How do you see the Bond timeline?

MilleniumForce · May 2015

Do you see it as the same character? Do you consider a change of actor as a mini reboot? New timeline? Do you see the films as taking place in a different order they were released in?

Personally, I consider The Living Daylights as a Mini Reboot. So my timeline is DN-AVTAK, then TLD to DAD. However, there are some important events that I consider have happened in the Dalton/Brosnan universe, such as marriage to Tracy. In a way, I guess, TLD to DAD follow on from the books.

Matt S · May 2015

I see it very simply, the way I believe it was intended to be: DN to DAD is one timeline with all actors playing the same Bond, and CR started a new, unrelated timeline. M, Q and Felix (to some extent) are the same between Moore and Dalton, and when Felix mentions that Bond had previously been married it was a reference to his marriage to Tracy 20 years earlier.

O07 · May 2015

Dn/Frwl/Gf/Tb/Yolt/Daf

Ohmss

Lald/Tmwtgg/Tswlm/Mr/Fyeo/Op/Avtak

Tld/Ltk

Ge/Tnd/Twine/Dad

Cr/Qos/Sf/Sp/B25

Gassy Man · May 2015

Matt S wrote:

I see it very simply, the way I believe it was intended to be: DN to DAD is one timeline with all actors playing the same Bond, and CR started a new, unrelated timeline. M, Q and Felix (to some extent) are the same between Moore and Dalton, and when Felix mentions that Bond had previously been married it was a reference to his marriage to Tracy 20 years earlier.

I agree, and that's how I imagine it was intended. The rest is reconciling the changes in style and how Bond never really ages.

O07 · May 2015

Gassy Man wrote:

Matt S wrote:

I see it very simply, the way I believe it was intended to be: DN to DAD is one timeline with all actors playing the same Bond, and CR started a new, unrelated timeline. M, Q and Felix (to some extent) are the same between Moore and Dalton, and when Felix mentions that Bond had previously been married it was a reference to his marriage to Tracy 20 years earlier.

I agree, and that's how I imagine it was intended. The rest is reconciling the changes in style and how Bond never really ages.

Bond was 18 in Dr. No and 58 in Die Another Day?

I think they missed a trick in not having TLD as a more obvious re-boot. It is a re-boot of sorts.

Matt S · May 2015

O07 wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

Matt S wrote:

I see it very simply, the way I believe it was intended to be: DN to DAD is one timeline with all actors playing the same Bond, and CR started a new, unrelated timeline. M, Q and Felix (to some extent) are the same between Moore and Dalton, and when Felix mentions that Bond had previously been married it was a reference to his marriage to Tracy 20 years earlier.

I agree, and that's how I imagine it was intended. The rest is reconciling the changes in style and how Bond never really ages.

Bond was 18 in Dr. No and 58 in Die Another Day?

I think they missed a trick in not having TLD as a more obvious re-boot. It is a re-boot of sorts.

Michael Wilson wanted to reboot with TLD, but Cubby was against that. With M, the Minister of Defence and Q all treating Bond exactly the same as they did Moore's Bond, it's hard for me to picture TLD as a reboot. Plus, General Gogol is mentioned as being formerly the head of the KGB, which he was in Moore's films. They just continued on from Moore's Bond with a different tone. There's no reboot. Bond is not supposed to age, hence no remarks about Bond being old in Moore's later films. He's like the Simpsons and hardly changes. Only Daniel Craig's Bond changes.

Thunderpussy · May 2015

I don't bother

) Bond is Bond.

Barbel · May 2015

At 41 seconds here is how I see the Bond timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8w95xIdH4o

Thunderpussy · May 2015

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AlphaOmegaSin · May 2015

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When watching any of the first 20 Bond Films, I pay no Attention to the Timeline or Continuity. It's not whats important when watching a Bond Adventure -{

Matt S · May 2015

AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

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When watching any of the first 20 Bond Films, I pay no Attention to the Timeline or Continuity. It's not whats important when watching a Bond Adventure -{

It's definitely not important, but I appreciate it when previous missions are referenced, like the items in Bond's desk in OHMSS.

AlphaOmegaSin · May 2015

And the various References to Tracy -{

Thunderpussy · May 2015

In Octopussy Bond expresses his love of a certain Country music singer ....
..... " I prefer Cash !".

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How do you see the Bond timeline?

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