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Contents 1 James Bond 1.1 More templates YEAH! 1.2 Bond's age 1.3 Bond Girls Are Forever 1.4 Casino Royale 1.5 Q 1.6 Barbarossa 1.7 Goldfinger 1.8 Glidrose

[edit] James Bond

[edit] More templates YEAH!

Haha ok moving onto the novels, I decided to move ahead and make it a template, however, I changed it totally. Before I add it to any page I want your opinion first. I'm still tweaking it when it comes to the UK/US dates. We can discuss it further on it's discussion page where theres an actual example using the template. Template:Bondbook K1Bond007 21:56, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, thats kind of the look I was going for. The last infobox, while good, was also horrible when it came to space (so much empty space on it's sides), so I figured making it wider would be better. Wikipedia also keeps failing on me too, not so much today, but I made a rather sizable edit to Casino Royale yesterday that I couldn't submit because of this. I had to leave a tab open virtually all day on the page so I wouldn't lose it. K1Bond007 22:32, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

One sort of bad side effect is that I have to add a break above the box, which on some pages, currently, leaves a big space because of the book images (looks bad if I don't). I'm hoping we can add more info to these sections though. More plot, more info on the book itself etc. An example of this would be Diamonds Are Forever. So far I've only done the first 4 Fleming novels. I hope to finish Fleming off by the end of the day. K1Bond007 01:43, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bond's age

In Moonraker Bond is 37 years old. He talks about how retirement age as a 00 is set at 45 and then states he has 8 years to go. During the novel, Bond also purchases a 1953 Bentley. So granted that Bond bought the Bentley between 1953 and the books publication year of 1955, that would mean he was born somewhere between 1916-1918. Interesting eh? I think I'm of the opinion that Fleming either 1) didn't keep track 2) attempted to keep Bond at age 37 indefinitely. - I'll know more as I continue to read. K1Bond007 01:15, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bond Girls Are Forever

I got mine for free, perhaps it was an exlusive-store offer (Best Buy) or a U.S. offer only. It was a limited time only thing naturally. K1Bond007 03:46, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Casino Royale

I'm in the process of making changes myself. I'm also planning on writing the starter of the article and informing them that copying and pasting is a no-no on Wikipedia and that the article should have been moved. I'm actually kinda peeved about this. I'm thinking of consulting an admin to see if it's possible to merge the history or something. I dunno. All the previous discussion, all the credit for the initial writers of the article (namely you and I) are gone. It's just kind of upsetting. BTW, it would be my luck to make a bold statement about the timing of an announcement by EON and then be TOTALLY wrong the following day. :D -- Oh and btw, sorry about Enterprise getting canned. (Not really, I liked every series of Star Trek until Enterprise which I loathe with a passion. I stopped watching it altogether about a quarter of the way through season 1.) K1Bond007 22:50, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

I agree that they should be kept seperate for the time being and as you said merged later when there's more facts than speculation. At the very least until an actor is announced. - About ST, well I'm going to have to disagree with you :) My Dad likes the show, but once in a while I catch an episode (saw the Brent Spiner arc) and I never liked it. I never got over the prequel thing and I hated how Enterprise basically blew off the Original Series. Oh well. I'm hoping they don't go on some hiatus, but rather just start with a new series set in the Next Gen/DS9/Voy timeframe. I'd actually like for Paramount to boot B&B, but I doubt that will happen :( K1Bond007 23:10, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Q

I'm almost certain. I think the guy who goes over it is "just a guy" from Q-Branch or actually, I'm not so sure anyone went over it with him at all. I seem to recall that it was a flashback about being given the briefcase by Q-Branch and Bond explaining the tricks/gadgets installed. I could be wrong. I wrote that after I finished Dr. No so I'm not 100% and sometimes with Fleming -- I have no idea what the hell is going on. :) I had to read the part where Dr. No dies about two or three times because I didn't understand what was happening. He got hit by whatever the crane Bond was handling and flew into a pile of guano (had to read this twice because I wasn't sure No was dead, but rather died from being smothered by the guano) ?? heh :D K1Bond007 20:19, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

Re - Cool. Looking good. Did you find about Q yet? I'm curious if I just misinterpreted it or something. I don't have FRWL anymore to be able to check. K1Bond007 01:22, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

Well, like I said. "Didn't appear". Theres a time before FRWL where Bond references Q-Branch (I'm thinking either LALD or Moonraker). Perhaps the sentence should be changed again to reflect that, but again I'm almost positive that Q isn't referenced in anything prior to FRWL, just Q-Branch. K1Bond007 05:49, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barbarossa

Yeah, I had heard it wasn't that good. When I saw your edit I also read the part and decided something should be added to explain why. Gardner's website, BTW is pretty interesting, specifically the part about No Deals, Mr. Bond. Something should probably be stated about that if not already done. K1Bond007 21:15, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

I noticed about Enterprise earlier when I was thinking about making an edit to the article (decided against it - grammar). Make sure you don't break this Wikipedia:Three-revert rule although this might be considered reverting "simple vandalism". I've actually been reading the Enterprise stuff a lot lately. I rewrote a bunch of intros not long ago for the 4th season episodes (basically to keep consistancy throughout the episodes - others were horribly written, Observer Effect (ENT episode), IMO). K1Bond007 03:57, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Goldfinger

Well, it's not your fault and it's no big deal. No one else knew or no one else cared to fix it. From the sounds of it, it's going to be a pain to read Barbarossa. Hmm.. I'll get to it eventually. I think after I finish off Fleming, I'm going to jump to Benson. I enjoyed his Splinter Cell novel, so I kind of want to read Zero Minus Ten and see how he does with a Bond novel. Anyway, I have trouble reading Fleming. I love his novels, but the first half of his novels are usually dreadful and painfully slow. It's always the second half of the book where I actually really start to enjoy it and in most cases like Goldfinger make up for their lackluster beginning. So far I'd probably rank them as: 1.From Russia With Love, 2.Casino Royale, 3.Goldfinger, 4.Moonraker, 5.Live and Let Die, 6.Dr. No, 7.Diamonds Are Forever. I'm going to start Thunderball perhaps tomorrow, I don't know - my copy from the Library has Thunderball, FYEO and The Spy Who Loved Me in the same book, so I might jump to an FYEO short story if I get bored with it. As I said, Fleming is great except that his openings tend to suck :) Glad to see you're back. K1Bond007 05:39, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Then it should be rewritten. Saying "Honor Blackman was 3 years older than Connery" means nothing to me and truthfully anyone else not familiar with the ages of Bond and his girls. As written, that's a pretty big "whoop-ti-do". If anything it should be written at Bond girl that Rigg Blackman, AND Zena Marshall (Miss Taro) were the only Bond girls older than Bond himself. K1Bond007 05:44, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Glidrose

I already fixed it all. Either the first or the last time for Productions (can't recall of the top of my head) was Colonel Sun. I made the corrections (doubled checked them with Copyright info found at CommanderBond.net see http://www.commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/1538-1.shtml) - I automatically assumed that Fleming's three other works were Productions. I never double checked those.

BTW, I just did major rewrites of Timothy Dalton's and Brosnan's pages. I really tore into Brosnan's article, specifically removing all the information about Brosnan in Casino Royale and all the rollercoaster action. I thought a lot of it was stupid and most of it was redundant. (By stupid it was: Brosnan was quoted as saying he's done. Brosnan claims he was misquoted. Brosnan claims he was fired.