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But yeah the whole timing thing is so confusing, despite it being something you can just ignore, although the idea that Quantum is set in 2008 is the most confusing part.
It’s one of those situations where they have the cool idea to have the „M briefing“ deconstructed into being by Dead-Dench via video and went with it and then they yada-yada the rest of the logic of it and it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. SP has a couple of those.
Crazy how that would be quashed if not for the date on the fundraiser invitations.
I always assumed SP took place months if not a year after Skyfall. At least relatively soon, there's so many links to Skyfall it would be odd if it was many years later.
I'm always intrigued at how many years were between Quantum and Skyfall. 6 maybe? Given that Quantum takes place an hour after Casino and Vesper died in 2006, according to her tomb in NTTD
The problem is that it just doesn't fit together.
Vesper died in 2006. We assume the end of CR is not very long after that and the QoS PTS is only shortly - a day at the very most - later. But then the film later jumps to 2008 without any apparent time passing:
It's pretty small print, but Greene's party in La Paz takes place on 23 August 2008.
Now that is obviously just a production oversight, but still: it's in the film!
Next thing is the jump from QoS to SF. Someone would have to go through SF with a finetooth comb to see if there are any dates on screen, but the big story point is of course that Bond is washed. This has been discussed to death, but it really doesn't seem like it could only have been 4 years since the end of QoS. So if we go completely crazy and say there were 8 years between those two films and SF is actually in 2016 and then SP follows very closely, NTTD now puts and endcap on that due to my original post: By the time of NTTD, Mallory has been M for somewhere around 10 years (even if Bond rounds up). So NTTD is something like 2024?
At the end of the day, it just doesn't fit together and I am mad at myself for thinking too hard about it.
Less facts, more vibes. And the vibes are impeccable.
That's a good question. My only guess would be he was far away enough from the mist that it didn't affect him. It didn't look that way, though. It could be that Primo wasn't considered high up enough in the organization to warrant targeting, despite how integral he was to being Blofeld's eye on the outside, literally.
I think there is a bit cut from the cuba sequence, where Primo chases Bond and Paloma after the gas attack.
Still another possibility is Safin had Valdo include him out by design, seeing him as a useful recruit.. That's the utility and targeting ability of the nanobots.
It could also be a safety precaution on Valdo/Safin's side. Primo is the one who carries the vial to the distributing mechanism and sets the whole thing up. If there is any problem and he gets into contact with the stuff earlier than planned, the plan would be blown by him dying horrifically. That is very thin reasoning and the other reasons brought up are better, but not impossible, I think.
Incredibly.
I'll definitely be making a comprehensive timeline for Craig's era in the next month or so. I just don't have the time to research and design one at the moment. But if anyone here already knows about an online tool where we can all contribute to it, then by all means start and I'd be happy to join later on!
I don't know about SF.