User blog comment:Awayorafk/Believe. The Indoctrination Theory./@comment-96.51.21.52-20150101231853/@comment-75.71.167.143-20160621172228

It didn't seem like the hit from Harbinger was a direct one. I went back and watched again and the beam causes an explosion on the ground in front of Shepard (but somehow knocks him/her forward so that he/she is closer to the beam after a blackout). In low EMS endings, Harbinger fires a second beam that disintegrates whichever two squad members you have with you while Shepard struggles to get back up. Still... it's strange that the blast knocks you forward and closer to the beam (though this can be written off as a continuity error / honest mistake) and weirder still that as soon as Shepard gets back up, you can see Harbinger fly away off and to the right of the player. Why would Harbinger leave? What's more important in that moment than protecting the conduit to the Citadel?