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Mass Effect 3 Alternate Endings Show What Could Have Been

There’s a degree to which the release of Mass Effect Legendary Edition lives under the shadow of Mass Effect 3‘s controversial ending. If you somehow didn’t know, Mass Effect 3‘s ending is a big part of the reason why some consider it to be one of the most disappointing games of all-time. Even the “Extended Cut” version of the ending BioWare eventually released as DLC has done little to change its reputation as one of the most disappointing finales in any medium. While it’s going to be interesting to see whether or not time has healed those wounds enough to…
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Terminator 7 Would Have Introduced an Alternate Timeline

While the box office performance of 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate resulted in the franchise getting lowered into a proverbial vat of lava as it flashed a thumb-up, it seems that plans exist for a seventh entry, which would have followed up on the wantonly retconned storyline—indirectly, anyway. Mackenzie Davis, who starred in Dark Fate (Terminator 6, if you will,) as cybernetically-enhanced human Grace, divulged a rather intriguing tidbit on the Happy Sad Confused podcast about the inevitably fruitless plans for a follow-up film. The character, hailing from a timeline altered by Terminator 2’s destruction of Skynet, was sent from the…
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Call of Duty Cold War: Good, Bad, and Alternate Endings Explained

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War is here, which means that many of you are already working your way through the campaign to see the ending before settling into a year of multiplayer and Warzone matches. This time, though, which ending you see in Cold War is going to depend on certain decisions you make along the way. So far, players have discovered three Cold War endings: a good one, a bad one, and an alternate version of the bad ending. So whether you want to see every ending or you just want to make sure that you get…
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Fargo Season 4 Episode 1 Review: Welcome to the Alternate Economy

This Fargo review contains spoilers. Fargo Season 4 Episode 1 It’s been a long wait for Fargo’s fourth season. Noah Hawley’s improbably good Coen Brothers adaptation arrived on the scene as an idiosyncratic, darkly funny crime story, but in its third season, its Midwest charm and stylish execution couldn’t quite hide the fact that the story was lacking and the schtick was wearing thin. Hawley decided to go back to the drawing board for Season 4, then was forced to delay his return to the anthology series a bit longer due to coronavirus shutting down production. Thankfully, the FX series…
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Noughts + Crosses: Why You Should Watch This Afrofuturist Alternate History Romance

Long before writer Malorie Blackman conceived of the story of the Doctor and her companions meeting civil rights hero Rosa Parks in Doctor Who’s “Rosa,” she imagined another alternate version of history and racism. Noughts + Crosses, the BBC and Mammoth Screen-produced series based on Blackman’s bestselling U.K. YA book series of the same name, is making its U.S. debut on Peacock Friday, and it’s likely already on many a hardcore Whovian’s radar. However, for the rest of the American viewing public, this may be the first time you’re hearing of Noughts + Crosses. Or not. Last week, Peacock dropped…
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Hulu Developing Alternate History TV Series About Hillary Clinton

Four years after Hillary Clinton lost her final bid for the White House—even though she won the popular vote—there remains a lot of melancholic reflection about “what if” among her most dedicated supporters. Heck, there’s a lot of second-guessing, too, among some of her harshest critics with the current occupant of the Oval Office fumbling the development of a national strategy to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. So the prospect of a potential Rodham television series, and the alternate version of history it intends to offer, may appear to be a respite. With that said, it aims to rewrite the…
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Star Wars: Rogue One Alternate Titles and Major Character Changes Revealed

In this week’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story watch-along at IGN, screenwriters Chris Weitz and Gary Whitta had some trivia for fans who decided to revisit the downbeat standalone film along with them, including some alternate titles that didn’t make the cut, and more info on how some of the characters changed in both the initial writing stage and during production on Gareth Edwards’ Lucasfilm project, which was later heavily reshaped by co-writer Tony Gilroy. “There was one point at which we were kicking around titles for this, right?” Weitz said (via Comicbook). “Rogue One was a good choice…
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