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Easy, first 10 mins of Evil Dead 2 are a recap and the new films starts from the force catching up with Ash.
anyway as mentioned the reboot origin stuff is done with now, so onwards to a cracking adventure for Bond 24!
Simple just remove the first 5 minutes of Evil Dead 2 and start off at the scene where the evil force hits Ash....the only reason that retconed the beginning was because of unable to use the original ED1 footage
After OHMSS Bond's wife and her death were mentioned in TSWLM, FYEO and LTK.
That is hardly a lot. Those were good moments, don't get me wrong, but as I said they were passing mentions.
It was 2012 not 1952 - moneypenny will be from streatham or harlesden via oxford rather then roedean
CR - No problems. It's the start of the new timeline, after all.
QOS - Supposedly takes place right after the events in CR. However, two years have mysteriously elapsed and MI6 has been relocated to a residential section of the Barbican.
SF - An indeterminate amount of time has passed since QOS, where we are to assume Bond has gone on more missions and had more experience.
MI6 have moved back to the decidedly less "design agency" surrounds of the QOS offices and back to Millbank. Not the worst continuity failure the series has had, but hey.
More importantly, Bond now has no autonomy in the field. This is a continuity error because Bond has never needed to have his hand held before. Ever. And this is an essential part of what makes a "oo" agent. Now, not only is he monitored via satellite and CCTV, he is connected directly to M via comms. And, if that weren't enough, he now has a back up field agent to shoot him if things don't work out. But then SF breaks it's own continuity and he's be left to his own devices as soon as they have a report saying he's not fit for active duty.
In a series of unlikely but somehow orchestrated coincidences, the villain forces Bond to take matters into his own hands. So, he picks up a car THAT HE NEVER OWNED and BELONGS IN ANOTHER TIMELINE, TO ANOTHER BOND. In terms of continuity, this is as big a blunder as Blofeld not recognising Bond. Thank God Connery didn't play Kincaid like they'd planned.
So, there we have it. Three films in and we're now lost in the quagmire of continuity errors. Now, presumably, Craig's Bond can reach into not only the past but a different reality and pick up whatever weapon or gadget he likes. Perhaps there should have been a clothes rail with all his safari suits on it in that garage as well.
From now on, I shall refer to Bond's lock up as "the magic garage" that can warp time and space. A bit like the TARDIS or Mr. Ben's clothes shop. From now on, anything is possible in Craig's Bond universe. He just has to nip in the magic garage and get a Q Boat or something. But not an exploding pen. That'd be silly.
I'm thinking we're to assume that some time passed between Bond receiving White's text and Bond showing up at White's villa, during CR. The QOS game suggests six months.
It's given a tired and jaded Series a royal good kick up the ass and Given us a Bond that isn't an out and out superhero but a hero who's flawed, get's beaten but at the end comes out fighting without bloody gadgets. It needed rebooting and now we have a series thats spun two Classic Bond's and one great but flawed film.
If you are referring to Greene's invitation card, that is likely just a production error. Still, I can understand your confusion. QoS is to be set directly after CR yet they put Bond in a new suit with a new haircut.
The continuity erros with the MI6 layouts are all about the director's vision, so you can't expect Campbell, Forster and Mendes to have the same vision of what the agency looks like when they are all such different filmmakers.
Well, considering that the stolen drive was all on M's head (they were HER agents), she wanted to see the operation through since it was her head if it was lost. That seems quite logical to me. Just because Bond has a licence to kill doesn't me he can just do what he pleases. There are rules.
I think this DB5 is the one Bonds wins from Dimitrios in CR and has QBranch fit out. We see Bond win it in CR, and knowing how big a fan Sam is of CR, I don't think it is implausible to surmise that the car in Skyfall is one and the same.
That's pretty much how we're supposed to take it, or any other movie not set in a specific time period. Obviously, differences in technology after awhile make that a little harder to do. When we've got a Die Hard about cyberterrorism, we can't keep treating the first film like it's cutting edge.
Taking your SF points in order:
You don't think an organization the size and scope of MI6 would have more than one office?
You don't think that the mission to recover the hard drive wasn't an organized raid by MI6? Such a raid would require several agents (as was depicted in the movie by the presense of Eve and the other dead agents), and more importantly, would require constant communication between the agents and their commanders. This is a intregal part of every mission by the special forces, police force, secret service, etc. Why would a modern MI6 not do the same?
Bond DID own the car. He obtained it in CR. The headlight guns, ejector seat, etc, could have easily been added by MI6 later.
Finally, let me say this: with the exception of CR-QoS, the Bond films are not intended to be a series. Let me say that again: THEY ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE A SERIES. I fail to see why anyone would waste their time trying to make creative works something they were never intended to be. If you absolutely must have strict 100% continuity, then stick to real life. Otherwise you will be nothing but disapointed.
I promise you, you won't find 100% continuity in the movies, TV or even the original Fleming novels. Trust me - if you let go of the desire for every little detail of your entertainment to line up, then you'll find yourself enjoying things a whole lot more (which is really why we watch these movies, right? To be entertained and to enjoy the experience).
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OCD, awkwardness? I've given up trying to give rational explanations to people regards the, and I use the word tentatively, 'timeline'.
Explain how that makes sense? Bond, in CR and QoS, has a cell phone, a Walther P99 and PPK, gets a tracer planted in his arm (which is then taken out), has access to technological achievements which have only been around for the past 7 years, and is fighting a group called Quantum.
Bond, in DN onward, is first equipped with a PPK in DN (meaning he has not used one before), only occasionally gets tracking devices (which are never embedded in his skin, nor that small), is eventually given a P99 (once again, when he attains one in TND, he's never used one before, and even calls it the "new Walther"), has been working with Q practically forever (meaning that SF wouldn't be their first meeting, would it?), is only using technological advancements that existed at that time (do you ever see him carrying around a laptop in OHMSS? no!) and is fighting a group called SPECTRE, both of which are similar, in that they are a group of people who are causing acts of terrorism and destabilizing governments, but the similarities stop there.
So how, with all these discrepancies does it make any sense that CR and QoS are prequels to DN especially after MGW and crew have specifically stated the Craig Bond to be a reboot, which is not a prequel, in any way?
And, @flasheart, I agree, please quit with the "Don't feed the troll" image, it's become a record that's not only broken, but sh*t upon.
This forum has become so troll-friendly of late that I have been trying to contribute to helping to clear it. However, if it offends people I'll stop doing it. I have in the past simply flagged posts which were offensive or broke rules, yet even after the same "users" being flagged far more than the "three strikes" rule they have been allowed to continue posting for days or weeks afterwards. Hence, I thought that informing people to stop feeding the trolls was a more effective strategy, as we cannot count on them being banned.
My apologies for the offence.
I don't think (we're getting off topic again...) that the forum has become troll-friendly, it's simply that the trolls keep coming fast and furious, and the mods can't keep up with them (thanks to the abnormally large amount of them, not to mention the fact that the mods have lives themselves, which is something that no one can say for a troll). I, for one, appreciate your gesture of posting the image, and I thought it was hilarious the first two times I saw it, however it's just been used too many times. We should stop feeding trolls, however a lot of the time, they piss us off too much that we simply need to post something in reply to them.
You don't really need to apologize for anything, however, by reposting that image over and over and over again, you almost became a troll yourself, temporarily.
I'm not confused.
Yeah I know about the Techy bit but thats the bit I'm confused on.
Do you mean to tell me that, even after I gave you a list of reasons why CR and QoS aren't prequels, you will persist in saying that they are and expect me to explain to you how this is?!
Bottom line: DN-DAD is one timeline, CR-SF(current) is a second unrelated unconnected has not a damn thing to do with the other one timeline.
Agent007391 - dont lose your cool. Thats what he wants. Just IFM and dont feed him.
I'm not losing my cool, I'm simply pointing out the obvious with force.