No, but the point is you don’t go through adrenaline-laced experiences and not discover you’re an adrenaline junkie. Lots of people don’t know whether they like skiing, but I bet you 100% of the ones that have been skiing know whether or not they do.

This is what I mean about the qualities that made Lara the tomb…

The problem is that the characteristics that made Lara the Tomb Raider are not in evidence. I just wanted see Lara discover that she really likes the adrenaline rush of surviving a collapsing platform, that she wanted to solve the mystery of the island, not just rescue her friends. We should see Lara thrive on…

“meant to be serious”

But this is what’s wrong with CD’s writing: it’s results oriented writing. You write to tell a good story, not “show” a character to have some characteristic. See Lara being serious. *yawn*

They they beat the hell out of her in TReboot, having her be alternately tentative, scared or sulky because…