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KylieDog said:

Bad writing explains it.  Complete cop-out ending, taking everything the game established and just making it out to be bullshit with no reason besides 'Oh, you can actually do this despite story and files and everything else saying otherwise".  It wasn't destroyed by Ragnarok anyway, Cocoon was screwed regardless of what Ragnarok did (which was nothing until he turned up and saved the day).

Would be like if in Lord of Rings mankind lost and Sauron gained back the ring, only then it turns out he is good and orcs and mankind lived happily ever after.

It was destroyed by Ragnarok, as it was forseen in the vision. If you pay any attention to the vision that they had, you'll see that it progressed exactly as they saw it. 

I agree with the bad writting, as a lot of things were left unexplained, but seriously, it's just a matter of logical deduction. You never knew what would happen if Cocoon was destroyed, but you could clearly see that it wouldn't have been a good thing for Pulse either way. I mean, Cocoon is a huge planetoid just above Pulse. Whatever happened, Pulse was also majorly screwed.

So Ragnarok acted it's part. As a destroyer and a saviour. It comes out of the blue, but it does what Ragnarok itself means.

Also, to think that Ragnarok was inherently evil is to look at the game just by Cocoon's POV. Like I said, the visit to Pulse and Oerba made everything perfectly clear. Ragnarok had to exist in order for humanity to have a second opportunity, or else they just would fall to the Fal'Cie plan to make the Maker re-appear at the expense of humankind.