Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. This week, we follow the fun of “Goldfinger” with a Caribbean Crusade as James attempts to dominate Domino while finding Largo’s cargo in “Thunderball”.
* Viewer Fatigue sets in with yet another “Is Bond dead?” pre-titles sequence, before we decide that Jones ain’t no Bassey.
* Matt gushes about the design of SPECTRE’s meeting room.
* Bond’s bath-house battle with Lippe is bookended by a bad back-and-forth between Bond and his physio.
* We are generally impressed by Largo’s plan to steal the atomic weapons.
* Our look at the MI6 meeting room affirms SPECTRE’s status as the Industry Leader.
* We follow James to Nassau, where Benso marvels at Bond’s impressive effort at the casino, before revealing Connery’s flawed Shark-Safety System.
* Off to Junkanoo (“The Festival of the Pissing Dog”) for a mystifying escape by Bond.
* James and Domino's scuba sex leads to victory over Vargas.
* We do our best to push through what must be the longest underwater fight sequence ever recorded.
* Bond saves the day - refusing to let the world’s worst bluescreening get in his way - before being skyhooked to safety!
Official SPECTRE etc Theory (OffSeT) #4: Pants on? Research. No pants? Not research. A very important in-house rule is set in stone when Cam declares that anything done online while pantsless is not able to be counted as research. Bad news for Col; good news for Benso!
And of course, keep checking back for a link to our petition to get those jetpacks onto Amazon!
Worst Impersonation Trophy:
While he was not technically impersonating a character, Col’s attempt to “hum” the way the title song uses elements of the Bond theme was definitely this episode’s worthy WIT winner! Col may do a pretty good Connery, but it appears he should stay away from impersonating musical instruments.
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