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Ha! :)) I'll never agree!
Some people here need to reacquaint themselves on the definition of the word I think.
Del Torro for bond 26? stranger things have happened
This entirely goes against the concept of something being divisive. It’s divisive because it divides a group of people (Bond fans) people into sides (I like the emotional stuff in the Craig Bond films, vs I prefer not to have emotional stuff in my Bond films).
Divisiveness in this context doesn’t occur within an individual person, but among a group of people.
Because it divides fans. It's as simple as that. No idea why this concept is so difficult for people to grasp. As Bond fans, we can all be put in a group of "People who Like Bond". That's why, when something that happens in a Bond story that some people really like, and some people really don't like, I think it's fair to say it's divisive.
I think all those things you mention in your post @matt_u are fairly divisive, to some degree. Something similar happening before doesn't really play into it.
Google "divisive definition":
tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people.
Fucking simple as that. Shocking how long this conversation has gone on.
I thought I was making a spectacularly benign comment about how some fans like that moment, and some fans don't. How it tends to cause disagreement, from the above literal definition of the word "divisive".
And on their wedding night, she has to stay in the closet while he is busy with the villain s girlfriend.
Caroline Bliss in my mind would have made a good Ponsonby. I wonder if it might have been cool if for Dalton's films they subbed her in instead of Moneypenny. Probably impossible.
EDIT: After brushing up on her dossier, so to speak, I suppose Bliss wouldn't really have evoked Fleming's image for her. And apparently she was set to be in GoldenEye but didn't make it out of the final draft.
In some alternate universe, there's a cool scene in a future Craig Bond film where Bond visits the CIA headquarters in Langley and meets with Leiter and Paloma again.
Also, on the reuse of character names @NickTwentyTwo, do you not think that maybe it'd be better for the identity of the franchise as a whole to have different names? It seems like such a small thing, considering the continued reinvention of some characters, but to see lets say Dr. No appear again in the credits of a James Bond film would feel somewhat strange to me personally.
As they've already featured Goodnight in the films and Ponsonby would be a retread of the cinematic Moneypenny, they could always have Ponsonby be a lead and fill the role of Goodnight in Fleming's TMWTGG.
But I suspect the reason the character has never appeared in the films (besides redundancy with Moneypenny) is because her name is taken from a real person. I believe that's actually why Fleming wrote her out of the novels eventually. I know there's also James Bond the ornithologist (who never seemed to mind) and Ernő Goldfinger the architect (who attempted legal action), but Ponsonby is an easier character to simply not bother with altogether.
Dr. No, Rosa Klebb, Grant, Goldfinger, Oddjob, Irma Bunt, possibly Wint and Kidd
There are characters who have been poorly adapted, or adapted radically differently, whom I'd like to see with either the same names, or with new names:
Hugo Drax, Kissy Suzuki, Mary Goodnight, Milton Krest
I'm indifferent to some adaptations and would be happy to see these reimagined:
Blofeld, Tiger Tanaka, Scaramanga
Again, the name thing just stumps me cause while I think the names are great, to see them repeated along the franchise would feel slightly off.
I commented the other day (elsewhere) about how Bond fans were made special by really spectacularly talented people like Connery/Adam/Barry working on them and someone argued with it. It is incredible what fans will argue about.
No, it isn t .