In the space of a couple of movies I've gone from: "Oh no, this is terrible casting" to "wait, this is genius."
"Worthington, we're being attacked by giant bats!"
And they only have to pay him with marmalade too.
"Security - release the badgers."
Agreed, I was not fond of him very much in Skyfall but he turned out to be one of my more liked aspects of Spectre. In fact, most (maybe all) of Spectre's funny moments involve him.
shareI, for one, am quite glad they went in the opposite direction from "classic" Q -- the humorously crotchety old man. There will only be one Desmond Llewelyn and I say leave "classic" Q to his portrayal.
Wishaw is a great Q for the modern era.
Send her to the snakes!
"Classic" Q only became classic because they kept Desmond for 36 years and everybody remembers and loves him as he was in the 90s (his 80s). For most of the franchise, he was just a middle-aged MI6 officer, increasingly there for comic relief only, and (let's face it) not so much older than, say, Roger Moore.
That being said, it would be highly unlikely in reality to keep a public servant until he is 85 years old, and especially not even promoting him even once over 36 years if he is that indispensable.
In the novels, I think it was "Dr. No", Major Boothroyd was described as being about Bond's age or slightly younger, which fits in with him being a lower rank (Major vs Commander). Now we don't know if Whishaw's Q is meant to be another (rebooted) incarnation of Major Boothroyd, but being in his mid-30s, he might well be a Major. So yes, I'm fine with a youngish Q, who under the circumstances is far more credible than employing another octogenarian dragged out of retirement to portray a grandfatherly electronics wizard.
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Verily I say unto thee..in this PC ridden world we exist in it won't be long before we see Q in his present form woken in his bedroom by a phone call and as the camera pulls back we see Felix Leiter in his present incarnation lying beside him. This would tick so many PC boxes that no one would dare criticise it for fear of being taken shackled to the thought police.
shareYour contribution is yet one more time totally unconnected to the subject of the thread and instead concentrating on your momentary obsession, which is "PC". And the fact that you're celebrating that obsession so thoroughly also shows that there is no "thought police", or you would have been taken away long ago. Most likely in a straightjacket.
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Choose to guess what you like but stop boring us with your manic-obsessive tripe that regularly has nothing to do with any given thread. Like here.
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Ceterum censeo OCTOPUSSY esse delendam.