You'd think that, like, fine, Nathan is a different kind of geek, he's not particularly more socially conscious than the curators of any given British museum But I mean the UNCHARTED series *begins* with Nathan treating an ornate stone sarcophagus like a piece of trash
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And I mean it's not just any sarcophagus, it's one that belonged to *his fucking role model* He opens it up, is like "oh lol I found a book" and is then content to let the thing sink back to the bottom of the sea and never think about it again He's not even a HISTORY geek
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Like that's the thing, Nathan Drake's not stupid, he's a decent cryptolinguist but his interest in the past is entirely contingent on the extent to which it provides catharsis to his bog-standard Jock impulses His intellectual curiosity is practically nonexistent
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If you asked Nathan Drake to explain to you the Viking Invasion or the War of the Roses (or even something superficially closer to his immediate interests, like the Age of Sail), there's little indication he could do so at all He probably can't even distinguish Ionic from Doric
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I mean hell, in Uncharted 2 there's that whole part in Borneo where Nathan uncovers a bunch of Marco Polo's contemporaries having been sealed up in an ancient ruin Fine, but what was the *ruin*? Nathan doesn't care, he just wants to know about the 700 year old Italian squatters
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That's really the thing, Nathan spends the entire franchise hopping through setpieces that from a historical perspective would be exponentially more significant than whatever magic gold trinket he's chasing after And his disinterest can't be totally explained away by firefights
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And you can't compare him to somebody like Indiana Jones or even OG!Lara Croft Indiana Jones was a professor and the bulk of his adventuring career was directly in an antifascist context Lara Croft is a lonely spoiled heiress who wants for nothing, she's in it for its own sake
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Nathan Drake on the other hand is just, like, well he's closer to Hudson Hawk than either of those two characters He doesn't have a job and he actually explicitly needs money and basically he strip mines the past for copper wire and questionable hookups
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I mean I get that Nathan is sort of a Miguel-and-Tulio figure but those guys were *scumbags* and Nathan is, also, kind of a scumbag He takes this really capitalist approach to world history, he would disdain any kind of profitless pure enthusiasm for it as contemptible nerd shit
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People like Nathan Drake (and his predecessor, Indiana Jones) are fairly common in the real world and actual archeologists fucking despise them What they do doesn't generally take much education or expertise, just willingness to break the law
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Lots of people go to dig sites to loot them and sell any easily transportable artifacts for cold hard cash to unscrupulous collectors Generally for a fraction of what they'd be worth in legitimate markets It's a dirty business
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
As far as Indiana Jones himself the point of his character is he's an amoral scumbag, that his adventurer stuff is a hidden dark side to his respectable archeological pursuits He has a conversation with Marion in the first movie about it
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Also at play is archeology's colonial-extractive past which AJ is an uncomfortable echo of. Like, there is a period in the discipline when a "Boy's Own" hero archeologist would have been well-received.
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