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I'm not adverse to Bond evolving or learning something, I just need a rest from Bond suffering personal tragedy - falling in love and being betrayed (or imagining he's been betrayed) or his lover dies, or M dies or Bond dies... (or Mathis dies or Leiter dies)
Which is kind of equivalent, as far as the audience experience goes IMO
To me the two things are interchangeable, sometimes we the audience may see Bond learn and develop in real time, sometimes the creators reveal to the audience an aspect of the character that we were not familiar with before.
A third technique is the flashback, where an aspect of the character that we are already familiar with is explained by showiing the a vignette from the past
Perhaps "character development" is too narrow a description of the process, which is really about keeping the character interesting for the audience (or for the actor playing the part, when they want to retain his services across multiple films)
Hear hear!
True, please have Bond do spy things, stop making him John Wick for sake, that's what makes the Fleming Books all the more special and to the lesser extent, the older/classic Bond films, as they're more about spycraft, Politics, Black And White world, a game and battle of wits, let's have that, of course, make Bond still human and vulnerable, but not to the point of being dramatic or taking every things personally like the Craig Era.
And please, no interconnected plots, I'm done with that.
Well said. Let's bring back espionage and intrigue, and intelligence to the plot and overall writing.
This is most likely not going to happen. Gone are the days where there needn't be an emotional hook for the lead protagonist that somehow drives him or her. We also see this in the upcoming 007-game, First Light, where there is emphasis on the death of Bond's parents.
But one thing is for sure: we will not get another Bond-going-rogue movie. That would be awkward with a new Bond.