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"He also falls in love with Vesper Lynd, only to be betrayed and watch her die, spurring a lifestyle of treating women like absolute garbage for no reason."

Remind me. Which women (other than those who were out to kill him) has Bond treated like "absolute garbage"?

JimMuir wrote: He did raise the thing that really bothered me too, though: As much as I liked SkyFall, the sudden gear change from 'The start of Bonds Career' to 'The End of Bonds Career' really threw me!

Yes, I should have been clear last night, that's the criticism that I was referring to. It's similar to the oft-sited criticism of the Nolan Batman films. Bruce spends his life training, becomes Batman, takes down two major villains, then quits for 8 years, comes back for one more adventure, then retires for good.

Now even though I've been enjoying the Craig films, he is correct in that he hasn't really played a proper "James Bond" yet, in the strictest sense. As consequence, I suppose, of the new ongoing storylines approach, as opposed to the traditional version of each film being a standalone adventure (which I hope they go back to, next time).