Well that was awesome...

[awanderingbard]

1. I have now seen Skyfall.
2. Eeeee!
3. Someone please stop me before I write crossovers. I do not need any more crossovers. I will not write crossovers.
4. Eeeeee!

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[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Sherlock: Did I never tell you the story behind why the euro was invented?

HA!

Maybe Q's the one who broke the counter on John's blog. Just accidentally, and then couldn't be arsed to fix it because the world was in crisis.

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

Maybe Q's the one who broke the counter on John's blog. Just accidentally, and then couldn't be arsed to fix it because the world was in crisis.

I can totally picture him tinkering around on the blog during a late night in Q branch and then getting distracted once Bond calls in that he needs an escape route with gun shots in the background.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I can totally picture him tinkering around on the blog during a late night in Q branch and then getting distracted once Bond calls in that he needs an escape route with gun shots in the background.

Q: "This coding is terrible, I'll just clean it up and--" *sirens*

It could explain why apparently the colour scheme kept changing from green to blue and back.

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

Q: "This coding is terrible, I'll just clean it up and--" *sirens*

HAHAHA!

As an aside, I'm rather amused that Ben Whishaw has admitted that he does not own a computer himself. I'm sort of skeptical of that claim but I can do commend his attempts on screen to stare at computers like he knows what he's doing and Mendes as a director deciding not to give too many close ups of him typing.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

There seems to be a generation of people who missed out on computers. Like, the younger generation grew-up on them, and the older generation has learned, but the middle generation seems a bit computer phobic. I've seen a lot of people in their thirties who claim to have no clue how computers work.

But kudos indeed to everyone who made it work. To be fair, though, computing in film is just typing really fast. I've often wondered what sort of gibberish would actually appear if the keys they were hitting showed up on the screen.

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

I always felt like it was people in their 40s to 50s who were a bit computer-phobic. I'm 32 and just about everyone I know around my age is pretty much dependent on their computers. But perhaps this says more about the people I choose to hang out with. At this point trying to write stuff by hand for me is a monumental challenge.

After listening to interviews with Whishaw, I can sort of believe he'd be a bit techno-phobic. He did admit he couldn't even figure out how to open up the box that held the Omega watch the Skyfall people gave him.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

My brother and I were always very computer literate because my father was interested in computers, so we had them right since I was about four or five, so...very early 90's. It's also why everyone in my family uses the mouse with their left hands--my father is left handed and he taught us, so none of us can use it with our right hands now. But I do know I was in the minority growing up, though perhaps not now. I imagine some people just never joined the bandwagon.

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

This is now getting off the topic of Skyfall but I'm halfway convinced that if computers never came into being, I would have barely made it through college. Certainly I would not have gone to grad school. I found doing writing assignments as a child absolute agony with my hand constantly cramping up and my handwriting being impossible to read.

Now that I'm doing neurological testing, I realize I probably have mild proprioception issues where writing by hand is much more strenuous for me than the average person.

Anyway, Skyfall has gotten me back on the Bond bandwagon. I hope the next film is as entertaining. It was so wonderfully classic!Bond in many ways with the newer elements seamlessly woven in.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I had the same problems as a kid. My handwriting still looks like a six year old's, though I don't know if it would have improved if I hadn't had the computer to use and been forced to write. I write by hand at night before bed, and it's awful looking. I have a bad habit of combining letters and therefore losing one of them, like hooking a g on the bottom of an n and losing the n. I loathed being forced to write in school.

I've always been a huge Bond fan, and a bit ashamed of it consideration how angry I should be at its portrayal of women. I just like hot guys being heroic. I've really loved the new direction of the films, though. Nice nods to the past, but substance too, and not just cool gadgets. I loved Skyfall, and I hope the follow-ups keep up the trend. I'm a big fan of Craig-as-Bond.