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James in QoS was conflicted. Yes, there’s a part of him that definitely blames himself for not being able to save her, like @RichardTheBruce says, but for Bond forgiving Vesper meant truly accepting why she betrayed him, and discovering her feelings were used too against her helped him. As I see things in the end it all comes down to the trust element. Thanks to the CinemaCon descriptions we know Bond in NTTD tries to “move on”. He wants to move on with this Vesper obsession that’s still there hidden under the armor. Move on from what? He’s not in love anymore with Vesper. In order to really fall in love and start a relationship with someone else, IMO Bond needs to move on from his Vesper thing, that is fundamentally the fear of being betrayed again. He came up with it even in SP when Lucia said “I can’t trust nobody” and he replies sarcastically “I know the feeling well”. Going back to Mathis last words, Bond needs to make peace with the fact that he was wrong blaming her, like M and Mathis tried to show him in Venice and Talamone. That’s why he asks for forgiveness at Vesper’s grave. He was wrong blaming her, because in the end she saved his life and she died for him.
The moment he makes peace with the fact that he was wrong, he was unfair towards her, that her betrayal was forced by things bigger than her, that she did all her best to protect him and help him he’d be able to trust a woman again.
He forgave her at the end of QoS, but he never forgave himself.
And that’s the tragedy: once he achieves that, he’s simultaneously betrayed by Swann again. Or at least, that’s what he believes.
QoS was never about “I could’ve saved her” but it was about “You shouldn’t blame her”.
Anyway thanks @Pierce2Daniel for bringing up this topic that it’s gonna be capital in NTTD.
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On the contrary.
In SP Q makes it perfectly clear: the Quantum organization is part of the bigger SPECTRE organization, and I quote: "... and it seems they were all part of one organization: LeChiffre, Quantum, Sciarra, your friend Mr. Silva".
Sure there wasn’t any deep explanation but at least they made it clear that Quantum isn’t SPECTRE and that the latter is its own thing that links them all.
I just loved the idea of Silva being hired by Blofeld to both punish Bond and weakening the MI6, paving the way to the 9 Eyes program, using his resentment towards M.
Simply genius and a diabolical move from Blofeld’s part.
Understandably, this kind of clarification would have been unnecessary in the film. So Q's brief assessment of Quantum's relationship with SPECTRE is pretty concise. Perhaps SPECTRE has other branches with unique names that Bond never had to encounter.
It appears NTTD is going to lean into SP (despite its shortcomings) rather than avoid it, so perhaps they've learned their lesson.
That's for the controversial opinion thread, but I actually think it makes perfect sense that Silva works for Spectre, a la Dr No. I'd even say that it makes more sense that he does.
Well he’s a freelance terrorist. Blofeld gives him the opportunity to fulfill his vengeance in order to achieve both SPECTRE and personal goals since ESB wanted to toy with Bond’s personal life. As Q says, Mr. Silva was part of the organization but this is pretty vague and he could’ve been just connected to SPECTRE thanks to the toxicology report because he was in contact with SPECTRE people. Putting together what SF established and the information given by Q I don’t see him as a SPECTRE agent but as a freelance terrorist working with them for that particular operation. Just like LeChiffre wasn’t a SPECTRE agent but someone working with them.
Except Bond was presumed dead at the time, so Blofeld wasn’t even factoring Bond when Silva started attacking MI6.
That’s true and Blofeld himself stated that the “I destroy your world” part always came later for him.
We're putting more thought into SP than John Logan did.
Well that could be this. They never dwell on it either way. For me it makes more sense because of Silva's henchmen. Unless they were fanaticised cultists, why would they have followed their leader in a suicidal mission in enemy territory? If they are on Spectre's payroll, directly or indirectly, they have a better motivation: long term gain, maybe an escape route once Silva kills M, etc.
They didn’t even bother to have Blofeld put Greenes photo on the wall of MI6 along with Lechiffre,and Silva.Even the writers have forgotten about QOS!
Well, it was already overkill. I could understand putting up Vesper s photo to torment Bond. All those others were just silly.
Far better would have been to have photos of Severine, Solange, Fields, and M, culminating in Vesper. And perhaps a Blofeld voiceover: "Lost another one!"
Even if QOS was massively popular, it wouldn’t make sense to put Greene because to Bond he was just a middle man that Bond needed info from, it never got as intimate as the conflicts with Le Chiffre and Silva. If anyone from QOS should have been in that photo set, it should have been Mathis.
Right. When Blofeld was at the crater base he only just started believe that fate was what ultimately brought them together, as opposed to him setting out to hurt Bond all those years. He’s just short of saying that them ending up fighting each other was a coincidence.