Reply #4: Hey--check it out!

[Orrex]

We're amiably agreeing here while duking it out elsewhere. We're so complex!


Anyway, her command of the microscopic shift of tone is a rare skill indeed, and it communicates in an instant far more than ten minutes of lame dialogue or hackneyed cat-and-mouse antagonism ever could. The "old" M was always willing to spar with Bond, but it was never more than an exchange of petty zingers. What we see with Dame Dench is what happens when a real actor truly inhabits a character, rather than someone simply playing at a role.