Twistersteased a romance throughout the movie but did not deliver on the expected finale kiss, perhaps as an overcorrection to the awkward end of the original 1996Twister.Twistersstars Glen Powell as “Tornado Wrangler” Tyler Owensand Daisy Edgar-Jones as researcher Kate Carter. Glen and Daisy share the same undeniable chemistry that Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton had in the originalTwister, but while their characters Jo and Bill got their kiss at the end,the director of Twisters intentionally kept Tyler and Kate from kissing.
Atthe end ofTwisters, Tyler and Kate share an uncertain goodbye at the airport. Their “Dorothy” experiment is successful, but their future is cloudy. When Kate’s flight is delayed due to inclement weather, Kate and Tyler turn and look into each other’s eyes. He takes her bag, and they end the movie as business partners. Many fans were disappointed that, unlike the original movie,Twistersdid not end with a kiss between the leads.
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Director Lee Isaac Chung has given interviews about the controversially chaste ending ofTwisters.Chung actually did film a version of the final scene where Kate and Tyler kiss, but he did not want to make it seem like romantic fulfillment was Kate’s “ultimate reward.” As he explained toEntertainment Weekly: “If it ends on the kiss, then it makes it seem as though that’s what Kate’s journey was all about, to end up with a kiss. But instead, it’s better that it ends with her being able to continue doing what she’s doing with a smile on her face.” By not finishing with a more stereotypical kiss,Twisterssuggests Kate can have the best of both worlds.
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Kate and Tyler’s romance was teased throughout the original Twisters, and a potential Twisters sequel needs to pay this storyline off in a big way.
If Chung truly did not want to play into genre tropes, he should not have included so much sexual tension between Kate and Tyler inTwisters.Twistersreceived backlash for the lack of a kissbecause the expectation was continuously planted throughout the two-hour movie. While Chung subverted the ending kiss just to play with expectations,Twistercould have been a little more thoughtful in how it chose to initiate Jo and Bill’s relationship.
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Twisterends with Jo and Bill barely surviving an F5 tornado, the same type of storm that killed Jo’s father. In the calm after the storm, their friends and coworkers appear marveling at their luck and pointing to the beautiful, clear sky.Jo should be catatonic, but instead she turns to Bill and says, “We’ve seen enough!” and fully makes out with the man who only showed up earlier that day to get her to sign their divorce papers. A little more breathing room between the near-death experience and rekindling their marriage would make the romance less awkward.
Twisterssets up a classic romantic airport farewell. Kate even throws Tyler’s line about tornadoes coyly back in his face, “Well, maybe if you feel it, you should chase it.” After so much romantic build-up, includingGlen Powell’s iconic wet shirt scene, to not have Kate and Tyler even touch when Kate decides not to get on the plane leavesTwisterson a lackluster ending. The circumstances at the end are incredibly different betweenTwistersandTwister, making a kiss not just appropriate but necessary. As both characters reference, Tyler should have chased her if he was feeling it.
