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The only novel that ends with Bond in bed is Goldfinger if I remember correctly, so I see no reason to go back to it every film, at least not in the next one.
I like the very end of the book Moonraker, when Bond is all excited about running away to France with Gala Brand, only to discover that she is engaged to another man. "She had the look of a girl who is not for you, who is on her way to make love to someone else." This very familiar feeling made Bond more human to me than anything else in the canon.
I prefer it when the Bonds don't tick boxes. Tuxedo tick, Q tick, Martini tick, Aston tick etc. That sort of thing (the Brosnan years) is Bond by numbers.
I agree with @NicNac too, I hope the franchise avoids falling into the box ticking trap again.
Bond was still heart broken over Vesper and not in any real emotional mood to bed Camille. Just as well.
Maybe if the next one (the third of the trilogy) he would get the girl as a sort of closure to Vesper. I dunno....
Camille was basically a variation on this--unavailable for another reason (she was on a revenge mission). I believe we've seen the last of Camille. Every time they talk about bringing a Bond girl back (remember the Yeoh rumors?) it never happens, probably because it would distract from the story at hand.
I wouldn't mind seeing Gala Brand in a future Craig film, though--the one who Bond wants but who gets away.
In QOS, I didn't care because I liked Fields much more than whatshername and since she was dead... But this time I don't think him walking down a street in moody thought is going to cut it.
My REAL pet-peeve is that they stopped giving us the last minute fight with the leftover henchman. I love that last blast of action (a BONUS scene if you will) before he locks lips with the girl of the minute. Whatever they do, something exhilarating not funereal...please.
The ending of Moonraker is Fleming. And the LAST thing Fleming was was PC (although the term didn't then exist). Fleming's Bond doesn't always get the girl (CR, MR, OHMSS, arguably YOLT). And sometimes he "dies" at the end (FRWL).
The "leftover henchman" trope has been gone for some time--TND was the last time, I think, and before that maybe TSWLM.
Craig does "moody" so well. I don't want to see him end up unhappy in every film and likely not in Skyfall, but I think it would be a mistake--now that we have such a strong and dedicated actor--to give him the lazy, same ending that we've already seen done to death in 19 films. Whatever QoS' faults, that last scene was at least different.
But in Bond 24 and beyond, I hope they continue to stretch themselves...if they want to do the end of the novel YOLT and the beginning of the novel TMWTTG, Craig is clearly the man for the job. This is their opportunity!
Yes, indeed. I'd love to see that and would say it'd even work if it was Craig's last film with the conclusion picking up for the next actor's first film. At least then we'd be invested in the story and this may hope the man who has to step into Craig's shoes when the time comes.
This is an intriguing idea, a cliffhanger across Bond actors!