Yes! 100% absolutely part of the character Fleming created. I always read this scene the exact same way.
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…and I thought people liked my idea of a nanobots animated series
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They do. They just don’t know it yet. 
Twas merely a joke about the nanobots, who star in NTTD. Universe building will not be a thing by 2026, and whichever the new"thing" is EON will try to incorporate.
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I can see it in my head 
No it is not rude. Rather, it is robust and affirmative, along the lines of seeking affirmative consent for intimate contact, i.e., not presuming that silence signals consent. Affirmative consent signals consent.
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It would be the greatest animated series you’ve ever seen! Even when it looks like a piece education material
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OO8 this is exactly how I feel. Like you, I get the movie, it’s a Bond film, right? But I really can’t love it and I really can’t hate it. Overall, I am still disappointed two weeks on.
Like those 80s cartoons about the human body
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We had nanobots even before they were cool…
Now we, kids of the 80s, know that M stands for… Maestro!
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That’s the one!
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I thought it was a good movie, but a bad Bond movie. Daniel Craig was the most gifted actor to play Bond, but by the end of his tenure he wasn’t playing Bond. If the problem with Connery was that he made being Bond always look fun, the problem with Craig is that he made being Bond never look fun. Bond loves his job and going on assignments, particularly the dangerous ones. It’s when he’s off duty he gets in trouble and acidie (see FRWL the novel) kicks in. Craigs Bond keeps retiring and had to be begged to come back. Really? James would rather sail in Jamaica? The frustrating part is that Craig was Flemings Bond at the end of CR and they could have chosen to adapt the novels that have never really been done. Instead they went in a different direction and Craig was playing that guy and how those events affected him. Unfortunately that guy might as well have been named Bruce Wayne because he wasn’t James Bond. By the end of this run what did we have? Blofeld is really Hans Obermeyer’s son and Spectre is all about revenge on James. Bond was raised at Skyfall by a Alfred like gameskeeper. The soundtracks have been terrible since Arnold left. Is there any scene you really want to watch again in NTTD? We were given snippets of Fleming but not the substance. The villain has a mini garden of death but it’s not important or used. Here’s a line from Bonds obit in the times. Is that a snippet of the OHMSS soundtrack? OHMSS was part of a trilogy. Bond gets married, his wife is murdered, he has a nervous breakdown, he is sent on an “non dangerous” mission, kills Blofeld, is brainwashed, tries to kill M, is hospitalized and sent on a mission that will either kill or redeem him. That trilogy has never been filmed and the tragedy is Daniel Craig had the acting chops to play it. The ending of NTTD hit me like a gut punch and almost left me in tears. I love Daniel Craig the actor and CR may be the best Bond film. But I feel used by the producers after the last two films. Although I do keep wondering Vladivostok?
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James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.
It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix—the licence to kill in the Secret Service—it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was unprofessional—worse, it was death-watch beetle in the soul.
Craig is very much Fleming’s Bond
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He was in CR. He’s not that guy in No Time to Die.
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I’m no literary expert, so I’ll ask a question - is he more “Gardner’s” Bond in NTTD?
He is still that. He finally had a good life away from murder, but that ability to kill with viscous efficiency. The escape in Norway demonstrates that perfectly
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Was this guy Fleming´s Bond?
Or this guy?
Or these guys?
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I used to take that Connery moment as sarcasm until I heard that it was a mistake by Charles Gray and the way Bond responds is absolutely not sarcastic. Connery’s Bond may have been Fleming’s in DN and FRWL, but he was definitely Gardner’s Bond in YOLT.
Gardner’s Bond lives in a mid-80s ITV production filmed on video and shot for the most part in the Ukraine as stand-in for Washington, produced by the world-famous MicroGlobeOne production company.
Look for ‘Kent Spoon’ on Wikipedia for further information.
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