Yeah it’s annoying isn’t it – so much contradictory advice it winds me up. These days I read, and make my own mind up. Or at least I try to… can’t help but read some writing advice.

lol. Rules are for breaking!!

OMGGGGGG I LOVE Austin Powers! particularly fat basterd…. “Get in MA BELLY….. I WANT MA BABY BACK BABY BACK BABY BACK RIBS!….. MA SEXY BODAAAAAY” lollllll

Thanks for your kind words. <3

Hey there, thank you for such a lovely response. Yes I agree about the rehash, such as shame really and particularly because it was a rehash they should have written more clues in skyfall. It’s not like they didn’t know spectre was coming.

I am not as big a fan of bond as you I don’t think, but I do like it and have seen most of the films more than once, certainly the newer ones anyway.

I agree about the architect line too. they made it a kind of tag line for the movie and EVERYONE knew it before they had even seen the film, which means it had to be a big one, and built up to.

Thanks for your thoughts and for stopping by, I really enjoyed your comment 😀

The big thing for me was the reveal of Silva’s motivations so early. We knew why he was doing the things he did, and it gave other characters opportunities to fill in the back story as the movie continued. The breadcrumbs in this case were the developments of the villain. What did we get with Blofeld? A massive info dump right near the end of all the connections and history between Blofeld and Bond. Who cared by that point? The foreshadowing happened, as you said, right at the beginning, but then… not much after that. Once we saw the photo, the rest was just Bond chasing the villain.

I think they made a mistake in using the line “architect of all your pain”, because what foreshadowing did the previous movies give to support that claim? I know it would be impossible to ask that we’d be given glimpses of Christoph Waltz in the previous movies, but give us something to plant that seed, something that we’d look back on while rewatching Casino Royale and say, “I didn’t even know at the time how important that would be later!” The filmmakers told us how manipulative Blofeld was, but they never showed us. Spectre was a lot- a lot- of telling instead of showing.

I will say one thing in the filmmakers defence- we all knew it was Blofeld before the movie was even released. No amount of denial by Christoph Waltz was going to make people think otherwise. There was no way they were calling the movie “Spectre” (which is really S.P.E.C.T.R.E) and not introduce Blofeld. No way. So any attempt they might have made at foreshadowing was all for naught anyway. Really a no-win situation for a screen writer, I think.

Well thanks for reading a bit 😀

The list of 35 genres made me think about all the ones that must have been left off the list! 🙂 I don’t think the categories were broad enough. I know what you mean about time. There’s never enough! Thanks for your gift of time in reading and responding to me! Enjoy Christmas. Your little one will love it this year! 🙂

Exactly Norah. I adore learning and like you read a plethora of genres. I guess I was asking about your fave – and that too was probably a silly question as I have a lot of faves!! I have heard of Alexander McCall I think. Did realising you don’t read a lot of the 35 genres make you want to read some or did it just solidify that you do have a fave genre? I am trying to read more non fic these days in book format so that I go more in-depth in topics – I just don’t have much time to read. Always writing!!