If you didn’t catch Mythic Quest’s sequence finale when it first debuted final month, there’s an opportunity you might by no means be capable of see the episode because it initially was.
Shortly after Mythic Quest’s fourth season and its Side Quest spinoff hit Apple TV Plus, the streamer introduced that it was cancelling the sequence. The information got here as a shock given how “Heaven and Hell” — the open-ended finale — implied that Mythic Quest would possibly return for a fifth season. And there have been so many unresolved plotlines that the sudden cancellation meant that Mythic Quest would at all times really feel incomplete.
Apple appeared to grasp that final level when it introduced its plan to debut an “up to date” model of “Heaven and Hell” meant to tie up all the sequence free ends. The episode went reside right this moment, and it does take care of a few of Mythic Quest’s huge cliffhangers. But along with dropping the up to date episode, Apple confirmed to The Verge right this moment that it has additionally eliminated the unique minimize of “Heaven and Hell” from its platform fully.
You can type of perceive why Apple would need to direct viewers in the direction of Mythic Quest’s correct ending. But the transfer smacks of revisionist historical past and streamers’ current behavior of utterly disappearing their very own content material. Apple simply might have left each variations of the episode up and made clear why there have been variations between the 2 of them. Netflix has been dabbling with one thing related for Black Mirror’s newest season to make an excellent level concerning the Mandela impact. But going that route with Mythic Quest would have meant acknowledging that Apple axed the present with little heads up, which is one thing the corporate in all probability didn’t need to do.
