Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. Of course, our opening episode revolves around Bond’s cinematic premiere: Dr. No
We follow Bond from winning big at baccarat, to the greengrocers atop that mountain. Once Bond is finished with Taro, he is off for adventures with the Crab Key dragon, which leads to the tragedy of his boat running out of fuel (How will he fill that tank?) in the middle of the Caribbean. We question the veracity of Puss Feller’s reputation as an alligator wrestler, we reverse engineer Dr. No’s dragon tank, we critique Bond’s inability to use sleight-of-hand to palm something from a table on the quiet, and we spend far longer than necessary on Connery’s hairpiece.
History is made when we state the first Official SPECTRE etc Theory (OffSeT): Bond is sterile. The radioactivity of Crab Key, combined with the ineffectiveness of the conveyor-belt shower, has rendered Bond unable to procreate. While this does mean the end of the Bond name (except for his nephew - James Bond, Jr.) for all time, it does allow our hero a free pass to fall for all the Honeypots SPECTRE can throw at him.
And of course, keep checking back for a link to our petition to rename Crab Key to what it SHOULD be known as: Dragon Key.
