The good idea jeans were not put on.

[seriousfic]

So apparently there's talk of Naomie Harris as Moneypenny in the next James Bond movie. Now, Naomie Harris is a fine actress and Moneypenny isn't a bad character, so this is bad for one reason only: They're going to take the entire dynamic of James Bond, the biggest cocksmith in genre fiction, and the one woman he won't have sex with, and it's a white man and a black woman? I mean, c'mon. Even in Britain, there's gotta be unfortunate implications there. If they're the same race, at least you can argue that as big a sex pest as Bond is, he won't go in for an office romance, or that one of them is gay and they're just camping it up. Actually, that last one sounds kind of interesting, but I'll stop before we get to the scene where MI-6 is attacked, so Moneypenny strips down to a tanktop and starts shooting terrorists with a shotgun she keeps in her desk.

Maybe Q could be black instead? That seems like a much more positive PoC character, and if there's one thing Doctor Who has taught me, it's that there's got to be a cool black guy just waiting to say "Grow up, 007!" (Richard Ayoade? Dude. Dude.)



ETA: Speaking of Doctor Who, Catherine Tate as Moneypenny. I'd be able to have head-canon that after being mind-wiped, Donna Noble changed her name and started temping for MI-6, because Captain Jack got her security clearance for the really high pay-grade stuff. Now she saves the world with office work.

Comments

[colonel-green.livejournal.com]

And yet, the film studio itself took great pains to specify that the Craig films were specifically divorced from any and all previous Bond continuity. Hell, even Brosnan's Bond visited the grave of Lazenby Bond's dead wife.

As I said, very little continuity; each film can reference or not reference past stuff, but it almost never matters.

while for some reason NOT accepting the advances of the black woman who's part of his recurring cast.

Moneypenny's "advances" were never serious, so far as I recall; most of the time it's just her and Bond bantering none-too-seriously while he's waiting to see M.

[pendown.livejournal.com]

My understanding was that each had turned the other down at times and that it was just banter. If Bond pushes too far, Moneypenny will cut him off at the knees.