Seeds of Skyfall’s plot - Bond recovering from a shoulder injury and M’s past coming back to haunt her - are planted here in Brosnan’s third outing, which features the longest (and one of the most exciting) pre-titles action sequence in the franchise’s history. Say what you will about Quantum of Solace, but at least it didn't put a bullet in the heart of all the goodwill earned by previous outings.
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And then became Bond's secret adversary for years and years, implausibly sending disparate threats to attack Bond in movie after movie - with Bond never once realizing he is in the center of the longest long con ever. Yup, Franz Oberhauer (aka Blofeld) became the leader of a super terrorist organization because, well, daddy issues. Spectre would have you believe that 007 somehow found his way on the path to being a super spy because the father of his adopted brother/future arch-nemesis (Christoph Waltz) liked Bond better. It also features a classic villain that's wasted due to soap opera-level plot twists and bad monologuing. Instead, the Bond of Spectre surprisingly, sadly, literally, turns his back on that promise - saddled with a crisis of conscience never established in the previous Daniel Craig entries. One capable of being the gritty assassin born in Casino Royale and also the spy we love from the Connery and Moore era.
The end of Skyfall promised a Bond ready to finally become James Bond.