Random thought.

[simonejester]

With all the actors who've played James Bond over the years, has anyone else speculated that he's a Time Lord?

(Either that or "James Bond" is a passed-on name/title like "The Dread Pirate Roberts. But that doesn't sound likely.)

To the Google Machine! And AO3. ;)

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Comments

[simonejester]

I didn't really "grow up" with either set (my dad loves the Bond movies but I didn't really pay attention, though the first Bond movie I watched from beginning to end was with Brosnan so I guess that'd be "my" Bond), but I got into Doctor Who in my twenties and "my first Doctor" is Nine and he's still my favorite, with Ten a close second. I can't stand Eleven (or Amy, or Rory, or River, or anything about the post-Ten DW 'verse except maybe the Skittles Daleks and the UK spaceship I suppose...).

[jackandahat]

*nods* But growing up in England is very different there because they are "our" shows and films, for once it's something that we export rather than import. (Funnily enough I was just telling my Canadian housemate how many Americans I've run into who were shocked when I got their references but they didn't get mine. Well, yes, because the media is American-dominated, so the majority of films I remember my classmates talking about are American. So we had to know American slang and things like that.)

We had Bond films on TV, but I don't remember getting chance to watch them until I was older. When I was about 12 I got really into the books. (I have to admit, I love them. I always feel I have to qualify them by pointing out that I do recognise that they're sexist, but I find them fascinating as a time capsule, because they are very much of their time.)

[simonejester]

I've noticed that with Fizzy too. All this stuff I've never heard of and she's SHOCKED, SHOCKED, and all this stuff from the US that she gets and I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED that she got it because I thought it was obscure! Go Go American Bubble. *le sigh*

They are indeed products of their time, and so's Doctor Who in a sci-fi way. "Nothing changes so quickly as yesterday's idea of the future" and all. :)

[jackandahat]

Heh, yeah - and it works on a smaller scale too, if you grow up in Ireland you get a lot of English programs and music, because it's a case of being flooded by the ruling/dominant culture - and because the majority is the majority, they're not aware that they're doing it, they just think of it as "normal".

Oh god yes - I love the Alien films, but looking at this green-text computer that isn't even as advanced as the one I had growing up, and probably has about as much processing power as my mobile phone, and that's The Future... it's funny.

[simonejester]

Indeed. I'm from Titusville, FL and all our news came from Orlando, since it's the nearest big city. Never mind that it's in the center of the state and Titusville is on the coast. *shrugs* And nearly all the US's national news comes from New York City, so their "national" weather forecasts tend to be New England-centric. And one thing I noticed a lot during my three years in Alaska is that they almost never mention Alaska or Hawaii in the forecasts and if not for Obama and Palin, neither state would make news ever. :P

And Stardance and Starseed by Spider and Jeanne Robinson--they were written in the 70's when the "internet" such as it was then, was pretty much just for the rich and for universities, so when they get to the space station in the second book and have unlimited access, it's basically like having a cathedral-sized encyclopedia of Everything One Could Possibly Want To Know...but no blogs, YouTube, Twitter, that sort of thing--it's the Internet as it was meant to be I suppose. :P

[jackandahat]

*nods* I think coming from somewhere either out of the way or ignored makes a big, big difference in your worldview.

Heh - the idealised version. No trolls. ;)

[simonejester]

Sho'nuff.

Yes indeed! Like a giant, fully fact-checked Wikipedia. XD

[jackandahat]

...yeah, I really can't imagine that. If it's got humans, it's got innacuracies.

[simonejester]

Okay, fact-checked to the best of the people's abilities. Peer-reviewed.