re: #8 Nyet

Elba will make a great Bond. But the first movie starring him must be a restart of the series, not its continuation.

The current crop of movies (Skyfall in particular) have established that Bond is not a code name. Moreover, the code name theory does not make sense because Bond is a collection of mannerisms and it would be silly to expect that each new agent bearing the number 007 “just happened” to have the same mannerisms, like liking his martinis shaken, not stirred.

So yes to Elba, but no to the nonsensical “code name” theory.

The last Bond I paid any attention to was Sean Connery. Roger Moore was passable, but the rest are just not part of my image of Bond at all.