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20-06-20, 08:48 | #52 |
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To be honest, the main thing I hated about AOD is this supposed love story between Lara and Kurtis (that they couldn't develop because the trilogy was stopped). I really hated it. First, Kurtis is an unlikable character. For me at least. Secondly, I don't want Lara Croft to be with anyone. In all her previous games, she has always been this independent and solitary woman who works and fights alone. I don't want her to get paired with anyone. It will take off this mystic about her and Tomb Raider. I know this second argument might not make sense for a lot of fans but this is my personal opinion and I know lots have the same opinion as me.
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22-06-20, 12:32 | #53 |
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I believe Lara was better off on staying self-reliant rather establishing a love affair because otherwise I believe that the franchise won't ever turn out to become the same if she ever marries him which never happened at all anyway lol.
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I think a woman can still be self-reliant while being in a relationship. The two aren't mutually exclusive, it all depends on the writing/execution of said characters/relationship.
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27-06-20, 06:37 | #55 |
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Yeah. That I understand. But in opinion, I'd say it's better off for Lara Croft to keep herself as the greatest self-reliant type of girl as much as she already became that type of woman. Especially in AOD as well.
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28-06-20, 07:58 | #56 |
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Kurtis was a grunge boy who deserved to die exactly the way he did.
Lara would NOT get with Kurtis, she's got better taste than that. I'm sure they never meant for it to go any further in the failed trilogy, like Reyes said, people who get close to Lara have a habit of dying. What happened to Kurtis was an example of that. |
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Haven't you ever heard a writer say something along the lines of "This character surprised me"? Obviously, fictional characters only exist on the page (or whatever medium they were written for) and are in the control of their respective writers, but the point is that when they are fleshed out enough, it feels like they have initiative and more say as to where the story goes than the author. It's all an illusion, of course, so this is subjective, but I felt like this was sort of the case with AOD Lara. This angry, embittered Lara felt like she couldn't have cared less about whether I liked her or not, and it made me respect her more. And as such, I believed in her attraction to Kurtis, regardless of how I felt about him, and I loved that. Lara is navigating a dangerous unknown from the very beginning, and probably making all sorts of bad decisions, but she never felt more real to me than she did in AOD. Last edited by Tyrannosaurus; 10-08-20 at 05:47. |
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10-08-20, 21:09 | #58 | |
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This is all I can think about literally any time I see him. He is just unquestionably the ugliest character in TR history, and I can't understand why they didn't make their new main better-looking.
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11-08-20, 01:08 | #59 |
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I have the feeling that Kurtis was the avatar for the stereotypical male gamer who played the game--and wow, they (through Kurtis) got to be with Lara Croft, Queen of Gaming.
I actually liked the idea of Kurtis but he obviously needed a lot more work. I have a feeling CORE spending so much time trying to develop him (they had plans to possibly give him his own game, I think), that it was a contributing factor to their inability to pull AOD together as a finished product, ending in their unfortunate downfall. |
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