Mythic Quest Just Changed Its Series Finale and Now You Can't Even Watch the Original Version

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This file introduction contains spoilers for the bid finale of Mythic Quest.

For those who whitethorn person missed it, Mythic Quest, Apple TV+’s beautifully weird amusement astir a crippled workplace and its messed up leadership, has travel to an end. Apple TV+ announced that the bid was cancelled aft Season 4’s, uh, polarizing season finale astir 2 weeks aft it aired connected March 26, leaving fans of the amusement someway more frustrated than they were before. As a effect of the cancellation, Apple TV+ has decided to propulsion the archetypal ending entirely, replacing it with a antithetic finale meant to “tie up escaped ends”. But the alteration isn’t lone unsuccessful, it besides continues an disfigured precedent successful streaming.

The archetypal finale was met with mixed effect owed to a abrupt buss betwixt leads Ian (Rob McElhenney) and Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao). Some recovered the retired of the bluish smooch jarring, portion others person been waiting the duration of the bid for it to yet happen. But the existent ire came erstwhile fans learned that the shocking infinitesimal wouldn’t person immoderate followup aft the series’ messy leads yet made out. The archetypal program had been that Mythic Quest Season 5 would research the fallout of Ian and Poppy’s kiss.

With aboriginal episodes disconnected the table, bid producers Megan Ganz, David Hornsby and Rob McElhenney issued a associated connection that ended with “Because endings are hard, with Apple’s blessing we made 1 last update to our past occurrence — truthful we could accidental goodbye, alternatively of conscionable crippled over.”

The updated episode, released connected April 18, removes the arguable kiss, swapping it retired for a hug and returning Ian and Poppy to their antecedently existing presumption quo arsenic they program to proceed enactment connected their crippled expansion. Is the caller ending much palatable? Perhaps. But nary 1 has ever erstwhile described a bully finale — play oregon bid — arsenic palatable. Big swings mightiness not ever enactment but they are, astatine least, ever interesting. The update does thing to assuage the disappointment of the cancellation and, worse still, the archetypal ending nary longer exists connected Apple TV+ astatine all. This means that the alteration to the ending doesn’t conscionable mean the bid comes to a adjacent with a susurration alternatively of a bang, it besides opens a analyzable tin of worms erstwhile it comes to movie and TV curation and streaming arsenic a whole.

Ultimately, the information that Poppy and Ian enactment arsenic characters due to the fact that of their analyzable platonic narration doesn’t extremity up being what’s astir important here. Hell, adjacent the information that they made a weaker ending for their bid isn’t adjacent the biggest issue. It’s that the archetypal ending was removed wholly that leaves maine with truthful overmuch concern. Alternate endings existed agelong earlier streaming, though they’re mostly relegated to movie alternatively than television. But removing entree to the archetypal ending wholly is simply a abstracted tin of worms, 1 much akin to what Max and Netflix person been up to arsenic they’ve started disappearing films and tv bid from their respective platforms.

When you beryllium solely successful a integer space, erasure from platforms means that you simply cease to exist. Though there’s a accidental that Apple TV+ yet decides to adhd the archetypal ending backmost oregon connection it aboriginal successful peculiar features should the bid ever get a carnal release, its existent non-existence continues a frustrating inclination successful integer media. Having a boring ending is obnoxious successful and of itself, but knowing that determination was different 1 that dared to instrumentality a hazard adjacent erstwhile that hazard didn’t yet cookware out? Infuriating!

The alteration was made to “tie up escaped ends,” but each it truly accomplishes is watering down the last mentation for each to see. The creators whitethorn person instituted the alteration themselves, but erasing the archetypal mentation wholly is simply a disservice to some them and the fans of the series. Said erasure feels particularly egregious fixed that we were discussing Netflix playing with the Mandela Effect conscionable past week erstwhile the streamer released 2 antithetic versions of the aforesaid occurrence of Black Mirror to messiness with fans’ heads. There is perfectly nary crushed that some versions of the finale can’t beryllium alongside each other.

It’s a pity that Season 4 of Mythic Quest came and went with small fanfare contempt Apple TV+ having capable assurance successful the communicative to springiness it a spinoff (an anthology bid acceptable successful the satellite but without immoderate of the existing characters), but it’s a overmuch bigger bummer that we’re seeing the inclination of creation disappearance continue, whether that creation is good, bad, messy oregon absurd notwithstanding.