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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Started conversation Oct 9, 2002
Thoroughly enjoyed reading all of these by the way and so can't wait for Die Another Day!
Just a couple of things ... Goldeneye destroyed everything with an electric current no matter how small rather than a microchip - that's why Bond could tell that Natalya Semanova had witnessed the blast.
Also, does Joe Don Baker not make a reappearance in Goldeneye as the American Agent with the tattoo of the rose and "Buffy" ...
As I said, fab articles though!!
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Danny B Posted Oct 10, 2002
Glad you enjoyed them 
The GoldenEye effect - you may well be right, but I'm sure that the 'with a microchip' is actually mentioned in the script. Doesn't mean they got their facts or their continuity right, of course!
Joe Don Baker does appear as Jack Wade in Goldeneye and TND. This is something I probably should have mentioned, but I must have been getting tired by the time I got to the last part 
Danny B.
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Oct 10, 2002
"Tanner: Electro-Magnetic Pulse. First strike satellite weapon developed by the...uh..
M: The Americans and Soviets during the Cold War. I read the brief. Discovered after Hiroshima. Set off a nuclear device in the upper atmosphere, creates a pulse; a radiation surge that destroys everything with an electronic circuit. "
As I said, no quibbles as no way I could have written such a comprehensive article!
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Danny B Posted Oct 10, 2002
I know what I'm confusing it with...
In 'A View to a Kill' the Zorin company invents a microchip which can protect against goldeneye-type weapons.
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MaW Posted Oct 11, 2002
Something else: In Tomorrow Never Dies, it wasn't a nuclear missile, it was a conventional cruise missile. The idea was to make the Chinese believe the British fleet had fired it, and thus retaliate. Nuclear war wouldn't have served Carver's purposes anyway, as it's a little difficult to get up close with the action when there are nukes going off all around, as you're more or less certainly going to get killed. So it wasn't a nuke.
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Danny B Posted Oct 11, 2002
Can we just say that military hardware obviously isn't my speciality, and leave it at that..?
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MaW Posted Oct 11, 2002
Yes, I guess we can, because I know very little about it. I do, however, know that it wasn't a nuclear missile. I think a bigger thing would have been made about it in the film if it was!
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