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In the novels pretty much all the early novels save DAF had SMERSH as the antagonist in one capacity or another. Then it became SPECTRE later for a shorter run... And Blofeld's jealousy was more a symptom than a cause.
It was a governmental organisation albeit a semi fictitious one (it did not exist anymore when Fleming started writing neither was it the super shadowy organisation depicted in the novels).
I don't love the retcon but I suppose that if Eon had the rights to Spectre back in 2005, Quantum (or at least what became Quantum in QoS) would have just been Spectre in the first place. They could have done some shadowy figure briefly in CR, just nothing obvious like the cat.
But of course, it had to be superceded because EON got the rights and making Quantum a shill organization beneath Spectre was an easy way to kill it of whilst giving the impression that each movie delves deeper.
Blame Mendes. He wanted the brother angle and author of all your misery drama.
Pantheon of Bond supervillains, ranked in order of most dastardly.
1.Mendes
2.Blofeld
3. Goldfinger
4.Dr No
5. Drax
>:)
Oh, without a doubt they would have. They obviously couldn't wait to use Blofled and SPECTRE again, but I could have tolerated it if they had been there from the start. Some people were disappointed with Quantum, but I loved how they were an updated version of SPECTRE to better fit modern times. I was really looking forward to seeing who Bond would find at the top of such an organization and then SP came along and retconned the hell out of everything.
Rushed and bloated. Sadly, I fear we'll just have to accept whatever their explanation was, as I doubt we ever hear about Quantum again.
ALTHOUGH for Spectre to be believable, it couldn't very well have been unaware of Silva's operations, and at the very least would have been monitoring and allowing his activities.
No, I think the bigger problem ties in with the thread title.
ie there was no benefit (no need, I think is a given) to create any personal family history and/or animus between Chief-of-Spectre and Bond, other than natural exasperation with the agent's history with thwarting past ops.
I completely blame Mendes for all the personal bs. Mendes insisted on yet another personal stake for Bond in Spectre, as a condition of his returning to helm a SF follow-up. He has said he needed this. Thus the foster bro history, and obsessed Ernst was served up.
The key to being done with it all, begins with No More Mendes.
However, I fear that what might be holding up future production, is that Babs may be holding out for an all-in, one last time, full blown Mendes-trilogy, big Craig-era-finale-send-off.
This may not be the worst idea, as it will hopefully wipe the slate clean, begone with Mendes, and allow for a fresh new lead actor and a return to normal Bond movies.
I do think Babs is biding time until her boys, Craig and Mendes, are ready to get back together for one epic final big Bond blowout follow-up to Spectre.
I tremble at what may be in store, but at least when it's done, it will be over!!!!
https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/the-small-world-of-modern-thrillers
Great read and something I had noticed in many genre movies/tv series. It is not new, but it is now far more frequent. I enjoy SP and Blofeld in it very much, but his background and the Oberhauser connection were entirely superfluous. Him being head of Spectre was enough for Bond to find a personal stake in his mission (what with the death of Vesper and M) and Bond foiling the organization's operations in the past was enough for Blofeld to positively loathe 007.
Within the narrative of SP, explaining the link between Quantum and Spectre is extraneous. It's only fans that really care. Whatever one thinks of the story, it has no bearing on it.
It doesn't have a bearing on it, but yes, being such a big fan of QoS, I would've enjoyed having the link fleshed out just a little bit more.
QOS, when Mr White tells M that they have people everywhere was scary. For me the Craig era was the best in QOS, including his performance.
Regarding SP, I hated how they were pulling things out of thin hair. I was surprised they did not reveal to us, that M is his mother. I resent the family link he has to Blofeld. It is pathetically presented and another nail in the coffin for the credibility of the franchise.
They have demystified Bond too much.
Nail in the coffin? Wonder how many times that's been said over the last 50+ years? Bond will outlive us all my friend.
Bond will survive, but studios these days want huge returns. SP is a mess for $350 million. But when you over-explore a character like Bond, then where do you have to go?
Look at the old days of Bond when budgets were smaller and some films could make 10 to 20 times their budgets back. SP is less than three times the ratio of budget to box office.
That's a separate point. It may well be boring, but verbally (or visually) explaining the minutiae of how Quantum interconnect with Spectre from a business perspective doesn't make that any better.
I can't wait for Bond to become an enigma again, who uses irreverence to distance himself psychologically from the nature of his work. That will be so refreshing.
Classic Bond was a fascinating man, precisely because he was a mystery. He revealed his past sparingly. And I have said this before, but CR being a reboot and Bond never existing before ; then why did they pull the Aston DB5 from the sixties and give him the previous M? Why did they take a sh*t on the so well created Goldfinger origin and try to change that?
If I have a criticisms of the Craig era, it is that by trying to explain how classic Bond became classic, they forced themselves into a situation where they were trying to bang a square into a circle. They shot themselves in the foot. 2 plus 2 equals 10 audience!
And if I want to see Bond in a DB5 car from the sixties, then I prefer it to be Connery and Connery only.