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You see, Mr Bond, you can't kill my dreams, but my dreams can kill you.
I'm not up on the Bond canons, but after watching Die Another Day, wonder whether, if I was, I'd be making an argument for Die Another Day as the most fannish Bond film? The film throughout seems to both propose and subvert a classic Bond film structure, and there seems something particularly Mary Sue-ish about Colonel Moon, Jinx and Miranda; Moon, explicitly, is a fan who wants to be his hero. The lashings of CGI gave the impression of the film unfolding in a cyberdreamscape, with the final clash between Jinx and Frost coming across like a battle of the fangirls wanting control of the plot. Moon's name was perhaps a reference to 'Robert Markham''s Colonel Sun, the first (I think) licensed post-Fleming Bond novel. Even if greater familiarity with the series would prove this a misreading, I still found it entertaining...