"Where's Sir Michael Barrington?!?!"

"It sure is hard to be succesor of Moore but Dalton did what he could and gets the credits for that from me.
Dalton wasn't bad actor. In fact he's the 3rd best Bond after Moore and Connery on my opinion."

"Never miss an issue! :)"

"Great pretitle sequence, but the rest of the movie wasn't that good."

"The two stories during the Dalton era were two of the most *personal* Bond stories -- they were far less about the evil plot he was up against and more about Bond's personal loyalties (to Pushkin, to the murdered British agents, to Felix) and the loyalties of others (notably, Felix and Q), not to mention personal betrayal (Koskov) -- LTK alone is an almost unending series of betrayals and retributions amongst Bond, Sanchez, the CIA, and Sanchez's organization.

Incidentally, Bond's not fighting the war on drugs in these two films -- he's fighting the men themselves, although drugs happen to be the way they finance their operations (as was also the case with Kananga and Kristatos). In both cases, the fact that he upsets a drug empire is incidental -- what he's after is revenge for the killing of 00 agents (TLD) and the personal attack on Felix and Della (LTK).

It's interesting that of the first 16 Bond films, the 3 most personal ones were Lazenby's and Dalton's. The Bonds of Connery and Moore, for all their differences, were both larger than life and emotionally unapproachable. It took Lazenby to give us a vulnerable Bond, and Dalton to give us a wrathful Bond.

Although Tim wasn't my favorite, he did tighten the focus on the character and gave the series a much-needed break from stainless-steel megasets, world-domination schemes, and endless hordes of gun-toting henchmen. It was a transitional period for both Bond and the world in general, and if nothing else, the series got smarter and grittier during Dalton's tenure.u"