Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "No Time To Die - Goodbye, Mr Bond" video.

  1. Have you ever considered THE DRINKER FIXES the retirement of James Bond? Ground Rules: Be respectful. - Have him promoted to M. Show him transitioning to a more suitable role for someone who is no longer young. - You could even check yet more diversity boxes, putting him in a wheelchair after having sacrificed the use of at least one leg to an injury in the line of duty - The new 007 could even be a protege', giving Bond some agency in his transition. Ground Rules: Make him a resource to be valued, rather than an obstacle to overcome - Have him communicate with the new 007, giving valuable advice, possibly even in action. - Have him lay down some ground rules he learned the hard way, and have the new 007 flirt with learning them the hard way too. If you must poke holes in or fun at his legend: - Make it about how he overcame setbacks, to encourage his protege. A story or two about how his initial plan to seduce his way through a problem gets shot down, forcing him to improvise, could be fun. - Show how the new 007 has different skills, which leads her to find problems he found difficult to be easy; but remember that similarly, some things he found easy, she should find difficult. (Like direct hand-to-hand confrontation against trained fighting men twice her size.) - Q designed his wheelchair. (But use some restraint, don't fall too far down into slapstick.) If one result of the story is to explore how to establish respect between the old and the new, with them accomplishing common goals by working together, that could actually serve an extremely useful purpose in this day and age.
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