Spent the weekend visiting with Carrie and Glenn in Ottawa. Friday night, Glenn and I played darts while the girls played Wii. Afterwards, we watched Casino Royale in preparation for seeing Quantum of Solace, which we did on Saturday and really enjoyed. I like that the new Bond movies are actually connected to each other and aren’t just a series of standalone adventures of some debonair spy with a bunch of gadgets who nails a different girl with a stupid name in every movie.

Speaking of stupid names, QoS features a nod to this in the form of the new Bond girl, named Fields. Bond asks her first name, but she won’t tell him, and although it is never spoken in the film, you can find out what it is by reading her name in the final credits. A nice little gag in the same vein as the martini line (”Shaken or stirred?” “Do I look like I give a damn?”) in Casino Royale.

While we were waiting for the movie to start, I explained to Kat that QoS is actually a romance, albeit with guns and violence.

IAN: The whole movie is about Bond getting revenge for the death of Vesper. I heard the original title was Quantum of Love.

KAT: You are so full of crap. Bond hates Vesper. He calls her a bitch at the end of Casino Royale.

IAN: He didn’t really mean it. He was angry because he loved her and she snaked him and her death was so meaningless. At least to him. QoS is about Bond forgiving her.

KAT: Ahhh.

IAN: I’d get revenge for you, babylove.

KAT: Aw, thanks.

Pause.

KAT: Would I have to be dead first?

IAN: Well, I can’t get revenge for you if you’re alive. Duh.

KAT: Oh. Okay.

IAN: That would be murder, Peaches.

KAT: So you wouldn’t murder someone for me?

IAN: Do you want me to murder someone for you?

KAT: No, no, I guess not…

IAN: Hey, look at that, a new Star Trek trailer…

Later that night, I introduced Carrie and Glenn to two TV shows on the Outdoor Life Network that they had never seen before: Survivorman and Mantracker. While watching the latter program, which features a gruff cowboy hunting two contestants (called “prey”) through the Canadian wilderness, I was struck with the epiphany that Glenn and I must go on this program. So, after looking up the information online, we’re now making plans to send in an application.

Wish us luck.