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I had never even heard of this film before reading this article, but now I’m going to have to find it. Thanks for the good read!

There are a couple places in this article where I believe you start to go -off topic, but otherwise pretty well put together.

Something else that might be interesting to make note of: unlike a lot of shooter-type and adventure games–which are played in first-person mode, the Tomb Raider games are third person. In first-person games, the player assumes the role of the main character, but in games like Tomb Raider, the player is separated from the character and does not see through their eyes. In this manner, Lara essentially becomes an object that that the player gets to toy-around with. And since video games were largely marked exclusively to boys during Tomb Raider’s release, it comes as no surprise that the ability to look at Lara’s rear the whole game was a selling point.

Great article, and excellent research on the subject material. When I started reading, I was afraid that it was going to go in a rather negative direction, but I positively agree with what you’re saying here. i don’t believe that the company is ready to make anything that specifically revolves around an LGBTQ subject. I do believe, however, that they are at a point where they can begin to introduce explicitly queer characters into their films; they should slowly begin to introduce characters who are /actually/ LGBTQ into the films, at least as background characters, instead of allowing them to just be queer-read into the film.