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A Hiatus After Craig's Tour Of Duty?


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#31 glidrose

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 06:49 PM

If the internetz had been around in the late 90's you can bet that there would have been a whole slew of pages and threads obsessing over what would happen after Pierce left the role and who would replace him.
Probably mostly started by myself.


Er, um, the internet was around in the late 90's. And there were a whole slew of pages by people who hated Brosnan in the role, proposing instead who should get the role.

#32 Major Tallon

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 06:56 PM

Kimberly Last began raising the issue early in Brosnan's tenure, not because she hated him, but because she really liked him and was upset that the producers might be thinking of looking elsewhere.



#33 Simon

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 10:06 PM

Gosh, was she around in 1994/5?



#34 Major Tallon

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Posted 21 May 2015 - 10:34 PM

I'm not certain when her page began, but it was there by the time TND was released.



#35 Emrayfo

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Posted 22 May 2015 - 02:24 AM

Yes I remember Brosnan being disappointed that they weren't going to extend his contract and with many fans still thinking he was at his peak in the role clamouring for Eon to keep him on. Then there were the people who wanted a change, as glidrose stated above. And yes, it all played out in internet chat forums as well as the MSM. Forums have been a major component of the internet and www from the very earliest days. There were many thriving international online communities from the early '90s once the internet/www became unshackled from its military/university beginnings.

 

In fact, intenet chat forums are probably the oldest functioning part of the internet that are not today unrecognisable from their initial expression during the earliest days of the internet. They basically haven't changed at all, which is remarkable given the changes in technology and interface, but less remarkable given it is a predominately text-based medium.  Internet 2.0 gave us embedded videos and music but those changes are marginal to discussion-based fora. And chat rooms/forums precede the effective commercialisation of the internet by a long span of time. It took companies like Amazom years to start making a profit and to convince the world that online shopping was viable and not a fad.



#36 dtuba

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Posted 22 May 2015 - 10:49 PM

 

If the internetz had been around in the late 90's you can bet that there would have been a whole slew of pages and threads obsessing over what would happen after Pierce left the role and who would replace him.
Probably mostly started by myself.


Er, um, the internet was around in the late 90's. And there were a whole slew of pages by people who hated Brosnan in the role, proposing instead who should get the role.

 

Yes, but it was not as ubiquitous as today. Nor as fast.

Then again, perhaps my memory of that decade is a bit fuzzy....