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Re: What Did You Watch? 2022-06-16 (Friday)

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From: art...@alum.calberkeley.org (Arthur Lipscomb)
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2022-06-16 (Friday)
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by: Arthur Lipscomb - Sun, 19 Jun 2022 05:23 UTC

On 6/18/2022 8:56 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 2022-06-19 02:45:53 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>
>> Ian J. Ball <IJBall@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>
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>>
>> Seriously if they actually do this remake of FIREFLY they keep talking
>> about they should definitely be talking to her.
>
> I checked the "No Time To Die" Wiki article, and was shocked that there
> was no talk at all of a spinoff flick based around de Armas - it seems
> like a total no brainer.
>

Have they ever done any spin off from James Bond?

>>> Beyond that, this film kills off pretty much everyone associated
>>> with this particular Bond film series that they can get away with (I'm
>>> not sure how the current M survived!!), and introduce a "new" "007"
>>> (Lashana Lynch, from "Captain Marvel" and the short-lived "Still
>>> Star-Crossed" TV series).
>>> I noticed the scene Arthur referenced - there is clearly a portrait
>>> of Dame Judy Dench "M", and then another portrait of another "M", which
>>> I guess is of the 1970s-era "M".
>>> The flick ends with "James Bond Will Return" - I'll believe it when
>>> I see it! ;p
>>
>> That really really really really really should have said “007 will
>> return”
>
> That, or they should have explicitly set up that there are *multiple*
> different "James Bonds" over the years, in the same way that I want the
> "Transporter" franchise to acknowledge that there are multiple different
> "Frank Martins"!
>

I was not aware of that. I like to think James Bond is actually a Time
Lord. That's why over the years the other actors got older while he
simply regenerated.

>>> What did you watch?
>>

I'll do a two-day tomorrow.

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Re: What Did You Watch? 2022-06-16 (Friday)	Arthur Lipscomb