The new episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead has just wrapped up and we’re all talking about it……but we missed a little something last week.That’s true of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., too, and Arrow–making it three for three that we noticed cool little things from comic book movies after the next episode was already on the air.We figured they were worth quick mentions here–starting with the earliest.
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Back when Nick Fury first made the transition from “Howling Commando” to “Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” you wouldn’t have been outta line to make a connection between what he was up to and the exploits of a certain MI6 agent, James Bond. As it happens, last night there was a call out to the James Bond adventure Diamonds Are Forever. Not the film, Diamonds Are Forever though, the original Ian Fleming novel, Diamonds Are Forever. You see, this-here plot point only happens in the novel.In this story, Bond has to impersonate a diamond smuggler transporting diamonds from England to the US via commercial air travel. How does he do it? Well, after he mentions to Tiffany Case that he happens to golf, she asks him what golf balls he uses. I think you can see where this is going. He transports the diamonds hidden in a set o’ Dunlop 65’s. Specifically, a set o’ “six new Dunlop 65’s in their black wrapping paper, and with the seals intact.”I think you can see why Yours Truly got more than a little excited when Akela Amador revealed diamonds hidden in a dissolving golf ball. In my book, it’s both appropriate and pretty thrilling to see a spy TV show like this paying homage in a covert sort o’ way to the master spy novelist and his original works.
We’d have to agree: That’s a pretty cool wink-and-a-nod to one of the better Bond books…and not a reference we’d have remembered, since it’s been about a decade since we read any of the older ones.So…what are we going to miss this week? Send your observations along and let us know whether we missed anything big.
