“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[chronovore]

On Bond: The last Craig film, No Time to Die, wasn't bad at all, but both it and SPECTRE turned up the emotional schmaltz on a character who doesn't need a growth arc. There are stories where the world changes the character, and stories where the character encounters unbalance in the world and becomes the force which corrects the aberration; the character changes the world (back to normal). 

Yes, Casino Royale worked despite being an origin story, despite wanting to have its double-o cake and eat it, too. Unfortunately the lesson they took away from it was that every entry required emotional growth for an iconic character, instead of recognizing the one-off-ness of an origin story. They pull that lesson far too hard in Spectre, where it becomes about daddy issues for both Bond and Blofeld (WTAF) and carry it through NTtD by drawing everything together to be about James, rather than James-saves-the-world. 

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Having Bond die in the end of NTtD is wildly, remarkably indulgent, and makes it appear that the 007 mantle, possibly even the "James Bond" name itself is special designation within the service, possibly to explain the generational changes.

 IIRC there is a portrait of a previous "M" in the hall of MI-6, further cementing a history involving Sean Connery's Bond as separate. No one needs that, no one asked for that, and only the most basement-dwelling of nerds will be pleased by this level of canon/lore establishment.

Anyway, I hope they get back to basics.