@Desslok @WetOREO l guess all future Mystery Science Theater 3000 releases will not be covered on TR because they are not released on that god-like home video service: blu-ray.

That's why it's hard to recruit OO7's. MI6 has to wait for a qualified person actually named James Bond to be born and grow up, preferably as an orphan.

Some confusion was avoided, for Die Another Day, a scene was planned with Sean Connery as Bond's dad. There was talk about have the gamekeeper at Skyfall played by Connery, but Mendes thought that was a bad idea (and I doubt Sir Sean would come out of retirement).

@Apocalyptacos Yes, he was a newbie in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace takes place in the same week (literally 5 minutes after CR), and now he´s an old man, this makes no sense. Apparently Goldfinger and every other Bond adventure happened during the 4 year gap.

@rabidronnie @Lithroe Q wasn't awesome I'm sorry to say, but was a great contrast to Craig.  I've been enjoying Craig so far, but this is his most "Bond" like portrayal of the character thus far.  In my not so humble opinion, it hues closer to that of the books.

@Gallen_Dugall @jonap Bummer. 

@clone_boy99 @jonap I tried to watch this at Halloween and i wanted to become a zombie...it was not a good movie at all.

@Timely-Tardis-Lego @aphthakid but then you'll miss out on the Doctor Whooves post!

@Hmmm... @aphthakid I remember a bit where Watson said "Holmes, this is for eye surgery". I think I read once that they used cocaine for that sort of thing.

@Hmmm... @aphthakid

Yes, Downey's version is truer to the book version. He's more physical, as Holmes was wont to be. He's an addict, as Holmes was in the stories. He's not afraid to use a gun, which Holmes also had no qualms about. It's true that Downey's Holmes doesn't entirely look the part (mostly because he's unshaved and a bit messy), but he nails the personality and character traits. 

The problem is that in the 1940s Hollywood (and the U.K.) made Sherlock Holmes pictures that stereotyped Holmes as the doddering old fuddy-duddy in the deerstalker cap, puffing up his cheeks saying queer things like "Elementary, my dear Watson! Elementary!" (A line that is never spoken in the books).  He was a sanitized caricature of a proper Englishman turned detective. I never liked that version of Holmes, and unfortunately that's the one that was copied for decades to come. In a way, that portrayal of Holmes is as racist as early Hollywood Charlie Chan pictures were. 

Cumberbatch's version is also awesome, but he's a modern Holmes. He's not the same thing. If you want a Holmes that is most like the one in the Strand stories, the Guy Ritchie version is damned close-- Though they do inject a touch more action and humor into the stories to make them interesting for a feature film. 

Jeremy Brett is a fine actor, but the Holmes he played was based on the doddering old lump from the classic movies, and not necessarily true to the books. 

And most of all, I like that both the new film Watson and the Sherlock version of Watson both abandoned the idea that Watson was a fat, old, perpetually-astounded man with a walrus mustache and a bowler hat. In the books he wasn't old, he wasn't fat, and he was actually pretty physically capable when things got rough. He was a skilled marksman, too. 

If you want a cool Sherlock Holmes variation, check out Arrow/Caliber Comics' Baker Street. In it, the Sherlock character is a young punk woman in 1980s London, and the Watson character is an American student, also female. It's pretty good. 

@Kozmik_Pariah

<blockquote>Perhaps in A Game of Shadows, we’ll see more elation from Holmes.</blockquote>

Or maybe just more 'splosions instead.

@Kozmik_Pariah @aphthakid neat