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[honeyjes]

We've have had people bemoaning the meaning of the title QoS, and Judy's M being incompetent.

9/11 has proven that no amount of screening can prevent the infiltration and breach of a nation’s security.

Some have said Le Chiffre and Dominic Greene are rather bland villains, but therein lies the rub, their kind of malignant villainy is more frightening than the OTT take over the world plots which calls for a big finale of raids on bases and all will be well with the world again scenarios.

Who would have thought manipulating the banking system Enron style could bring the world economies to its knees. Likewise the water subplot in QoS is deemed by some to be lame, but many countries now import their drinking water. We're already fighting over oil, perhaps monopolising a resource that affects everyone on this planet isn’t so dumb after all. Ironic and poetic justice that Greene signed his own death warrant when he set in motion the stranglehold on restricting the flow of water.

QoS to my mind exploits our neglect, complacent and fragmented attitude of "if 'it’s not happening in my backyard it's not my problem".

I think Quantum is the businessman's equivalent of Al- Qaeda. With their small interconnecting but independent cells they can operate under the radar appear dormant for a time but then make themselves known once they've breached our defences, it’s hard to defeat them as their structure allows them like an ameba to split and reform. This by far could be a more formidable opponent for Bond

[Major Tallon]

There's even a thematic link to Fleming in Quantum's villainy. Remember that the villainous plot in Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun has to do with manipulation of a regional economy.

In the context of QOS, the depletion of a region's water supply would mean massive crop failures, hunger, and migrations of millions of people, throwing the entire socio-economic balance of a continent out of alignment. Quantum's plot thus involves more than just turning off a few taps or making a few people thirsty. In fact, it's very chilling indeed.

[tdalton]

There's even a thematic link to Fleming in Quantum's villainy. Remember that the villainous plot in Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun has to do with manipulation of a regional economy.

In the context of QOS, the depletion of a region's water supply would mean massive crop failures, hunger, and migrations of millions of people, throwing the entire socio-economic balance of a continent out of alignment. Quantum's plot thus involves more than just turning off a few taps or making a few people thirsty. In fact, it's very chilling indeed.

Agreed. It's probably even one of, if not THE, most chilling plots the Bond series has ever had, in that its plausible enough that it could possibly happen, in a way that plans like those of Stromberg, Drax, and others couldn't. Its the plausibility of this plan as well as the sever consequences of it that make it infinitely more terrifying than many of the other plots by Bond villains over the years.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I like how QOS portrays the South American CIA chief not as an incompetent bumbler (similar to how Americans were portrayed in the Guy Hamilton Bond films and AVTAK), but as a too-eager-to-please career man who is more than happy to stand by while villains overthrow a legitimately-elected government; it's jokers like these who got us into the political and socioeconomic messes the world is in today.