Certainly more stable.

The best romance is friendship that catches fire.

EXTERIOR. DAY.

Bond regenerates.

Also that homosocial longing for your Patroclus can make you long to do things with a long sharp javelin.

Has anyone said, "Ladies Who Launch" yet...?

Okay, then:

Ladies Who Launch.

When my right-side Camry speaker went out in 1991, Rubber Soul was a whole 'nother album.

You can tell by the way I use my walk I'm not a seventies disco and pop icon. I merely talk.

Maximum alpha and pining for Patroclus.

"God, I miss him. I want to throw a javelin for some reason."

Oh, it's a SECURITY event.

So the National Guard is going to the Supreme Court?

The Daniel Craig run was pretty remarkable for its character arc. Pierce Brosnan took a run up to that, but Craig got to run the character from first kill to last breath, and pushed some interesting development into it.

And either comic genius or a grave mistake depending on what sort of nerd you are.

And, snark aside, the real question is whether you have more stories to tell with this character.

A good number of Bond films were just not good stories.

I think it's more than respectable to retire a character by saying, "He had no more development in him" and calling it a day.

"Good Lord, 007 Junior.... that's not how your father would have done it!"

"Yes, but my father was a cold-war era transphobic misogynistic heteronormative ponce, wasn't he?"

This is a boot.

This is a re-boot.

Yassss.

Which of us isn't nostalgic for the days of highwaymen on the two week journey from Philadelphia to Washington.

Government shutdown. They're on mission-critical stuff only, I think. There are plans to release it once they get a paycheck.

You could also try, I dunno, just spitballing, making retail affordable again.