No. They. Were. Not.
I HATE Kalish-splosions. I hate hate hate them so much. I hate how the explosion is like forty feet away from the rangers, not even close to hitting them. I hate how they havetodoareallyquickcutscenelikethis and then show the same scene in sloooooow moooootion right after. I hate how that happened EVERY F***ING ACTION SEQUENCE EVERY FIVE MINUTES!
A Kalish-splosion is nowhere near as awesome. Hell, too many of them are just a Michael Bay action film. There's a difference between the larger than life typical PR explosion and the pyrotechnic budget killing Kalish-splosions that happened every minute.