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I know I'm on the slippery slope, but are you guys all for real? Times have moved on from Q and Moneypenny? Give me a break.
Oh, and I love Casino Royale like no other. I admit it was interesting to have Q and Moneypenny absent, Bond was just starting out and I accepted that it would take a film or two to get everyone properly introduced. Just like putting the gun barrel in a slightly different place, CR was kind of innovative. But Quantum of Solace could have easily had a Q scene when M and Bond are finding out where Slate was on that futuristic, over designed computer.
Anyway, yes, I think Q and Moneypenny need to come back. Don't shoehorn them in for the sake in keeping with tradition, but nearly 20 films managed to have both a Q and Moneypenny scene without feeling forced. Why, all of a sudden are they 'outdated'? I simply don't understand.
@SJK91, I agree with you. We better just scrap Bond entirely, and come up with a new character. He's such a relic of the old times.
Whether Q and MP return is up to them, not us. If they don't, I'll slightly miss it, but I won't rain hell over others about it. If they do return, it'll be very nice and nostalgic to see them on the big screen once again.
Bring on Skyfall.
I'm sorry? I always say in my posts that I am telling my opinion. You should do the same.
The Spooks technology which is available to agents nowadays minimalises the need for gadgetary as the entire globe has Ipads and such knowledge of gadgets in every day life. Q Branch isn't special anymore - its on the high street.
In a theory long touted by fans, the paper reports, "She starts as a field operative called Eve and then comes inside the organisation as Miss Moneypenny, M’s right-hand woman."
Daniel Craig previously hinted that Q and Moneypenny would return in his third outing, now titled "Skyfall". Ben Whishaw has already been confirmed as playing the gadget master.
Q has been confirmed but no one in the Bond camp has denied or confirmed she is playing Moneypenny, simply confirmed Eve. If the Bond team are going with the Eve becomes Moneypenny route, they won't be releasing that kind of plot twist publicly so I feel its a debate which will run on and on...
What they could have done is just came out with the cast and characters straight away and then just get on with it.
I'm sure it takes a lot of training and many tests to become a field agent. And that's to make sure they won't blow a mission while on the field. That's their difference with office-stationed agents. The Double-0 agents are a handful of field agents allowed to kill at will in order to complete a mission (plus higher level training and access to more information).
If Eve hadn't passed the field agent tests, they would have positioned her at an office.
Now, supposing she's not allowed to engage in firefight for example and yet she does, I highly doubt MI6's reaction would be like "Don't worry, random field agent, it's ok you disobeyed orders. We'll make you M's secretary".
Maybe they have been insisting she is Moneypenny because they know she is Moneypenny...
By the way, one of our fellow forum members, Col. Sun (who is known to have insider knowledge) wrote on another forum that "Eve is Moneypenny". I think we can trust him.
Perhaps originally she auditioned for Moneypenny, but was given the part of a Bond girl instead? If the Eve-Moneypenny thing is just a rumor (which I hope it is), there's got to be some sort of a reason behind it.
I'm not prepared to take something on blind faith just because you are.
Bottom line: if Eve is Moneypenny, they'd better do it right and convince me (and the audience in general).
Its a very common practice here in the states for field agents to become analysts. It wouldn't be a far stretch to imagine one becoming the personal secretary, aka secret holder to M. Even in the US military as you move up in rank you do less and less field work.
Although, of course, my gut could be completely wrong... ;)
This girl reminds me of Adele, someway.