What are some of the worst written Alternate Timelines in Media you’ve seen?
(No ISTO Or ASB)
(No ISTO Or ASB)
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Badly Written. I should have specified.Worst as in badly written or as in dystopic?
Empire Earth 2 had the American campaign that had the URSS and the US actually fighting in over the Bering Strait. In that timeline, the Cold War ended when Americans successfully defended a community centre in Alaska while also embarassing the Soviets by stealing a single stealth plane to the point they (the Soviets) disgregated.What are some of the worst written Alternate Timelines in Media you’ve seen?
(No ISTO Or ASB)
I admired Harrison's ruddy countenance- which means I liked his bloody cheek!Stars and Stripes Forever certainly springs to mind.
Yeah, Homefront is not very good in general.The video game Homefront and its sequel Homefront: The Revolution.
In Homefront, North Korea (or rather, a Korea peacefully reunited by the North) becomes a superpower and invades and occupies the United States. You can imagine the liberties taken with plausibility.
Its "sequel" is actually more of a reboot. In the "sequel"/reboot, North Korea throws off Communism in the 1970s and becomes a capitalist superpower because the Digital Revolution takes place there instead of in California's Silicon Valley. Thus, North Korea becomes the most economically powerful country in the world. Eventually it invades and occupies an impoverished pariah United States that defaulted on its debt to North Korea, and the U.S. military is easily neutralized because its equipment uses technology from the megacorporation that dominates North Korea, and the North Koreans use a backdoor to shut down the U.S. hardware.
I suppose you could throw the horrible remake of Red Dawn in this pile as well, since it also depicted a North Korean invasion of the United States. Sure, the original movie wasn't exactly plausible given the inherent difficulties of invading the U.S., but at least the Soviet Union made credible sense as an invader. But North Korea? A small, poor, isolationist state lacking resources and allies? Give me a break. At least the Homefront games made North Korea into a prosperous superpower in their backstories, even if the plausibility was pretty bad and lots of disbelief had to be suspended.
To be fair, there was a lot of backstory written with the help of policy experts to degrade the US and beef up North Korea to make it plausible. And the creators even admitted it ALL happening was a hard sell.In Homefront, North Korea (or rather, a Korea peacefully reunited by the North) becomes a superpower and invades and occupies the United States. You can imagine the liberties taken with plausibility.
Homefront makes more sense when you know that NK was originally supposed to be China, but was changed to sell in the Chinese market.The video game Homefront and its sequel Homefront: The Revolution.
In Homefront, North Korea (or rather, a Korea peacefully reunited by the North) becomes a superpower and invades and occupies the United States. You can imagine the liberties taken with plausibility.
Its "sequel" is actually more of a reboot. In the "sequel"/reboot, North Korea throws off Communism in the 1970s and becomes a capitalist superpower because the Digital Revolution takes place there instead of in California's Silicon Valley. Thus, North Korea becomes the most economically powerful country in the world. Eventually it invades and occupies an impoverished pariah United States that defaulted on its debt to North Korea, and the U.S. military is easily neutralized because its equipment uses technology from the megacorporation that dominates North Korea, and the North Koreans use a backdoor to shut down the U.S. hardware.
I suppose you could throw the horrible remake of Red Dawn in this pile as well, since it also depicted a North Korean invasion of the United States. Sure, the original movie wasn't exactly plausible given the inherent difficulties of invading the U.S., but at least the Soviet Union made credible sense as an invader. But North Korea? A small, poor, isolationist state lacking resources and allies? Give me a break. At least the Homefront games made North Korea into a prosperous superpower in their backstories, even if the plausibility was pretty bad and lots of disbelief had to be suspended.
The Red Dawn remake was also originally supposed to feature the Chinese as the villains.Homefront makes more sense when you know that NK was originally supposed to be China, but was changed to sell in the Chinese market.