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⌈ Secret Post #2235 ⌋

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[Transformers More Than Meets the Eye #13]

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[Agent Romanov/Black Widow, MCU]

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[Richard Armitage]

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[James Bond: Skyfall]

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[Frankie Boyle]

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[Michael Trucco & Sandra Hess]

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[Injustice: Gods Among Us]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, The Sith Lords]

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[The Following]

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[Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Jennifer Connelly]

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[Castle]

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[BBC's Robin Hood]

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[The Most Popular Girls in School]

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[Legend of Korra]

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[Steam Powered Giraffe]

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[James Bond: Skyfall]

This is the old Q.

This. Makes me think the OP is young, or not familiar with the older James Bond flicks.

I'm neither, actually. Desmond Llewelyn's Q was great, but I don't miss him in the role in the same sense because he passed away as opposed to being replaced, the way Cleese was. Llewelyn also got a fantastic send off and exit line in the movie itself.

He is also the best Q.

YES. (With all due respect to Mr Cleese)

I was gonna say! <3 old Q, accept no imitations!

Yes. I mean, I like John Cleese, but no-one did longsuffering, cranky genius like Desmond Llewelyn.

This is exactly what I would've posted, had I been online a bit earlier. Well said.

One of them, anyway.

Yes, do pay attention double-oh-seven, please.

Cleese was R.

Cleese was jokingly referred to as R because he was Q's unnamed assistant. He was officially Q and took over as the head of the section when Llewelyn died.

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Thank you for saying it before I did. John Cleese was R. (And not as good as proper Q, IMO)

I guess they should have kept the proper one artificially alive for you, then, so that you wouldn't have to deal with different actors in the role.

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Fandom may look preoccupied, but I imagine many like the new Q and miss the old one.

Well...this is like saying 'does anyone miss Ian Holm' because they're all talking about Freeman Hobbit. It's just a new series, people are interested in what is new. Many of them were not fans of Bond before. I'm sure there are plenty who still love the old.

John Cleese was a Q.

http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Q

There have been several.

John Cleese was a Q.

now that would be a spectacular plot for a Star Trek episode.

exactly what I was thinking.

I guess it just goes with the Bond franchise. I also miss the old Bond(s) - I grew up with Brosnan's Bond and I miss him, but I still like Craig. I loved the old M's, but I can't wait to see Ralph Fiennes' M in the next movies. At least this is the case for the "old" Bond fans. I feel like a lot of the new Skyfall fans haven't even seen any of the old Bond movies and just don't care.

I feel your pain. I grew up with the Roger Moore films and it took me a while to adjust to Daniel Craig because the tone of the franchise changed so dramatically with Casino Royale. It was more like the books, which I love, but not what I was used to seeing. I was really excited when the Bond fandom exploded with activity thanks to Skyfall but that waned quickly when I realized that almost no one had watched any of the other movies. Most of the ones that did only watched the Craig!Bond ones :( I love the franchise as a whole and wish there were more James Bond fans who participated in fandom instead of just Craig!Bond or 00Q fans.

ayrt

I absolutely HATED both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. They were good action movies, but shitty Bond movies. I was so relieved that Skyfall was excellent and just felt more like Bond to me, and it finally reconciled me with Craig's Bond. I ship 00Q, too, but it really makes me feel a bit alone when I try to talk about Bond in general to my fellow shippers and they only know the Craig movies. I know that especially the old Bonds are kind of cheesy if you watch them now for the first time, but some of them are still damn good. And Brosnan's Bond was just brilliant.

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That is the thing, people keep saying it mosre like the books, but it isn't. Bond was a charming sociopath in the books (pretty much Connery exactly), Danny!Bond is just a thug. A shaved chimp in a suit, and it doesn't even come across as a decent suit either, or a decent shave come to that. They are cut out and paste action movies. You could change a few lines and it'd be a Die hard movie for fuck's sake. Actually Die Hard 4 was a great Bond movie. I hope Craig leaves the franchise soon so we can get some decent Bond films (the deliberate trashing of the DB5 or the potshots at the old Q in Shitfall was particularly mean spirited). Dark and gritty is so over for me now. I'm ready for light and campy again.

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You do realise that the Daniel Craig Bond movies are technically prequals therefore new Q is old Q, right?

Reboot =/= prequel