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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arbiter of Wyrms" data-source="post: 2067014" data-attributes="member: 18021">I've never read anything by Ian Fleming, and am not in any rush to.  I've got a long list of other stuff to read.  I did grow up on Bond movies, though, and have always just assumed that the name "James Bond" was issued to agent 007 by the British government when someone new took over the job.  A complete fake identity that gets recycled.  I never imagined that it was his real name, that even James doesn't lose sometimes, or that one secret agent could remain alive, healthy, undisfigured, and useful for 40+ years.  I guess I've always just believed that sometimes things go badly, even un-cinematically, for James, whereupon replacement is warranted.  That's the only way I could ever accept his periodically changing face and personality.  I assume the same about Q and M and the rest of the alpha-numeric series, too.  Honestly, didn't M used to be male?  Wasn't Q older in the Cold-war-era movies than he is today?Edit:  I just realized: Next time they know they're going to retire a Bond actor, I'd like to see James get offed.  It'd be a nice twist to see James face a villain who doesn't want to slowly torture him while giving away his secret plot, but just shoots him.  Now 006 and 009 have to come in and save the day.  The movie wraps up and for the next one, we get a new Bond.  I figured that this is sort of what happened to the Lazenby Bond at the end of "In Her Majesty's Secret Service." Who wants to go on doing a dangerous job of self-sacrifice if it's only going to end up getting your wife killed too?  Bond goes back to HQ and says "I quit" and is never heard from again.</blockquote>

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