So...

Disagree:

Fuckin’ THIS.

Seriously, and I say that - I hate pulling this “rank” - as what the Seppoes refer to as a “POC”.

I agree, and I think we’ve seen the reason play out for a long time now - given the size of budgets and the commitments studios have to undertake to make a proper tentpole, they’re scared to death to do anything new.

I’m not a Trekkie, but I found Discovery insufferable. Mickey Burnham is a fucking Mary Sue, right from the beginning where she gets locked in the brig for being too correct about something. Come on. 

It’s like if they come across a bunch of explosives and idiot Q throws a hand grenade into it and then declares “He blew us up.”

Not to mention the shitload who got wiped out at the beginning of The Living Daylights on Gibraltar.

What, you don’t like seeing Bond fall in love in under three minutes with girls on trains, before crying over them?

Mate, my entire fucking country had furry artwork as their Olympic mascots this year. Dearth of representation, my arse.

I would kill for Iannucci to write the dialogue.

No code words. Only safe words.

“YOU’RE THE SHITTEST JAMES BOND EVER! YOU’RE...DAVID NIVEN!”

Glad to see you’re enjoying the few weeks of your Cultural Studies 101 elective.

Either that Pakistani was wielding an artillery piece, or Marlin made his pistol.

To be fair, it works - fantastically - in CR because it’s the origin of Bond, and thus also the origin of the gun barrel sequence.

Wait, what about the bit where Q, tech genius (in the Apple Genius Bar™ mould it seems), plugs a fucking laptop from the villain directly into MI6's own network?!

What bits did you find appealing about the?

Wait, maybe we need to factor in the Dowd Handicap when it comes to ratin-