Picking Nits
Bond in khakis in bed after sex on a Turkish beach; the scorpion trick while supposedly dead; MI6 selling his apartment and Skyfall; three to four months to decode the agent list; the NATO list on one hard drive; hackers posting reveals on YouTube; Q's secret breadcrumb trail run from the hacked HQ screen; strangling a man underwater with a knee; Bond announcing his name everywhere and never simply being shot
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- Early on, Bond has sex with a woman by a Turkish beach and the next shot has him in khakis in bed with a Heineken, which is weird. — Chris Ryan
- The counter is that both are dressed, she in a pink cover-up, and they are lounging rather than in bed; who has ever put on khakis after sex and gotten back in bed?
- Made personal, the post-sex routine offered is a giant turkey sandwich and telling the mirror you're the best. — Chris Ryan
- Others want a cigarette or a vape, lie in post-coital bliss, get a water and put on boxers; the conclusion is that Bond goes no-underwear khakis, impractical for a man who may need to run, and one host admits having done it.
- While pretending to be dead you do not entertain a bar with scorpion tricks, though the defense is that Bond cannot keep a low profile, feels a sense of duty and wants to be loved by mommy; another host would be mad that they sold his apartment and Skyfall, with Her Majesty getting the money.
- Three to four months for hackers to decode one list of agents is stupid, the list of NATO agents being on one hard drive in 2012 is worse, and the hackers posting reveals on YouTube is accepted with a joke about a Macau hacker vlog.
- Q's top-secret breadcrumb trail for Bond and M is laid in the middle of headquarters on the giant screen of the computer that was just hacked and let everyone out of jail; whether Bond can strangle a man underwater with his knee is debated against Craig's short legs and compacted power, with the reminder that he dies of hypothermia doing it.
- A nit with James Bond himself: a secretive operative who tells everybody his name, dresses impeccably and sleeps with strangers has never simply been shot in the face over a coffee, since villains always lure him to an island to explain the master plan, Scott Evil style; the reply is that Silva is after Judi Dench's attention and a cell, essentially the Joker plot from Dark Knight.
- Earlier, during the scene discussion, the scorpion trick was flagged as a low-profile failure that would go viral in 2012.