Every few months I end up doing a post like this.
So there's this (old) post on Tor about how Bond evidently must be a Time Lord because the car from Skyfall is the one from Goldfinger.
Sigh.
The author starts with the "James Bond is a code-name" theory and then claims that the marriage in OHMSS is the one thing that precludes it.
This is abjectly false. The marriage in OHMSS is not the one thing that precludes it. Moore!Bond, for example, visits a school friend in The Spy Who Loved Me who addresses him as "James Bond," even though they would have met before Moore!Bond took up the "code-name."
Moreover, the Aston from Skyfall cannot be the one from Goldfinger. The one from Goldfinger was totaled when Bond ran it into a wall. It could be a re-make of the one from Goldfinger, either a relic from a bygone era that Craig!Bond got attached to, or it could be the one he won in Casino Royale dolled up by Q branch.
But it's totally ludicrous to think, at the very least, that Craig is playing the same character as his predecessors. Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are abjectly Craig!Bond's first adventures. No Bond save Lazenby is portrayed as being as immature as Craig!Bond is at the start of Casino Royale. (Well, okay, Brosnan was, but one doubts that was deliberate.)
I maintain that there are four separate James Bonds, occupying four overlapping continuities: One was a real secret agent who was active from the 60s through the 80s, the second was his film parody counterpart (Goldfinger, Diamonds, and most of the Moores), the third was Pierce Brosnan and the fourth is Daniel Craig.
Off-topic: longtime readers will know I consider Peter Hunt basically the unsung hero of 60s Bondage. Here's an interview with him evidently from the 1980s.
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