[ SECRET POST #4036 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4036 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 51 secrets from Secret Submission Post #578.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[thewakokid]

Ok, another Tomb Raider secret, another occasion where I am compelled to rant about how much I do not care for nu!lara.

They turned her into someone I can no-longer hero worship. I disapprove. Old school Lara is best Lara

[(Anonymous)]

why don't you make a secret about it

[thewakokid]

'Cause then I'd have to respond to that secret to rant about how much I do not care for nu!lara. It'd be a viscous cycle.

[(Anonymous)]

But then it'd be on topic, and people would see it and, like, talk about it

[thewakokid]

Meh, people know my feeling on it. I am always giving people a chance to talk about it. A secret is unnecessary.

[(Anonymous)]

It would allow you to actually explain what you hate about it in detail

also, it's always good to increase the number of actual secrets

[(Anonymous)]

But everyone would know who made it, thus nullifying the "secret" part

[thewakokid]

This too!

[thewakokid]

I suppose. It's just more work than I'm willing to do. I don't see a good enough reason to do it.

Anyway, there's someone on FS making secrets out of things people have said in the comments, so, you know, you never know.

[(Anonymous)]

What does nu!Lara mean? Is nu!lara Vikander's Lara? Or is nu!lara defined by something to do with the video games?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Video game reboot and origin story. The movie poster photo is done almost identically to the reboot box art.

[thewakokid]

Yeah, and the movie is using the same story and aesthetic. Vikander might spend less time gasiping and sobbing about how she's "Got to do it", but I'm not super hopeful.

[thewakokid]

Both. Nu!lara is from the 2nd reboot in the games (or the 2nd REEEEEEEEEEEE!boot as I tend to think of it) It's when Lara Croft stopped being Indianna Jones, and started being a character from the SAW movies.

I don't love the change. There's a lot of stupid shit the devs came up to justify it. I hate it. I hate it so much.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, okay. Because I don't know the games at all, I couldn't tell if you were just shitting on Vikander's Lara because you decided purely from the trailers that you hate Vikander as Lara, or if you had more of a reason than that. But it sounds like you do have more of a reason than that. I can't really say whether I agree with you about the changes in the game, since obviously I know none of the particulars of that. Maybe I'll see if I can wiki it or something.

[thewakokid]

Oh, Vikander is just about the only choice for the role that I could see working today. I hate the direction the character has been taken in. "We know people never relate to Lara Croft as a hero, so we've put her in dangerous situations, and made her wimper much more so people feel more like protecting her"

I'm paraphrasing quite heavily, but that was the general ethos they've stated to be going for.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally, I think you need to show your heroes scared and hurt in order to ground their strength in reality and make it feel genuine. The characters I will always respect the most are characters who push back against their own terror. And I feel that way about male heroes too. Which is a big part of why so many male heroes are boring to me - because we don't see them scared, almost ever.

[thewakokid]

SOMEtimes, yes, that works. Some heroes have always been more than human, tho, Some heroes don't spent the majority of their game sobbing and afraid. Some heroes are just escapest power fantasies, and thats just fine. I don't want to hear about James Bonds erectile dysfunction, I don't want to know that superman has body issues relating to his skin tight super suit, and I don't want Lara Croft to be afraid of a groupe of dudes with guns.