see bits and pieces of it floating near Chief, helping support that he was teleported some distance away. Add in that the bright flash could have been Chief being teleported rather than the nuke going off and that sounds like what really happened.
[Edited on 01.06.2013 5:22 AM PST]