The thing with Pierce Brosnan's Bond and M was there was a kind of rivalry where she wanted to show she earned her place and he wanted to show his way still worked but she always had his back when he needed it and he had hers. The later ones didn't have this same rivalry/partnership. Though that was secondary for me in Bond films as my main focus was how was the relationship between Q and Bond and best Bond for that, Timothy Dalton.
I'd agree but the main reason for this is years of exposure and the modern Western writers have nothing to fall back on anymore so even with legacy franchises (LotR) they have to actually have talent and it shows they don't have it anymore. Those that have any talent are independent and making their own stuff online.
It's why they're trying desperately to edit old media because it's so superior to current stuff, the Star Wars prequels shits on the Disney stuff, Indiana is a Trilogy and ghostbusters only had 1,2 then afterlife.
I think switching M to a woman was more excusable because at the time gender and race swaps were still a novelty. It doesn't hurt the Judi Dench is an excellent actress as well.
We're now so saturated with girl power messaging and racial politics that it would be a surprise if the next Bond movie didn't portray all of MI6 as women and minorities.
I just remember the scene that line was in, she was trying to distance herself from her predecessor and say while she was different that didn't mean she wouldn't risk Bond's life for the mission, just that she wouldn't do it on a whim so was a bit more cautious.
The thing with Pierce Brosnan's Bond and M was there was a kind of rivalry where she wanted to show she earned her place and he wanted to show his way still worked but she always had his back when he needed it and he had hers. The later ones didn't have this same rivalry/partnership. Though that was secondary for me in Bond films as my main focus was how was the relationship between Q and Bond and best Bond for that, Timothy Dalton.
I'd agree but the main reason for this is years of exposure and the modern Western writers have nothing to fall back on anymore so even with legacy franchises (LotR) they have to actually have talent and it shows they don't have it anymore. Those that have any talent are independent and making their own stuff online.
It's why they're trying desperately to edit old media because it's so superior to current stuff, the Star Wars prequels shits on the Disney stuff, Indiana is a Trilogy and ghostbusters only had 1,2 then afterlife.
I think switching M to a woman was more excusable because at the time gender and race swaps were still a novelty. It doesn't hurt the Judi Dench is an excellent actress as well.
We're now so saturated with girl power messaging and racial politics that it would be a surprise if the next Bond movie didn't portray all of MI6 as women and minorities.
I just remember the scene that line was in, she was trying to distance herself from her predecessor and say while she was different that didn't mean she wouldn't risk Bond's life for the mission, just that she wouldn't do it on a whim so was a bit more cautious.