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[PeteNeon]

Skyfall Lodge didn't really play as large a part in the film as I thought it would, it was mainly just the setting for the end of the film.

[Vauxhall]

To try and uncover any concealed childhood trauma. It seemed to work too!

[PeteNeon]

To try and uncover any concealed childhood trauma. It seemed to work too!

Ah yes. I was kind of expecting Skyfall to be linked with Silva and M's betrayal in someway.

[MkB]

Actually, I guess the teaser / trailer scene was intended as a red herring for us fans. It was only natural, with this question and the subsequent reaction, to suppose that "Skyfall" was a mission, something that could be "done". We could hardly infer that it rather mean't "I'm done with this evaluation".

Nicely done, Mr Mendes, you got us talking!

[Harmsway]

We could hardly infer that it rather mean't "I'm done with this evaluation".

That's what I always thought that bit from the trailers meant, actually.

[univex]

To try and uncover any concealed childhood trauma. It seemed to work too!

Yes, guess my guess was right from the get go. Comes with the territory, occupacional hazard as you´d say

[thecasinoroyale]

From those trailers and teaser, I thought the word 'Skyfall' was also in relation to an operation - but it doesn't seem so.

Just more depth to the trauma and harsh childhood Bond faced growing up. As we hear him say, he never liked that place much anyway, as it burns to the ground!

A well shot sequence, very witty, and well acted.

[Tony_OO_Black]

Actually, I guess the teaser / trailer scene was intended as a red herring for us fans. It was only natural, with this question and the subsequent reaction, to suppose that "Skyfall" was a mission, something that could be "done". We could hardly infer that it rather mean't "I'm done with this evaluation".

Nicely done, Mr Mendes, you got us talking!

Same here, that was my guess. Oh well. A nice red herring, as you say.

[Skudor]

I think the shrink's question was just to bring up the name so that the audience would be familiar with it when it showed up at the end, and perhaps have some inkling that it was important to Bond.

Similar to early hints of M having been in charge of station H.

[marktmurphy]

It was a bit odd having that mentioned. An odd coincidence, really.

I thought it's why Bond asked M is there was anything else she wanted to tell him in the briefing: that Skyfall had greater relevance. I'm not really sure why he said that now.

[Goldbadge]

Okay, it was very easy to understand when Bond said "done", that this meant he was done the psych eval.
When Bond asks if M had anything else to say, it was because Silva had planted the idea that he had been lied to by M, and he wanted to see if she would come clean about anything.

[Double-0-Seven]

It was definitely clever to use it in the trailer because it led to lots of speculation when in the end, it wasn't all that important of a scene in the film. In fact, it had little purpose which is funny since it was the focal point of the teaser trailer. Great little scene, especially the "M? Bitch" exchange which got quite a laugh. I really thought Skyfall was going to end up being an old mission M had botched and that was her secret, perhaps the mission where she left Silva. Little did I know it was Bond's house and he simply meant he was done with the evaluation.

[sharpshooter]

We could hardly infer that it rather mean't "I'm done with this evaluation".

That's what I always thought that bit from the trailers meant, actually.

I always assumed that, too. The place did hold trauma for Bond, going on Kincade's background information. Cutting the word association session short, saying he didn't like the place much anyway before setting off the explosion - Bond isn't excessively sentimental, but I did like his one last look around there.

The “M” – “bitch” retort drew a good laugh. Around this section I also liked the retraining trials, Bond exercising with Tanner giving him background information at the same time. Especially once Tanner leaves and Bond hits the floor, having held in his pain. It humanised the character but also kept him strong, the whole never let them see you bleed angle.

Edited by sharpshooter, 26 November 2012 - 08:16 AM.

[Iceskater101]

Yeah it was to see how Bond would react about his home and stuff. I didn't realize that until the second time I watched it.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

I thought the word 'Skyfall' was also in relation to an operation - but it doesn't seem so.

Perhap's that's why the film has been stupidly called "Operation Skyfall" in Latin America and Brazil.

[thecasinoroyale]

Good point Nicolas, it's a very misleading title to use for you, seeing as there is no operation involved!

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Good point Nicolas, it's a very misleading title to use for you, seeing as there is no operation involved!

At first I even tought that Bond maybe did the same his creator did with his Jamaican estate - name the Lodge after an operation.

[conneryboy]

It was an attempt to delve into Bonds past, the quesion before Skyfall was country, where Bond answered England, the psychiatrist naturally opted for Skyfall as the next question to attempt to acertain why Bond would answer Engalnd when he was born in Scotland.