Skyfall, Yuletide
Dec. 9th, 2012 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyphomandraLast night I saw Skyfall, which was enjoyable if overlong and moderately incoherent. I was heartened in the opening chunk by the actual mention of first aid techniques - Bond attempts to stop the bleeding on some guy who only gets to gasp meaningfully - which was why I was all the more disappointed at the complete lack of any sort of medical treatment in the final sequence with M, where apparently she bleeds to death from a gash on her hip without any attempt at even a bandaid or, more pointedly, without any actual signs of shock other than the Hollywood stagger and fade out. Possibly there was some sort of field of bad decision-making operating, given that despite the vast amounts of light from an exploding house she and Kincaid not only given away their position by using a torch, but failed to look behind them at any stage once Silva started coming after them, nicely silhouetted by the above exploding house.
In my version, M would stab Silva, and probably fake her own death in order to drink tequila and sleep with pool boys on a beach somewhere. Something, anyway, that would justify the "death of Bond" sequence that really didn't work for me - I think they were trying to go somewhere with Bond feeling betrayed by M, or M making bad decisions, but it was all a bit unclear as to how bad M's decisions actually were (personally, I thought she stuffed up over the revelation of agent secret identities, but didn't have a problem with her authorising the shot on Bond). Lying about Bond's fitness for duty (and who does word association these days?) had no consequences apart from an attempt to boost up the audience suspense and was all rapidly destroyed by Bond's sudden improvement in aim, etc.
I would also personally not carry out top secret need-to-know concealment plans on a massive heads-up display in an open plan office with glass walls, but then again I'm not actually sure what everyone else in MI6 does. Possibly polish the walls.
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rhuia - I would read dysfunctional Bond/Silva from their younger spy days, but am unconvinced by any other options. Explain to me your thing for M 2.0.)
Anyway. It did leave me with a desire to re-read Charlie Higson's Young Bond books, which I rather like, but it will have to wait because a) they're in a box somewhere and b) I am currently writing (panicking) over Yuletide. As always, I have way too much plot, not nearly enough writing, and am inexplicably on volume 19 of 20th Century Boys (not even remotely my assignment). Onwards.
In my version, M would stab Silva, and probably fake her own death in order to drink tequila and sleep with pool boys on a beach somewhere. Something, anyway, that would justify the "death of Bond" sequence that really didn't work for me - I think they were trying to go somewhere with Bond feeling betrayed by M, or M making bad decisions, but it was all a bit unclear as to how bad M's decisions actually were (personally, I thought she stuffed up over the revelation of agent secret identities, but didn't have a problem with her authorising the shot on Bond). Lying about Bond's fitness for duty (and who does word association these days?) had no consequences apart from an attempt to boost up the audience suspense and was all rapidly destroyed by Bond's sudden improvement in aim, etc.
I would also personally not carry out top secret need-to-know concealment plans on a massive heads-up display in an open plan office with glass walls, but then again I'm not actually sure what everyone else in MI6 does. Possibly polish the walls.
(also,
rhuia - I would read dysfunctional Bond/Silva from their younger spy days, but am unconvinced by any other options. Explain to me your thing for M 2.0.) Anyway. It did leave me with a desire to re-read Charlie Higson's Young Bond books, which I rather like, but it will have to wait because a) they're in a box somewhere and b) I am currently writing (panicking) over Yuletide. As always, I have way too much plot, not nearly enough writing, and am inexplicably on volume 19 of 20th Century Boys (not even remotely my assignment). Onwards.
