I'm with you, Don. I thought Timothy Dalton was an excellent Bond, although you're right that his two films were a bit ropy, mainly due to poor supporting actors and indifferent scripts. He reintroduced the early Sean Connery thing of surviving due to determination and better skill, instead the later Sean Connery or Roger Moore thing of just pulling out another gadget. I think Timothy Dalton's films were the first decent Bond portrayal since Goldfinger.

If they can keep some of the strong supporting characters from Brosnan's time (and let's face it, he needed them more than most) and get back the edginess of Dalton and Connery, I think they're onto a winner.

Re the Jane Bond thing, it'd work for a spoof. You could have a love interest called Willy Galore... But for a film to be taken seriously - no way. Could *you* imagine a male version of Lara Croft?