Hum… maybe I choose wrong, if I now thinking and reading about it?
June 12.
“But for Bond”… what’s the worst that could happen?
- Octopussy - the bomb goes off
- Goldeneye - the EMP goes off
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Bombs going off are never a good start, and the EMP (not the fake small one which pops Cyclops) would have sent us back to Stone Age (like dictators are trying to do it right now).
But the nuclear detonation in Germany (damn, that would have thrown a monkey wrench into my puberty years and prevented me from seeing NSNA… well… in both cases nothing earth shattering did happen anyway) and the subsequent withdrawal of US troops and the opening for a Russian invasion would have really changed the world order (and made us discuss the new hero Comrade Bondov). So, kind of what is happening right now.
In any event, we‘re screwed (not even sitting on Elektra‘s chair).
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In spite of their initially catastrophic effects, both detonations are affecting only a limited radius. Harmful enough but not in a global way. GOLDENEYE’s is even merely a decoy, meant to cover the traces of Grishenko’s money transfer, a simple robbery.
OCTOPUSSY’s will no doubt initially eradicate most of the fictitious town of ‘Feldstadt’. In the film Feldstadt looks much smaller than Ramstein. What we see reminds me more of Bitburg Air Base, a small town of approximately 20.000 people in the Eifel. That would probably disappear entirely, along with all personal and guests of the fair at the Air Base.
US troop withdrawal would, however, deliver the entire continent to Russia, completely at the mercy of its whims. Within a very short time Britain and France would share Germany’s fate and Russia would rule supreme over all resources and peoples of Europe.
I get how some may consider it preferable to war. But war wouldn’t be off the table at all. After a period of consolidation the confrontation of nuclear powers would still be the same, only with no foothold for US on European soil and Russia targeting the US directly instead of its bases in Europe first.
No doubt, OCTOPUSSY’s detonation would echo long after the initial blast and kill countless times more people in its aftermath.
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Never understood why Trevelyan thinks his plan will work; if the Bank of England is knocked back several centuries, as the currency regulator it would render whatever he’s pinched pretty much worthless.
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From a dramatic point of view a successful EMP over London, followed by a raid with steam engine vehicles (using the Eidolon idea of a secret steam network?) on Bank of England vaults would have been a more interesting finale. Bit Goldfinger-ish though and not easy to sell a Stone Age London as a successful start for a new Bond…
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EMP, hands down.
The ensuing death of the internet would shut down CBn Forums as we know it - the only way to sustain the camaraderie of these here boards, would be to convene every morning outside the esteemed Jim’s front door, and wait for the announcement of the day’s Sideswipe. Kind of hassle, depending on your time zone.
The OP bomb robs the world of hardcore circus fans and anyone else arriving in those environs for Octoberfest. Tragic, for sure, but from my personal perspective, I’ve never been that much into the big top, as it were. As far as I’m concerned, Orlov and co would have finished the job that Jaws started. (and to be fair, explosive device a much better way to go than just falling on the thing).
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Trespassers will be eaten.
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Just thinking about Octopussy…. Octopooosssay…. Octopooooooossaaayyyy…
Has there ever been a mainstream PG movie plot as dark as nuking a tent full of pre-teen children? Nasty!
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Couldn‘t get that through today.
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And I bet Mrs. Jim would have morning pastries for all of us.
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Out of all of us. Big difference.
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You mean she’s…
…must sit on hands, or else it may be my last witticism…
In any event, I’ll have a towel at hand. 
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Not sure a towel will be much use here…
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It thinks if you can’t see it, it can’t see you. Helps to wrap a towel around your head… 
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June 13.
“But for Bond”, the below happens. Which is worse? (and being fed to Mrs Jim whilst still mostly conscious is, one accepts, probably worse than both)
- Die Another Day - a Space Laser of Death (that is still up there) enables invasion of South Korea and Japan, perhaps
- For Your Eyes Only - a moist typewriter thing enables abandonment of the Polaris fleet, perhaps
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One supposes that space laser thingy, once South Korea and perhaps Japan are in the bag, is still up there. And while its initial cost has been already depreciated for tax after that little stunt, it’s still operational. So why stop after South Korea and perhaps Japan…?
Polaris/Trident on the other hand isn’t entirely what it’s sold to the public anyway. There are terms and conditions in the small print, effectively making the rockets a modern day iteration of the Lend-Lease Act. Meaning while the warheads are British weapons their deploy rockets are entirely US-based technology dependent on constant technical support and supply as well as formal agreement against whom to use them in state of defence.
So all one would have to do to render those useless was to install a means to influence that dependence. Entirely hypothetically of course. Could never happen.
Therefore the space laser thingy.
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„Spaze Lazers“, obviously. They also can influence the weather! And it helps you to keep your seat.
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Like Sean Connery as August deWynter (What’s in a name?) in The Avengers movie, I only seem to like?! 
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