Baba Yaga

Being a modern man I just watched highlights of the 9-0 drubbing, thought the keeper was their best player but not on this performance, was at fault for at least 5 ? It was 39 shots to 1 and they play Arsenal away next, if they can keep it under 6 then it will be like a win.

They actually beat non-league Bromley in last seasons FA Cup, needed a replay but they did it. ?

It all depends if she is a good character or not. Just because shes a woman or just because shes black or just because its progressive doesn't make anything good in of itself. Do you agree with the MLK saying to judge someone by the content of their character and not meaningless features like colour of skin? I haven't called the character out (will do that after I have seen it?), I have stated that it may be a cynical attempt to comply with modern bullshit standards and I hope this exercise was about making a good movie and not an expedition in appeasing people who say things like "its 2020, time to be progressive". To be honest some of the other Craig movies have not been very good anyway so the bar isn't even that high at the moment. There is plenty that I complain about from lots of the Bond movies but Lasana Lynch's presence is quite striking from this trailer. The point is that if the bad guy or the bond girl is crap then it has been done before many times. I don't remember an agent in the MI6 in stiff competition with him like this, if by also making that character a woman you don't see the political agenda behind it then I think you're not telling the truth.

The target audience for Bond isn't young girls. Most people don't want to see political agendas forced into movies, especially in a historic franchise which has an established formula. If the writers have chosen to do what you say then I conclude it's more about destroying Bond culture than empowering women, it's not a very appropriate place to do it when you could also make your own movie to do that without all the limitations of it being Bond. There have been lots of strong female characters in previous Bond films but they have usually been feminine too. This new character comes across in the trailer as very masculine but in a female body. I am reserving judgement because the character may work but from the trailer I'm a little concerned.

I have an issue if she is being shoehorned into a James Bond movie to make a statement. Lets see if she has humour, charisma, good storyline/character development or if she's just being shoved in there to show off female strength.

I think giving 007 status to Lynch could be a storyline that works, similar to the storyline stuff they did in Casino Royale and Skyfall. My concern is that a strong female character = completely unemotional, henpecks/undermines bond regularly, kicks ass of everyone in all action scenes, ultimately nothing likeable about her. Hopefully they're just messing with me in the trailers!

Fair enough I was watching the second trailer without sound and she looks like his back up, my mistake. Have seen the first trailer before though and it had rom-com they hate each other before they fall for each other (or in this case mutually respect one another) vibes. ?

I ended up watching all of the Moore and Dalton movies when I was on furlough and very much looking forward to this now. I must say that giving Bond a black fiery female sidekick is a concern of mine, please god don't be a box ticking exercise that turns into a mistake. I will try to watch it with an open mind and hopefully good things come to those that wait.