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Yes, I never looked at it from the Prof. Dr. Metz angle before; interesting observations @Murdock.
Oh, great! Thanks for that. I have the novelisation, but I never read it. That's pretty conclusive evidence, I'd say and kind of as I'd imagined. It's the only way that it makes sense to me.
Now what about the blokes in the Amazonian control centre in MR?
Presumably Drax has told them its all a project to see if people can live on a space station for a prolonged time. That gas globe will come as a bit of a surprise!
Except he has the orchid in the control room and how about the guys who have designed the globes in the first place? And who is it who says 'operation orchid is go' or something like that? Is that when they are still on the ground or is it in orbit?
Yes, little did those poor, dumb, vodka swillers realize they were going to be martyrs for the cause. Looks like that holiday excursion to the Crimea isn't happening any time soon.
After a good chuckle, I always wondered about that now that you bring it up. Assuming they didn't trek off themselves in the final shuttle launch to the flying stud farm, how could they have missed the fact that if they were staying behind, they were toast?
You gotta love Muckraker ;)
And I've always wondered about Cavendish the butler, too. Perhaps they all stay in an underground compound until the poison gas has dissipated.
Brilliant! I've always wondered that too. Also, Bond gets Drax to confirm that anyone not meeting his ideas of a 'perfect specimen' will be exterminated. Which begs the question as to what the hell would have happened to all those technicians up on the space station? It's not as though they had a lifetime's supply of food is it! Perhaps they were going to live up there for the rest of their days or were they expecting to return to Earth at some point and find a nice quiet villa to enjoy their retirement? Did none of them have families left on Earth or were they just content in the knowledge that their wives/children/parents etc. were about to be gassed?
Eh? Inside the submarine? The ensuing struggle with Renard in the reactor room? What other climax are you referring to? The topic of this discussion is about the technicians on the submarine, I would have thought that would have been sufficient.
"I thought Christmas only came once a year"
Considerably. Alas, the double entendre was subtle.
compartmentalisation would be the answer here, in that Drax told the various people different things and that only he and some trustees were completely in the loop. And as such he could oversee the whole plan and as such commit genocide. And indeed some of the austronauts might have conflicted feelings about it but in the end it is kind of nice to stay alive and live in comfort!
It is not as if they were being chased by the worlds best cyber criminal, and the NSA had nothing on him or let the British Secret service muddle along, and then hide yourself in the middle of nowhere with NO backup whatsoever and leave breadcrumbs to let the man find you. It would have been far easier to eat a bullit in that case nobody would get hurt either and would have been a big finger to the baddie as well. So far Skyflop!
Most of us simply don't see Bond films in this manner. But then again, you like DAD better than QOS, so I guess I should expect such a reaction.
Yes, and don't forget Cavendish, too: Drax's butler. Perhaps they will all just stay out of harms' way until Drax's finely wrought plan has reached its conclusion.