That would be Elaine May or Carrie Fisher’s embarrassing first draft of that joke.

The 20% more absurd parody version of “it’s my psychics’ fault I failed the bar exam” doesn’t exist.

I barely tracked the continuity even within the Craig films (when Seydoux showed up in NO TIME I was like "oh right, she was in the last one I guess") but still regularly showed up for them, and I think I'm fairly typical in that way among general moviegoing audiences.

Do an adaptation of this tweet:

The Harkaway thread (and replies) I QT’d is worth reading independent of the article because it gets into some of the actual problems facing a relaunch of the Bond franchise, principally: what the hell is the take now that you’ve just done dour, but going full-fun doesn’t remotely read the room?

If the current Bond writers really are sitting around trying to figure out how to explain away the ending of No Time To Die they need new writers.

You know what reboot of a legendary decades-long franchise did okay? CASINO ROYALE, MY GOOD BITCH

Actually the fact that he got KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON north of 150 million is even more impressive, given that it's an hour longer than OBAA and doesn't make even the slightest gesture at showing the audience a good time.

(I know OBAA's budget was huge and they might not make it back, but I feel like that's the studio's problem. The point is it's clearly very popular and in a sustained way, and with a movie like this in 2025 that's pretty striking.)

(At this point you have to conclude Shannon and Whigham love working together. It's just funny because you never expect to see them in the same thing because most movies or TV shows only need one of That Guy.)