Whew! Glad I wasn’t the only one.
I’m there! Was leaning Tiger, but Stb’s concept of a plan (could not resist–sorry) sealed the deal.
P.S: I cannot wait for the films of the 1970’s.
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I think the dumbest part of that storyline is that MI6 immediately knew it was an inside job, but Elektra isn’t suspected. Brosnan-era Dench-M acts pretty stupidly in this story. For whatever reason, M knows that Bond is emotionally and physically compromised before sending him to look after Elektra and does it anyway. Then Bond figures out that Elektra was behind everything and nobody believes him.
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Glad to know I am not alone!
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I also had to look up two names:
Pleydell-Smith and Vavra the gypsy.
At first I thought for a moment that Vavra might be that belly dancer, but I don’t need to see this Vavra belly dancing. Haha!
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September 12.
Good day to you too, Barbara, and thank you for asking, but no, my girdle doesn’t itch any more.
I appreciate you’re a busy woman, probably, so your having decided that all the Bond films are one big tale thereby giving you the opportunity to bring back vital and exciting characters that the fans clamour to see again, your difficult decision today is taken from the Non-hostiles of the 1970s. You’ll probably need a holiday after this one.
Who returns, to cheers and applause and not total mystification?
- Sir Donald Munger
- Miss Caruso
- Calthorpe
- Hosein
- Manuela
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This time I had to google most of them.
But of all these Manuela is probably the one with the most potential. She tails Bond before making contact, snaps a pic of him - and it’s never quite answered why she would do this if she’s not a) working for some competitor firm, or b) suspecting that Bond does. Ample opportunity for shenanigans once Bond runs into Manuela, the new SIS Chief Compliance Officer…
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I choose Sir Munger (they have to give him another first name) because he will be revealed as the real Blofeld (first copy was Pleasance), being the most powerful of them all, by more than a whisker (look at that mustache!).
Of course, the real fun begins when he is revealed to conduct a secret operation with Manuela, Calthorpe and Husein to revenge Miss Caruso‘s death by an infection brought on by Bond opening her zipper with an illegal appliance.
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I’ve always liked Ms Caruso, and it would be nice to see NewBonds house. It woul be a nice reference to Moore bond
I have the very actor … Monica Bellucci ITS ALL CONNECTED
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Ms Caruso is the most ‘sensible’ answer yet, quite unfairly, her appearance all feels slightly “Carry On” to me. I actually think there’s some potential in Hosein and his adventures in the Middle East. All served with a side of delving pleasures or whatever his line is.
Carry On indeed.
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Maybe Colthorpe–who in the new timeline is Q’s office husband, and they sometimes even double date.
Hosein is happy with his Bedouin life, doesn’t need the work, and did the last appearance as a lark.
Miss Caruso and Manuela have left the service, Miss Caruso to teach in a rural Sicilian school, and Manuela to marry…
Sir Donald Munger (my choice), who is now a life peer–Baron Munger. From the chairmanship of the Diamond Syndicate, he went on to several prominent and influential positions, all adjacent to the government at the highest levels without ever entering into the political arena himself. His life peerage (awarded by a Conservative PM) was a reward for some particularly subtle and diplomatic work Baron Munger did, which still cannot be talked about publicly.
He seeks out Bond when he hears rumours about a plan to use AI to replace all of MI6. Since he suspects that M may have been compromised, he goes directly to Bond, remembering how well he handled the issue of Blofeld’s doubles in the Whyte Affair (as DAF is known in intelligence circles).
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Noticing Bond’s growing weight issues and impaired vision thanks to the dense shrubbery over his eyes, M taps Sir Donald Munger to assist MI-6 in its search for a new 007, just in case. The search kicks into high gear when Bond opts to transition into retirement with Tiffany Case, confessing that the term “stupid twit” is in fact how he defines the ideal woman. Now operating undercover as “Judge Fulton,” Sir Donald recruits and tests two potential new 007s in the form of an American oil tycoon and a British Lord, eventually settling on the latter given his familiarity with the Aston Martin brand and his willingness to push stodgy MI-6 full-tilt into the world of 1970s fashion.
Of course this would require the acceptance of the “code name theory” to work, so I dutifully hand over my Bond Fan card to await my flogging.
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Hmm. Is “The Persauders” within the Bond Universe Manifestation (BUM)? Discuss*.
*don’t.
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It can’t be, because in the “Chain of Events” episode, a key plot element involves a briefcase full of Ian Fleming Bond novels.
Then again, Vijay knows how to play the Bond theme, Draco’s little person janitor hums “Goldfinger” and Lazenby Bond knows what has and hasn’t happened to Connery in the earlier films, so who can say…
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It absolutely is*. This is in fact the main revelation of John Pearson’s as yet unpublished* *
The Un-Authorised Biography of 007 (part II). In which Bond recounts how SIS for reasons of deception decided to turn its recruitment initiative into a semi-successful tv series. And subsequently decided to continue its Fleming deception with John Gardner and let it all sponsor by Saab.
*The Persuaders in the BUM.
** Blame the Official Secrets Act for this.
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September 13.
Ah, Barbara, there you are. It’s nearly the weekend and it’s yet again been an enormously productive working week for you, but one last thing before you clock off for some easily-earned Me Time.
Unburdened by any notion that it’s an absolutely foul idea, and you’ll note that I am insufficiently brave to say that to your face, on you go with the concept that all the Bond films are connected, allowing characters to return.
Today it’s minor hostiles from the 1970s; pick one and consider that a hard day’s labour exquisitely done.
- Morton Slumber
- Little New Orleans Stabby Man
- Chula
- Log Cabin Girl*
- Cavendish**
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*very few other options left at the end of another Lewis Gilbert bloodbath during which James Bond, one person, unleashes as many nuclear weapons as the USA ever has. (I know she dies in the novelisation).
**ditto; Bond kills everyone else / is complicit in their deaths, not least a generation of perfect people including random minor aristocrats to whom he kept being introduced by Drax (oddly).
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Little Stabby Man - malen’kiy korenastyy chelovechek in Russian - is going to be the next big villain as we’re about to find out he stabbed his way to the Premier League of Villains over a period of decades and is now (now being a stretchable concept covering everything from 1962 to 2062) about to stab the world in its very heart and dance at its funeral.
Unless 007 (details to be revealed along with a new collector’s edition of ALL the continuations, sidequels, prequels, comics and colouring books by IFP) is able to stop him in a new six-film-arc to be shot back-to-back in a bluescreen garden shed in Harlow New Town.
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Actually, the Log Cabin Girl in the James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me novelization, named Martine Blanchaud, does NOT die. Bond spots a dead body who is NOT Martine and quickly pivots to kill Ms. Blanchaud, but the girl’s complete shock on her face saves her from getting a bullet as Bond realizes that while she was complicit in getting him to the cabin, she had no idea there would be a dead body there as well.
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Fair enough, years since I read it. Anyway, her.
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Little stabby is just too good to not reuse him again. Maybe M tecruits him as the better 007 because here’s an effective agent who is not recognized anywhere, not even havng any stepbrother also helps.
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We ALL want to see the little stabby guy again, don’t we?
On the other hand… the cabbin girl…mmmm I would like to see more of her too, but I looked her up, she is now 72 and has done a lot to her face in terms of plastic surgery and fillers and whatnot. No, on second thought, not her, we’ll go for the stabby guy.
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