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He could as well be not there, it's no difference.
So if the Scooby-Gang is kept for Bond 25 and he is in it as well, it's fine. He will once again make no impression at all.
I think the Wizard made this point - why waste screen time with this personality void when we could have more Bond. Or if not more Bond then more M, MP or Q instead. No one care remotely about Tanner. Kitchen at least was noticed. Kinnear just wastes screen time. His scenes with Bond are woeful - you just want him to get lost. Connery's Bond wouldn't have wasted his breath on a nobody like Kinnear's Tanner - life's too short. He would have studiously avoided him or got M to move him somewhere out of his way.
I prefer Kitchen too, but I think he is too old to continue now. Once they rebooted they really needed to find someone to continue the legacy and I for one am pleased with the results.
This basically sums it up. Kinnear is a very good actor, but his Tanner is not written appropriately. Kitchen has 007's back, where Kinnear is M's bitch first and Bond's pal second. It's best exemplified in the scene at Q's lab in SP where Q is slipping Bond bullshit re. the smart blood as if Tanner is some sort of jobsworth and later in Tokyo. I don't like that interpretation. Tanner is supposed to be Bond's mate, above M, Q, MP... Etc they really need to get this right or don't bother with the character. Invent a new M bitch if necessary.
Loelia Ponsonby. Always been of the mind they should've brought her into the Craig era instead of MP.
My thoughts exactly! While I didn't mind Kinnear one bit in QOS and SF, I did find him a bit drabber than usual in SP, but what really bugged me was how quick Tanner was to rat Bond out to M in Tokyo. I suppose they must have figured they already had Moneypenny (and a quasi-reluctant Q) being Bond's buddies behind M's back so they had to throw somebody on M's side. And maybe it just came down to them needing to make the "24 hrs...48 hrs" humor in Q's lab work (though I think that would have worked fine even if Tanner hadn't been there). Whatever the case, they clearly defined Kinnear's Tanner as no true friend—nor even a half-arsed pal—of Bond's. Which is a shame. Didn't like that turn.
Loelia Ponsonby.
Poelia Ponsonby
Lolita Poizenby.
Pamela Lazenby
Her name is actually Pamela Isley. Always thought Uma Thurman would be a good fit. What do you chaps think about George Clooney for 007 someday?
Arnie as M
O'Donnell as Q
Thurman as Moneypenny
Silverstone as Tanner
He is stil is afraid for losing his job. He and Dench and a lot of people are naieve in Qos. He also thinking at the end of Qos that he trusted her again. But then his drinking in SF proof other wise. So he is testing his new "Friends".
The naive Tanner of QOS wil return i think. Fienes M is fan of Q and Bond.
But sadly he got fired apparently :( ..Tanner can be an interesting minor character if written right.
I don't think so.. I remember way long ago back on the MySpace days that Menzies was lamenting that Villiers wasn't returning in QoS, but no reason given.
Tanner wasn't in CR so I guess that just went back to using Tanner. I'm not sure.
Oh yeah lol.
Yes, Mendes's two biggest contributions to the series: drafting Bill Tanner into Quantum of Solace and the world's most expensive explosion. His name is printed in capital letters on both of those giant steps forward for the Bond legacy. ;)