I was ready to walk away from Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft after the first episode. Not because Netflix’s latest animated video-game adaptation is that bad, mind you. But its 35-minute premiere – which introduces us to Lara and many of the characters we’ve come to know from the more recent Tomb Raider games developed by Crystal Dynamics – just wasn’t all that compelling. And the seven episodes that follow never get any better. The story didn’t grab me right away (and only gets more laughably dumb), the animation is both generic and minimalist, most of the attempts at humor fall flat, and the writers don’t give the cast all that much to work with. It’s OK – there’s lots of globetrotting and some fun action – but if there’s a season 2, I don’t think I’ll be tuning in.The Legend of Lara Croft doesn’t so much establish Lara’s legend so much as her emotional burden. As we meet her here (played as well as anyone ever has by Hayley Atwell, aka the MCU’s Peggy Carter), she’s already b…