Ruin Explorer
Legend
I think it's definitely fair to see them as sequels where it appears to be the same Bond. Continuity-wise, Connery, Lazenby, Moore and Dalton Bonds are the same guy (c.f. some refs like Moore-Bond going to the grave of Lazenby-Bond's wife - in a movie that was meant to be Dalton-Bond - they'd be trying to get Dalton to play Bond since 1966! And first one written specifically for Dalton was For Your Eyes Only, which of course Moore did), so are theoretically all sequels after the first, then Brosnan is kinda in his own continuity, and Craig is definitely in a separate continuity, so I think sequels could be considered either within those three continuities, or for each actor separately maybe.I don't know if people even think of it as a sequel anymore, but From Russia With Love is a step up from Dr No in the Eon's 007 franchise.