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Originally Posted by General Maximus
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Originally Posted by Stephen
I agree with you there, but being a 00 agent status can always be passed to other agents, whether it's 006 or any other.
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Yeah, it's not a big deal. She is '007' - probably not for long - but Bond is still Bond. If anything it makes it less likely they'll recast the next Bond as a woman since it establishes a precedent where Bond still exists outside of the 007 number. (One of the theories into how you get a female Bond is that 'James Bond' is itself a codename applied to whoever is 007).
People are making too big a deal of it. Either to manufacture outrage at 'PC culture' or to say it heralds a dramatic change in having a black woman as 007. In reality, she'll probably be '
fridged' early on to provide Bond with a plot point and thus continuing the Bond franchise's dodgy history with female characters.