The What if...No Time To Die had ended with Bond surviving—how would you reboot from there?

Seve

mtm wrote: »

Seve wrote: »

mtm wrote: »

Seve wrote: »

I think multiverses are completely un-necessary, anal retentive nonsense. As a child I couldn't understand why Dr Who changed from William Hartnell to Patrick Traughton and was very upset (I kept watching, but never really forgave Patrick for not being William.)

That’s not a multiverse situation. He literally changes face within the same continuity.

True dat, and, although I can see that it appeared that way, it was not my intention to suggest that it was. There was no multiverse when I was growing up, so I used the Dr Who to represent an equivalent situation. I intended it as another example of where the creators felt the need to explain the change in actor in order to maintain continuity.

It's kind of different as it allowed the new actor to almost create an entirely different version of the character, something which doesn't really happen with Bond or Holmes.

True, but as I say, it was as close as I could come up with in order to draw upon my own personal childhood experience and feelings about a change of actor, to contrast with how my adult self feels when that happens.

I would argue that James Bond actors do have some scope to create their own version of the character though, I mean no-one would suggest that Craig-bond was the same as Brosnan-bond, or that Dalton-bond was like Moore-bond.

And Dr Who's often do share many similarities, manic bursts of energy and excited outbursts of verbal diahorrea being a common trait for most of them.

My point still being that I personally regard the multiverse as a redundant concept, one actor left and a new one took his place, any additional made up fantasy explanation is un necessary.

Even having him die is not really a problem, just as I have no doubt that, some time in the future, Tony Stark will re-appear as Ironman in a movie, after the current iteration of the Marvel Universe has finally disappeared down the rabbit hole into oblivion.

And, for those who do enjoy multiverses, he's still out there now anyway, in infinite other multiverses where he did not die, so what's the point of it all, why bother concocting such an elaborate pretense, what useful purpose does it serve?

CrabKey

Bond is not coming back. In the next iteration, he will have never left. He'll appear on screen with a history and carry on. Live or die, NTTD was the end of Craig's tenure as Bond. How pointless would it be to cook up a story line in which Craig's Bond doesn't die, but somehow comes back younger. No, he's done. Move on. And don't try to sandwich the new film in between some old ones as if NTTD will happen in the future but with everything dated. What's done is done. Live with it. The next Bond will not be a continuation of any previous Bond. Hopefully the new actor will own the role like Connery and Craig did. Find the right actor and all sins can be forgiven.