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It's kind of difficult for it not be since it's where the character lives and works.
Common sense and logic prevail.
If you could rank such 'stories', this would be filed under avoid the bs.
Anyway, yeah this is bs.
Good choice. But I don’t really want many DC things (including himself on stand by), for a while.
Haha! I understand.
Emily Blunt would be one of my choices. She’s good at a bit of office chatter between M and Bond.
Yeah. Blunt is also a good choice.
I'm not sure that a male friendship dynamic like Felix and James' would work with a female Felix. Female Q would work though. Much like Z in The return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
In the Connery/Lazenby era we almost NEVER saw London exteriors. The reason I could do without London as a lingering location is that I want Bond to get his assignment, grab his gadgets and get out of town. Also, I don't want to see Bond interface with the home office or staff until he completes his job, unless he needs them to provide info along the way.
As M? That's interesting, she is amazing and wouldn't be a retread of the previous Ms and yet has a lot of natural authority, I don't mind that idea at all.
Yep. Just none of the flip flopping of M’s opinion of Bond and his viewpoints. Or her (or his) past coming back to haunt them, (TWINE, SF, NTTD). Let her be Blunt (pun intended) but trusting of Bond.
I think classing NTTD as being a 'past coming back to haunt him' plot and therefore verboten shuts down an awful lot of avenues: it's simply a decision which M has made which backfires. If we can't even have that then how can we even have M making any decisions in the films? Is he only allowed to make perfect ones which everyone agrees with? Where's the drama there?
I don't think M should be the source of drama for the most part. M should provide an interesting segue into the main story, but the story should not hinge on M as an important character. I agree that Fleming did interesting things with the character: that stuff with MR, Dr. No where's he's cruel, FYEO, and in Thunderball where he's part crack-pot and part Sherlock. But in none of those stories does M become anything important.
Skyfall and TWINE, like Colonel Sun and COLD, are rare enough (and passable enough) to warrant its use. NTTD comes the on the heels of a lot of Bond-MI6 tension and so while the idea does have some merit to it (M almost creating a 000 section in the nanobots), it feels repetitive.
M drama brings the plot too close to home, makes the film feel local instead of global.
A "local" story works once in a while for the next era they should steer clear for a while
There’s plenty that can be done, and they certainly don’t have to be used to the extent Dench and Fiennes were in the last few films. As said there’s stuff in the Fleming books that could be riffed on. Just depends on what’s interesting for the film/the story they want to tell.