I think it is a bit unfortunate that the film makers try to give Moneypenny an awesome background but basically make her a washout. M's death is fine, but kind of weak on top of the Moneypenny thing. She does come from accounting, after all, rather than field service.

And yes Severine is completely useless. Bond discovers she's a slave and then heroically uses her just to get to Silva and daringly doesn't do anything to save her. Nice work, James.

Never seen anything of Little and Large. That second clip is quite charming. In the third clip, Eddie's guitar playing is almost bad enough to qualify as funny.

I have seen some clips of the Two Ronnies. I find them pretty funny.

The fact that Obama has been elected twice shows that racism is dying in the US. However, nuts will be nuts. Plenty of presidents have been targeted by crazies who had no racial ax to grind.

Some guy tried to kill Clinton by crashing his light airplane into the White House, and another guy shot up the White House from the street with an assault rifle. And of course Reagan and Ford both narrowly avoided assassination.

EDIT: on a side note, wunderkind poll watcher Nate Silver of the New York Times' 538 blog was 100% right, right down to the very narrow Florida win for Obama. His stuff is what convinced me that last night was going to be something of a walkaway for Obama instead of the squeaker that most of the media was selling. This will change future election coverage.

THERE IS NO VERSION WITHOUT BIEBER.

/willing to negotiate on Scarlett Johansson as a Hutt slave

What a relief. Compare this to Disney's stated goal of leveraging known properties to create tent-pole films. This is fresh, ties in well with current social trends of small-scale video-gaming on portable devices, is easily merchandiseable, can't easily be copied.... top-quality corporate commercial film-making.

I'm not being sarcastic. As long as the story is good, the rest of that is perfectly fine with me.

Everything in English comes from somewhere, and we don't respell them the way most languages do, and that is why English spelling is so terrible. 

The guys whose act mostly consists of pretending to be gay, gangsters, Obama, or some combination of that will save us from Dane Cook?