@cstross @fishidwardrobe Bond doesn't need to be based in reality more than maybe 10%. In fact, the losely scifi nature of his opponents and gadgets were what drew me to the movies when i was a kid.
Bond needs to be:
- larger than life
- smarter than life
- sexier than life
- luckier than life
- have cool tech
- fight the evil mastermind
- save world
- be more british than life.

None of those things require a penis.

@cstross @fishidwardrobe well, talking about bond sometime in the last 40 years without further specification means movie-bond for most people.
But i realize that even that is probably not enough, because there are distinct eras, and the most recent batch of vulnerable-bond/origin story is missing the mark (for my taste)

I'd welcome the older bonds up to 2000s or so. More superhero-comic than gritty drama.
More lighthearted.

@mavu @cstross @fishidwardrobe I feel the same.
Actually, I was just musing yesterday that the reboot was akin to the shift in Batman from Burton to Nolan, except they didn't go hard enough on the Nolan end. Lost me at Casino Royale - it was a perfectly good action/spy movie, but not the cartoonish super-hero stuff I grew up on.

Put a ripped lesbian in that role, though, and I'll definitely take another look.
...did I mention I'm a shallow tart? :)