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

[elspethdixon]

Does he exist in a book with a more detailed history of their friendship?

No, he's original to the Brosnan!Bond movies, and doesn't exist in the books. Bond's book BFF is Felix Leiter (the American CIA guy played by Jeffrey Wright - I continue to hope in vain that some Skyfall fan will pick up a copy of Sharks Ate My Boyfriend Live and Let Die or James and Felix's Vegas Road Trip Adventure Diamonds are Forever and Wright!Leiter will suddenly start being slashed with Craig!Bond all over the place).

My theory, like bluemeridian, is that a lot of 00Q fans haven't necessarily seen any of the pre-Craig Bond movies (and if they have seen one, I bet it's more likely to be one of the classic Sean Connery movies then Goldeneye), know Alec Trevelyan exists and was another 00 agent and is Sean Bean and something angsty happened with him, but don't know much else, and are sort of retconning up a past for him and Bond out of collectively devised fanon.