The announcement makes me feel guilty, because I know I could have done more to support print media in my time. Now it's too late.

Another of his best performances was in Chris Eyre's criminally underrated Skins, from 2003. A must watch if you can find it.

To be clear, I view TLD as a "soft reboot" where aspects of the previous continuity can exist in a general sense, but without much rigor, as it were. As I said, it's incredibly difficult to believe that Dalton and Moore are playing the same guy.

I don't think we actually disagree here. Events similar to OHMSS could still have happened to a younger Bond as portrayed by Dalton. It's hard to reconcile a late 50s Moore in AVTAK suddenly being so much younger in his next outing.

That was my gateway to Tolkien when I was a lad! I still love it to this day.

I don't know if this is controversial, but there are actually three separate Bond continuities.

1. Connery-Lazenby-Moore
2. Dalton-Brosnan
3. Craig

I think it's obvious from a close watching of The Living Daylights, in which M treats Bond as young and relatively inexperienced