Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for May 01, 2021

He’ll be lucky to make George Lazenby.

Bond, Jimmy Bond. Famous spy? Head of SMERSH? No, seriously I am big in the spy world, no one knows me I’m so good.

Connery was the best, Moore was the worst. (IMHO)

BTW does anybody remember Maxwell Smart?

Adam should get Clayton to read Len Deighton’s Bernard Samson series – Hook, Line, Sinker; Game, Set, Match; etc. Also the works of John Le Carré. Then Clayton would have more of an understanding of what real spies really do.

Spoiler: it’s pretty grotty and boring for the most part.

Not really setting the bar all that high, huh?

Clayton is quite the 007 aficionado!

Pierce Brosnan is my favorite, but I’m aware that puts me in the minority.

Jenna Colman for Jane Bond.

Don’t dis Dalton! He was a good Bond. Moore was too campy.

Always shoot for the best and aim for center mass…..

For me , Sean Connery first, then Daniel Craig

David Niven doesn’t get a nod? He was the first movie “Bond”.

Yes Clayton. Lets hope your mother doesnt find out about your plan. The spying with your dad? Even it was Connery Roger fault. Or Timothy Dalton bond.

Go for Dalton, kid. Moore was the bottom of the barrel.

Sean all the way. ♥

My dad is a spy

I"m with Clayton on this one. Connery or Moore.

I’m also a spy. My work is so super secret, that most of the time, even I don’t know what I’m doing.

Moore was good when he took it seriously, which means that he was good about 10% of the time. Connery was the iconic one, of course, but Dalton would be my second-favorite. He was basically Connery without the rough edges, and it’s a shame that real-life circumstances around the franchise ended up limiting him to two outings. But I’d put him right behind Connery, without a doubt. Brosnan was good once he aged out of prissiness and into a somewhat toughened version of himself, but that still puts him in the same ballpark as Moore.

I thought Timothy Dalton was great, better than Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore.

Okay, I said I wouldn’t reprise my Bond comparison that I previously published.But from memory – for the most part – here is a segment of it for your enjoyment, or at the least maybe some (not so much) critical thinking for the cartoonish illiterati – including myself. (chuckle)

Does anyone here even recall Roger Moore in his role of Simon Templar in the “original” TV series, “The Saint?” I believe this particular role brought him to the attention of the Bond producers much later. But then the producers, Moore and the script writers decided they needed to take Bond on a different path from the Connery portrayal.

I’d like to point out two additional things also:1. An actor, Ian Oglvie, reprised the role of Simon Templar in the TV series “The Saint” during a reboot or renewal later “but” the reboot/renewal had the Simon Templar character stay to the same personality profile, i.e. portrayal;2. Pierce Brosnan, though enjoyable to watch in Remington Steele, as a con-man turned “Professional” Private Investigator, acting alongside Stephanie Zimbalist who was the “creator” behind Remington Steele, definitely was the epitome of humor for that era.Moore in his role as Bond was the epitome of humor for his role in his era too.By comparison, when Brosnan took on the role of Bond, his shift from humor to “not quite a dark” spy that Dalton portrayed illustrates the incompatibilities of specific actors into roles created by writers, script writers, producers and directors but only gets recognized by a consumer audience in a much later era.

Now, if that wasn’t a good precursor for Bond selection, then I don’t know what else you’re smoking.

“In Like Flint” :)