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I saw the new James Bond movie last night and hated the ending. Not so much because it wasn't appropriate, as because they broke the rule. And not so much the r
by hirundo 5y ago
I saw the new James Bond movie last night and hated the ending. Not so much because it wasn't appropriate, as because they broke the rule. And not so much the rule, as the Prime Directive. My reaction felt like a kind of disgust. At the rule breakers. The same kind I'd feel at a cheater in a game.
But of course there's no sense in which I'd been cheated. This kind of surprise is meat and potatoes to almost any fiction. I think that's not despite this kind of inborn reaction, but to leverage it. This particular movie just had a lot of leverage to work with.
- zomglings 5y agoWhat rule? I didn't watch the movie nor do I know much about James Bond beyond watching a few of the films over the past few decades.
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- dmurray 5y agoSpoiler (obviously) but trying not to give away too much, I'm sure the rule in question is that the hero is meant to live happily ever after.
- aidenn0 5y agoExcept that never applied to Bond; any time he seemed to be about to have some semblance of a normal life terrible stuff happens to him and/or his loved one(s).
- fnord77 5y agoan event happens that terminates the series for good. though I bet in 4 years the producers will change their mind and retcon the series back to life.