tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post8813357150835713367..comments2024-03-28T03:10:19.013-07:00Comments on Fraggmented: Storytelling Engines: James BondJohn Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-29787426633236269442014-07-02T12:42:49.187-07:002014-07-02T12:42:49.187-07:00HURRAH!
Someone else who is familiar with the &qu...HURRAH!<br /><br />Someone else who is familiar with the "Bond is an exiled Time Lord and M and Q (later R) are his companions" theory!<br /><br />I realize that the Bond franchise and the Doctor Who franchise would never dare recognize the theory officially, but it actually fits all too well for those days when we can't bring ourselves to remember the MST3K mantra about the changing actors.<br /><br />(Of course, then someone will come in and claim that the reason Samantha never noticed the change in Darrin is that she had married an adolescent Time Lord, and her witch relatives just couldn't tell the difference between an Earther hominid and a Gallifreyan hominid . . . )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-2480600042915204902008-11-28T18:25:00.000-08:002008-11-28T18:25:00.000-08:00It wasn't intended to be mean so much as a referen...It wasn't intended to be mean so much as a reference to a line in OHMSS--Lazenby at one point says, "This never happened to the other fellow," making him the only person in the Bond films ever to acknowledge the casting changes. :)John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221569513392130884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-432412889719930292008-11-28T10:29:00.000-08:002008-11-28T10:29:00.000-08:00(...) and nobody except George Lazenby noticed Ooo...<I>(...) and nobody except George Lazenby noticed </I><BR/><BR/>Ooooh, that was mean! I actually liked the poor fellow. And Dalton also. I'm like one of the twenty people on earth who liked both of those actors as 007.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-20991939289531139432008-11-27T07:02:00.000-08:002008-11-27T07:02:00.000-08:00You're certainly not the only person to come up wi...You're certainly not the only person to come up with a theory like that (although "Goldeneye", where the new M calls Bond a relic of the Cold War after evaluating his performance, would seem to refute it.)<BR/><BR/>Me, I participated in a round-robin fanfic that may still be floating around the Internet, called "From UNIT With Love", where it was suggested that Bond was an exiled Time Lord, and he's just had all of his regenerations off-screen. :)John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221569513392130884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-19491123598718171012008-11-26T18:14:00.000-08:002008-11-26T18:14:00.000-08:00I always assumed that each Bond was in fact a diff...I always assumed that each Bond was in fact a different guy who "became" James Bond 007 for some clandestine reason. So Judi Dench's M has been working with this smarmy Pierce Brosnan Bond for some years and then along comes a new reckless, headstrong guy and she has to put up with HIM being Bond. This is bourne out in George Lazenby's otherwise-nonsensical musing, "this never happened to the other fellow". Apparently my countryman Lee Tamahori is very fond of this idea also, not that there's any hint of it in his fairly terrible picture.Homagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05816188498688673553noreply@blogger.com