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That's quite well said. I especially don't buy the notion that depicting Bond as a gaunt, burned out shell of a man (including showing the gray stubble of his beard) was "necessary" in order to depict the suave sophisticate. The opposite is true. I agree. It will make no sense, but neither does...

The filmmakers can choose to say "now that he no longer has mommy M, he'll be a mature, suave, successful agent with the 'right' attitude towards women". Or they can choose not to. Troubled antihero Bond seems to be someone they like to portray (and is making money for them). I'll ask why does...

I saw nothing at the end of Skyfall that compels the filmmakers to portray a suave, confident, successful Bond. All we really have is a new M and the introduction of the Moneypenny character. How does "suave, confident, successful" emerge from failure? That confuses me. You sound as if you don't...

That would seem to imply that the next film will show a "new" Bond who's really the "old" Bond--confident and successful. Somehow, I doubt that's what the filmmakers will go for.

I can certainly see your point. The Bond of the novels suffered a lot. For example, in the movie version of From Russia with Love, he escapes getting hit with the poison shoe tip, but in the novel, he DOES get hit, and winds up being hospitalized for a long time because of it. However, despite...