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Apple TV+ gave the workforce behind Mythic Quest a likelihood to swap out the cliffhanger ending with a True Ending (as video video games name them).
When Apple TV introduced that Mythic Quest was cancelled final week. Two weeks after the season 4 finale premiered, in addition they introduced that the finale episode could be re-edited with a new ending to make the episode a sequence ending as a substitute of a season-end cliffhanger. Author-director Ashley Birch mentioned they’d shot the alternate ending for the finale throughout manufacturing as a Plan B if the sequence did not get renewed. When Apple TV introduced the sequence wouldn’t be coming again, they merely went again to the enhancing bay and eliminated that ultimate shot, changing it with the finale minute seamlessly.
The Distinction Between the Cliffhanger Ending and the “True Ending”
Within the ultimate episode of Mythic Quest, the corporate confronted a regime change whereas Ian (Rob McElhenney) talked Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao) into leaving the corporate to begin a contemporary life together with her child daddy and her impending new child. Within the ultimate scene, a heartbroken Ian returns to the workplace to proceed to work on the enlargement he and Poppy and created collectively. He is taken abruptly when Poppy walks in moderately than getting on her aircraft to fly away. They bicker as they at all times do, however she insists on figuring out why he insisted on coming again to work on their enlargement. He admits that he wished to maintain the enlargement as a result of it was the one a part of her he had left when she left the video games trade to begin her new life. Touched that he lastly did one thing selfless eventually, she hugs him and, within the second, they kiss and begin to make out earlier than pulling away and taking a look at one another in shock. Lower to credit. That was the cliffhanger ending to arrange season 4 when Ian and Poppy should cope with the breaking of the “will they? Will not they?” deadlock that had been the subtext of their relationship all through the sequence.
Within the new ultimate ending, or True Ending as video video games may name it, as a substitute of kissing, Poppy breaks the hug to inform Ian she’s going to jot down down his passwords for him since he can by no means bear in mind them to log into his personal pc. Then they sit at their desks – hers is empty – and begin to bicker yet again. Life goes on. You possibly can argue that the True Ending is the higher one as a result of the “OMG! THEY FINALLY KISS!” cliffhanger ending broke the sequence’ central relationship by having Ian and Poppy kiss when the true coronary heart of their love story was by no means sexual however their mutual respect for one another’s ability and expertise at creating video games. They’re complementary soulmates who’re extra siblings than lovers, and to dial up the sexual pressure may need been a signal that the sequence had run out of concepts, so it was in all probability simply as properly that the sequence ended right here. Certain, it might have been enjoyable to see the remainder of the solid undergo one more chapter of changing-but-staying, the place they discover new methods to torture one another, however leaving the viewers wanting extra is the higher strategy to go.
Apple TV has eliminated the unique cliffhanger ending, so it is prefer it by no means existed, nevertheless it’s actually no nice loss. The True Ending makes extra sense for Ian and Poppy… particularly as a sequence finale.
Mythic Quest is streaming on Apple TV+.
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