On His Majesty's Secret Service (1)

[hwrnmnbsol]

“What do you think?” asked Major Stackpole eagerly. He stood with his companion outside the chain-link fence that surrounded the obstacle course. It had rained the last three evenings and the course had seen heavy use; it was a sea of churned mud. A few men were running the obstacles, climbing slick ropes and crawling under barbed wire. They

Comments

[mcroft]

Hooray!

[ipslore]

That second scene feels a lot like a 'Doctor Who' cold open.

[mister_borogove]

Have you been reading Todd Alcott's movie breakdowns? He just started doing Skyfall and I think he did the other Daniel Craig Bonds a while back. http://www.toddalcott.com

[hwrnmnbsol]

This story comes out of a gripe-fest on FaceBook wherein friends and I bemoaned the drift of Bond movies away from its source material, and generally the group's opinion was that the Craig Bond movie we all wanted to see was a throwback movie, with a grittier, cruder Bond story set in the days when the original books were set. I thought it might be interesting to go even a little further back than that; there are Young Bond stories in the canon, but to my knowledge nothing from post-war up until the events of Casino Royale in '53.