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Would you rather Bond26 be a "Bond Begins" adventure OR a "Bond is Bond" adventure?

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  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
    Posts: 2,643
    I'll take an established Bond. We've already had one origin for the character with Craig's Casino Royale, and 007 - First Light is already presenting another one.
  • CrabKeyCrabKey
    Posts: 2,219
    Let's go with a "this never happened to the other fellow" opening. I don't need to see a stumbling, bumbling Bond learning the ropes to eventually become head of the spy class. Young, but experienced is just fine.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,826
    "Bond is Bond" please.
  • Reflsin2bourbonsReflsin2bourbons
    Posts: 484
    The thing is there isn't really an origin story per se. Bond kills two chaps and gets his number, that's it. Before killing those chaps he still had a lot of experience in his job. A true origin story would mean teenage Bond, and that's a whole other story.

    Bond should never be "rookie." He may learn things (and probably should), but even if there is an "origin story" (first gadgets or first martini or whatever) we should never doubt Bond's capabilities and rarely doubt his judgement.

    What I'm trying to say is, I'd prefer Bond is Bond, but if there's an origin story, Bond should still be Bond.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,394
    Since First Light is going to be an origin story for Bond, I would prefer Bond 26 have Bond established, perhaps early in his career by 2 or 3 years but not a rookie. I would also like it if M has her or his full trust in Bond as well.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,617
    Bond is Bond. He's ageless, timeless and I don't even want to pinpoint how many years he's been a double O. He just is. The entire Craig era was a pretty much an origin story with a final conclusion.
    TBH, I'm rarely ever in the mood to watch any of those films. :(
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited 8:40am Posts: 4,648
    None of the two and inspecialy not Bond origin.

    I whant a Bond save the world mission with depth and growing in being Bond. Shaken Not Stirred, Distraction for an hour or two, Role of Honour, Commander Bond, Risico.
    We know who traters are from the start. The villian takes a lot of people in his plan /falling for a lie.
    Group vibe like Quantum. No more for play/pre production, but Greene (QOS) / Maxwell Tarn (Seafire from John Gardner) and Carver, Zorin, Goldfinger is big.

    So disappointed in NTTD killing of Felix that soon, because he and Tanner should have been there on the atack on the island with suprise comeback of Paloma. In between we should have seen people who take action against Judi Dench M (court) should have Ralph Fiennes M arrest. Something that Tanner is told but deside to go a way (His way of saying No to ''When the storm arrives would you be seen with me'') and Moneypenny takes honours as M.
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 2,303
    Bond is Bond, but with a young actor. Not one who'll be an old man by the third film.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    Posts: 5,718
    Reflsin2bourbons wrote: »
    The thing is there isn't really an origin story per se. Bond kills two chaps and gets his number, that's it. Before killing those chaps he still had a lot of experience in his job. A true origin story would mean teenage Bond, and that's a whole other story.

    Bond should never be "rookie." He may learn things (and probably should), but even if there is an "origin story" (first gadgets or first martini or whatever) we should never doubt Bond's capabilities and rarely doubt his judgement.

    What I'm trying to say is, I'd prefer Bond is Bond, but if there's an origin story, Bond should still be Bond.

    Yeah, agreed with all this.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited 11:32am Posts: 18,762
    I don't think there's anything wrong with doubting Bond's capabilities or judgement; he's a character, not a flawless superhero. He's always got things wrong here and there, trusted the wrong person, got bonked on the head; in LTK he messes up a big undercover op, for example. What makes Bond Bond is that he almost never doubts himself.
    I'm not desperate to see him as a rookie per se, but that doesn't mean that we can't see him put into a new situation and change from there.
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