The one time they have a girl boss character known for being a girl boss. Then they write her as the least favorable type of female character in media.
Would of been way better if we got a 4th sequel written and directed by the 2013 devs 😒 Edit: I believe we are still getting a 4th survivor game, just hope its the original devs 🙏
It is also cr°nge how every adult is insecure, _"expressively vulnerable"_ and some of them burst out in tears at every opportunity. I am not very stoic but to most of those characters I might as well be John Wick.
As a young girl, Lara was an inspiration. I remember my love for history and geography began after playing the second tomb raider. I was so enamoured by a female character who was effortlessly confident, detached, always on her own thing. Athletic, beautiful, capable, sexy. Even as an adult now, I still hold so many of those values Lara taught me as a kid. As silly as it sounds, I still think about 'what would Lara do?' Sometimes. She was my hero. More than her new design, more than the story, I hate how this one character, the strong woman little me loved so much, ended up as something so fragile. So easy to break. We do not humanize her by making her cry or whine, we humanize her by showcasing the struggles befitting a woman of her caliber. A distant stoic, lone wolf, like Lara woman might strugge to make connections, to let go of her own walls, to enjoy help and letting others in, to realize she might not be as infalible as she thinks she is. To be vulnerable. This Lara has such an easy time whining and crying and complaining. Core Lara holds shit in, and THAT'S 'relatable'. (Actually, we don't really need to humanize her at all. Let her remain an archetype. I miss when characters were just cool lmao.) Why does every female character i like end up getting such a whiny new version? She hulk, carmen sandiego, croft. Who's next? Jessica Rabbit?
except even in the PC games she had lesbian moments. In on of the PC games there's that woman whose implied to be a vampire whose flirting with Lara, and Lara says "buy me a drink first and i'll consider your proposal." The woman laughs and sends her goons ins, quipping about Lara "not having enough stamina" to engage with her. plus, as usual, TCD is just editing the footage to make it seem like Lara was gay in the show. She wasn't. But woman hating, politic pushing grifter gotta grift.
I was disappointed when Amazon decided not to make the late, great Ian M Banks Culture series. Now I'm relieved, maybe in the future a studio that respects the original creation will make it.
just be happy that you had your chance to see it, in it's brightest glory .... we got stuff to remember ... not comparable to nowadays mumble aka the "positivity"
*Drinker shows who the showrunner is* Oh goddamnit, I know people hate stereotypes but this is precisely the reason they exist. There is a hint of truth to every one of them.
They erased everything. She doesn't look like Lara at all. They keep refusing to let her use her guns. I don't care that the reboot games did that. No one liked it. Her look is all wrong. From skin color to not even wearing sun glasses. She does not act as Lara at all. Just like how EVERYONE hated Metroid other M. This is a primary male demographic game. These type of boring relationships and endless crying are things that never work. This is what we mean when women are directing/writing Soap Opera's. And not action adventure shows. Because I doubt women watching Soap Opera's would like me to take control of their show. And have characters fixing cars, talking tech, video games, or showing military ops.
1:39 - I live in Chile. There's no part of Chile that is a luscious tropical jungle. No major Amerindian civilisations rose up here either. The ignorance of what I'm seeing here is breathtaking.
Are you expecting Pedowood diversity hacks to actually open the Wikipedia about a country before they stick it in a show? Be glad if they spelled the name right!
they probably confused Chile with Peru which was the opening level from the 1996 game. maybe also a bit of 2018's Shadow of the Tombraider which had Mayas migrate from mexico along the coastline of south america through the amazon river to the peruvian part of the rainforest where they settled without the local Inkas noticing. but idk, i havent seen this show yet.
You just get me, Boosh. I can't stand what they've done. They exchanged old school female fans like myself in for fat nonbinary they themselves and cat moms
I'm tired of modern TV shows forcing their characters to explicitly talk about their emotions like they are in therapy. That's not good writing. What happened to the art of subtlety?
If someone had told me back in the '90s that one day I'd feel completely disconnected from the things I once loved-Tomb Raider, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Comics, ...-I would have laughed. But now, 35 years later, I’m not even surprised, and I barely care when another cherished memory from my childhood gets ruined.
The original PS1 Lara Croft completely turned her back on the peerage after her father disowned her for her "outlandish" behavior, at which point she used her archaeological and exploration skills to both find and sell ancient artifacts and to write books based on her adventures. She ended up building an even larger fortune than her family had. If that isn't a strong independent woman, I don't know what is.
Funny how the show says the first Item is in Chile, in a temple in the middle of the jungle, with crocodiles and diverse mercenaries that use Machetes as a weapon. Of course, Chile doesn’t have jungles, our local natives never built any temples in that archaeological style, it looks like a temple you could find in Brazil or Perú, maybe Bolivia. Also we don’t have crocodiles, and our skin color is completely different of the ones in the show, and the Machete has no cultural or practical use for use, the knife he use is the Corvo. Almost as the showrunners just did a racist and put latin stereotypes and stapled “Chile” to not use the classic Brazil or Perú
@@theenderdestruction2362 my point being the Machete is completely useless in Chile, our forrest are to thick and humid for its use, and culturally we have never used the Machete. So for the showrunners to put “chileans” with machetes is stupid and actually racist. They went the “of course latinxs are all in jungles with temples and are all brown”
The Angelina Jolie movies may not have been perfect, but Angelina at least looked and acted the part, and didn't cry all the time. I do find it funny how the VA for Lara is the exact look for a live action Lara
It was a fucking glorious movie. I miss those movies where it wasn’t supposed to be a masterpiece in story or anything but just a kickass action movie that does its part.
@@masterofpuppets5568 no worries. I’m watching some channel reaction to commando movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger and they ask in the movie “wouldn’t this character do this in this situation?” And then they show minutes later that thing happening. Action movies used to make sense even tho they go overboard in strength feat and stuff but they were supposed to be ACTION HEROES. Not some everyday person to relate to. Even tho in that movie he dodges bullets in the final battle but oh well😂
@@ElhajMahmoud Exactly. As I said when it came out, I review things on what they were trying to do. Give me a girl with big hooters and a series of loosely connected action set pieces, and you have Tomb Raider. They delivered that.
It's the literal problem. It's the root cause. When it stops constantly ruining stuff, people will stop referencing it. I bet you are a Kamala Harris supporter
@@cephlo4933 your comments on this channel are lazy, not to mention the horrible takes you have. Saying Deadpool 3 is mid…yeah ok buddy. I spotted a Hypocritic
I’m a woman who liked the original games. If this is supposed to be for “women like me”, then I’m starting to think that the people that made this are using that as an excuse just to make it how THEY want and to have the fulfillment of watching their own fanfictions be animated for their own viewing pleasure
💯, they always blame it on us while claiming it's for us, no, writers, it's your very own fetish, we were there from day one with her og independent personality and guns, this is just offensive to everyone but especially, us.
I’m a man who grew up around the very first game & I completely agree. It’s not made for either of us. It’s made purely for wierdos who made it & no-one else.
The person who made this is responsible for The Witcher: Blood Origin. They made Blood Origin, and then someone saw Blood Origin and said "This is the person I want to give creative control over one of the most iconic characters in video games to." Oh, and she's also making an upcoming Red Sonja movie, so look forward to that...
Meritocracy just isn't a thing in Hollywood, since being a woketard is a considering a good thing , this is what we will keep getting no matter how much money is being burnt.
I was actually considering to watch that show, since I'm a fan of those two old movies with Angelina Jolie, but... thanks for saving my time, guess I'll just rewatch these two old movies. XD
Only thing I remember of Lara Croft is Jolie's movie adaptation, and how she's partly working to honor her father's memory and legacy. I really liked that... A beautiful, classy, intelligent, loyal and fearless daughter. Any man would be proud of such a daughter.
@@miamijim5964 Wrong. He's not the problem you tinkle-swallowing waste of air. It's the damn fat lonely woman that doesn't know how to write a proper woman protagonist (ironic since she is supposedly a woman). She writes this. Not what we know about Lara Croft, either Jolie's run or the games.
Jolie's movies were a departure from the Canon backstory Lara Croft had. In the classic game canon (the only one that matters) she was disowned by her parents for wanting a different lifestyle.
@@haleymarie3113 I mean both work for the backstories. I never got big into the original games, but I loved the Jolie version and still wish I had the physical means to be like her.
I love how they made Korra give up this whole Avatar thing in this sequel and changed her name to Lara. That's some awesome character development here.
@@xavierhouston4650i don't. Care what people say that was absolutely diabolical and I still can't believe nobody in the show or comics says anything about it.
It's a show made by adults who haven't grown up from being 12 year old girls. It's a fanfic by non-fans made by people without industry accountability.
I am really getting tired of the trope of making literally every single tough female character into a lesbian... It's like... What's the messaging there? That the woman is too masculine for men? That she's so masculine other women desire her? That only lesbians can be tough? Why do modern writers hate femininity so much? Actually... They hate masculinity too. But only when either is represented by a woman and a man respectively. They hate the concept of Cis.
@@TheMambojack I blame Game of Thrones for the whole morally grey character thing. It's very difficult to write compelling characters like that, and modern writers are definitely not up to the task.
@@EscargoBay Morally grey characters can be very interesting, like Dexter. He's a serial killer, but he only kills killers... at least, for a while, then he gets even greyer when he deliberately screws up procedures to let killers go free so he can kill them. Dexter is far more interesting than anything the woke mob have created.
Isn't it crazy how they had to rewrite an entire character who was known to be a heterosexual playboy into a hyper gay freakshow because we just cant have an adaptation of an old title be tainted and unhampered with?
They hate you, they hate people like you, and most of all, they hate the things that make you happy. It's why abhorrent shit like this is constantly getting greenlit.
I ironically think it might have been better if he stayed a heterosexual playboy that they kept making fun of... At least that way they stop causing friendly fire that way.
as a tomboy fan of anime i hate that shit like this and for years i never once considered or thought "oh she could be gay confused or trans" bc japan depcits most tomboys with a love interest a guy friend and it works but the eventual pay off of said guy friend helping the tomboy girl come into her femininity is great perfect example tomo-chan is a girl epitome of tomboy so when these freaks come in and try it add some gay or trans shit it's just so weird and let's be honest if japan or some other media did that there'd be much less people than there are for tomboys in anime :P
Heres the thing: modern writers only care about making characters as relatable as possible to "lived experiences", they can't comprehend someone exciting that isn't tied down by the same experiences they have. People lived vicariously through Lara because she was so different and her life was so exciting, not because they could relate to her on a personal level.
@@avay8726 Yep, the ,,normal" one. I think homosexuality is absolutely fine, but if a character is straight, just keep them straight. It is all just to transmit some political agenda and that shouldn't be the case
That's why the joke is that Lara and Indiana Jones led to what Nathan Drake is. She's all smarts and gun-play. Indiana is all just... Indiana. Mostly brawns and quick-feet especially in the thinking area, known to bare-knuckle. Drake is the amalgamation of them both, and the best parts. Until they ruined it.
The non-threatening male sidekick trope is really starting to piss me off. I don't mind when a female-lead show has a male sidekick who is designed to not draw attention from the main character, that's fine. But these characters are somehow aggressively non-aggressive, like instead of fading back into a secondary role they stand out in front and loudly proclaim how lame they are.
Makes me miss characters like Ron Stoppable, male sidekicks who lacked their female counterparts' derring-do, but more than made up for it in quips, empathy, weirdly good ideas, and sheer likability.
glen from transformers was the fucking goat but never left his role as a secondary character, male sidekicks need to be more like glen and ron stoppable
@@shadowmanksx If you have time, watch Ghost in The Shell, the series. Female Lead, leading a team of men and everyone is well written. The men even evoke more emotions that female lead, and not once is it Strange or weird
I grew up on the early 2000s Tomb Raider movies as a young girl. Lara was a sexy, smart, badass and i wanted to be like that. I feel no inclination to be like the modern Lara...
OG Lara was a strong independent women who was smart flexible and could think in her feet. This Lara can't even function for a few minutes without moping and her support group constantly treating her like a lost puppy.
@@NexusKin remember bein unenthused by it in the cinema but went back to rewatch it recently and i dont know if "current day " is SOOO fkn bad that it raised it up but the sheer joy angie is having playing the role shines through and some of the action sequences hold up well. the spirit was there in em at least. no way we'd get a shower scene like that nowadays . :D
It's not just the media. Years ago, they gave Mrs. Butterworth a double masectomy, and the hot Land 'O Lakes butter chick mysteriously disappeared from the box. And, they killed Chief Wahoo (Cleveland Indians), when the name 'Cleveland Indians' was chosen to honor one of their players - it was never derogatory (like the Washington Redskins). Cuz, you know. You can't risk 'triggering' a single sheeple. Woke can SUCK IT.
They are not erased everywhere. The most used clickbait on youtube is still a good sized cleavage. It is proven to work for both male and female audiences.
> open pizza restaurant > customers come to eat pizza > serve them a plate of dog shit instead > "did you just literally serve me dog shit?" > "well, if you're scat-phobic, this restaurant is not for you!" > customers leave and tell others to avoid your "pizza" place > your "pizza" place goes out of business > OY VEY, IT'S THE CUSTOMERS' FAULT! > rinse and repeat
Don't give them ideas. If they make Prince of Persia , we'll be doomed. Even tho T2T and TfS was okay , Prince's power peaked at Warrior Within. And that game is not for modern audiences.. I still miss being chased by dahaka,..
You can look at her chest and immediately know everything you need to about the show. No matter how many people say "it's not because it's woke it's just bad" you never see a character defeminized in something that turns out to be good.
It starts off just like the Halo-series did: "Let's kick off by having a great action-sequence reminiscent of actual game play that show the main character in their best light and lets the audience remember why they loved the games!" "That's brilliant!" "Let's follow that up with ten to twenty episodes of the main character being completely out of character, constantly moody, insubordinate or generally incapable! Oh and lets also experiment by adding some new character traits no-one asked for dreamed up by people who never played or understood the appeal of the original games! Finally let's sprinkle in some supporting characters that are as flat as the paper they are written on yet take up half of the screen time!" "What?"
People act like the 90s were some kind of dark ages in terms of media sensibilities. Meanwhile, we had women action stars (Sarah Connor, Lara Croft), gay people in prominent roles on TV (Will & Grace, Ellen), all-black sitcoms (Fresh Prince, Family Matters) syndicated all over the western world etc. And it worked out just fine, because it wasn't done by agenda-driven activists.
It was done by agenda driven activists, they were just sensible back then and had good intentions without wanting to ruin society 😅 Did you know the first lesbian kiss on film was in the pre-Hay's code 1930 film "Morocco" when nightclub singer Marlene Deitrich kisses a woman in the audience during a song? (Obviously, it isn’t full-on making out in the direct context of a gay relationship, but it’s definitely sexual rather than friendly/platonic). I always lol when those idiots at Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm/Pixar or Apple go on about "the first this and that to do X and Y". It's all been done countless times before any of you hacks even realize.
According to 'the Message', modern Leftists are the pinnacle of tolerance and understanding, and the further back you go the more twisted and bigoted people become until they're literally Austrian painters. Any evidence to the contrary will be destroyed.
I'm pretty sure all these TV shows and movies can be adapted for modern audiences. They will become unwatchable, but at least they'd fit with the current times.
The OG Lara is hot, never cried, massive breasts, unstoppable badass, not a lesbian... So they do the complete opposite and wonder why their show is hated by everyone. Huh.
shes not a lesbian in this show , its been edited up in loads of other videos to make it look that way. Sure the show is bad, but gay in this show , she is not. That is the girl she grew up with, there best friends growing up.
@@ronuss Not yet you mean. If this does well and gets a Season 2, she will most definitely be bi at the very least. These people are just plain crazy about this stuff to the point I think this is all they care about.
I don't understand the hate on men while "modern women" be out there competing who's got the most ripped body and muscle weight which is what is hated about men but they get cheered on like?????
Rhianna Pratchett did horrific damage to Lara Croft. Imagine having the perfect "strong independent female character" already in place, then turning her into an utterly aromantic pot-hole of daddy issues who cries while killing hordes of nameless men. Because that's "real", right?
Sad thing is her dad wrote fantastic female characters, like Angua or What's-her-face in Strata. Or of course Granny Weatherway, Nanny Ogg and the lot.
Rhianna Pratchett admitted herself in an interview she wanted and pushed for Lara Croft to be Lesbian on the 2013 reboot, where Samantha Nakamura would have been her Girlfriend but she was vetoed by her superiors. Still, there are still remnants of her Vision by making Samantha to be "just" Lara's best friend and her damsel-in-distress for practically the whole game. It is no wonder Samantha never returned for the sequels, and Rhianna stepped away from the game industry after the direct sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider.
yeah i was thinking the same thing, the show runner is exactly the stereotypical type of person you'd expect to make a show exactly like this. no subtlety at all... fat white woman with half a shaved head making lesbian girlboss story, can't get any more stereotypical than that, except maybe if she had a blue or purple streak in her hair too.
It's hilarious how Netflix can go from absolute bangers like Society of the Snow, All Quiet on the western front, Cyberpunk Edge Runners and Terminator: Zero to this. This company really has absolutely no consistency.
The action and moment to moment plot is pretty good in Terminator. The over arching plot feels like it was written by 14 year old with both one too many adderal pills and chromosomes.
The real Lara Croft is an iconic globetrotting adventurer recovering and securing artifacts of immense power with her bravery, athleticism, and huge caliber guns. She also has two pistols.
The best part of the show is when she says "...I'm going to have to go to the worst place in the world" and it cuts to a shot of Paris with French accordion music playing.
Had to check that out, and yeah, absolutely, should have done a 3d render of the woman, would have been attacked for unrealistic beauty standards though.
@@primekiller5729 Also, Peggy Carter becoming a version of Captain America totally worked for me (to a huge degree because it wasn't totally out of left field but made somewhat sense considering all the previous movies and tv shows).
I checked her IMDB for Tasha Huo the lead writer who wrote 6 of the 9 episodes - she has only 4 entries for movies/shows. Guess what her first documentary film was? WOMEN IN THE DIRT - Female architects shaping our world today Now don't get me wrong, putting a spotlight on women in a field dominated by men is a good thing, but the manner in which she did is was horrible (proven by the reviews and score too). She definitely should NOT have been asked to lay a finger on this show.
I still believe that Lara Croft is the most recognizable female video game character of all time, in the late '90s and early 2000s it seemed like she was as famous as Mario, Sonic, Pikachu, etc. But even when some of the recent Tomb Raider games have been quite successful, though Square-Enix (in)famously said the sales were lower than they expected, it seems nowadays Lara is known for having being famous in the the 32-bit era of games, kind of how Pac-Man was the most famous game character due to the success of the original arcade game. To be fair, I never played a lot of Tomb Raider as a kid, and if I had to mention which is probably the first female video game character I remember seeing everywhere in magazines and shows, that would be Chun-li from Street Fighter and Princess Peach from Super Mario, with an honorable mention to Princess Zelda, Tifa and Aeris from Final Fantasy VII and Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury/King of Fighters
The first sequence alone was baffling. Lara goes through a series of obstacles including having to go underwater to discover the ancient temple then immediately after Conrad shows up like he was just there all along waiting for her.
I mean I feel like thats more a par for the course with the adventure movie genre. Like how many times have Nathan Drake or Indiana Jones had the same thing happen to them?
I haven’t played TR 2013 since it was new. But I was under the impression that Lara/Roth were treasure hunters in the “we do History Channel specials” context prior to the getting stranded in Yamati, which was the first time Lara ever seriously had to fight anyone. Why were they showing her raiding tombs prior to her origin story
Tomb Raider is ideal setting for 90s style adventure series with each episode being self-contained mini story with mystery or villain of the week. You could even make it family friendly without much issue, if you wanted to. Perfect opportunity, and they still somehow managed to fuck it up.
Saw the thumbnail and immediately knew what this was gonna be like. I swear, it's becoming a landmark of what to expect in a show. If it looks a certain way, it's just gonna suck.
This was also where the Tomb Raider games went off the rails... Tomb Raider was not action game punctuated by puzzles like Uncharted. It was a puzzle game punctuated by action. The original games had grandeur, depth, beauty, atmosphere, and very very slow pacing. When the music started playing, your heart started racing, because gunfights were actually relatively rare.
Exactly, the new Tomb Raider were not Tomb Raider at all, they were decent adventure games, but had nothing to do with the franchise. I don't know if we'll ever have another puzzle game like the old TR1/2/3, I don't think players nowadays are patient enough for that, they'll give up at the first puzzle because they didn't have their dopamine hit in the first 5 minutes.
@@feandil666 There are certainly some modern streamlines that can improve the franchise... for instance I remember the "save crystals" feeling very punishing. Although it did create a feeling of elation when you finally found one. I also loved the scarcity of weapons and ammo in those games. You knew that if an enemy was difficult, you'd have to bust out the magnums or the shotgun. Same thing with med kits.
Ngl even if they gave her a gigachad husband and 3 kids I'd still expect them to make her be secretly bisexual the whole time because even people that are happily married with families arent allowed to be just straight these days.
@@pyepye-io4vu It's not women, though. It's specifically the rainbow mafia they/them freaks & their DEI scores. Stop putting ppl like that, who care nothing for the franchise but instead about shoving this crap down our throats, in charge of these franchises. No wonder they freaking die. I'm a woman and I could direct a better TR plot than this.
@@pyepye-io4vuWere women not involved in some of the movies and shows we all loved before? What about the rare stuff today that does turn out to be good. Women are involved in those as well.
I don't understand why all of these modern game and media production writers are obsessed with making Lara Croft seem inexperienced and out of her element so often, needing support and acting like a dolt. We literally started with peak Lara Croft. She's an insane gymnast, insane combat shooter, world famous explorer, genius intellect, on top of being as wealthy as a queen and completely independent.
They're not. Like all streaming platforms it's kept afloat by outside funding but as we're increasingly seeing in video games and movies, it is unsustainable
The showrunner is a rebel. She's different. She doesn't follow the herd. She marches to the beat of her own drums. She doesn't look AI generated and didn't create the standard Alphabet "Modern Audience" product.
Those fights in Peru (after the three years passed) actually happen. They are part of a yearly ritual called Takanakuy (Quechua for "to hit each other"). It happens in Cusco every December 25th so that any two parties can burry the hatchet and begin the new year with a fresh start. Men, women, and sometimes children participate. I want to make clear that this is NOT FRIENDLY COMPETITION. This is to settle scores. And in Peru, we don't use those wrestling masks. That is Mexican.
“And in Perú, we don’t use wrestling masks. That is Mexican”…..and this is why who ever created this series should be banned from all entertainment media
Ahh well that's where you're wrong friend. You see, Mexico is south of the United States. Peru is in South America. Therefore Peru IS Mexico. It's nothing but Mexicans the whole way down, that's just common geography knowledge in the USA :P
The adaptation of the show significantly misinterprets and disregards the essence of the original Tomb Raider series and Lara Croft herself. It's disheartening to witness how they overlooked such a treasured legacy for the sake of apparently modernizing the character.
At the time, the first Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movie seemed kind of meh. But looking back, we were really spoiled, weren't we? Both her performance and the script nailed the combination of toughness, sexiness, levity, and sophistication that make the character really fun. When is the last time a piece of Tomb Raider media actually succeeded in that (or even tried, for that matter)?
I don't know anything about Lara Croft but I was confident that if I listened to the Drinker for a few minutes I'd start laughing. Not disappointed. Brilliantly written and delivered dialogue. Love your accent too, old man. Thanks
The fact that Angelina Jolie's portrayal of Lara Croft is the only one to do it justice to this day is laughably sad..... it's been what? 20 years and people can't get her right anymore.
I love how Lara makes a throw away line "Zip you track everything right?" And that is the excuse for him being basically omniscient. Seriously a thief jumps on a scooter and takes off, Lara stealing one of her guest's car to chase after him. And Zip is isntantly able to be the eye in the sky, knowing where both Lara and the thief is down to such details he can tell at which exact street Lara is on AND which streets the car is able to handle. Putting gps trackers on all the Croft artifacts I could somewhat believe. But a random guest's car? And he even seems to know when she switches to bike. This told me all I needed to know about the quality of writing in this show.
@@SirGriefALot crystal dynamics made her to LOST raider, then bunker raider and finally uncharted dollfaced lara. i wished they sticked to legend/underworld...
An entertaining take and directly on point, as usual. If the writers of these projects addressed the constructive criticisms offered here, they'd have a billion dollar blockbuster. But, no.
They killed Star Wars, they killed Indiana Jones and now they’ve hammered the last nail in a coffin lid of Tomb Raider. Look how they massacred my girl!
If hated nostalgia bait updated for modern audiences is what western media has devolved to, who will mourn it when it's gone. How much longer now til we can tell an AI to "generate for me a star wars sequel trilogy in the style of the original"
To be entirely fair I wasn't that crazily enamoured with Starwars and didn't think much of Indiana Jones at all. Tombraider, while I thought the remakes from 2013 were worthwhile, isn't exactly a franchise I'd expected to do anything at all. Having this come out now is certainly a slap in the face yet again, but I'm more worried about the franchises I still love than the stuff that is in the Disney purgatory, or a 20+ year old gaming franchise that got a few good reboots and a few mediocre movies.
@@pinobluevogel6458 I'm not much of an Indie fan either, but GamingMagic13 made a great longman video explaining why the last one was an utter car crash of a film. ua-cam.com/video/r8OdcH3-uf0/v-deo.html
lmfao gotta love how diverse the cast was up until Drinker shows a capable-looking white guy. "Anyway this is our main baddie--" No way!!! Who ever could have seen that coming?! 🤣
6:23 THIS. This is the best and concise description of Lara. I also love the intro to the first game, where she's offered money by a shady businesswoman and she replies with "I do it for sport". Well, good news is that we're gonna get the remasters of 4, 5 and 6th games. I'll go take refuge there. At least if they keep to strictly remaster that can't fuck them up.
One of the most painful things is seeing a side by side comparison of the character and the voice actor. Hayley Atwell is a beauty blessed with cannons like a manifestation of Venus, just like the original Croft. Then there's this tomboyish avatar built with only the slightest nod towards her femininity and a face that does nothing to emphasise the breathtaking beauty essential to the character.
The last Tomb Raider trilogy of game (the first 2 anyway) I think struck the right balance between being not obscenely large, but she was still pretty well stacked and gorgeous. They just keep trying to turn her into a piece of plywood as time goes on. Even the 3rd game of that trilogy took a bunch of well deserved shit for toning down her chest for some stupid reason, like she dropped a full cup size at least between the 2nd and 3rd games. They hand-waved it away with "oh it's only cause of the outfits"....yea bitches, the fucking outfits YOU designed to look like that.
And still, even in common sections of videos like this or similar ones in many other places, a lot of people there still have a Netflix subscription. The joke is on you. You are paying for this, instead of paying for a VPN and buying a external hard drive.
@@NoidoDev Joke is on you, illiterate one ("common" section?), we're here watching Drinker cos we don't use any trash streaming. Also imagine paying for a VPN, especially one that's sponsored everywhere, and you probably pay to use AI too
Its not even DEI, I swear this show is racist against straight men. This show is a poster child example for an Antifeminist movement. If you don't have a reason to dislike the gay and queer community, jeez they are constantly giving straight people reasons not to stay neutral for much longer. If these queers want a cultural war, they are going to get one.
> Aquire successful franchise
> Change everything that made it successful
> Pikachu face when it flops
> Blame fan base
> Repeat
Make it make sense.
That quite sums up everything about modern film making
I'm convinced it's just money laundering funneling record profits to VIP friends
You stole this comment or did I just saw you coming early in several videos, PlayerOne? 😏
Anyways, truuuuuuuuuue!
They won't stop until absolutely everything has pc remakes, and the originals are forgotten
Demoralization. Does it make sense now?
The one time they have a girl boss character known for being a girl boss. Then they write her as the least favorable type of female character in media.
IKR ?! They really don't know what they want, do they ?
Would of been way better if we got a 4th sequel written and directed by the 2013 devs 😒
Edit: I believe we are still getting a 4th survivor game, just hope its the original devs 🙏
Wow, you're right. Guess nothing beats lack of talent. They even suck at the obvious.
This just proves that they just hate gamers or never understood why people liked these games to begin with.
It is also cr°nge how every adult is insecure, _"expressively vulnerable"_ and some of them burst out in tears at every opportunity.
I am not very stoic but to most of those characters I might as well be John Wick.
My grandmother told me: I don't care what character you played in the PS1 games, Lara Croft was a flat chested lesbian who cried every 15 seconds.
Well... she's not wrong. 😉
😂👍
i've got no other opinion than, that is NOT flat chested
lol, awesome comment. I wish I had thought of it.
" I understood that reference". KKKKKK
As a young girl, Lara was an inspiration. I remember my love for history and geography began after playing the second tomb raider. I was so enamoured by a female character who was effortlessly confident, detached, always on her own thing. Athletic, beautiful, capable, sexy. Even as an adult now, I still hold so many of those values Lara taught me as a kid. As silly as it sounds, I still think about 'what would Lara do?' Sometimes. She was my hero.
More than her new design, more than the story, I hate how this one character, the strong woman little me loved so much, ended up as something so fragile. So easy to break.
We do not humanize her by making her cry or whine, we humanize her by showcasing the struggles befitting a woman of her caliber. A distant stoic, lone wolf, like Lara woman might strugge to make connections, to let go of her own walls, to enjoy help and letting others in, to realize she might not be as infalible as she thinks she is. To be vulnerable. This Lara has such an easy time whining and crying and complaining. Core Lara holds shit in, and THAT'S 'relatable'.
(Actually, we don't really need to humanize her at all. Let her remain an archetype. I miss when characters were just cool lmao.)
Why does every female character i like end up getting such a whiny new version? She hulk, carmen sandiego, croft. Who's next? Jessica Rabbit?
“It’s already got a girl in it, so now, we only have to make it gay and lame!”
except even in the PC games she had lesbian moments. In on of the PC games there's that woman whose implied to be a vampire whose flirting with Lara, and Lara says "buy me a drink first and i'll consider your proposal." The woman laughs and sends her goons ins, quipping about Lara "not having enough stamina" to engage with her.
plus, as usual, TCD is just editing the footage to make it seem like Lara was gay in the show. She wasn't. But woman hating, politic pushing grifter gotta grift.
Kathleen, is that you?
They succeeded.
@@AzguardMike How is humorous verbal sparing considered "lesbian moments"???
@@AzguardMike I thought the male gaze was a bad thing. Now it's emporing lesbians?
It always nice to see that i lived old enough to see every franchise i love burn into flames.
No, your franchises are just fine. Everything that came before is safe, and I watch them all the time, completely ignoring all this new crap
We still have Back to the Future. Oh, and the Last Starfighter, too. That's TWO franchises safe (for now).
I was disappointed when Amazon decided not to make the late, great Ian M Banks Culture series. Now I'm relieved, maybe in the future a studio that respects the original creation will make it.
just be happy that you had your chance to see it, in it's brightest glory .... we got stuff to remember ... not comparable to nowadays mumble aka the "positivity"
You should've seen this coming, they used the exact same art style as the He-Man show.
"Toxic misogynist gamers hate seeing a strong female character!!!"
Yep....but remember.... WE'RE always to blame....not the countless examples in reality.
*Drinker shows who the showrunner is*
Oh goddamnit, I know people hate stereotypes but this is precisely the reason they exist. There is a hint of truth to every one of them.
They erased everything. She doesn't look like Lara at all. They keep refusing to let her use her guns. I don't care that the reboot games did that. No one liked it. Her look is all wrong. From skin color to not even wearing sun glasses. She does not act as Lara at all. Just like how EVERYONE hated Metroid other M. This is a primary male demographic game. These type of boring relationships and endless crying are things that never work. This is what we mean when women are directing/writing Soap Opera's. And not action adventure shows. Because I doubt women watching Soap Opera's would like me to take control of their show. And have characters fixing cars, talking tech, video games, or showing military ops.
uniboob! make her gay and make it suck! also make her moor like Korra! (gay and sucks)
Lesbian? Where? Camille was her childhood friend. What's lesbian there? That Cam just says "I love you" ? Come on.
I've seen Rule 34 videos with a more sensible plot than this show's director could ever conceive
Lmao literally!! Way better animated to
Sad, and very very true.
Its sad that this is real fucking true XD
@@lifeisberserk9566 Link a few examples? For research purposes of course
Which one, Lara with Hors?
1:39 - I live in Chile. There's no part of Chile that is a luscious tropical jungle. No major Amerindian civilisations rose up here either. The ignorance of what I'm seeing here is breathtaking.
Are you expecting Pedowood diversity hacks to actually open the Wikipedia about a country before they stick it in a show? Be glad if they spelled the name right!
they probably confused Chile with Peru which was the opening level from the 1996 game. maybe also a bit of 2018's Shadow of the Tombraider which had Mayas migrate from mexico along the coastline of south america through the amazon river to the peruvian part of the rainforest where they settled without the local Inkas noticing. but idk, i havent seen this show yet.
EXCELLENT WORK THE CRITICAL DRINKER 😂😂😂😂😂
@@S1nwarreminds me of how the Miles Morales video game devs mixed up the flags for Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Tal vez en fantasilandia monga
Writers: "We need to make Tomb Raider appealing to girls."
Girls who already liked Tomb Raider: "This show is lame and gay."
Pug a chick in it... AND MAKE HER GAY!
As a woman who LOVED the original games, I can confirm that.
Yeah making her lesbo isnt gnna appeal to women not all women are gay
You just get me, Boosh. I can't stand what they've done. They exchanged old school female fans like myself in for fat nonbinary they themselves and cat moms
Agreed! Loved the games in the 90s. Lara was the best back then! This...this is woke trash. 🤢
I'm tired of modern TV shows forcing their characters to explicitly talk about their emotions like they are in therapy. That's not good writing. What happened to the art of subtlety?
And what happened to show don’t tell?!
Bad female writers and simps happened.
And what happened to not being a hack writer? (At least not one with a job)
Writing what they know, I guess.
"We don't see things as they are, but as WE are" these (cough cough) "writers" are DEFINITELY in need of therapy. People write what they know.
If someone had told me back in the '90s that one day I'd feel completely disconnected from the things I once loved-Tomb Raider, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Marvel Comics, ...-I would have laughed. But now, 35 years later, I’m not even surprised, and I barely care when another cherished memory from my childhood gets ruined.
They can pump out garbage all they want but lord of the rings stays pure in my eyes
This is SO TRUE. It was heartbreaking at first, now it doesn’t even surprise or faze me anymore. Such a shame.
I think this is their plan all along.
@@eldertreebeard1791 Me too, the Lord of the Rings books are untouchable.
The Peter Jackson movies can't ruin them for me.
@@multi-florum I like the movies an the books, rings of power though…
They just REFUSE to make any normal adaptation. Cartman was right “Make it lame, make it gay”.
Not Cartman but Kathleen
@@bastadimasta the quote is from South Park but it's true though. At least South Park is the one show that is not afraid to crack a joke
@@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307in the show it cartmen as Kathleen
How far have we fallen for that statement to be true.
Its way more realistic that shes beating up men tho
The original PS1 Lara Croft completely turned her back on the peerage after her father disowned her for her "outlandish" behavior, at which point she used her archaeological and exploration skills to both find and sell ancient artifacts and to write books based on her adventures. She ended up building an even larger fortune than her family had. If that isn't a strong independent woman, I don't know what is.
careful, the critical drinker will attack you for daring to say a woman is strong.
She needs to be a victim
Bullshit@@AzguardMike
@@AzguardMike - obviously bad troll is obviously bad
@@AzguardMike Baited nobody award
Funny how the show says the first Item is in Chile, in a temple in the middle of the jungle, with crocodiles and diverse mercenaries that use Machetes as a weapon.
Of course, Chile doesn’t have jungles, our local natives never built any temples in that archaeological style, it looks like a temple you could find in Brazil or Perú, maybe Bolivia. Also we don’t have crocodiles, and our skin color is completely different of the ones in the show, and the Machete has no cultural or practical use for use, the knife he use is the Corvo.
Almost as the showrunners just did a racist and put latin stereotypes and stapled “Chile” to not use the classic Brazil or Perú
Well, for the machete thing, it's a jungle.... i would rather use a machete to chop vines and things instead of a knife
@@theenderdestruction2362 my point being the Machete is completely useless in Chile, our forrest are to thick and humid for its use, and culturally we have never used the Machete.
So for the showrunners to put “chileans” with machetes is stupid and actually racist. They went the “of course latinxs are all in jungles with temples and are all brown”
Why actually respect people and cultures when you can just be a closeted racist and typecast entire ethnic groups!
Its not inclusive its hypocrisy.
To these people, everywhere south of the border is Mexico, and anyone living there is Mexican.
Finally, some Tomb Raider content for all the Tomb Raider fans who hate exploration, guns, sexy women, playing video games, and Tomb Raider.
but love moping, crying, and implied lesbian relationships
The Angelina Jolie movies may not have been perfect, but Angelina at least looked and acted the part, and didn't cry all the time.
I do find it funny how the VA for Lara is the exact look for a live action Lara
It was a fucking glorious movie. I miss those movies where it wasn’t supposed to be a masterpiece in story or anything but just a kickass action movie that does its part.
@@ElhajMahmoud Exactly, I probably worded it poorly, but I thought it was an awesome movie, I miss those days.
The two Tomb Raider movies are a guilty pleasure, just fun action packed and cheesy, a hark baco to a better time
@@masterofpuppets5568 no worries. I’m watching some channel reaction to commando movie of Arnold Schwarzenegger and they ask in the movie “wouldn’t this character do this in this situation?” And then they show minutes later that thing happening. Action movies used to make sense even tho they go overboard in strength feat and stuff but they were supposed to be ACTION HEROES. Not some everyday person to relate to. Even tho in that movie he dodges bullets in the final battle but oh well😂
@@ElhajMahmoud Exactly. As I said when it came out, I review things on what they were trying to do. Give me a girl with big hooters and a series of loosely connected action set pieces, and you have Tomb Raider. They delivered that.
Lara Croft; Adventurer, archaeologist, wise, resourceful, member of nobility, a survivor.
Netflix; "Okay. Now to fuck it all up."
Also, make it lame and gay!
But she’s British and white, so she has to atone for her sins and go through humiliation rituals.
@@Jadty But she is brunette and with a subtle light dark tone in her skin so she can pretend she's also black just like Kamala Harris does. xD
Every time
That South Park “lame and gay” bit by Cartman is a perfect description of what Netflix did to Tomb Raider 💀
Complaining about woke stuff all the time is pretty lazy
It's the literal problem. It's the root cause. When it stops constantly ruining stuff, people will stop referencing it.
I bet you are a Kamala Harris supporter
@@MrMrbrianbechtel I’m not…how did your brain rotate to a conclusion like that. Both candidates are idiots anyways, not everything’s political
@@cephlo4933 your comments on this channel are lazy, not to mention the horrible takes you have. Saying Deadpool 3 is mid…yeah ok buddy. I spotted a Hypocritic
put a chick in it and make her lame and gay!
"Animation that looks 20 years out of date" I mean if it was even older than that, like 80's and 90's then it would look fucking amazing : (
for sure this is 80s animation straight up at least 40 years old
@@RoeShamBoe Plenty of stuff from the 80's that looks 100 times better than this crap
Johnny Quest comes to mind
Looks like Archer with lensflares added
Good art can't save a terrible story, just look at Santa INC & The Good Dinosaur...
I’m a woman who liked the original games. If this is supposed to be for “women like me”, then I’m starting to think that the people that made this are using that as an excuse just to make it how THEY want and to have the fulfillment of watching their own fanfictions be animated for their own viewing pleasure
I'm also a woman who grew up on the original games, and yeah: this isn't for us any more than it is for a male audience.
It usually is, honestly
As a woman, I just feel offended by this type of stuff
💯, they always blame it on us while claiming it's for us, no, writers, it's your very own fetish, we were there from day one with her og independent personality and guns, this is just offensive to everyone but especially, us.
I’m a man who grew up around the very first game & I completely agree. It’s not made for either of us. It’s made purely for wierdos who made it & no-one else.
Without Tomb Raider being in the title I would’ve not known that was Lara Croft in the thumbnail
Well this is a modern Lara Croft for a modern audience.
Yep, butch with manly jawline, ZERO femininity, MtF tranny really.
modern Lara Croft had her b00bs shrunk too
The lara croft i know has big ol honkers
Looks like a male anime character tbh
The person who made this is responsible for The Witcher: Blood Origin. They made Blood Origin, and then someone saw Blood Origin and said "This is the person I want to give creative control over one of the most iconic characters in video games to."
Oh, and she's also making an upcoming Red Sonja movie, so look forward to that...
Failing upwards is still a thing, I see.
That’s what I was about to comment. WHY would anyone hire her after Blood Origin. She’s not even known for her good writing.
Meritocracy just isn't a thing in Hollywood, since being a woketard is a considering a good thing , this is what we will keep getting no matter how much money is being burnt.
It's social conditioning of people with Marxist ideology. Yes, this is the person they want. How do you still all not get what's happening?
These people are hand-picked to destroy franchises. There is no other reason.
I was actually considering to watch that show, since I'm a fan of those two old movies with Angelina Jolie, but... thanks for saving my time, guess I'll just rewatch these two old movies. XD
Only thing I remember of Lara Croft is Jolie's movie adaptation, and how she's partly working to honor her father's memory and legacy. I really liked that... A beautiful, classy, intelligent, loyal and fearless daughter. Any man would be proud of such a daughter.
It's still that but Critical Drinker can't be seen to like it his whole schtik would fall apart.
How? @@miamijim5964
@@miamijim5964 Wrong.
He's not the problem you tinkle-swallowing waste of air. It's the damn fat lonely woman that doesn't know how to write a proper woman protagonist (ironic since she is supposedly a woman). She writes this. Not what we know about Lara Croft, either Jolie's run or the games.
Jolie's movies were a departure from the Canon backstory Lara Croft had. In the classic game canon (the only one that matters) she was disowned by her parents for wanting a different lifestyle.
@@haleymarie3113 I mean both work for the backstories. I never got big into the original games, but I loved the Jolie version and still wish I had the physical means to be like her.
I love how they made Korra give up this whole Avatar thing in this sequel and changed her name to Lara. That's some awesome character development here.
That’s what I was thinkin💀
its just a side gig for her real job of selling rainbow knitted tea pot covers on Etsy
Ah, the woman that dated two dudes and took their girl.😂
Oh, crap, no wonder flat-chested Lara looked familiar!
@@xavierhouston4650i don't. Care what people say that was absolutely diabolical and I still can't believe nobody in the show or comics says anything about it.
It's a show made by adults who haven't grown up from being 12 year old girls.
It's a fanfic by non-fans made by people without industry accountability.
I am really getting tired of the trope of making literally every single tough female character into a lesbian...
It's like... What's the messaging there? That the woman is too masculine for men? That she's so masculine other women desire her? That only lesbians can be tough? Why do modern writers hate femininity so much? Actually... They hate masculinity too. But only when either is represented by a woman and a man respectively. They hate the concept of Cis.
I hate this trend of having to always "reinvent" characters as these broken, traumatized, and depressed shells of what they formerly were.
Or in other words “Put a chick in it and make it lame and gay!”
Right? Can we get a character that's NOT trying to be a cheap soap opera?
don't forget the evil bad guy who's not evil or bad but just had trauma and is in fact sympathetic
@@TheMambojack I blame Game of Thrones for the whole morally grey character thing. It's very difficult to write compelling characters like that, and modern writers are definitely not up to the task.
@@EscargoBay Morally grey characters can be very interesting, like Dexter. He's a serial killer, but he only kills killers... at least, for a while, then he gets even greyer when he deliberately screws up procedures to let killers go free so he can kill them. Dexter is far more interesting than anything the woke mob have created.
I don't think the writers realized that "put a chic in it and make it gay" wasn't an actual invitation to do so
South Park fanboy
@@jonny.prime.the.collectoras if it’s somehow a bad thing.
No no no you see when i call someone a fanboy it makes me a sigma male and you a beta male@die_flugel_der_freiheit7382
She’s not gay in the show. That girl was her uncles daughter. The show is good.
@@Sunnydawgonshow is too gaaaay
Isn't it crazy how they had to rewrite an entire character who was known to be a heterosexual playboy into a hyper gay freakshow because we just cant have an adaptation of an old title be tainted and unhampered with?
They hate you, they hate people like you, and most of all, they hate the things that make you happy. It's why abhorrent shit like this is constantly getting greenlit.
@@taags it's always been
It's a new world. It has always been a new world since the day I was king lol. Change is humanity's default setting.
I ironically think it might have been better if he stayed a heterosexual playboy that they kept making fun of...
At least that way they stop causing friendly fire that way.
you mean the person who was a stalker and a cheater.
also no where in the show was he a hyper gay freakshow.
I cant shake away the fact that this version of Lara Croft looks like ABBY from TLOU 2
well those are the same kind of people who think a tomboy is either gay or trans.
Or boys who play with dolls. I just wanted to imagine living in a functional family, and Barbie and Ken helped me to act out that fantasy, lol.
@@EscargoBay i have 6 sisters so i got influenced by them.
as a tomboy fan of anime i hate that shit like this and for years i never once considered or thought "oh she could be gay confused or trans" bc japan depcits most tomboys with a love interest a guy friend and it works but the eventual pay off of said guy friend helping the tomboy girl come into her femininity is great perfect example tomo-chan is a girl epitome of tomboy so when these freaks come in and try it add some gay or trans shit it's just so weird and let's be honest if japan or some other media did that there'd be much less people than there are for tomboys in anime :P
@@EscargoBay :(
tomboy is too much for their braincells to comprehend
Heres the thing: modern writers only care about making characters as relatable as possible to "lived experiences", they can't comprehend someone exciting that isn't tied down by the same experiences they have. People lived vicariously through Lara because she was so different and her life was so exciting, not because they could relate to her on a personal level.
She's basically a benevolent sociopath lol What were they thinking?
Also, they have never even seen a female lady... not even their own voice actress. They haven't the slightest idea what one looks like.
Turns out writing what you know isn't always go.
Excellent comment 👌
Heterosexual relationships are rarer than a female apology line cracked me up xD.
Real
Hetero is the normal one
Lets say its normal relationship
@@avay8726 Yep, the ,,normal" one. I think homosexuality is absolutely fine, but if a character is straight, just keep them straight. It is all just to transmit some political agenda and that shouldn't be the case
@@DerTeeSäufer maybe its safe that they start gaywashing character
Bcs i know some character genderbended only to make them gay
I started watching sandman a little while ago and it was like the writers were allergic to writing a relationship that wasn't gay
When it looks so bad you don't bother to pirate
Still not worth it. I wouldn't take a single look, even if i get payed for this.
kinda like the new Dragon Age?
I don’t know when writers will realize that Lara is more Connery’s Bond than Nathan from Uncharted
To the same time, Nathan compared to this one is like Schopenhauer compared to "The Bachelor"
@@geertf.5756 This shite proves Schopenhauer was right about straight women and never met a lesbian lol
Yes, she's literally an amalgamation of if Sean Connery's Bond wanted to be Indiana Jones.
@@geertf.5756 Nice reference to Schopenhauer. Now that is something these modern audiences should read for a bit of contrast.
That's why the joke is that Lara and Indiana Jones led to what Nathan Drake is.
She's all smarts and gun-play. Indiana is all just... Indiana. Mostly brawns and quick-feet especially in the thinking area, known to bare-knuckle.
Drake is the amalgamation of them both, and the best parts. Until they ruined it.
The non-threatening male sidekick trope is really starting to piss me off. I don't mind when a female-lead show has a male sidekick who is designed to not draw attention from the main character, that's fine. But these characters are somehow aggressively non-aggressive, like instead of fading back into a secondary role they stand out in front and loudly proclaim how lame they are.
Makes me miss characters like Ron Stoppable, male sidekicks who lacked their female counterparts' derring-do, but more than made up for it in quips, empathy, weirdly good ideas, and sheer likability.
@@R.P-e2z The best sidekick ever written honestly he had it all.
glen from transformers was the fucking goat but never left his role as a secondary character, male sidekicks need to be more like glen and ron stoppable
@@shadowmanksx If you have time, watch Ghost in The Shell, the series. Female Lead, leading a team of men and everyone is well written. The men even evoke more emotions that female lead, and not once is it Strange or weird
Flamboyantly lame... unabashedly prostrate
"What face is that?"
_"It's a rejected design from He-Man: Revelation."_
Put some honor on my man He-man 😤
@@MessiahofVatican did you watch he-man revelation? it's not exactly about him..
I grew up on the early 2000s Tomb Raider movies as a young girl. Lara was a sexy, smart, badass and i wanted to be like that. I feel no inclination to be like the modern Lara...
"Cannot be adapted for modern audiences," THE MODERN AUDIENCE LIKED LARA THE WAY SHE WAS!
I even loved the PS5 games they made with her.
All they had to do was give us dungeon crawling guns akimbo adventures like Jackie Chan Adventures directed by John Woo. That, friggin, simple.
OG Lara was a strong independent women who was smart flexible and could think in her feet.
This Lara can't even function for a few minutes without moping and her support group constantly treating her like a lost puppy.
The Modern Audience is like Big Foot or the Rake
Whenever people claim to see them, they are all either high or drunk.
"Modern Audience" means exclusively people with "queer" in their social media profile description.
Tomb Raider will never be as good as seeing that T-Rex for the first time back in the 90's when the world was semi normal.
I'll even take that first Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movie. At least that was relatively faithful to the spirit of the original games.
Tomb Rider Anniversary, Legend, and Underworld were seriously amazing and as a kid, first contact with Tomb Rider franchise.
@@NexusKin remember bein unenthused by it in the cinema but went back to rewatch it recently and i dont know if "current day " is SOOO fkn bad that it raised it up but the sheer joy angie is having playing the role shines through and some of the action sequences hold up well. the spirit was there in em at least. no way we'd get a shower scene like that nowadays . :D
Terrifying
I remember that music hitting, then the t-Rex coming out of the darkness
What a moment that was...sad to think there is no moments like that anymore with kids today.
I'm not even into giant bobs. They're fine. But the fact that they are being erased from all women in media is really effed up. It is so weird.
It's not just the media. Years ago, they gave Mrs. Butterworth a double masectomy, and the hot Land 'O Lakes butter chick mysteriously disappeared from the box. And, they killed Chief Wahoo (Cleveland Indians), when the name 'Cleveland Indians' was chosen to honor one of their players - it was never derogatory (like the Washington Redskins). Cuz, you know. You can't risk 'triggering' a single sheeple. Woke can SUCK IT.
They are not erased everywhere. The most used clickbait on youtube is still a good sized cleavage. It is proven to work for both male and female audiences.
She looks like Korra now.
Bewbs 😅
@@VileGlory Nah, Korra looks slightly better in that kind of thing.
I always like the concept of a "modern audience". What modern audience? The old one hasn't exactly died off yet.
That “writer”/show runner shall now be known as “Fridge Raider”...
😂 👍🏻 🎉
lol good one.
🤣
The cybertruck chested Croft is better 😂
Toblerone Raider
> open pizza restaurant
> customers come to eat pizza
> serve them a plate of dog shit instead
> "did you just literally serve me dog shit?"
> "well, if you're scat-phobic, this restaurant is not for you!"
> customers leave and tell others to avoid your "pizza" place
> your "pizza" place goes out of business
> OY VEY, IT'S THE CUSTOMERS' FAULT!
> rinse and repeat
Cool it with the antiscatimism
Divine standing at attention.
😂😂💀I’m crying this is so accurate
lmao nice analogy 😂
I wouldn't mind a nice plate of dogshit. But I'm not a bigot like you.
They are literally destroying every single icon from the past. One at a time. RIP Lara.
Right? Who's next, Rambo?
Seriously! I think cause talentless hags can't think of anything new, so they destroy old icons!
@@fireprophetproductions4967 Rambo gonna be a black trans woman, isn't he?
@@quihuynh1647 isn't *she
Don't give them ideas. If they make Prince of Persia , we'll be doomed. Even tho T2T and TfS was okay , Prince's power peaked at Warrior Within. And that game is not for modern audiences..
I still miss being chased by dahaka,..
You can look at her chest and immediately know everything you need to about the show. No matter how many people say "it's not because it's woke it's just bad" you never see a character defeminized in something that turns out to be good.
It starts off just like the Halo-series did:
"Let's kick off by having a great action-sequence reminiscent of actual game play that show the main character in their best light and lets the audience remember why they loved the games!"
"That's brilliant!"
"Let's follow that up with ten to twenty episodes of the main character being completely out of character, constantly moody, insubordinate or generally incapable! Oh and lets also experiment by adding some new character traits no-one asked for dreamed up by people who never played or understood the appeal of the original games! Finally let's sprinkle in some supporting characters that are as flat as the paper they are written on yet take up half of the screen time!"
"What?"
I read both these parts as the Writer guy and Producer guy from the Pitch Meeting videos. I now await that guy's take on this disappointing dreck.
The show’s version of Chief and Halo isn’t canon to the games mind you.
what. but everything she did in the show was literally in character.
Same with the Witcher.
@@louisduarte8763 lamo yeah.
People act like the 90s were some kind of dark ages in terms of media sensibilities. Meanwhile, we had women action stars (Sarah Connor, Lara Croft), gay people in prominent roles on TV (Will & Grace, Ellen), all-black sitcoms (Fresh Prince, Family Matters) syndicated all over the western world etc. And it worked out just fine, because it wasn't done by agenda-driven activists.
It was done by agenda driven activists, they were just sensible back then and had good intentions without wanting to ruin society 😅
Did you know the first lesbian kiss on film was in the pre-Hay's code 1930 film "Morocco" when nightclub singer Marlene Deitrich kisses a woman in the audience during a song? (Obviously, it isn’t full-on making out in the direct context of a gay relationship, but it’s definitely sexual rather than friendly/platonic).
I always lol when those idiots at Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm/Pixar or Apple go on about "the first this and that to do X and Y". It's all been done countless times before any of you hacks even realize.
According to 'the Message', modern Leftists are the pinnacle of tolerance and understanding, and the further back you go the more twisted and bigoted people become until they're literally Austrian painters. Any evidence to the contrary will be destroyed.
I'm pretty sure all these TV shows and movies can be adapted for modern audiences.
They will become unwatchable, but at least they'd fit with the current times.
To some, the 1970s-2010s never happened.
They had an agenda. Just weren't as obnoxious about it. They realised the propaganda went over everyone's heads so now it's blatant.
The OG Lara is hot, never cried, massive breasts, unstoppable badass, not a lesbian... So they do the complete opposite and wonder why their show is hated by everyone. Huh.
shes not a lesbian in this show , its been edited up in loads of other videos to make it look that way. Sure the show is bad, but gay in this show , she is not. That is the girl she grew up with, there best friends growing up.
100% accurate, "no other woman can be prettier than me" - the showrunner ...
@@ronuss Not yet you mean. If this does well and gets a Season 2, she will most definitely be bi at the very least. These people are just plain crazy about this stuff to the point I think this is all they care about.
Scissor me timbers
Her design looks fine to me, just because we don’t have giant breasts doesn’t mean she’s not the same character, the writers wrote her badly
I don't understand the hate on men while "modern women" be out there competing who's got the most ripped body and muscle weight which is what is hated about men but they get cheered on like?????
@@raeveii learn english
Rhianna Pratchett did horrific damage to Lara Croft.
Imagine having the perfect "strong independent female character" already in place, then turning her into an utterly aromantic pot-hole of daddy issues who cries while killing hordes of nameless men.
Because that's "real", right?
Sad thing is her dad wrote fantastic female characters, like Angua or What's-her-face in Strata. Or of course Granny Weatherway, Nanny Ogg and the lot.
Maybe it is, I don't know what women do in their free time.
Now that I think of it, why give an adventurer a fear of adventure?
"I can do this..."
Yes love, we knew that thirty years ago
Rhianna Pratchett admitted herself in an interview she wanted and pushed for Lara Croft to be Lesbian on the 2013 reboot, where Samantha Nakamura would have been her Girlfriend but she was vetoed by her superiors. Still, there are still remnants of her Vision by making Samantha to be "just" Lara's best friend and her damsel-in-distress for practically the whole game. It is no wonder Samantha never returned for the sequels, and Rhianna stepped away from the game industry after the direct sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Didn't know she was into ruining other media besides her fathers Discworld series.
Okay, with no context screenshots I straight up thought this was a Korra reboot. Good job on the character designs there you guys!
"You gotta deal with it!"
I loved Korra character designs
You got it better than I did. I genuinely thought they genderswapped lara. It had me so confused for a bit.
@@thecandlemaker1329 I do like CrisisBeat's rendition of Korra.
Looks just like avatar...an art style I,once adored, but it's losing its charm.
Them: stereotypes are bad
Also them: Remember, every remotely tomboyish woman is a lesbian or trans
Also all gays are hyper effeminate charicatures and women are always crying about their fee-fees eternally afraid of being left alone
@@revs9623 Never forget what they took from you...
“Gender norms are backward and oppressive! Also, when girls act like boys it means they’re trans.”
Also them: Angelina Jolie has an Adonis belt
yeah i was thinking the same thing, the show runner is exactly the stereotypical type of person you'd expect to make a show exactly like this. no subtlety at all... fat white woman with half a shaved head making lesbian girlboss story, can't get any more stereotypical than that, except maybe if she had a blue or purple streak in her hair too.
I watched 1 and a half episodes, turned it off, and wondered what happened to this world.
Guess Angelina Jolie is the most accurate Lara we've ever gotten all along huh 😭😭
Always has been.
@@HeWhoMurksWithOneLeap *takes out gun*
And her Lara was still absolute garbage. Totally dependent on men, nothing but a cringey love story where the man has to carry her.
@@bunnieskitties293 you mean, like actual females in real life?
Angelina All Along
It's hilarious how Netflix can go from absolute bangers like Society of the Snow, All Quiet on the western front, Cyberpunk Edge Runners and Terminator: Zero to this.
This company really has absolutely no consistency.
Don't forget Vlue eyed samurai
and dark crystak aor
The action and moment to moment plot is pretty good in Terminator.
The over arching plot feels like it was written by 14 year old with both one too many adderal pills and chromosomes.
Don't forget netflix gave birth to "netflix adaptation".
Term zero is a abortion. Terrible dialog writing and characters
The real Lara Croft is an iconic globetrotting adventurer recovering and securing artifacts of immense power with her bravery, athleticism, and huge caliber guns. She also has two pistols.
This is basically what we got with Angelina Jolie movies. Despite average ratings and sometimes silly story I really enjoyed both movies.
Why would you want a strong independent woman?
The best part of the show is when she says "...I'm going to have to go to the worst place in the world" and it cuts to a shot of Paris with French accordion music playing.
I like how they got an actress who could do a live action Tomb Raider to voice this.
Had to check that out, and yeah, absolutely, should have done a 3d render of the woman, would have been attacked for unrealistic beauty standards though.
Hayley Atwell did play Agent Carter and she was a kickass female character!
Kind of reminds Madame Web premiere VS movie, for some reason(s).
@@primekiller5729 Also, Peggy Carter becoming a version of Captain America totally worked for me (to a huge degree because it wasn't totally out of left field but made somewhat sense considering all the previous movies and tv shows).
Checked on the writers.. They're also responsible for Witcher: Blood Origins. That should tell you all you need to know
Something about patern recognition.
Is that British lady actress from the latest Indiana Jones movie flop part of this show? She said she was going to involved.
@@thiefofa1073no that’s the love action Amazon series
I did not need to know that thing exists. You've ruined my life. Thanks.
I checked her IMDB for Tasha Huo the lead writer who wrote 6 of the 9 episodes - she has only 4 entries for movies/shows. Guess what her first documentary film was?
WOMEN IN THE DIRT - Female architects shaping our world today
Now don't get me wrong, putting a spotlight on women in a field dominated by men is a good thing, but the manner in which she did is was horrible (proven by the reviews and score too). She definitely should NOT have been asked to lay a finger on this show.
I’m old enough to remember when Lara stood shoulder to shoulder with Super Mario in the 90’s. It’s sad what they did to her.
Ya me to. She was more popular than Crash and Crash was awesome 😎
I still believe that Lara Croft is the most recognizable female video game character of all time, in the late '90s and early 2000s it seemed like she was as famous as Mario, Sonic, Pikachu, etc. But even when some of the recent Tomb Raider games have been quite successful, though Square-Enix (in)famously said the sales were lower than they expected, it seems nowadays Lara is known for having being famous in the the 32-bit era of games, kind of how Pac-Man was the most famous game character due to the success of the original arcade game.
To be fair, I never played a lot of Tomb Raider as a kid, and if I had to mention which is probably the first female video game character I remember seeing everywhere in magazines and shows, that would be Chun-li from Street Fighter and Princess Peach from Super Mario, with an honorable mention to Princess Zelda, Tifa and Aeris from Final Fantasy VII and Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury/King of Fighters
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed how wildly Laura's character model fluctuated in the screenshots for this.
The first sequence alone was baffling. Lara goes through a series of obstacles including having to go underwater to discover the ancient temple then immediately after Conrad shows up like he was just there all along waiting for her.
I mean I feel like thats more a par for the course with the adventure movie genre. Like how many times have Nathan Drake or Indiana Jones had the same thing happen to them?
I haven’t played TR 2013 since it was new. But I was under the impression that Lara/Roth were treasure hunters in the “we do History Channel specials” context prior to the getting stranded in Yamati, which was the first time Lara ever seriously had to fight anyone. Why were they showing her raiding tombs prior to her origin story
They wanted an Indy/Beloq moment, forgetting that Beloq waited outside and let Indy do the work for him.
i mean that happens in every tomb raider game, it was more of an inside joke
@@axxjazz. Yup, literally starting with the very first one.
Tomb Raider is ideal setting for 90s style adventure series with each episode being self-contained mini story with mystery or villain of the week. You could even make it family friendly without much issue, if you wanted to. Perfect opportunity, and they still somehow managed to fuck it up.
Seriously. All they needed to do was make Relic Hunter: The Animated Series, how hard could it be?
Saw the thumbnail and immediately knew what this was gonna be like. I swear, it's becoming a landmark of what to expect in a show. If it looks a certain way, it's just gonna suck.
I almost try it. Seeing this save me from waste my time. Thanks a lot to take the hit for us.
This was also where the Tomb Raider games went off the rails... Tomb Raider was not action game punctuated by puzzles like Uncharted. It was a puzzle game punctuated by action. The original games had grandeur, depth, beauty, atmosphere, and very very slow pacing. When the music started playing, your heart started racing, because gunfights were actually relatively rare.
I still liked those games though, even watched some UA-camrs play it.
Tomb Raider II for Ps1 was great. I had one for Gameboy Color, too, that was basically Pitfall with a Lara skin.
Exactly, the new Tomb Raider were not Tomb Raider at all, they were decent adventure games, but had nothing to do with the franchise. I don't know if we'll ever have another puzzle game like the old TR1/2/3, I don't think players nowadays are patient enough for that, they'll give up at the first puzzle because they didn't have their dopamine hit in the first 5 minutes.
@@feandil666 There are certainly some modern streamlines that can improve the franchise... for instance I remember the "save crystals" feeling very punishing. Although it did create a feeling of elation when you finally found one.
I also loved the scarcity of weapons and ammo in those games. You knew that if an enemy was difficult, you'd have to bust out the magnums or the shotgun.
Same thing with med kits.
@@SeraphsWitness The save crystals were only a console thing IIRC. On PC we could save anywhere
"Lara's gay now."
There we go. Can't be a modern western show without this!
"Maker her lame and gay!"
Ngl even if they gave her a gigachad husband and 3 kids I'd still expect them to make her be secretly bisexual the whole time because even people that are happily married with families arent allowed to be just straight these days.
it is Larry now
There must be an alien sitting on Venus right now, scratching its head at how we could have 8 billion people, but also all be gay.
They already had a chick in it, all they needed to do was make her lame and gay
This is why gatekeeping is an integral part of enjoying an IP. It’s not for everyone, and that’s the goddamn truth.
Women need to be kept out of writing, directing, showrunning, creating in general.
Call Me Chato explained it well on his channel.
You cannot gatekeep a company from giving their IP to crazy people.
@@pyepye-io4vu It's not women, though. It's specifically the rainbow mafia they/them freaks & their DEI scores. Stop putting ppl like that, who care nothing for the franchise but instead about shoving this crap down our throats, in charge of these franchises. No wonder they freaking die. I'm a woman and I could direct a better TR plot than this.
@@pyepye-io4vuWere women not involved in some of the movies and shows we all loved before? What about the rare stuff today that does turn out to be good. Women are involved in those as well.
@@pyepye-io4vu women are the reason that media companies and the entire game industry is ON FIRE, right now.
I don't understand why all of these modern game and media production writers are obsessed with making Lara Croft seem inexperienced and out of her element so often, needing support and acting like a dolt. We literally started with peak Lara Croft. She's an insane gymnast, insane combat shooter, world famous explorer, genius intellect, on top of being as wealthy as a queen and completely independent.
We need a compilation of every "teary eye" moment from the entire series in a meme format asap!
Time is crucial. Internet, do your thing!
Knew this would be an absolute mess, Netflix has about a 10% hit rate, with so much slop that they put out I'm not sure how they are so successful
They aren't. The only thing that makes them money are the good show but you also need to something to fill the gaps , hence this garbage
They're not. Like all streaming platforms it's kept afloat by outside funding but as we're increasingly seeing in video games and movies, it is unsustainable
@@jasonsantiago6308 And jacking up their sub prices and charging for account sharing
Completely agree, 5 percent hit rate with movies and 10 percent hit rate with shows over at Netflix
and people keep the subscription despite netflix providing less and less use for them. Just cancel it and subscribe when the backlog keeps growing.
The showrunner is a rebel. She's different. She doesn't follow the herd. She marches to the beat of her own drums.
She doesn't look AI generated and didn't create the standard Alphabet "Modern Audience" product.
Oh she doesn't follow the herd alright though ahe does follow that which doesnt exist
@@theenderdestruction2362
She doesn't follow the herd because the ate the rest of them.
Thank you again Drinker for saving hours of our lives again! It is truly appreciated 🙏
Those fights in Peru (after the three years passed) actually happen. They are part of a yearly ritual called Takanakuy (Quechua for "to hit each other"). It happens in Cusco every December 25th so that any two parties can burry the hatchet and begin the new year with a fresh start. Men, women, and sometimes children participate.
I want to make clear that this is NOT FRIENDLY COMPETITION. This is to settle scores. And in Peru, we don't use those wrestling masks. That is Mexican.
“And in Perú, we don’t use wrestling masks. That is Mexican”…..and this is why who ever created this series should be banned from all entertainment media
Ahh well that's where you're wrong friend. You see, Mexico is south of the United States. Peru is in South America. Therefore Peru IS Mexico. It's nothing but Mexicans the whole way down, that's just common geography knowledge in the USA :P
Writers: You're all Latino so we can mix and match.
Cool story bro but thats got nothing to do with the point he was making lol
Cool story bro but that’s got nothing to do with the point he’s making lol
The adaptation of the show significantly misinterprets and disregards the essence of the original Tomb Raider series and Lara Croft herself. It's disheartening to witness how they overlooked such a treasured legacy for the sake of apparently modernizing the character.
At the time, the first Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movie seemed kind of meh. But looking back, we were really spoiled, weren't we? Both her performance and the script nailed the combination of toughness, sexiness, levity, and sophistication that make the character really fun. When is the last time a piece of Tomb Raider media actually succeeded in that (or even tried, for that matter)?
I don't know anything about Lara Croft but I was confident that if I listened to the Drinker for a few minutes I'd start laughing. Not disappointed. Brilliantly written and delivered dialogue. Love your accent too, old man. Thanks
The fact that Angelina Jolie's portrayal of Lara Croft is the only one to do it justice to this day is laughably sad.....
it's been what? 20 years and people can't get her right anymore.
I love how Lara makes a throw away line "Zip you track everything right?"
And that is the excuse for him being basically omniscient.
Seriously a thief jumps on a scooter and takes off, Lara stealing one of her guest's car to chase after him.
And Zip is isntantly able to be the eye in the sky, knowing where both Lara and the thief is down to such details he can tell at which exact street Lara is on AND which streets the car is able to handle. Putting gps trackers on all the Croft artifacts I could somewhat believe. But a random guest's car? And he even seems to know when she switches to bike.
This told me all I needed to know about the quality of writing in this show.
that sounds more creepy parasocial than endearing character trait
I only watched the first episode but she seems too OP
‘She’s an adventurer, not a fighter’
Even Crystal Dynamics forgot that…
They even forgot the game was called TOMB raider and turned her into a James Bond secrete agent.
@@SirGriefALot crystal dynamics made her to LOST raider, then bunker raider and finally uncharted dollfaced lara. i wished they sticked to legend/underworld...
An entertaining take and directly on point, as usual. If the writers of these projects addressed the constructive criticisms offered here, they'd have a billion dollar blockbuster. But, no.
They killed Star Wars, they killed Indiana Jones and now they’ve hammered the last nail in a coffin lid of Tomb Raider.
Look how they massacred my girl!
We still have the first 3 Indy movies and first 6 Star Wars films watch those
If hated nostalgia bait updated for modern audiences is what western media has devolved to, who will mourn it when it's gone.
How much longer now til we can tell an AI to "generate for me a star wars sequel trilogy in the style of the original"
To be entirely fair I wasn't that crazily enamoured with Starwars and didn't think much of Indiana Jones at all. Tombraider, while I thought the remakes from 2013 were worthwhile, isn't exactly a franchise I'd expected to do anything at all.
Having this come out now is certainly a slap in the face yet again, but I'm more worried about the franchises I still love than the stuff that is in the Disney purgatory, or a 20+ year old gaming franchise that got a few good reboots and a few mediocre movies.
@@pinobluevogel6458 I'm not much of an Indie fan either, but GamingMagic13 made a great longman video explaining why the last one was an utter car crash of a film. ua-cam.com/video/r8OdcH3-uf0/v-deo.html
lmfao gotta love how diverse the cast was up until Drinker shows a capable-looking white guy. "Anyway this is our main baddie--"
No way!!! Who ever could have seen that coming?! 🤣
4:57 I remember ZP talking about this "Now she eats more rug than a malfunctioning vacuum cleaner".
He looks quite manly in his Lara Croft costume.
Why does this look like the He-man Netflix animation.
They must be the same DEI studios that made that animation. WOKE don't hire based on merit...and it shows!
I've noticed that all these "anime" adaptations started after the Casltevania animation in my opinion, it all looks the same.
Netflix is definitely enforcing a house style at this point.
He-Man was done that way deliberately to tie in with the old TV show. This one however...
Same animation team most likely.
Netflix really said: What if we made Korra, but without the lore and cool powers, and even gayer?
Not even gayer. Just gay.
😂😂😂...that's who Lara reminded me of...thanks!
Korra shat on the lore and made Bending generic super powers instead of spiritual martial arts.
Korra made Korra without lore, cool powers and gayer 😂
The legend of Lara Korra
Lol.
When i saw the thumbnail I initially was afraid that Netflix f‘d up Korra.
@@tzeentchctneezt No need, it's already bad enough.
I remember the animation quality from The Legend of Korra being way better than this.
Yeah, except for season 2, Korra did look better.. this looks choppy and dreadful.
At least in the Korra series, the women did look like feminine gals.
The fact LC's VA irl looks more Lara Croft than the animated character does. 💀
6:23 THIS. This is the best and concise description of Lara. I also love the intro to the first game, where she's offered money by a shady businesswoman and she replies with "I do it for sport".
Well, good news is that we're gonna get the remasters of 4, 5 and 6th games. I'll go take refuge there. At least if they keep to strictly remaster that can't fuck them up.
Brian > What ya playing?
Tim > Tomb Raider 3
Brian > She's drowning
Tim > Yea
One of the most painful things is seeing a side by side comparison of the character and the voice actor. Hayley Atwell is a beauty blessed with cannons like a manifestation of Venus, just like the original Croft. Then there's this tomboyish avatar built with only the slightest nod towards her femininity and a face that does nothing to emphasise the breathtaking beauty essential to the character.
Hayley Titwell😅
I like boobs.
@JamesScottSelfDefense19 Ouch, but true lol
anytime I hear the words netflix and adaptation in the same sentence, it sense shivers down my spine.
Oh look, another reimagining for the mysterious modern audience...surely it will work this time /s.
The lols I felt knowing that Netflix Lara is flat while the woman voicing her has legendary knockers.
Excellent point.
Surely such women don't exist in real live...
I am baffled. Do they not understand why we bought the game? Did they think it was the gameplay or plot?
It's not as if she's reticent to display their magnificence either.
The last Tomb Raider trilogy of game (the first 2 anyway) I think struck the right balance between being not obscenely large, but she was still pretty well stacked and gorgeous. They just keep trying to turn her into a piece of plywood as time goes on. Even the 3rd game of that trilogy took a bunch of well deserved shit for toning down her chest for some stupid reason, like she dropped a full cup size at least between the 2nd and 3rd games. They hand-waved it away with "oh it's only cause of the outfits"....yea bitches, the fucking outfits YOU designed to look like that.
There is so much DEI in this that is beyond belief
And still, even in common sections of videos like this or similar ones in many other places, a lot of people there still have a Netflix subscription. The joke is on you. You are paying for this, instead of paying for a VPN and buying a external hard drive.
@@NoidoDev *laughs in pirate sites🏴☠️🦜*
@@NoidoDev Joke is on you, illiterate one ("common" section?), we're here watching Drinker cos we don't use any trash streaming. Also imagine paying for a VPN, especially one that's sponsored everywhere, and you probably pay to use AI too
Its not even DEI, I swear this show is racist against straight men. This show is a poster child example for an Antifeminist movement. If you don't have a reason to dislike the gay and queer community, jeez they are constantly giving straight people reasons not to stay neutral for much longer. If these queers want a cultural war, they are going to get one.
Your take on *Lara* is *spot* on 💃