lori@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I’m in the weird middle ground of person who kind of knows some of the Twisted Metal game stories but doesn’t really care a lot about it, and I was shocked at how competent this show is. I definitely got the feeling they didn’t have the budget to do more car stuff but were fishing for a second season and more money for that. They did a great job with the car scenes they did have. But I think they made as good of a show as anyone is going to with Twisted Metal and it was a really fun watch. I was expecting way, way, way less from it.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And this is probably the fault of those poor adaptations, seems that videogame adaptations are picking up!
lori@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Kind of, basically we live in the era of every IP possible getting some kind of adaptation just out of name recognition (and there’s not a modern Twisted Metal game to justify it so it could easily have been a nostalgia ploy and nothing else) and frankly I don’t think Twisted Metal has the most compelling writing as a video game either so it was a low bar to begin with. Twisted Metal Black has some fun monkey paw ideas but it would be hard to adapt a TV series to just that given that you’d need every contestant to win to see how their wishes go.
So I didn’t have much reason to think it’d do well as a TV show but I think they took the best bits of it and let themselves get creative enough outside of it to make it work for the most part.
VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 10 months ago
That and the original teaser trailer made it look pretty bad.