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Cuckoo!
Now you're just trying to wind me up!
I think 'My little brother' is the line where it really jumps the shark though.
The reason White was on the run and had grown disillusioned with SPECTRE/Quantum was pretty weak in the finished film.
Those 2 could have been shown to have been very close and in sync at the beginning but something happened that changed White's view of the organisation and ESB's motivation. If only this had been explored instead of all that nonsense about him being connected to Bond's childhood and Oberhauser.
This would have strengthened the whole ESB element and also played into Bond and Swann's bond together, Jesper Christinsen is such a terrific actor and could have been used more.
Blofeld would have only been in the shadows of Bond's life since the actions of CR and not at the beginning of his life.
They could have tied things together that more credibly, White could have pushed Bond to investigate not getting Q to turn up and scan a bloody ring and reveal everything, let Bond do some detecting and discover the connection.
Blofeld would reveal himself at the end to Bond as being behind everything since CR Bond would know this but then he could then reveal that he was behind Silva something before then which hadn't occured to Bond and then taut him about being instrumental in Dench's M's death.
They could still have used M message from the grave but Bond's secret would be he was covertly investigating the organisation that M had been looking into before her death, the film wouldn't have felt like a direct follow on so much and Skyfall needn't have been mentioned.
Blofeld, I'm sure, could have been given a much better back-story. He and Bond can become mortal enemies in SP and duke it out in the sequels. But now, it seems they've already reached the peak of their potential with this character. And that is a waste of a perfectly good character. Why not make Blofeld the Moriarty to Bond's Sherlock, or the Dracula to Bond's Van Helsing? Instead they make him Kain to Bond's Abel and that story is over pretty quickly.
As for Whyte, oh well, I have no problem with him being the "fallen one". I don't believe his ethics though, seeing that this guy used to arrange things for the benefit of terrorists all over the world... He doesn't mind helping to fund warlords who train child soldiers but suddenly it's "no women, no children"? Forget it. The reason for his falling-out with Blofeld should have been more selfish.
Like @DarthDimi said a selfish reasons, then strenghthen the whole Swann element. Bond being the ideal person to her being an assasin was quite brilliant but it needed to be realised so much better, not a chance with tweedle dum and tweedle dee at the keyboard.
To achieve this, step one is to kick out Purvis and Wade.
They keep replacing directors. Why not the writers?
That should have been it a suitable end to the Dench era then a full stop.
I have no problem with leaving him a clue but instead of leading to Daddy issues it should have got Bond's head working and not letting Paul Ritter return as Guy Haines was such a missed opportunity, they could really have tied the era with some real narrative sense instead of what we got.
I'm getting crushed for this, but I don't think Purvis and Wade get enough credit. There's an interview out there with P+W recalling the second half of DAD, and how what we saw was virtually all of Lee Tamahori's vision and very little of theirs. The emotional drama stuff was Mendes' idea. He wanted the personal drama, and Purvis and Wade wrote a script based on his vision. In addition, if it weren't for those two, the final product for Spectre would have been much worse had EoN went with John Logan's much too outlandish ideas. Yes, there are plenty of writers out there that are miles better than P+W, but I think some of their efforts have been misinterpreted.
If Craig doesn't return I think its safe to say reboot time and maybe they'll get SPECTRE and ESB right this time round.
P&W and can be excused to a degree but they've done enough and like Mendes should never be let near Bond again.
Oedipal conflicts were parts of Bond as early as the novels though, although on a more symbolic level. Many of the Bond villains, starting with Le Chiffre, are depraved, twisted father figure Bond has to overcome. It became far more explicit in the movies and far more literal and I am not excusing this, but it is not something that came out of the blue.
This is the sole reason why I want Craig to be replaced.
The whole Waltz as ESB is tainted because of SPECTRE, I don't want him to appear in a new reboot straight away but they could tease SPECTRE into the story then reveal ESB later.
I didn't want a reboot before SP and wanted DC to continue as long as he was comfortable but the way they dealt with having the rights to this aspect of the series I personally can't see any other way to continue Bond.
You could say that they could pick up Bond 25 with DC's Bond just pursuing ESB in some way without acknowledging their distant past but seriously the script writers wouldn't let it be and something tells me DC would want to explore this relationship further in another entry and so would Waltz.
It was enough in SP and continuing down this path would go a long way to tainting Craig's era big time. I know some don't like it but till SP with the misgivings of QOS this era was in high regard, now I think the events of SP have put this into question and continuing this thread would just continue to do harm, so a new Bond and rebooting is fine by me.
I've no problem with a new Blofeld but they seriously hash it up with SP so rebooting and finding a new actor to play the part is fine by me.
I don't imagine they will be dumping an aspect it's taken them years to acquire and any new universe will at some point include Blofeld but they don't need to rush it in one film like they did with SP.
The whole retcon was done so clumsily and slap dash that trying to insert Blofeld into this time line was not convincing or healthy to Craig's era.
It could have been done right but P&W just crowbarred it in then explained it with the brother nonsense and that tosh about scanning the ring.
They acknowledge that SPECTRE and ESB exist, M can mention it and they can make light of his relationship with Swann being over and get on with an entry that shows all the strenghts of the Craig which SP certainly was not.
Though I just don't see them doing this, especially if Waltz is to return, some lame like OHMSS scenario is the likely thing.
Better for Craig to be replaced and reboot with possibly Fiennes back as M and no one else or just an entirely new cast, no origin just an established agent in the field being James Bond.
Their not gonna reboo