First look at Sophie Turner As Lara Croft

[Gaith]

I'll just repost the pic here for the record...

As someone who never played the games or saw any of the movies or the animated show, apart from the standard matters of quality that apply to just about all lighthearted action/adventure series, my main question is: will this series appeal and cater to the male gaze? Others may disagree, but I think it's generally healthy for a modest number of pop culture genre properties to unabashedly celebrate both male and female beauty, and I'm further fine with different properties focusing such celebration on different genders. (By all means, for example, have a women-aimed show like Bridgerton primarily focus, from what I understand, on male beefcake, and cater to the female gaze.)

Because if the show won't be doing that, and will instead be about an unflappable, stoic badass making nonchalant wisecracks in deadly situations week after week... I'm not sure how engaging that would be, regardless of said badass' gender. Time will tell.

 

[Thestral]

The rebooted first two games (I haven't gotten around to the third yet) were fantastic, so hopefully it's based on those.

 

[JD]

I was hoping it would be too, but that look does seem more geared towards the older games.

I'll just repost the pic here for the record...

As someone who never played the games or saw any of the movies or the animated show, apart from the standard matters of quality that apply to just about all lighthearted action/adventure series, my main question is: will this series appeal and cater to the male gaze? Others may disagree, but I think it's generally healthy for a modest number of pop culture genre properties to unabashedly celebrate both male and female beauty, and I'm further fine with different properties focusing such celebration on different genders. (By all means, for example, have a women-aimed show like Bridgerton primarily focus, from what I understand, on male beefcake, and cater to the female gaze.)

Because if the show won't be doing that, and will instead be about an unflappable, stoic badass making nonchalant wisecracks in deadly situations week after week... I'm not sure how engaging that would be, regardless of said badass' gender. Time will tell.

I don't know if it means anything to you, but Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who created Fleabag and Killing Eve, co-wrote No Time to Die, and played L3 in Solo, and Helena Shaw in Dial of Desting, developed it and is a co-showrunner. I'm not super familiar with her the stuff she's done, but from what little I do know, I doubt it will be mindless, male gaze focused, action fest.