Amazon’s “Gen V” is delightfully crude, gory, gross and darkly funny, just like its parent show “The Boys”.
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Wait so that was the last episode of Ahsoka?
Yep.
It’s every bit as ludicrous as you’d expect.
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I’ve seen speculation about a second season but writer’s strike yadda yadda.
Either way it’s pretty clear all these characters will be featured moving forward.
Loki S2E1:
Oh yeah, that’s right. Loki puts every other MCU show to shame. I remember now.
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Enjoy it while it lasts.
I forget the actors name Whois starring as Kraven, but he’s rumored as the odds on favorite.
But rewatched Casino Royale recently and damn is Daniel Craig good.
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I could get behind Hiddleston as Bond. I understand producers rejected him because he wasn’t “tough enough”, but the real Bond isn’t so much tough as he is a sociopath. Fleming described him as “looking like Hoagy Carmichael, but cold and ruthless.” That’s Hiddleston.
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I just feel like he’s a little old for the role.
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[Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan enter the chat]
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Craig really got this. I think Dalton had it too.
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Moore was certainly too old, and he was a fucking cartoon.
Hiddleston is what, early 40s? That could work for a few films.
Dalton was the closest to the literary Bond. I thought he was fantastic, even if those films weren’t the best.
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Living Daylights was average. License to Kill is barely a Bond film - you could replace him with any 80s action cop and it plays the same.
They were poorly written and directed films, but Dalton nailed the character.
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The tragic irony of the Dalton era was that - after the bad caricature of Bond with which the Moore era ended - they made the deliberate choice to go for a more cold and gritty Bond, more akin to the character in the novels. This didn’t go down well with audiences due to it being too big a shift in tone and too far ahead of its time in that regard.
So they went with Pierce Brosnan, and his era collapsed so hard after he drove an invisible car to a tsunami-surfing event that they had to make a tonal shift. So they made the deliberate choice to go for a more cold and gritty Bond, more akin to the character in the novels…
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If they had made Goldeneye with Dalton, it would have been almost too perfect. Great script, but they just had the wrong actor.
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It’s very much like changing coaches/managers where you always swing to the extremes. But what made Craig work was that doing it as a reboot totally prepared audiences for the tonal shift.
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Agreed. The re-boot made the difference.
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