The entertainment world moves fast, and Tomb Raider King ‒ Episode 7 is the latest development catching everyone's eye. From fans to industry insiders, the reaction has been immediate.
The Story So Far
installment 7 of Tomb Raider King sets up a very cool premise only to blunder through it without much to show for it. The fight against Kwon Tae-Joon is a good microcosm of this week's proceedings. I was impressed with how things ended in the last installment and thought it had momentum going into this week.
For a brief moment things appeared to be going well: Kwon Tae-Joon also has a relic! It can bring him back from the dead, as he has access to the power of Achilles and Jooheon doesn't know precisely where his heel is located. The fact that Jooheon doesn't automatically know something is already a major deal for this show, let alone a lack of information that actually benefits someone else in the world.
Could it be that Jooheon has meaningful opposition? Could it be that… there might be… a challenge for the protagonist?! Ah, but dear reader, what a fool I was.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment. So yes, Kwon Tae-Joon does have a surprising relic but Jooheon more or less rolls him anyway. Our hero does an Occam's Blade-zor and just pummels the TKBM ceo into submission then… walks away.
This does introduce a minor setback in that Jooheon's relics are damaged and in need of repair. Okay, that's at least some kind of cost for his victory-that-isn't-total-but-is-still-a-victory. In this we get introduced to Jaeha Yoo the artist and relic restoration expert.
In Jaeha we get a novel and practical part concept that fits within the setting's power system, but the show finds a way to immediately squander that potential. Even trying to check my biases at the door, I just thought this was a tremendous underperformer. Jaeha is someone who is known as a restorer for when relics break – okay, fine, so far so good.
It makes sense that relics can be pushed to the limit so you need specialists to repair them. Another wrinkle is that he can make close facsimiles that pass for the real relic for half a day or so, allowing him to amass a strong elicit box office haul. Okay, again, cool concept, but we run into a bit of a wall here: ripping off people on the regular is a pretty dangerous game to be in.
How does someone maintain a reputation as a fixer if they are constantly doing repair work that goes to crap after it's done? Even if we assume he's only occasionally ripping people off, these are all powerful, dangerous, connected people who are coming to him – pulling this scam on even one person has to bring a tremendous amount of heat/ire down on Jaeha's head, or at least I would imagine so.
Surely if he's doing this he has to stay on the move and have decent security or safeguards to keep disgruntled former customers from coming after him, right? Jooheon shows up, jumps over a desk, and ties him up instantly. So all this interesting setup concludes in the same place every situation does for Jooheon: outsmarting someone and turning them into a relic pinata.
Then Jooheon forces Jaeha into a contract against his will to get what he wants out…
Whether this marks the beginning of something bigger or a standalone moment remains to be seen. What is clear is that the entertainment world is watching closely — and so are we. Follow TeraMovies for complete coverage.
