10 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About Daniel Craig's Bond Movies

2. Spectre Totally Destroyed The New Canon

There's no point pretending that Spectre, on the whole, did anything other than destroy the canon that the franchise had been carefully mounting for years and years. In one fell swoop, the addition of the Bond/Blofeld/step brother plot awkwardly unhinged the otherwise subtlety constructed continuity that the rebooted Craig films had tried to incorporate. In his article for Rolling Stone, journalist David Ehrlich wrote that Spectre "bends over backwards to contort the Daniel Craig era into a coherent quadrilogy, as though these four films had always been intended to function like a discrete run of comic books that branches out from its core property." The point here being: they were never intended to be linked. It's a real shame, to be honest, and no matter how audiences try to make excuses for these films being linked, it's painfully obvious that a lot of clumsy retconning has gone on and - as a result - has tarnished the franchise and retroactively spoiled a lot about the other flicks.