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You really need to stop watching Fox News. It is poisoning your brain. No one other than Twitter grifters thinks the way you seem to think they do. - A Bond of

You really need to stop watching Fox News. It is poisoning your brain. No one other than Twitter grifters thinks the way you seem to think they do. - A Bond of color is probably an inevitability. - Bond is usually incredibly incompetent and succeeds in spite of himself through sheer luck.

asguy 5y ago
> You really need to stop watching Fox News. It is poisoning your brain. What’s the point of typing this out? When you write things like this do you think you’re going to convince anyone to change positions? Is it just to gain internet points? Imagine this as a response to your comment: > You really need to stop watching MSNBC. It is poisoning your brain. It’s like playing tennis. I’m replying because this type of stuff is so tiresome. It’s hard enough to avoid on the rest of the Internet; please don’t bring it to HN.
curtainsforus 5y ago
You agree with fox news on half of your points?
rejectedandsad 5y ago
The idea that he’s incredibly incompetent is revisionist. These movies aren’t deconstruction, and shouldn’t be. The fun is when he’s able to get out of tough situations in the spur of the moment (my favorites, like Goldfinger and For Your Eyes Only show him in credible danger several times). Interestingly, this is something the Mission Impossible series did perfectly in their last movie, better than almost all Bond movies. With that said, I really don’t think anybody is actually threatened by Bond being a white man. Like, people have lives to live.
- jhbadger 5y ago
  Although one thing that is true of the movies that is lampooned in the spy parody show "Archer", is that Bond doesn't seem to understand how to be a secret agent. Secret agents shouldn't go around drawing attention to themselves the way that Bond (and his parody Sterling Archer) do. And they certainly shouldn't go around introducing themselves using their real names!
  - rejectedandsad 5y ago
    The fact that he’s known seems to be inconsistent throughout the movies. Tiffany Case apparently knew who he was but not what he looked like, but a lot of other people had to look him up after giving his real name. He also does have a cover in some films, like St John Smythe in A View to a Kill

asguy 5y ago

> You really need to stop watching Fox News. It is poisoning your brain. What’s the point of typing this out? When you write things like this do you think you’re going to convince anyone to change positions? Is it just to gain internet points? Imagine this as a response to your comment: > You really need to stop watching MSNBC. It is poisoning your brain. It’s like playing tennis. I’m replying because this type of stuff is so tiresome. It’s hard enough to avoid on the rest of the Internet; please don’t bring it to HN.

curtainsforus 5y ago

You agree with fox news on half of your points?

rejectedandsad 5y ago

The idea that he’s incredibly incompetent is revisionist. These movies aren’t deconstruction, and shouldn’t be. The fun is when he’s able to get out of tough situations in the spur of the moment (my favorites, like Goldfinger and For Your Eyes Only show him in credible danger several times). Interestingly, this is something the Mission Impossible series did perfectly in their last movie, better than almost all Bond movies. With that said, I really don’t think anybody is actually threatened by Bond being a white man. Like, people have lives to live.

jhbadger 5y ago
Although one thing that is true of the movies that is lampooned in the spy parody show "Archer", is that Bond doesn't seem to understand how to be a secret agent. Secret agents shouldn't go around drawing attention to themselves the way that Bond (and his parody Sterling Archer) do. And they certainly shouldn't go around introducing themselves using their real names!
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  The fact that he’s known seems to be inconsistent throughout the movies. Tiffany Case apparently knew who he was but not what he looked like, but a lot of other people had to look him up after giving his real name. He also does have a cover in some films, like St John Smythe in A View to a Kill