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I think you are done, but we may both be wrong. I hope.
I'm open to him returning, but he's set it up so he can walk away easily. He did the same at the end of SF though (that M office epilogue was a perfect set up for a new actor to take the reins). So we'll see. He seems to like to keep his options open.
What I'd want is for Craig to have one more film that doesn't have any personal B.S. as we've seen in literally each of his films so far... just a standard outing that all the other Bonds except Lazenby have gotten their shake at. After that, a new younger actor, but NOT a reboot... just normal standard, non-personal outings again.
Yes, do like that last bit about a much younger actor taking over, no reboot, just get back on mission.
But in Meantime I'd like to see DC do a couple more, battling SP, with Waltz back for at least one more.
Then go real young with new casting and continue with the Spectre battles.
Blofeld can be recast as needed, or fade into bg, for a bit while other Spectre types take the battle.
Hopefully B25 will be Daniel's last film with Waltz returning one more time as Blofeld having a final confrontation that will bring the whole house down.
This is true. And even before that, it never seemed like Bond cared about it at all anyway. It was very strange to have a personal element that strong in the film and not pay it any attention or have one of the characters not even seem to care about it in the slightest.
Like Silva feeling up Bond's legs, I think the whole childhood connection was an attempt to hurt Bond but he clearly didn't care, it was pretty much an Ego stroke for Blofeld to introduce his new name to Bond and the world. Bond is a professional. Plus Bond was like 11 and Blofeld was in his late teens to early 20's. They probably didn't hangout much.
It was an attempt to hurt Bond, but I just don't see the point of the writers going that direction if they're just going to have Bond act with complete indifference to it. Having the greatest secret agent in the world just happen to have had a personal relationship with the supposed greatest villain ever as a focus of the film doesn't make sense unless it's there for some kind of emotional payoff. If they're going to shrink Bond's world that much, there should be some attempt at an emotional payoff because otherwise, it's just there to be there.
Bond's world doesn't always make sense. The emotional payoff wasn't for Bond, but Blofeld. It was a personal self serving ego stroke to justify his insanity and patricide of his own father. For Bond, it's an assignment like any other. Did Connery's Bond have an emotional payoff when Blofeld revealed himself in YOLT? Nope.
True.
Given how inconsequential the twist is to the film, once they got bogged down in production hell with the script, that's something that really should have been cut. Now, I can't say for certain because I haven't read the leaked scripts, but it does seem like something that was probably a much bigger deal in earlier drafts that just got watered down with each rewrite. It's certainly possible that that's not the case, but it does kind of come off that way.
I would have preferred had there been no connection between Bond And Blofeld other than one that evolved starting with the events of Casino Royale; Then, at some point in SPECTRE Blofeld would have said something to the effect:
'You were nothing to me but quite by accident you kept getting in my way; you became a distraction but now Mr. Bond I'm afraid you've become a threat. Over these years, without even trying, I became the author of all your pain and now I shall put you out of my misery.'
Or something like that
In the end, though, they didn't make enough of a spectacle out of it for it to have been a distraction or a major strike against the film. The twist did go over much better than I expected it to going in, as it ended up not really bothering me while watching the film.
And I agree with @talos7, the ccontrived connection between the two characters is more of a hinderance really. They have ruined Blofeld for the newer generations.
Waltz of course by his very presence will maintain the "brother" connection, but maybe it could be set aside , downplayed, and the focus instead placed on Ernst as boss of Spectre and Bond as hated nemesis.
However, I really do hope he ends his run with Bond 25. Hugh Jackman is doing wolverine for one last time and that's a role Jackman's been in for almost 20 years now and he prepares for and is more involved with the role than Craig has ever been with the Bond films. If Jackman can muster up the supreme physical effort to do Wolverine one last time then Craig can too.
-On Daniel Craig
-On Sam Mendes (as Bond director)
-On the franchise in general
Seeing in Spectre what Craig obviously is capable of, if allowed, I want more. One more, because he doesn't get younger.
It will be difficult to top Spectre, though. But maybe that should not even be EON's goal.
Instead give us something like FYEO, down to earth spy action thriller.
You sound like Boris.