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True, but as I say, it was as close as I could come up with in order to draw upon my own personal childhood experience and feelings about a change of actor, to contrast with how my adult self feels when that happens.
I would argue that James Bond actors do have some scope to create their own version of the character though, I mean no-one would suggest that Craig-bond was the same as Brosnan-bond, or that Dalton-bond was like Moore-bond.
And Dr Who's often do share many similarities, manic bursts of energy and excited outbursts of verbal diahorrea being a common trait for most of them.
My point still being that I personally regard the multiverse as a redundant concept, one actor left and a new one took his place, any additional made up fantasy explanation is un necessary.
Even having him die is not really a problem, just as I have no doubt that, some time in the future, Tony Stark will re-appear as Ironman in a movie, after the current iteration of the Marvel Universe has finally disappeared down the rabbit hole into oblivion.
And, for those who do enjoy multiverses, he's still out there now anyway, in infinite other multiverses where he did not die, so what's the point of it all, why bother concocting such an elaborate pretense, what useful purpose does it serve?
Then possibly a scene introducing M and Moneypenny (or reintroducing the same ones from the Craig era) and assigning the next mission, then off we go
Prologue scene, music fades out, Bond lying down on the crest of a hill watching something through binoculars, then a shot where we see his viewpoint - in the distance a woman and a child play in the spring grass outside a Nordic chalet, but we are not close enough to see them in detail. Back to Bond, lowering the binoculars from his eyes and looking wistful, closing credit music begins...
Another one that we may have tackled but due to more recent information coming forward I think it might lead to a discussion:
What if Quantum of Solace hadn’t been affected by the writers’ strike?
According to Craig QOS had Bond and Forster writing and re-writing scenes in this movie while it was being shot. Having already committed to a release date the film went ahead with a writers strike. This meant a not quite fully polished script and hence Craig and Forster having to write or re-write scenes.
What do you think would have been the biggest improvement if they had got the script in a better place before filming? Were there characters who weren't well written? I know Elvis is a henchman that is just there, might his character been improved?
What are your thoughts on this what if?
Opens with the shot of Craig-Bond, his back to camera, watching the missles raining down from above, then apparently being vaporised, cut to shot a handsome stranger suddenly waking up as if from a nightmare, crying out, then sitting up, with eyes wide open and sweating profusely.
Pan out to reveal the whole double bed, a beautiful naked woman next to him, she sits up and puts her hands on his shoulders to comfort him and says "What's wrong James, you look shaken?"
Bond gives her an enquiring sideways look and replies "Not stirred?"
He takes her in his arms and they recline back onto the bed
Cue gun barrel sequence...
After the opening credits we learn that Bond is at Shrublands, where he is recuperating from NTTD and then off we go
Having said that, QOS is excellent as is, and I feel Craig, EON and crew shouldn't punish themselves over it but be proud of how the film turned out.
Especially on this day, dedicated to the film. World Quantum Day.