Tomb Raider followers, bless them, spend numerous time questioning how the sequence all syncs up. If the Lara Croft we noticed within the authentic ’90s video games is identical one because the rougher-around-the-edges Lara from the Survivor trilogy, then what occurred in between to have all of it make sense?
Fortunately, solutions seem on the horizon. Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics has already paraded round a brand new design for Lara that includes her post-Survivor trilogy look with throwback costuming, a dedication to the “unified” timeline. However so far as the story goes, the brand new Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is doing a little main elevate.
Earlier this month, showrunner Tasha Huo advised Polygon that her aim for the Netflix animated sequence was to chart the hole between the Survivor trilogy and basic video games. However Lara doesn’t get there by the top of season 1, even after defeating the Mild, discovering closure over the dying of Conrad Roth, re-bonding together with his daughter Camilla Roth, hugging it out with Jonah, and accepting her first pair of twin pistols. That’s as a result of Huo knew that if the present was successful there’d be extra tales to inform, and he or she didn’t need OG Lara to go well with up fairly but.
“I don’t need to simply fast-track her to changing into basic Lara as a result of it takes so much to construct that lady,” the showrunner says. “So season 2 will construct upon what we’ve already seen and develop her even nearer.”
Particularly, Lara will set off on a seek for Sam, her filmmaker good friend who first appeared in 2013’s Tomb Raider. Sam was engaged on a job “abroad,” final Jonah heard from her, however a dropped telephone name from the outdated good friend is sufficient to put Lara on excessive alert. The ending of season 1 solely teases a number of scant particulars of the place the journey could lead her: in Sam’s condominium, Lara finds indicators of a wrestle — a damaged espresso mug, a tipped-over chair, a shattered image body — and a yarn board tying some stolen artifacts to a shady tracksuit-wearing dude with a scar and photographs of cocaine.
Huo wasn’t able to spoil any plot particulars, however says it’s fastidiously plotted in order that Lara continues to develop and has room to enterprise on if Tomb Raider was to earn much more seasons. A high precedence in season 2: Proceed to attract out Lara’s humorousness.
“Possibly she finds it in Sam,” Huo says. “Sam has a lighter character. There’s additionally simply much more for Lara to study. So in success and in these infinite seasons, we get to discover all the teachings and the way these adventures really problem her to take these rising steps nearer to being the girl we keep in mind from the ’90s.”
For Huo, that basic model of Lara can also be hyper-composed, in a approach that she simply isn’t on the stage of her life by which Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is ready. Sure, Lara Croft would slightly raid a tomb than go to remedy — however Huo intends to assist the character discover her composure within the subsequent archeology-fueled globetrotting mission. Simply because the history-buff showrunner needs to inject Tomb Raider with tons of actual historical past and tradition specificity, she additionally needs to bang the drum for legit self-care.
“A lot of that comes from meditation, steadiness, having all of those messy issues inside you but nonetheless by some means discovering a approach by means of calmness and self-composure,” Huo says. “I’m a giant proponent of remedy and self-analysis as a method to simply develop as a human being. It’s unbelievable. And I’m glad Lara can do it. She hates remedy! So utilizing journey as remedy is a extremely smart way for Lara to discover ways to be higher.”
