I think you make some good points, but there's also some points on which I don't agree with you.
1. I don't think Bond actually didn't care about Severine. In fact, I think the fact that his hand was shaking so badly he couldn't make the shot showed that he cared quite a lot. (Which is why he couldn't non-fatally shoot her; I was half-expecting him to accidentally blow her head off.)
The bland look and wisecrack at the end seemed to me to be him trying to wallpaper over the feelings he did have. This may also stem from what one is accustomed to seeing in men that surround you. When my dad was told that his cancer was terminal and he had three months to live, the first thing he said was, "Well, that's disappointing," and his further commentary on the topic ran in the same vein. He never reacted with any overt angst. I could see that he had stuff going on under the surface, but he never let it out. And that's what I saw here. My partner is the same way when it comes to expressing angsty emotion, so to me this is What Guys Do, and when I see guys get angsty in a movie it just looks ridiculous. Bond's single tear over M was about the limit for me.
2. Regarding the flashlight: wasn't it the gameskeeper that did that? Yeah, she could have asked him to turn it off, but I figured by that time she was bleeding out enough that she wasn't thinking much beyond "don't drop dead right in the middle of this Scottish fens."
3. I didn't think Eve and Bond had sex. I just thought they flirted a lot. I have been constantly surprised by the people who think they had sex.
4. I think Q's snark about the exploding pen was really meta-snark about the absolutely improbable gadgets Bond got time and again, which would only be effective in the very specific situation that he got into. If you watch the early movies, it was always "And I'm going to give you a left-handed screwdriver that squirts both oil and glue!" And it would turn out later that Bond's right hand was tied up but his left hand wasn't, and the way for him to get away was to lubricate a screw with oil so it would turn silently, unscrew it, and then glue it to the floor so the bad guy would step on it barefoot and hop around screaming until the base blew up.
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1. I don't think Bond actually didn't care about Severine. In fact, I think the fact that his hand was shaking so badly he couldn't make the shot showed that he cared quite a lot. (Which is why he couldn't non-fatally shoot her; I was half-expecting him to accidentally blow her head off.)
The bland look and wisecrack at the end seemed to me to be him trying to wallpaper over the feelings he did have. This may also stem from what one is accustomed to seeing in men that surround you. When my dad was told that his cancer was terminal and he had three months to live, the first thing he said was, "Well, that's disappointing," and his further commentary on the topic ran in the same vein. He never reacted with any overt angst. I could see that he had stuff going on under the surface, but he never let it out. And that's what I saw here. My partner is the same way when it comes to expressing angsty emotion, so to me this is What Guys Do, and when I see guys get angsty in a movie it just looks ridiculous. Bond's single tear over M was about the limit for me.
2. Regarding the flashlight: wasn't it the gameskeeper that did that? Yeah, she could have asked him to turn it off, but I figured by that time she was bleeding out enough that she wasn't thinking much beyond "don't drop dead right in the middle of this Scottish fens."
3. I didn't think Eve and Bond had sex. I just thought they flirted a lot. I have been constantly surprised by the people who think they had sex.
4. I think Q's snark about the exploding pen was really meta-snark about the absolutely improbable gadgets Bond got time and again, which would only be effective in the very specific situation that he got into. If you watch the early movies, it was always "And I'm going to give you a left-handed screwdriver that squirts both oil and glue!" And it would turn out later that Bond's right hand was tied up but his left hand wasn't, and the way for him to get away was to lubricate a screw with oil so it would turn silently, unscrew it, and then glue it to the floor so the bad guy would step on it barefoot and hop around screaming until the base blew up.