Ian Fleming on TIMELESS
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Hmmm. . .for the second time I'm posting about a TV show. Is the Hardyboy watching too much TV? Probably. Anyway, I just watched the latest episode of the new series Timeless, a rather dopey adventure in which a bunch of time travelers hop through history in pursuit of a dastardly villain who's trying to change the present. In tonight's episode, our heroes land in Nazi Germany during the early 1940s, trying to thwart a plot against Wernher von Braun. In the course of things a Nazi officer is revealed to be none other than Ian Fleming (played by Sean Maguire, who looks nothing like Fleming but kind of reminds me of Michael Fassbender), who is on a secret mission. Fleming, we are told, is both a master spy and was inspired to join the secret service after the death of his younger brother Michael in the London blitz. When the heroes return to the present they learn that Fleming had written a Bond novel called Choice of Weapons, which was inspired by the adventure they all shared with von Braun and was also the source for one of Sean Connery's greatest Bond films--in 1964. All in all, very little of the historical Ian Fleming was in this show--but somehow I think Fleming would have liked the version of himself that was created.
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