An excerpt from my script review for Twisters which will be available 11/11/24:
3.) Quality of Characters
There is one character that returns, that I forgot to mention.
The Twister.
This time it even brings along some friends and siblings!
Seriously though…
The love triangle that wasn’t a love triangle.
Spoilers here, so don’t read if you still want to be surprised when you watch/read.
Everyone good?
Okay.
Mason, Kate, and Tyler.
Mason and Kate were former storm chasers together, until Kate inadvertently gets her team killed by getting them too close.
Mason tracks Kate down ten years later, and asks for her help with his new startup, wanting to predict and potentially prevent the devastation of tornados.
Once in Oklahoma enter Tyler, the storm chaser that’s chasing for all the wrong reasons, or so we’re told.
In the original, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton were part of the “regular Joe” storm chasing team that we were rooting for because they wanted to predict storms before they happened.
Opposing them was their old partners, or something like that as it was almost 30 years ago now, who were all science based and cold calculations.
Team Dorothy is who we were backing!
Here we’re kind of presented with some of the same.
Mason and StormGuard being the ones that are doing good. Tyler and crew chasing storms for the glory.
As the story unfolds though, and Mason begins meeting with mysterious men who drive Range Rovers, Kate starts to wonder if she’s helping the wrong side, and we’re wondering right there with her.
It turns out that as cocky as Tyler is, there’s a method to his madness and he’s actually using his fame and online presence to helps those affected by the disasters.
From the get go we know that there’s a romantic tension between Kate and Tyler which only blossoms once she finds out he’s a good guy in rogue’s clothing.
(He does only like cheese pizza!)
Why this is a “love triangle that isn’t a love triangle” is because there is a dynamic between the three of them, but Mason’s interest feels entirely unromantic.
He redeems himself in the end, not to win her affection, but to win back his morality and her respect.
I have to admit, initially I did not see the twist (ha!) coming that Mason was profiting off the loss of others.
Flipping assumptions on us is good.
(Here we’d just assume Kate and Mason are Team Good Guys.)
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