Not Dalton. Craig. I always muddle DDDDael Craig withTimothy DDDDalton; the "D"s confuse m for some reason

The more operatic sense of melodrama; personalizing relationships (enemies & friends) - esp. retconning (a comic book term!) Blofeld as his stepbrother; the more emotional inner turmoil; the more complex exterior moral dilemmas. (I mean, Bond was always comic book/superhero a bit, but still...)
3/3

Blaxploitation, Martial Arts, good ol' boy hijinxs, space opera; villains go from Cold War, drug lords, terrorists, cybercrime, etc. Theme songs: current pop stars. All mapped onto the same-ish formula/Act structure.
A pop culture timeline.
And I'd argue Dalton films infl'nc'd by...superheroes! 2/3

Yrs ago (midst race riots in var. nations) an article argued integration failed while acknowledging Canada hadn't had riots n treated Multiculturalism as a genuine policy. Rather than see that as pertinent, it dismissed CDN as irrelevant outlier.
They can always "prove" by cherry picking evidence

.. to be Bond's Kobayashi Maru (to ref another enduring franchise) or dilemme cornélien (if ya wanna get hi-falutin') but I feel that stories/story choices like that (and the Outer Limits ep) raise interesting questions about how diff people view these kind of dilemmas/dramatic concepts. 3/3

Reminds me of ep of Canadian #OuterLimits re-boot (circa 1990s) where guys dying from radiation go on a suicide mission and my brother and I thought: but if they're dying already, the fact that it's a suicide mission is kind of irrelevant. I dunno. I get that in No Time to Die they wanted it...2/3

..knifing and '70s era Creley could stealth slip a stiletto into Clearcut Greene. The others concede.
Then scary things start happening and the game is interrupted. (Also I think Doyle was supposed to be a psychic/medium)
About then I drifted off to sleep...
Well, Doc, am I normal?
4/4

Doyle offers Donald Sutherland; Chen counters John Vernon. Gee Graham Greene; the others balk but she cites Clearcut. Kreuk (still protesting) says Jack Creley. They scoff. No way Creley could win a knife fight against Clearcut Graham Greene; Kreuk says they never specified a "fight" just...3/4

Kreuk's character doesn't know what it is (she seems less of the group); they explain it's celeb/can-do: in this case: a dead Canadian actor who could knife another. Gee opens with Gordon Pinsent; Kreuk protests she doesn't understand the game then blurts out Ken Welsh (the others seem impressed)2/4

..wrote the jokes, maybe begged the director to let him flesh-out a character who was otherwise just "the guy with glasses" (and the director said OK, but I'm not re-blocking or slowing the scene for it). Further to my theory? The jokes *do* feel tonally consistent with Black's later scripts!
2/2

Sorry: Auguste Levasseur - Chef des Clacquers (singular chef :)

The play: quite good. Dicken-esque w/ star-crossed lovers and organized crime. Written by Mike Harris with cast including Kenneth Cranham (one of THE great radio-actor voices) and Ayesha Antoine (who I've mentioned before liking). Radio is this wild parallel uni full of "movies" and "series" 2/2