There are other factors you don’t take into consideration.
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Except that most of the box office for Bond usually comes from the rest of the world. For instance, Skyfall grossed $300m in the US and $800m in the rest of the world. For Spectre, it was $200m and $680m, etc. The franchise is EXTREMELY popular in Europe (especially the UK), in Australia, etc.
It’s not just FXX. It’s also that the animation company he has with Matt Thompson hasn’t managed to work on a successful animated show besides Archer.
I think that Adam Reed is still involved with the show, it’s just that he’s taken a backseat approach. He will contribute a few lines here and there, but he won’t rewrite a script to his tastes.
Skyfall was less a meditation on Craig’s Bond being too old than on the franchise getting old and supposedly out of touch with the current world. It was released for the 50th anniversary, and the story asked what was the point of having a professional assassin while a lot of things in the intelligence world now imply…
It wasn’t considered, because it hadn’t been written yet.
When Marceau is dead, the film loses all impetus. The fight with Renard sounds totally hollow.
Moore should have retired after FYEO, which would have made for a fine swan song. But EON Productions had very little choice because of Kevin McClory and Sean Connery finally finding a home to produce their Thunderball remake. Opposite Connery, any new face in the part for an official episode would have been slayed.…
They obviously tried to finally deliver with Spectre/NTTD the OHMSS/YOLT arc from the novels, the one that was bungled in the films, as they first shot a film version of YOLT that left out the revenge thing, then made a faithful adaptation of OHMSS, then had no reason to continue, with Connery back for one more film…
It’s always the actor who plays Bond who appears in the sequence, apart from the first three movies. Dr. No was a small budget affair, and they made the credits for cheap. They didn’t bother to call Sean Connery back and they used instead main stuntman (and Connery’s double) Bob Simmons. Then, the sequence was simply…
And for “Diamonds Are Forever”, the lyrics are quite suggestive, even more with Bassey’s performance. After all, these diamonds are meant to be held up, caressed, touched, stroked and undressed, all in succession. And, because of it, a few people were thinking... of cock.
The reprise of “Moonraker” during the end credits is indeed a disco arrangement.
No mention about the return of its spin-off The Walking Dead: World Beyond? At this point, WB looks like it is is written and acted to make the main show look competent in comparison.
Ritchie Coster has played Italian characters quite often in his career, he was lately Francisco Scaramucci, the mobster from Happy!. Due to this comedic part, I have even more difficulties to take him seriously.
It’s more a matter of John Barry skipping the occasional entry for a few reasons.
It was stuntman Bob Simmons, who was Connery’s main double.
He shot the bullet into the barrel (which also means that the bullet has to go through the entire back of the gun), and yet the blood drips from above. One of the small inconsistencies of this version.
I’ve just noticed that half the scripts this season are written by women. Outside of Shana Gohd, who had already been involved with Archer last year, they’re also all new to the show.
If she had been in poor health or simply exhausted in the months before she died, she could have asked for fewer lines in the season they were writing. Because, there’s very little in the script for the episodes that looks like filler material that they had to write because they didn’t record enough lines from Walter.
You should check Difficult People, created by Julie Klausner and also starring Billy Eichner, on Hulu. They only had three seasons, but they had a blast with mocking HBO, Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Grace and Frankie, Aaron Sorkin and the Duplass brothers.