It had the effect they desired of convincing the Others he had crushed the gem and was unleashing hell on earth in his quest for revenge for them taking Jessi.
He understood that the Black God can never truly kill the White God for fear of unleashing the Original Beings, who would crush him.
Is tennis a good way of unleashing all your pent-up anger?
farewell kiss could no more adequately have expressed what Pappano was unleashing from the orchestra at this point.