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“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
-someone in Star Wars….
In all honesty, hope you’re joking. Three hundred and fifty million (plus) people is an awful lot of humans to find dreadful.
(stepping off the soap-box, but still…)
Australia for me wasn't that interesting as a location, it's not exotic enough, sure, there are deserts, but then so in Middle East and in Sub Saharan regions and even some in America and far more exotic looking than the ones in Australia.
Their cities very much looked like those urban cities in America, think of Sydney or Queensland, even California is more good looking (look at AVTAK).
Australia for me just look like ordinary, I actually prefer New Zealand when it comes to future Bond locations.
And I'm longing for a winter/snowy location, it's been long overdue, so Canada gets my vote.
The tropical countries was way too overused in the Craig Era, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it never snows in Australia, so another tropical country again.
Brosnan came from Ireland, yet it's still yet to appear in a Bond film.
Lazenby came from Australia, yet it's still yet to appear in a Bond film.
Now, if they're setting it up on Australia, I'd liked to see Lazenby maybe have a cameo or guest, maybe as a contact or something along the lines of Kincaide, but I doubt they're going to do that, they've rejected the idea of Connery being cast as Kincaide, but still hoping.
I'm also on board with Ireland being a future location for a Bond film too, and Brosnan should appear in that one too, although I doubt it too, especially given he's now a full American Citizen.
Funny, my brother worked in a cegep in Mont Tremblant. He taught philosophy.
I was actually planning to write a crime fiction story partially set in Tremblant. Haven't come round to it, got other projects and I'll need to do a lot more research, but it's on my to write list.
Tremblant is a magical setting and could drive a great snow set piece with a gorgeous backdrop….
Okay lets move on to another would you rather:
Would you rather a "stand alone adventure in the PTS OR a PTS that ties directly to the plot of the movie
I would say that GF, FYEO, OP were stand alone. You could argue that TB, and MR were loosely tied but could also be seen as a stand alone. What do you prefer? I'm referring to the sections of the PTS that apply to Bond!
When it comes to Standalone PTS, with the exception of FYEO, I don't have any problem with standalone PTS, especially when introducing a new Bond actor to the role, TLD is the one that comes to mind easily when doing this, it did a great job of introducing a new Bond actor.
I'm fine with standalone PTS as long as there's no bad retconning of past (again, like FYEO) to connect it to a prior film.
But the thing with stand-alone PTS was it depends upon the execution though, it needs to work as a separate scene of its own, like someone said here, a mini-film, so, it needs a lot more effort, if they've failed on it, then it would've likely to paint the whole film itself in bad light, again, think of FYEO (its PTS became one of the absolute flaws of the film).
It's also the main issue with the likes of Moonraker, and maybe Thunderball, one may not understand what's happening because it's a separate scene from the overall film.
Good for Goldfinger, it did a great job in doing a stand-alone PTS with showing Bond doing some minor missions in night duty and it succeed for that, and again, TLD, so it depends.
Something that's already not necessary when doing it as connecting it with the film's main plot, because again, there's already a backbone that needs to be built up, it doesn't need much effort, because there's already a story and one needs to start on it, again think of Goldeneye, it only needs good cinematography, editing and action and it's all well, something that one couldn't do with stand-alone because it needs an effort in creating a separate storyline.
So, technically speaking, a PTS that's directly connected to the plot is much easier to do.
CR could also be considered stand alone, as it has nothing to do with the plot afterwards.
Could be a good way to introduce a new actor.
Agreed. And if I consider GF, FYEO, OP, CR as standalones, I'd say those are stronger PTSes on average than the connected PTSes.
You consider FYEO PTS strong? 😅
I'd say the CR PTS did connect to the plot of the main film, it's a part of Bond being a new, beginner 00 (hence, it showed how he earned his first two kills), it actually continued after the title sequence in Madagascar, one of the concepts of the whole film was Bond being young and beginner as a 00 agent, so I also consider it a part of the film's plot at some point.
It's similar to OHMSS with Bond following Tracy in the beach, although It's not connected to one of the film's main plot regarding Blofeld, it did connect to the other film's plot, it's concept which was Bond falling in love, some consider it a standalone, but it's not, so it's the same with CR.
Thunderball, maybe?
What's referenced later in GF?
Lets move on to another would you rather: a brief pre-amble. Please don't bring the movie into this would you rather, and try to have fun without thinking of the reality of the situation. Now that we got that out of the way:
Would you rather a car that can be submersible OR a car that can become invisible?
Even though I don't hate DAD's invisible car as much as others, I'd take the sub. The sealife alone would surely make it worthwhile.
It's interesting that the Vanquish got a sub version in Nightfire, while the Esprit remains to be turned invisible.
Well, aspiring writer. A struggling one too: struggling to find time and energy to write. Or discipline. Never been to Tremblant actually, but I need a place close to Montreal and remote enough.
I'm not sure if Submersible car will give me an assurance of safety, especially if under the sea, and I'm a bit of environment safety advocate and I've watched TSWLM and the way it blew (black) smokes from the water just turned me off thinking that it could kill fishes and other marine lives!
It's another way of promoting water pollution!
So a big no for me.
Therefore, I'm going with the invisible car, no one can see my car, so another plus for safety, plus it's not harmful to the environment!
I'll take the submersible and stay at reasonable depths.