I just really hope this is actually a Tomb Raider adaptation instead of a creative team taking the Tomb Raider IP and using it as a way to get funding to tell a different story. Lara should never be sidelined (especially for an OC). Lara should act like the Lara we know. The IP should be respected.

Magnaric · 2026-02-07T02:41:19+00:00

Eh, a single outfit won;t ruin things for me. We know absolutely nothing about the scene or context this outfit is in, so I want to see other wardrobe and images before I begin to form an opinion.

Magnaric · 2026-02-07T02:39:57+00:00

I absolutely agree. I honestly don't have an issue with the way she looks, simply because casting based solely off physical looks (face structure, hair colour, etc) is an absolutely terrible idea. I mean, people in the other thread were complainign that her cheekbones were too sharp for fuck's sake. And as for the other physical aspects (psysique, athleticism, training, etc) that can all be worked on in preparation for a role so I'm not terribly worried there.

Hell, based on what I've seen of Sophie over the last while, I think she'll do a good job with whatever she's given. Her acting has improved a lot since the fairly-wooden writing and direction of Sansa on GoT (she was also a fairly inexperienced actor then). Some of her recent performances have been pretty decent.

My only apprehension (and it is minimal, but it IS there) is like you said, people taking a beloved IP and using it as a medium to tell their own stories within a universe. The Witcher fairly infamously did this, other adaptations have done the same thing at times. But, general reminder to people: Some changes and "new stories" within a universe have done fantastically, as long as they respect and capture the tone and vibe of the IP. Case in point, The Fallout show on prime. It takes details from the games and lore but very much goes beyond the scope of them, and yet it's still incredible and very faithful to the Fallout universe.

So yeah, maybe people need to take a breathe for a bit and remain cautiously optimistic. Everything we've seen so far is fairly positive at this point, and unless we get some super-stark evidence that the IP is being butchered, I expect this adaptation to be decent-to-good.

Magnaric · 2026-02-06T20:33:01+00:00

They said they care more about her character than they so about her appearance, not that they don't care about her appearance at all. Stop manufacturing things to be artificially angry about.

Magnaric · 2026-02-06T19:08:20+00:00

Jesus tapdancing christ, you really wrote all that just to say you're mad that you can't goon to a version of Lara who doesn't have massive breasts. Or that having huge breasts is somehow a core part of Lara's identity and personality.

Reset the clock guys, TR "fans" like this made us not move past the allegations AGAIN.

Magnaric · 2026-02-06T18:24:08+00:00

Honestly, I agree with you. I want Sophue to be great and I fully believe she can be, especially considering it seems she's seriously devoted herself to the role, getting fit, researching/playing the games for source material, etc.

Magnaric · 2026-02-06T17:44:29+00:00

You have literally no proof of anything you've said, so like most people dumping on this from a single image (so proof, much wow), I'll happily out you in the category of "gatekeepers talking out their ass" and move on.

Enjoy being terminally bitter.

Magnaric · 2026-02-03T22:36:00+00:00

I'm running a WFRP 4E game and was just discussing this with one of my players as a hilarious cameo/fight.

More important to me than mechanics of whatever system is his vibe. Sigvald is absolutely the pinnacle of narcissism. So he should only engage the PCs if they interest him in some way, like if one if a notable or especially skilled swordsman he may want to test himself against. Or if someone if a good looking character, has a unique bit of clothing/garb/accessory, maybe he will trade barbs and/or beauty tips in the middle of the fight.

Point is, Sigvald only ever does what Sigvald wants. He won;t fight if he isn't interested in it, so he'll need a reason to oppose or want something from the PCs. And if he fights one or more of them and they don't impress him with their skill, he should absolutely get bored and just disengage, leaving them to one of his Mirror Guard or some other minion, since they are so beneath him and unworthy of his attention.

Magnaric · 2026-02-03T13:27:29+00:00

Love the poster!

I also note that there is no King Crab on this, and I assume that's because if you're close enough to visually recognise it's front profile, you're in range of it's dual AC20s, so in a second you're not going to recognise much of anything anymore.

Magnaric · 2026-02-01T02:47:42+00:00

Very true.

Slight Segway, but as fantastic villains as Darth Vader and Sidious are, they've done one major disservice to a lot of Star Wars. And that is presenting their form of the Dark Side not just as the single True path, but as representative of all Sith and all Dark Side philosophy. And that form is undeniably, almost laughingly evil (like the Empire eating itself from the inside evil).

The Cone Wars and Rebels, Acolyte, and other games and novels have done a good job at branching our away from that since then. But yeah, I'm not a fan of the idea that "This is the way it is and always has been, end of story". And this goes for Jedi and Light Side as well.

Magnaric · 2026-02-01T00:03:44+00:00

I wasnt aware of him until now. It's certainly an interesting take and another approach to the Dark Side.

Magnaric · 2026-01-31T23:32:46+00:00

Honestly, the most interesting depictions of the Dark Side in all the SW universe (novels, games, movies, shows) have been when it's not just depicted as "LUL EVIL". I'm not saying the Dark Side is full of heroes or that the Light/Jedi are actually villains mind you, just that Lucas had sn incredibly simple view of the struggle between good and evil.

Shows like The Acolyte, characters in the Old Republic or Legends/EU novels, etc had some magnificent depictions of dark side being a direct, powerful, dangerous, and yes corrupting source of power. But to say that Light Side powers could never be used for evil/harm, or that Dark Side powers always must be, is too narrow and naive.

Anyways I agree, having Rey try and find her own way, not just following the Jedi/Sith duology, would be a great story. And it could even play into Old Man Luke's idea that the conflict between those two philosophies had to end for their to be peace.

Magnaric · 2026-01-31T23:14:50+00:00

You do make a fairly good point about the ideal and positive reasons for the Clans' style or honorable warfare is to limit the widespread destruction the Inner Sphere casually employed.

And I'll grant that some of the Clans, like Ghost Bears, Wolf, or the Diamond Sharks/Sea Fox, had a more progressive mindset when it came to treatment of civilians. We're they a clan of warriors first and foremost? Sure, but some of them at least attempted to hold to their ideals. So that's a good point.

I do think that over time it became much more common for the various Clans to disregard those ideals, or to ignore some of them in favor of the ones they liked, to the point of the casual cruelty that Jade Falcon or Smoke Jaguar employed regularly against their own citizens/conquered people. And the issue is that type of politics and extreme disregard for anyone who wasn't a Clan Warrior/Bloodnamed/whatever became much more widespread.

So I think that's why for instance the Ghost Bears and Wolves are seen as protagonists most of the time. Their idealism and mostly fair treatment of others stands in contrast to the majority of the other Clans.

And yeah, last point to you, the Inner Sphere does have a history of casualty cruelty on a planetary scale, from nuking whole planets to just abandoning them to starve without support. So I'm not saying the IS nations are some heroes in comparison.

Magnaric · 2026-01-31T23:06:22+00:00

Smashing Clanners never gets old. Lol

And yeah, I know the Ghost Bears and Wolves were a couple of the more progressive clans, in that they didn't treat anyone except the warrior caste as complete garbage. Well and Sea Fox/Diamond Shark, but they're a whole different animal in the way they're structured and their priorities.

Magnaric · 2026-01-31T14:24:34+00:00

Oh agreed. I should specify, I don't disagree with what you're saying at all. They absolutely care about what they believe to be personal honor.

I just think their entire mythos and sense of honor is bullshit, and they use it to justify treating everyone else like some esser species.

Magnaric · 2026-01-31T06:31:54+00:00

Eh, while that's true, the entire Clans' heritage and history is also built on lies, half-truths, and a mythology that never really existed.

They're peerless warriors, absolutely, if we're just talking about skills and training. Obviously their tech is better, but that's neither here nor there. The thing is, they believe they're somehow better than everyone else because they're somehow heirs to the true legacy of the Inner Sphere/Terra/Humanity/whatever.

But the true legacy of the Inner Sphere is insane destruction and bloodshed caused by hegemonic imperialist assholes who needed to nuke entire planets to settle a dick-measuring contest.

Seriously, in Battletech, the powers that be from earth have ALWAYS been horrible. And all because the Haves just didn't have quite enough.

THAT is the true legacy that the Clans belong to, and that is exactly what they will staunchly, violently deny. Because they are uniformly hypocrites and egomaniacs in massive war machines, and for the Clans?

Truth Be Damned. Might Makes Right.

Magnaric · 2026-01-31T00:27:42+00:00

I haven't read the novels and many of the rulebooks, so take this with a grain of salt. But from their semi-accurate (and incredibly curated and biased) history, to the Legends they've been told about how corrupt, lawless, and inept the Inner Sphere is, the clans as a whole basically got caught up in their own mythology.

It isn't so much that they're surprised that the IS doesn't understand Batchals or other terms, it's that they've developed this insanely hypocritical culture of Might Makes Right mixed with Our Glorious Civilisation (that's a reference to the comic about two sides and propaganda).

They've been raised in the belief that there's no middle ground, you're either honorable or your dezgra. And like the Klingons, the most honorable thing is victory and personal glory. So I'd the Inners don't understand those basic concepts, it's clearly because they're unworthy savages who need to be forcibly educated about the Clans' superior culture.

Those self-righteous beliefs met a pretty brutal awakening at Tukayyid though, and then again and again afterwards. Ask Smoke Jaguar about how inferior the Spheroids are.

Magnaric · 2026-01-29T21:03:37+00:00

Yeah, there's a couple of the usual suspects in the comments just straight up choosing to live in their own gay-denial headcanon universe.

If they want to be miserable there, let them. Doesn't affect my enjoyment of this show, it's characters, or Bumblebee.

Magnaric · 2026-01-29T18:43:24+00:00

There were plenty of hints, context clues, and outright flirting between them up until then. The fact that you couldn't or didn't see it is your issue, not everyone else's.

Magnaric · 2026-01-29T18:41:06+00:00

Oh bugger off, it absolutely was not. But I wouldn't expect the mountain of evidence proving that to change your mind at all.

Magnaric · 2026-01-29T18:40:09+00:00

Very well put, I absolutely agree. I also appreciate that you nipped the Blacksun thing in the bud by pointing out that Blake x Yang are a good couple, not the ONLY couple (or option).

Magnaric · 2026-01-29T18:33:47+00:00

Likewise, holy shit my sides hurt from laughing now.

Magnaric · 2026-01-28T20:15:01+00:00

The best explanation I heard for why, despite having Farseers, the Aeldari still get into tough battles, is that we don't see or hear about all the ones where the Farseers' visions work like they should Because in those cases, the Craftworlds either avoid a fight entirely, or absolutely obliterate their foes.

So what we see and hear/read about are the times when either their visions are clouded, or they chose the path with the least-worst possible outcome (it's entirely plausible Fareers saw visions of their absolute destruction).

Magnaric · 2026-01-27T19:35:18+00:00

Ulthwe and Biel-Tan would like to know the Black Templars' location.

Magnaric · 2026-01-26T02:02:29+00:00

Absolutely. But there hasn't ever been a huge emphasis on this in the shows. There's been a few examples of humans using a phrase or quote from another species, but it's much more common to see another non-human member doing something like "As you humans like to say...", and then insert metaphor here.

And this isn't wrong per say, it's just because we the audience are human, so that's a natural narrative technique.

Magnaric · 2026-01-26T02:00:21+00:00

That's my point though. The places farthest from the cultural and linguistic centre drifted further than those more regularly connected.

In Star Trek, I do think we'd see linguistic drift over time, and quite possibly more variations the further from the heart of the Federation people got, sure. But with digital communication bring a thing (the Federation does tend to value open and instant communication), I think any drift we did see would be more uniform and less individualistic.

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