I don’t know what side of the Atlantic that is, but no.

Scarlett Johansson has gotten a massive amount of criticism for claiming she should be able to play any part she wants, and I’m not sure I see how your argument is different.

You mention the politics of exclusion, but isn’t taking a character away from one group and giving it to another group also saying “you can’t/shouldn’t be a part of this?”

It can be two things? The fact that there’s an appetite for female-led action movies doesn’t in any way suggest that one of them should be Bond. The problem with “Why do we need to change James Bond” is that you are still basing your conclusion on the politics of exclusion. Like it or not James Bond (or Doctor Who or…

I don’t comment here any more, but if I did I would entirely agree with this assessment. Shut Up And Dance is absolutely fucking amazing. It is absolutely not misery for the lolz, and it’s this level of criticism that’s the primary reason I’m not here any more.

Have you not seen Never Say Never Again?

Counterpoint: The Spy Who Loved Me nailed the balance between a proper Bond movie and humour absolutely perfectly. It can be done, it just has to not be done badly.

Way ahead of you

Yeah, the T-800 would have been really proud of that “going off-line” final scene.

It seems everyone was.

This is also not the first show to bear the name Triangle

The Twilight Zone ran from 1959-1964. Which fine, is exactly five years, not more, but is worthy of an honourable mention at least.

She’s probably the most defensible part of the new ensemble.

Obligatory self-plug for Big Finish podcast of which I am the co-host.

I strongly disagree.

“That still doesn’t make any of these men true representations of the arrogant, haughty, cold-blooded, racist and misogynist upper-class super-spy of Ian Fleming’s novels.”

Just gonna leave this sitting here...

The Visitors is a top-ten 80's album so sure, why not? (As long as they include The Day Before You Came).

Very much seconded. Hugely under-rated.

I find him eminently defensible in the TV Movie - one of the vanishingly small list of things that are defensible in the TV Movie - but thanks to Kinja and the utter collapse of anything worthwhile on this site, I don’t comment here any more. So I won’t.