Some time back, I read about the latest James Bond film, “No Time to Die”. I thought I had read that the plot had Bond becoming infected by nanobots and that meant he would never be able to be with his wife/lover and his child. But, that’s not how it turned out.

I saw this morning that I could watch “No Time to Die” for free. Well, the movie was now included in one of the streaming services to which I am currently subscribed. So, I turned it on. I didn’t manage to watch the whole movie but briefly fell asleep. I woke up before it was over. Bond was first told, the young girl wasn’t his, but by the end, it was obvious to all that the girl was Bond’s daughter. He got his “family” off the island that was about to be destroyed by missiles. The missiles sent to destroy ALL the dangerous nanobots. And, I missed exactly why the current Bond bad guy infected Bond with the nanobots, but with Bond infected, he knows that the nanobots in his body, must be included along with all the other nanobots, and there is no way to separate the nanobots from the man. So he gallantly orders the missile attack, and tells his lover/wife that he loves her, and stands there heroically as the missiles arrive and do their work.

Now we listen to Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong (long dead) sing “We Have All the Time in the World”. And if you recall Bond from long ago, with his new wife (Diana Rigg), just moments before she is killed by gunfire meant for her husband. How melancholy!

I wasn’t prepared for James Bond to die today. I was caught up in the emotion of losing a dear loved one. I had the feeling of that looming loneliness that I had when I watched the last episode of “Star Trek the Next Generation”. Or how about the feeling of “the Remorseful Day” when Morse dies alone, on his hospital bed, with nothing and no one. I can’t recall the other television series that affected me in the same way, but I know there was another. The characters, though not real, have become a part of you. You care for them as you do other loved ones, and now you realize that they won’t be there ever again… re-runs excluded.

Morse’s death was bleak. Godless Morse. The Opera and crossword puzzles and solving murders all gone from his grasp. Lewis and Morse have changed relationships. Lewis is the more knowledgeable “birder,” who knows that Morse is looking at a common swallow out his window, and not some more exotic bird.

I had forgotten about John Barry and his scores of musical movie scores. I really like his music. And now I recall one of the closing lines in the movie, “High Road to China”. This movie isn’t put together well, but there are enough components that when the character played by Tom Selleck tells the character played by Bess Armstrong to come toward him… and then “closer” and “put your arms around my neck.” And Tom Selleck says the most romantic thing, “I only made one mistake.” Armstrong, “And what was that?” To which he replies, “I should have sold you when I had the chance.” — Now that is as romantic as it gets.

I remember an instance of “WKRP in Cincinnati” when Les Nessman (sp?) is announcing a promotional event in which live turkeys are thrown from a helicopter, high in the sky. At first, Les can’t make out what is being thrown from the helicopter… and then “It’s turkeys. They’re hitting the ground like wet bags of cement.” And, later the station’s owner tries to defend himself with the statement, “Honest, I thought turkeys could fly.” — Now, the idea of that situation is as funny as it gets.

Bess Armstrong played a judge in one of the “Bosch” series. She is eventually murdered by a hitman who is trying to kill Harry’s daughter Maddie.

I re-watched a good deal of the movie, “Mullholland Falls” last night (after earlier in the day watching “No Time To Die”). I remembered that this was one of the earlier times that I had seen the actor Titus Welliver.

I like the movie “Mullholland Falls.” I guess another instance of something being thrown from a perfectly good aircraft. Turkeys not the only thing hitting the ground like “wet sacks of cement.” And, Treat Williams’s character wouldn’t try to justify his actions by saying, “I thought women could fly.”