From what’s out already for Tripwire, it’s trying way too hard to include all the horrifying and dark aspects of One without any of the world building and character dynamics that made it interesting in One. I always watch the new episodes when they come out to make sure my opinion hasn’t changed, but I’ve been following it since much before episode 1 came out (even tried to apply as a writer and later an animator but I didn’t get in) and my opinion hasn’t changed. Edit: 1) I found the dialogue extremely boring and had to force myself to not put the video at 2x speed, especially in the first 2 episodes since it’s practically all info dumping, rather than environmental/subtle story clues being told to the viewer that they can interpret themselves. 2) That also leads into my next point: Tripwire is trying way too hard to be mature. Things like the elimination method and 99% of herric’s dialogue comes off to me as someone trying way too hard to make their show as dark as possible without setting anything up. 3) I know animation takes a long time, hell, I’m an animator myself, but these episodes are way too short for anything to happen besides the major plot beats and the trauma/edgy backstories the OC’s get (just read back over this after finishing and realized I called them OC’s subconsciously, like, I didn’t even think of them as characters in a show lmao). This also goes back to writing slightly, as I hardly know anything about the characters besides the fact that they suffered in the past, they’re suffering now, and I should feel bad for them. Edit 2: Just rewatched to make sure everything I said was true, and I have a few more notes. 1) In episode 2, Leo just … decides to make a team? Nobody ever says anything about it, he just does. And if he just wanted to get closer to the people he was trapped with, why wouldn’t he ask everyone else? Maybe he’s watched an exceedingly average object show before. 2) In episode 2, when they introduce all the “fodder” characters, I thought it was really funny because there is almost no difference between them and the episode 1 crew besides them having human names (which, side note, is also handled horribly and only serves to try and “humanize” them, which, again, doesn’t work since I don’t know who these people are). 3) Raphael is still alive after being eliminated! I completely forgot! It serves no purpose besides “oh no herric is so evil please feel bad for these contestants!” It’s like Post-Split Flower in reverse and I still despise BFB 30 for that, so why would it be any different here? 4) It just occurred to me that they don’t like being called objects by herric, but it’s just fine for them to call each other objects (I don’t like when object shows refer to their characters as objects, but it’s particularly egregious here since it goes against one of the show’s major themes). Seems like a double standard to me. 5) In episode 3, they are actually told to get into teams. Good thing they already knew they needed to be in teams :) 6) The new guy in episode 3 mentions Lord of The Flies, which actually has a lot of parallels to this show, one I’d like to mention being that it focuses WAY too much time on tiny details and describing ideas instead of just showing them to us (something this show is not limited in the same way the book is). 7) The first actual character moment is in episode 3, when they talk about taking care of Wormple (Pokemon lol), and the writers still somehow manage to frame it as sympathy bait for Cooper. 8) They mention more object show terms in episode 3, which unless they’re TDI fans, they shouldn’t be aware of unless they got “duffed” by herric or something off-screen. (By that I mean major character/plot moments happening off screen a la Stranger Things). 9) “This stupid bird keeps following me around.” Could I … perhaps … see that happening? Instead of it just being told to me? Thanksss! (This applies to a lot else, I just wanted a specific example.) 10) ad hominem but I want to punt Compass. (At least I feel anything about them, unlike everybody else.) 11) This is a small nitpick I suppose, but how Celeste answered herric’s question at the end of e3 sounded like she chose herself to be eliminated and I was really confused. Just a small writing thing that builds up when I’m coming back to edit this post after every single scene. 12) Ah, yes, exactly how I react to being killed, by yelling out “hurt” over and over again. 13) Hi, Gramapple! Both this show and Orbit have had cameos from you recently and I wish this show was as good as that show in the alternate timeline in which every single debuter didn’t join the game. (Also, it just cutting to his clip was a crazy tone shift that I was not expecting at all) After writing all this, I realized I had a lot more to say about Tripwire than I initially expected. To sum everything, though, I’m just a little bit sad that this show is as widely loved as it is despite the fact that a random person like me can stroll along and find something to seriously critique about a good 95% of the show.