anyone out there deeply in Skyfall fandom?

[healingmirth]

Or this might be a more general James Bond question...




I've spent large bits of he past two days reading some of Kryptaria & BootsnBlossoms Bond/Q fic, and I am completely baffled by Alec Trevelyan's presence as an ally. I tried to poke around for some reasoning beyond hey, sure, Sean Bean, but I've been mostly thwarted by Tumblr, I think.


Because Alec is a bad guy, right? And a bad guy opposite a previous Bond. Does he exist in a book with a more detailed history of their friendship? Is there a generally taken-as-read fixit where he and Bond aren't estranged and they both stay with MI6? I don't actually know what fandom does about multiple Bonds anyway, so I'm sure there are endless possibilities.


Argh, I hate not being able to figure things out by three minutes of Googling.

Comments

[bluemeridian]

As far as I have been able to tell, everyone (as in fandom) kind of collectively retconned GoldenEye. I'm not sure whether it was deliberate, or whether the fandom as it sprang up around Skyfall was actively unaware of the earlier movie plot and once someone introduced the idea, everyone ran with it. I've been enjoying the tweak, but continue to be amused by how often it appears. :D

[healingmirth]

Okay! Good to have the data points :)

I realized after the first fic that through some brain fart I'd replaced him with Krycek from X-Files, so I don't think I'm in any position to throw stones about faithfulness to canon.