Thread: Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (Netflix series)
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Old 10-10-2023, 10:48 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by M-A-G View Post
I'm actually shocked it's taken this long for something like this to get greenlit. You figure something similar would've been done in the late nineties. I should be thrilled but it's being done in an anime visual style, which I'm not a fan of, but maybe the storytelling will be good enough to overcome that. Plus, it's Hayley Atwell as Lara. What say you?
To be completely fair, being that it's a product of [current timeframe], it was either going to visually be a) "westernized anime" style or b) "CalArts" style. There would be a lot more detractors if it resembled Adventure Time over Legend of Korra.

It's hard to "get excited" for Netflix shows anymore. They will either totally suck, or totally not suck, but get cancelled on a cliffhanger because they don't feel like paying for it anymore unless the show becomes a runaway critical success like a House of Cards or a Stranger Things... which is only two out of however many shows they greenlit ever since they got up and running with Lilyhammer for in-house production. This cynicisim was only made worse by the recent writer's strike, where it has come to light that some of the more successful shows in recent years that got the axe did so to let them off the hook for potential residuals to pay.

I'd wager it'll be "good". And they'll get about two seasons* worth of episodes out of this. Maybe three.


*another thing about recent shows that an old school television season could, on average, range from the area of 13-22 episodes per. The recent streaming company production trend has cropped that to average around 8-10 per. So, in total, we might get an acutal, old-school seasons worth of this show - about 24 episodes total - then it'll go bye bye unless Lara takes over the world again like she did in the late 90s with a massive merchandising boom. This feat is unlikely, since the things that got her over back then would either be considered "woke" for people who complain about that sort of thing, or are way more easily subsidized by actual pornography.
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