As it’s nearly Christmas, and that’s a vaguely Christmassy ditty…
If you were to Mount Rushmore (it’s a viable verb, ish) various categories of Bond things, bearing in mnd you only have four choices to manifest your personal pantheon of greatneness, what would you carve?
The “Satellites of Love”: DAF satellite, Petya and Mischa from GE, Icarus from DAD
The “If those were for real, he’d be wearing a brick on his arm” watches: magnet and buzzsaw Rolex Submariner from LALD, DYMO strip pager Seiko from TSWLM, grappling device Omega Seamaster from TWINE, Laser Omega Seamaster from GE
I can’t believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book! What’s with you man?!
Bond/M falling for the Honeypot in FRWL, Blofeld not recognizing Bond in OHMSS, Bond not realizing Frost emptied his gun until he tried to shoot her in DAD, Bond and Q hooking Silva’s computer directly into MI6’s infrastructure in SF
The first and last also qualify for “Mi6 need to learn about leaving their ego at the door” see also Bond micromanaging a threat that is not even slightly threatening the UK in DAF, falling for Koskov’s blatant lies in TLD, not bothering to do a proper background check on Miranda Frost in DAD…
…Casino Royale’s plot, both book and film (the film at least is a bit less dictated by blind luck)
Hotel staff who should have had their own spin-off, together. What larks! It would have been better than Jinx, trust me.
“A surprise; hee hee hee”; Valerie Leon’s Total Desperation; “The President’s Suite”*; the porter who let Bibi into Bond’s bedroom who is evidently a sex trafficker.
*remains the most obviously missed open-goal not to have Moore reply “Is he?”
In the same film in which 007 calls himself Mickey Mouse in Italian. Hmmm, and in DR. NO we hear “Three blind mice” on the soundtrack. And rodents, in particular, appear in FRWL and DAF… coincidence?
