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Old 10-30-2017, 08:34 PM   #443
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Originally Posted by Anaraxes View Post
An amusing notion. And one that fits well with an idea one of my friends once proposed to explain the various actors portraying Bond in the movies: there's not really a James Bond. Rather, he's an artificial persona that the various agents adopt, pretending to prefer martinis shaken not stirred and so on, so as to provide an extra layer of insulation between the enemy and their actual preferences and psychology. When Roger Moore succeeds Sean Connery, he starts to portray that Bond identity, which goes with the number 007, not the men. It's a way to hide the handles that the real agents have while concealing their identity, and just expose the Bond persona in its place. if the enemy is bound to learn something about your double-oh agents, might as well manufacture a story for them.

Operation Phantom goes one step further, and takes out the singular real agent, leaving Bond as just an illusion created by the whole team.
That's pretty good. Kind of like Chuck Finlay in Burn Notice.
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