Rant 25
I Pity the Fool
It’s been awhile since my last rant, and the reason for this is I’ve been a little dejected about Bond since the Sony Hacks.
The hacks have given us a bit of a peek behind the curtain at EON as it were, and what I saw really disturbed me. Believe me I never once was under any delusion that any of our ranting and feet stomping was going to have any effect on the policies at the studio, but I felt things couldn’t sink any lower until I saw what they have in store for us in SP. So I’ve been in a bit of a funk as of late when it comes to Bond and what’s in store for the series.
Now who is the “fool” I referring to in the title? A few months back I spotted a couple of articles that were penned for the MI6-HQ web site which I have posted links to below. However for those of you who don’t wish to read a load of blind optimism I’ll paraphrase.
Speculative 1 2 3 4 5
The author begins by stating they have not read the leaks nor do the plan to do so, fair enough, but he then commences to write five articles of speculation as to what will constitute the plot of SP based on the official EON press releases. Quite frankly the author makes a bit of a fool of himself spouting on about what “may be” in the film when it’s been spilled all over the internet for all to see.
OK so why do I pity him? Well I used to be that guy. Not this particular guy of course, but like him. When Craig was announced as Bond in 2005 I felt it was a poor choice of casting, but it wasn’t the end of the world, because I figured they would continue on “business as usual” then I saw CR, and was a bit disappointed, but I bought the EON line that this was “how Bond begins” a “one off” an “experiment” a sort of LTK for the 21st century. So I let it go and set my sights on the next film, of course what I got was QOS. OK I told myself they felt there was more story to tell, not that I saw any of it on the screen, but they must have felt so. OK so once again I looked to the future “This time” I told myself “This time it’s going to be right, no origin story, no brooding, no “grit”, just back down to business, off on a mission, to a far off exotic locale, to battle an OTT egomaniac.” So I buried my head in the sand to avoid spoilers… and I got SF.
At that point I flung my hands in the air and gave up, the silver lining is about that time I found this forum and realized I was not alone. So back to our friend the author, I pity him because when he sees SP, and learns Blofeld is Bond’s long lost foster brother, he will come to the sad realization as I did three years ago, that Bond is no more or at least on a long, long hiatus, and all his excitement will come crashing down around him as it did for me. Or worse still, he won’t realize it, and continue to fool himself that these are in fact “Bond films” and this is some sort of step forward for the franchise and continue to live in denial swallowing the garbage EON continues to feed us.