# "Maybe no one will notice..."
**URL:** https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595
**Category:** Games
**Created:** [March 24, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595 "2018-03-24T22:03:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 14
### Author:  [@secretagentfan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/secretagentfan)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/262 "2018-09-25T17:01:32Z")
I fondly remember the ad in which Sir Roger said: My name is Bond. I wear Seiko Quartz.
And I just knew I had to have that Seiko watch. And I got one that Christmas - my first digital wristwatch!
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### Author:  [@AMC\_Hornet](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/AMC_Hornet)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/263 "2018-09-25T23:36:23Z")
> [@David\_M](#):
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> In his efforts to keep it secret – and look stylish, of course – Roger sticks it his pants pocket while his sleeves are rolled up in the Amazon.
Ah - so he wasn’t just happy to see Holly at the launch base.
> [@theSpectre](#):
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> Because he has to use the deus ex machina gadget and not the one we saw him given at the beginning of the film.
It was a feature of the Matt Helm films that he would be given a gadget - such as a pistol that fires backwards, or fires ten seconds after the trigger is puilled - and that he would used it _ad nauseum_ right up to - and including - the final confrontation with the main villain. Way to build suspense, guys. That’s why I’ll forgive the primacord in Bond’s watch - it was a deliberate misdirection to make us forget about the dart gun - and it worked (at least on me).
> [@secretagentfan](#):
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> And I got one that Christmas - my first digital wristwatch!
I remember being excited to get an LED watch for Christmas in '76. I also remember forgetting to take it off and finding out the hard way that it wasn’t waterproof.
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### Author:  [@sharpshooter](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/sharpshooter)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/264 "2018-09-26T01:21:01Z")
> [@Jim](#):
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> I suppose no-one will notice that Bond isn’t wearing the dart gun throughout most of the film, not least that he’s not wearing it throughout all the messing about in South America nor when he goes into orbit. Apologies if I haven’t noticed anyone else already pointing this one out.
It’s my favourite gadget because it reminds me of Spider-Man’s webshooters. 🕶
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### Author:  [@theSpectre](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/theSpectre)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/265 "2018-09-26T01:39:45Z")
I mean, it never really bothered me. It certainly is less noticeable than the watch saw in LALD.
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### Author:  [@AMC\_Hornet](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/AMC_Hornet)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/266 "2018-09-26T03:16:46Z")
If the wrist dart gun was being issued as ‘standard equipment’, then why did we never see it again?
(A: Because it was naff, and only suited one OTT movie? If they were ever to bring it back, DAD would have been the time, and even on _that_ one they didn’t go that far.)
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### Author:  [@sharpshooter](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/sharpshooter)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/267 "2018-09-26T04:01:01Z")
> [@AMC\_Hornet](#):
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> If the wrist dart gun was being issued as ‘standard equipment’, then why did we never see it again?
> (A: Because i was naff, and only suited one OTT movie? If they were ever to bring it back, DAD would have been the time, and even on _that_ one they didn’t go that far.)
I’m sure all equipment given to 00 agents is considered standard equipment. In FRWL, M says the attache case is being issued to all personnel. It’s more about giving each film a different gadget.
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### Author:  [@AMC\_Hornet](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/AMC_Hornet)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/268 "2018-09-26T04:13:57Z")
Subsequent mention of attache case: “Black attaché case damaged when examined. So sorry.” (Goldfinger)
Subsequent mention of wrist dart gun:
I rest my case.
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### Author:  [@sharpshooter](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/sharpshooter)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/269 "2018-09-26T04:23:57Z")
DAD aside, when has a gadget (not a vehicle) ever reappeared in another film?
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### Author:  [@theSpectre](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/theSpectre)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/270 "2018-09-26T04:27:00Z")
The exploding pen got a mention in Skyfall…
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### Author:  [@sharpshooter](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/sharpshooter)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/271 "2018-09-26T04:28:21Z")
The physical item did not reappear, and as we know it’s another timeline. More of an in-joke. Sorry, doesn’t count! 😉
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### Author:  [@secretagentfan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/secretagentfan)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/272 "2018-09-26T05:06:29Z")
> [@AMC\_Hornet](#):
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> If the wrist dart gun was being issued as ‘standard equipment’, then why did we never see it again?
Activating the darts by a quick hand move proved to be disastrous in private life.
Hi, good to see you… oh.
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### Author:  [@David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/David_M)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/273 "2018-09-26T10:41:05Z")
Yes, it’s like Spider-Man’s webs: clinch your two middle fingers to your palm and “THWIPP!” When you need it. But make a fist to hit someone – which involves the same motion for those two middle fingers – and no web.
Not only does Bond’s wrist gun know which kind of dart to fire when, it also knows when a wrist movement is done on purpose and when it isnt.
I was going to say Bond also produced an unannounced poison pen to kill the snake, but I guess we’re to conclude he stole that from Holly in Venice.
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### Author:  [@theSpectre](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/theSpectre)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/274 "2018-09-26T12:53:01Z")
He took that pen from Dr Goodhead. He found it when he was going through all of her gadgets.
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### Author:  [@secretagentfan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/secretagentfan)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/275 "2018-09-26T13:32:16Z")
Bond is a true magician.
But it seems, it´s only MooreBond who is so crafty, right?
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### Author:  [@AMC\_Hornet](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/AMC_Hornet)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/276 "2018-09-26T21:27:15Z")
Maybe no one will notice…that Scaramanga’s trademark Golden Gun (presumably built by Lazar) was totally unworkable.
I didn’t even think about this until about 2010. When Scaramanga slides the breech out of the lighter section, it leaves a two-inch gap inside _with_ _nothing in it_. No chamber, no barrel, no firing mechanism - just the bullet dangling in the air. And even if there’s some kind of locking mechanism we don’t know about, there’s still no firing pin, or any mechanical connection between the cuff link trigger and top of the lighter.
Doesn’t prevent it being my favorite gadget, however - and the jewel of my collection.
Now, on to more practical matters:
I don’t think anyone noticed that Moon/Graves satellite was **not** encrusted with diamonds. That’s an assumption they make when the see the highly-compacted silver canopy unfurl and think “oh yeah, just like the one in DAF”. The satellite was _financed_ with conflict diamonds, not covered with them.
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### Author:  [@Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Stbernard)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/277 "2018-09-26T22:39:37Z")
He worked smart, not hard… A lesson for us all
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### Author:  [@TheDove](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/TheDove)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/278 "2018-10-05T14:55:59Z")
Maybe no one will notice the obvious shot of the mini model dome, complete with toy helicopter, of Atlantis sinking in TSWLM…
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### Author:  [@David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/David_M)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/279 "2018-10-05T15:14:24Z")
In fairness, though, that was the first time in the movie it looked anything less than real. Derek Meddings was a genius.
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### Author:  [@TheDove](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/TheDove)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/280 "2018-10-05T15:21:44Z")
Good point…🙂
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### Author:  [@glidrose](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/glidrose)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/maybe-no-one-will-notice/595/281 "2018-10-23T23:38:02Z")
Pay close attention to the bobble-headed guy on Sylvia Trench’s left in “Doctor No”. He overacts shamelessly. Jutting his jaw every which way, his eyes popping out of his head. You’ll never see the scene the same way again. If anybody deserves his own spin-off series, it’s this guy.
Here’s a short clip:
[http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=nLXoZ69ce-I&p=n#/16;22](http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=nLXoZ69ce-I&p=n#/16;22)
Here’s a longer clip in all his full glory:
[http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=nLXoZ69ce-I&p=n#/0;101](http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=nLXoZ69ce-I&p=n#/0;101)
Is he near-sighted? Does he think he’s watching a tennis match?
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