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Subj: Re: The fourth part...
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:24:38 pm EDT
Reply Subj: Re: The fourth part...
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 04:52:22 pm EDT (Viewed 376 times)


> > > > > Anna might object to being eaten with high-powered lasers. Lara can't really be eaten for the same reason Liu Xi can't - they both have the ability to be somewhere else.
> > > > Ah, but we've established that Lara needs the right conditions for her planar jumping. Digestion can't be condusive.
> > > She's smart enough to be gone long before that happens. Or kill the creature trying to eat her.
> > Where's the dramatic tension then?
> The fight that leads up to her not being eaten and killed.

That's what I'm getting at. If she can instantly flit away from any kind of danger there's none of that drama.