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That would have meant we didn't get Skyfall though. And I think that would be terrible.
The biggest frustration for me with the Craig-era, and I’ve said this before, is that they had the perfect ending in Skyfall. The perfect place to move forward and launch as many independent James Bond stories as they or Daniel wanted to from that one scene with Bond and Fiennes as the new M in the classic office, but instead they got caught up in what came before and confused (I think) in what made Skyfall successful, so decided to jump headfirst into a story that would try to be the connective tissue between everything, completely undoing, in my opinion, one of the many things that made Skyfall so great.
You wanna introduce SPECTRE again? Cool. Do it. But don’t do it by retroactively trying to link everything together with some nice string. At that point, it’d been 6/7 years since Quantum and people didn’t need it.
I completely agree. Everything was wrapped up so well, even the introduction of Q and Moneypenny, and the male curmudgeon boss in a panelled office. I'm not ashamed to say that's how I like my Bond world, thanks.
What can I say? I'm a traditionalist when it come to James Bond movies. How wonderful it would have been if the last scene in the Craig era had been Bond in M's office, wanting to get back to work, with the promise of gratuitous spy adventures ahead.
I do, however, see how Skyfall would've also been a good ending for Craig overall if he wanted to stop.
Yes, I agree. If Craig had have done stand-alone missions after SF, that would have been great too. My point is, after Skyfall, everything was reset, and they could have gone with Craig or a new actor, but gone back to proper missions.
The biggest problem with the Craig era, for me, is that after Skyfall, instead of leaving the character arc baggage behind, they went further into it.
I agree with everyone’s points. Thankfully, EON more often than not learns from their mistakes. I don’t mind seeing Blofeld and Spectre again, but this time they should plan better, and not base it off their egos.
I do love the ending of Skyfall
Everyone always forgets that the cool, calm, collected, even bemused Bond at the end of CR is *not* how he is at the beginning of QoS. A direct sequel was unnecessary.
Aside from his outfit, of course. ;)
Hah, yeah. Perhaps it was a multi-day car ride with White in the boot?
That works for me!
I'm grateful to have all five and wouldn't give up any of them they're pretty great all around.
Yeah, I'm grateful as well. Just mentioning that for the sake of style.
I've wondered the same. Never understood why they didn't just replicate Bond's suit at the end of CR as accurately as possible.
Was it a three piece in QOS? Can't even remember.
I assume they couldn’t use the Brioni suit because 1. Craig slimmed down in muscle mass by QOS and it would have looked oversized for him. 2. Might have been a contractual issue. Because Tom Ford was hired for Craig’s tailoring, using a competitors’ product even if just for the first 20 mins would not have made people happy.
All this says to me is that it would have been easier to just have QOS not be set immediately after CR. I don’t even think the film actually justifies the conceit. It could have taken place a day or week later and it wouldn’t have dramatically changed anything in the plot/story.
It would be more ambiguous how much time had passed if QOS opened with White in official custody. But, for whatever creative reasons, Forster wanted to open the film close to where CR left off.
My ideal follow up would be much like Fleming’s LALD where it’s at least a year or many months after. Bond is assigned on a mission that involves the unnamed organization, with M even noting that Bond is probably hungry for a little payback after what happened in CR. Leiter would be more heavily involved so to take more advantage of the chemistry between Craig and Wright.
This is hardly conclusive proof. But fair enough about MGWs comments on the matter, that's more conclusive for sure.
I think ultimately this is just a case of, don't worry about it.
The Benson books had some pretty good ideas in them too that I think would translate very well to the screen. I would say apart from his overreliance on Fleming characters like Tiger Tanaka and René Mathis, but then again, that's just the kind of nostalgia Eon would probably go for.