I'm with you. A big part of me loves Moore because he was James Bond for me for most of my childhood. When he brings a little bit of an edge, like in The Spy Who Loved Me, he's great. But his upper class twit act really doesn't fit in with the character.

You all seem like the sort of people that could appreciate my deep, deep desire for "Smiley's People" with Gary Oldman and Alfredson directing to actually happen.

Just a guess, but I think those fans took the last scene in Skyfall, where they explicitly made it seem like the beginning of a Connery/Moore movie, as a message that they were done filling out Bond's backstory and were just going to make straight spy films. So this seems like the filmmakers going backwards.

Yup, though that's including *all* of Connery's appearances. My list, from best to worst:
Connery from Dr. No to Thunderball
Craig
Dalton (though his movies sucked)
Connery from You Only Live Twice on when he was phoning it in
Moore
Brosnan
Lazenby

/pigeon does a double take

Just the seer we need in these troubled times. He or she has my vote in the primaries.

Definitely. It demonstrates his ultimate flaw as a ruler. He has no real use for grey areas, or the concept of the greater good. He's a pedant when it comes to the rules, and he's going to follow them pretty much no matter what. He understands military strategy but not politics, and it's no surprise that a…

Well, yes it does, if you think a character's motivations matter. He's not motivated to be King apart from it being his right by succession. The other King claimants are motivated by a desire for power, pretty much exclusively. Put another way, if Renly were the older brother, he wouldn't have murdered him, because…

I think that's more or less the accepted view of power in feudalism, with the caveat that your alliances and lower houses act as a check on overreaches and abuses of power.

"We'll always have vagina smoke monster."

He didn't murder Renly because he was an obstacle to Stannis. He murdered Renly because Renly claimed the throne, bypassing Stannis and breaking the rules of succession. He's motivated by adhering to those rules, whether or not they're bullshit in a larger context.

He's basically one of those guys whose commitment to his idea of duty and the Right Thing To Do transcends even his closest family connections.

I remember Poison Ivy. I'm sure the Wet Hot American Summer writers did.

"The Scarlet Pimpernell" from the early '80s with Jane Seymour and Anthony Andrews and Gandalf as the bad guy was taped off of our local PBS station, and our family watched it a lot. The really odd thing is that, because we didn't set the VCR to LP or whatever, it got to the end of the tape right in the middle of the…

My friend down the street had a Colecovision. The Smurfs game on Colecovision was pretty amazing. You'd die if you didn't jump over a fence, and you had to dodge a lot of hawks.

Yeah, Astrosmash was fucking boss.

Yeah, I loved Zorro and sword shit when I was a kid. ZTGB is such a bizarre movie. I found it funny, but I'm cringing just thinking about it now. That had to be one of Jessica Lange's first movies, right?

Definitely an upper midwest thing. My mom and grandma were from North Dakota, and cribbage is big in my family. I'm a California boy through and through.

My mom is a big musical fan, and we would tape them off of broadcast TV a lot. Paint Your Wagon was one of them we had, and probably the one I liked the most. The final scene where the town collapses and everything goes bonkers made me and my sisters laugh and laugh.

*Airhorn*